05-25-2011
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USCG Heads-up
Gaza Maritime Area
All U.S. vessels and mariners are advised that Israel is currently enforcing a blockade in the “Gaza Maritime Area.” The area is closed to all maritime traffic and the blockade is being enforced by the Israeli Navy. The Gaza Maritime Area is enclosed by the following coordinates:
31°35.71’N, 34°29.46’E
31°46.80’N, 34°10.01’E
31°19.39’N, 34°13.11’E
31°33.73’N, 33°56.68’E
U.S. vessels and mariners intending to enter the area are likely to face enforcement action by the Israeli Navy. The Department of State has also advised against travel by U.S. citizens to Gaza by any means, including by sea. Previous attempts to enter Gaza by sea have resulted in violent incidents and the detention and deportation of those involved.
U.S. mariners are also reminded that procedures exist for the delivery of humanitarian cargo to Gaza via the Israeli port of Ashdod or the Egyptian port of El-Arish, where cargo can be screened
Local Notice to Mariners
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1978 Tayana 37
Freedom comes when you’re ready to sail away. True freedom comes when you don’t have to return
Cut off from the land that bore us, betrayed by the land we find, where the brightest have gone before us and the dullest remain behind, .......but stand to your glasses, steady,.......tis all we have left to prize, raise a cup to the dead already, hurrah for the next that dies
Last edited by poopdeckpappy; 05-25-2011 at 11:37 PM.
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