West Coast Customs took a longtime client’s 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air and turned it into Project B-Zero by mounting the original body over a stripped Tesla Model 3 Performance rolling chassis. Ryan Friedlinghaus and the shop crew removed the Tesla’s body, confirmed the drivetrain worked by driving the bare platform around the yard, then began […]
Hurricane Trudy brought heavy rain and powerful winds to parts of Mexico’s Pacific coast on Sunday, impacting sections of the country’s western and southwestern states that were already targeted by Hurricane Simon last week. The National Hurricane Center, which is based in Miami, warned that hurricane and tropical storm conditions could materialize in areas under weather […]
Simon has strengthened into a powerful Category 4 hurricane as it barrels toward Mexico’s Pacific coast. The National Hurricane Center in Miami said Saturday that Simon’s maximum sustained winds increased to 155 miles per hour. The hurricane center said it expects Simon to approach Mexico’s west-central coast on Sunday as a major hurricane, which is […]
The U.S. Coast Guard is investigating a cyberattack on a large South Korean-managed oil tanker headed for Galveston, Texas, last month. Nicole Sganga reports. Coast Guard's cyber command chief says "we need to take action" after tanker hack #Coast #Guard039s #cyber #command #chief #quotwe #actionquot #tanker #hack
The FBI and the Coast Guard are investigating a giant oil tanker on its way to Texas that may have been taken over by a cyberattack. Iranian state media claims hackers had control of the ship’s propellers, raising concern that these giant vessels could be used as weapons. Nicole Sganga reports. Video shows Coast Guard, […]
U.S. Coast Guard personnel and FBI agents boarded two Texas-bound energy tankers last month after cyberattacks struck the vessels while they were traveling toward the United States, according to U.S. officials. One of the vessels was the VL Prosperity, a 1,093-foot Liberian-flagged crude oil tanker headed to Galveston, Texas. Iranian state media identified the ship […]
Coast Guard personnel and FBI agents boarded a Texas-bound commercial oil tanker last month before it could arrive at a port after determining the ship’s network may have been compromised by a foreign actor as it was crossing the Atlantic, the Coast Guard said Tuesday. On Aug. 21, a specialized team of Coast Guard law-enforcement […]
Kiribati, a tiny Pacific neighbor to Hawaii that has grown ties with Beijing, detained a Chinese vessel this month for illegally harvesting shark fins, its maritime police told AFP. The practice of cutting fins off live sharks and throwing the carcasses back into the sea is banned in much of the Pacific Ocean, but persists […]
An abandoned Russian tanker carrying millions of gallons of oil off the coast of Oman could potentially cause a larger environmental disaster after it was damaged from an unexplained explosion in early June. Satellite images show a growing oil slick in the area. Here’s what to know. Satellite images of sunken Russian tanker off Oman […]
A Russian tanker carrying millions of gallons of oil has run aground off the coast of Oman — and now risks breaking apart, potentially causing an environmental disaster on the scale of the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill. The Caroline Bezengi, which has been linked to Russia’s so-called shadow fleet to move sanctioned oil around the […]