Boston Harbor

They're just banning this now??

I am surprised that this wasn't banned before!
Yuck

Toilet Dumping Banned In Harbor
Violators Could Be Fined Up To $2,000
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/16806915/detail.html

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It's amazing how clean Boston Harbor is these days

It so clean the Coast Guard has to stop people from swimming across the harbor's shipping lanes. The Coast Guard reports:

A local citizen notified Coat Guard Sector Boston that the man had jumped into the water from [Rowes Wharf] at about 9:15 a.m., and was swimming north, across the ferry channel, toward the John Joseph Moakley Courthouse.

Two Coast Guard vessels responded and pulled the unidentified man out of the water. Click the photo below for some video of swimboy:

Get outta the water, ya knucklhead!
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America's last lighthouse keeper

Reuters interviews Sally Snowman, the keeper of Boston Light. She has Ted Kennedy to thank for her job - he got a bill passed 20 years ago that requires the Coast Guard to keep an actual lighthouse keeper on duty there.

Via MetaBoston.

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Sunrise over Logan

Today's best sunrise photo, taken toward Logan from Long Wharf.

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Who threw a celebration and didn't invite us?

Michael Ratty wonders what the deal was with the fireworks over Boston Harbor last night - the ones he and several of his North End neighbors actually cracked open their windows to watch.

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Ship from a plane

Jason photographs a cruise ship leaving the Black Falcon terminal - from a plane about to land at Logan.

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Submarine warfare in Boston Harbor

J.L. Bell recounts how Boston Harbor almost became the site of the first submarine attack in history.

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Pedestrian run down in West Roxbury

Sad all around: Fatal accident at West Boundary Road and Washington Street in West Roxbury this afternoon. Not by somebody having a heart attack, though, but by a 20something in a mini-van.

Better news comes out of South Boston, where a man who fell in the harbor was rescued by a Massport police officer who heard his faint cries over the seagulls.

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Her $12 vacation

Lolita Parker Jr. chronicles her trip to Hull and back via commuter ferry.

Earlier:
Hull water view of downtown.

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