Coast Guard to establish ‘moving safety zones’ around cruise ships on Lower Mississippi

Jacob Goodwin Top Priority Sector:  maritime_port_security Image Caption:  Cruise shipin New Orleans In an effort to safeguard large cruise ships using the Lower Mississippi River near New Orleans, LA, the U.S. Coast Guard has implemented a new rule that will establish a “moving safety zone” around each such cruise ship, which prohibits any other vessel […]

Florida woman sentenced in 2010 cruise ship terror bomb hoax

Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector:  maritime_port_security Image Caption:  Carnival Fascination A woman who triggered a full-scale search of a passenger cruise ship at in the Port of Jacksonville, FL after phoning in a bomb threat to the vessel in 2010 will spend a year in jail for her actions. Linda Gayle Wilson, 46, of Baldwin, […]

Tom Cruise “Pre-Crime” Minority Report machine brought to life

Are you sceptical of pre-crime detection by psychics? The US government has come up with a Big Brother-esque machine that senses if an individual intends to do harm. Minority Report, anyone? The Electronic Privacy Information Center, a public interest research center in Washington, DC, recently filed two Freedom of Information Act requests to obtain information […]