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Marina del Rey to Promote America's Waterway Watch 11/15/2007 By Ambrosia Sarabia MARINA DEL REY - The Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department in Marina del Rey will soon be more active in the America's Waterway Watch program, as officers begin to educate boaters and harbor residents about this new homeland security effort. America's Waterway Watch is a combined effort of the Coast Guard and its reserve and auxiliary to increase homeland security by giving boaters and others on the waterfront a fast and easy way to report suspicious activity they may witness. FULL STORY... Local Notice to Mariners Update 11/15/2007 The following items from the Coast Guard District 11 Local Notice to Mariners Weekly Edition are new or have been updated since Nov. 2: SAN DIEGO BAY - CONSTRUCTION Straite Engineering is installing finger piles from a waterside crane, commencing on the B Chevron Pier, Embarcadero Wharf, Broadway Street Pier, Fish Harbor Pier, Crosby Pier and Tenth Avenue Marine Terminal B through Dec. 28. The crane barge performing this work and all tugs towing the material and equipment barges to and from these sites will monitor VHF-FM CH-16. For more details or comments, call the project foreman David Lobaugh at (619) 233-0178 or Harbor Tug and Barge at (619) 237-5468. Chart 18773. FULL STORY... Local Notice to Mariners 11/1/2007 NEW TELEPHONE NUMBERS FOR COAST GUARD SECTOR LOS ANGELES-LONG BEACH New customer service numbers became effective Oct. 1. The main maritime emergency number is unchanged: (310) 833-1600. The new phone numbers are as follows: Coast Guard Sector Los Angeles-Long Beach Main Number: (310) 521-3800 Command: (310) 521-3601 Contingency Planning and Force Readiness: (310) 521-3845 Inspections Division - Facilities and Containers Branch: (310) 521-3745 Inspections Division - Port State Control Branch: (310) 521-3705 Investigations Division - (310) 521-3770 Incident Management Division and Marine Environmental Response: (310) 521-3780 Waterways Management Division: (310) 521-3860 Public Affairs and Media Relations: (310) 521-3610 Coast Guard Station Los Angeles-Long Beach: (310) 521-3870 Coast Guard Aids to Navigation Team (ANT) Los Angeles-Long Beach: (310) 521-3890 The following numbers have not changed: Coast Guard Command Center (maritime emergencies): (310) 833-1600 Coast Guard Regional Exam Center: (310) 495-1480 National Response Center (report pollution or suspicious activity): (800) 424-8802 FULL STORY... OTHER HEADLINES Water Quality Gets High Marks Local Notice to Mariners Local Notice to Mariners Young Sailing Instructor Put Rescue Techniques to Work Local Notice to Mariners MORE HEADLINES