| Crash
Course in Flyfishing
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Jeffrey B. Augello, a Knauss Sea Grant Fellow
with NOAA’s Office of General Counsel and an avid flyfisherman,
was exploring the north shore of the remote Caribbean island
of Culebra in search of bonefish and permit, he noticed a
float plane coming in for a near shore landing. It was only
after he saw that the landing gear was still down and one
of the props was not spinning that he knew something was terribly
wrong.
The
plane slammed into the reef, about 300 feet from where Jeff
was sitting. Jeff immediately dove into the ocean and swam
out to the wreck. Pulling open one of the cockpit doors, he
found himself face to face with the very pilot who flew him
onto the island just a few days earlier. After assisting the
remaining passengers ashore, two helicopters with rescue divers
and patrol boats appeared on scene and took over. Noticing
that no one was seriously injured, Jeff quietly picked up
his gear and headed west down the beach. “Bonefish are
extremely skittish," explained Jeff. "An eight passenger
puddlejumper crashing into the reef was clearly not going
to increase my chances of hooking any.”
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| Luckily,
all passengers and the pilot of this float plane survived
their crash near the Caribbean island of Culebra, witnessed
by Jeffrey B. Augello, a Knauss Sea Grant Fellow with
NOAA’s Office of General Counsel.
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National
Aquarium Joins with Baltimore Aquarium
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The
National Aquarium in Washington, D.C., will be operated by
the National Aquarium in Baltimore, thanks to an agreement
announced by Commerce Secretary Don Evans
earlier this month. The National Aquarium in Washington, housed
in the lower level of the Commerce Department headquarters,
is the longest continuously operating aquarium in the country,
opening in 1931.
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| Deputy
Assistant Secretary Tim Keeney addresses the crowd at
the announcement of the agreement between the National
Aquarium in Washington and the National Aquarium in
Baltimore. Seated (l to r) are Rand Griffin, National
Aquarium in Baltimore board chairman; Nina Selin, chairman
of the board of the National Aquarium Society; and Commerce
Secretary Don Evans.
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Commerce
Secretary Don Evans, Deputy Secretary Samuel
W. Bodman, and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Oceans
and Atmosphere Timothy R.E. Keeney led Commerce
employees in a moment of reflection early on September 11
in remembrance of the tragedy this Nation suffered two years
ago. Hundreds of people met in the Commerce Department building
lobby to hear remarks by the Secretary and a brief message
from President Bush, followed by a moment
of silence. NOAA Corps officers greeted those attending and
distributed remembrance pins.
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From
left to right: CAPT Jonathan W. Bailey, LCDR Guy T.
Noll, CDR Joanne F. Flanders, LT Karl F. Mangels, LCDR
Michael E. Francisco, CAPT Samuel P. DeBow, LT Jeffrey
C. Hagan, CAPT Richard R. Behn, CDR Scott E. Kuester,
and LCDR Stacy L. Birk-Risheim.
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| Employee and Team Member of the Month |
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Employee of Month
Jason
McConachy
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Team Member of Month
Diane
Deitz
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One
helped NOAA get its budget together in record time,
and the other is whip-smart with AWIPS. Meet Jason
McConachy and Diane Deitz,
NOAA’s Employee and Team Member for September
in the upcoming issue of NOAA Report. |
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| Buck
Sutter (right), NOAA Fisheries’ Southeast Region
Deputy Administrator, presents the region’s administrator,
Dr. Roy Crabtree, with the Southeast Fisheries Association’s
Aylesworth Award for Government Employee of the Year.
The association recognized Crabtree for conducting himself
in a professional manner at all times, establishing
an open door policy as the regional administrator, and
for working toward common ground for the good of our
marine resources.
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