K38 Rescue

A slack cable triggered a chain of events that ended with a fatal helicopter crash during rescue exercises off Hawaii last year, the Coast Guard said Friday. All four crew members on board were killed. The accident occurred while the helicopter practiced lifting a rescue basket from a Coast Guard lifeboat about five miles south of Oahu. The report said the hoist cable went slack due to the motion of the hovering helicopter and the small boat in the waves. The extra slack formed a loop that became snagged on a protruding pipe on the boat just as its stern fell in the trough ... Read Full Story

5 Acres Vacant Lot Near Lake Havasu City,arizona 5 MILES EAST OF TOPOCK-NEEDLES AND THE COLORADO RIVER Current Auction Price: $11.61 Current Bids: 2 Zip Code: 86436 Click here to bid on this property’s auction! View more images for this property here .                                    This is a ” No Reserve” Auction  DONT MESS OUT ON THIS GREAT FUTURE INVESTMENT PROPERTY. Brand new Highway going to be built in the future close to this property. Brand new City called (Sterling) being built in the future where this property is at. You are bidding on NO RESERVE for this property.  DO NOT BID unless you have completely read and understand this auction ... Read Full Story

Kentucky Conservation Officers Honored At Commission Awards Dinner Kentucky Department Fish Wildlife Kentucky - - (AmmoLand.com) - Second District Conservation Officer Scott McIntosh and First District officer Greg Youree were recognized as Officer of the Year winners during the December 3 awards dinner with the Kentucky Fish and Wildlife Commission. McIntosh was named the 2008 Kentucky Shikar Safari Officer of the Year. Youree received 2009 Kentucky Boating Officer of the Year honors from the National Association of State Boating Law Administrators (NASBLA). Sgt. Rick Mehlbauer and officers Rodney Milburn and Jeremy McQueary also were decorated with the Conservation Officers Lifesaving Award. Mehlbauer and Milburn, ... Read Full Story

Nature appears to have a brightly colored solution to the quagga mussel invasion at Lake Mead. The redear sunfish is waiting in the wings to be introduced as the potential savior of the Las Vegas Valleys main water source. UNLV biologist David Wong, the regions chief quagga fighter, has long suspected that fish appetite could be the best answer to the clam infestation. Hes as much a fish expert as he is a mussel expert, having earned a bachelors degree in fisheries and a doctorate in aquatic ecology before taking on invasive mussels. He keeps a fish tank in his office thats home to ... Read Full Story

David Wong came to Las Vegas to try to save it from an alien invasion. The native of China has been working as a researcher at UNLVs School of Community Health Sciences since July 2008 for one reason because Southern Nevada is where the war to end all wars must be waged against quagga mussels, the little freshwater mollusks that threaten to clog and poison the regions water systems. Wong has for 15 years studied the effects of invasive mussel species in the United States. During the eight years leading up to his move to Nevada, Wongs sights were zeroed in on a cousin ... Read Full Story