The family of Jeanica Julce of Somerville, who drowned in Boston Harbor in 2021 after the speed boat she was a passenger on hit a large, permanent navigational beacon off Spectacle Island, yesterday sued both Ryan Denver, the owner and captain of the Make It Go Away, and the operator of another boat the family charges struck Julce before speeding from the scene. Read more.
Boston Harbor
A National Park Service/Coast Guard camera on Boston Light, where the ocean meets Boston Harbor, recorded the sea's ragin' glory at 6:24 a.m.
Photo via Boston Timelapse, which reposts photos from Boston Light, Bunker Hill and Dorchester Heights every hour.
GBH takes a look at the health woes of giant ships belching diesel smoke from the cheapest possible grade of fuel that now routinely ply Boston Harbor.
In 1966, a news photographer captured the construction of the concrete structure around what would become the giant tank at the heart of the New England Aquarium - which opened to the public in 1969, giving us a generation of children who could walk like a penguin: Read more.
Mary Ellen took Dolly the dog up to Castle Island for a walk yesterday.
They spotted a plump dunlin, a flock of them and a female common eider (also purple sandpipers, which to the untrained eye look just like dunlins, only more gray than brown): Read more.
WCVB reports on the body found near East India Row around 10:25 a.m. on Saturday.
Nichole Davis gets the scoop: The be-tuxed bird spotted moving around the harbor wasn't a penguin but a thick-billed murre, a black-and-white Arctic bird that is not completely unheard of in these parts in the winter. So it also wasn't a heron.
This morning, Lisa Green walked from the North End to Rowes Wharf, where Boston Harbor was a lot closer than it usually is, like at the Aquarium, where the harbor consumed the harborwalk.
Kevin Whitely forwarded a friend's video of flooding on Commercial Wharf in the North End: Read more.
Eric Bender, who covers the waterfront, watched this morning, as a crane and crew resurrected the Armageddon, which sank at its berth at the Boston Harbor Marina in East Boston at some point.
Eric Bender watched three Boston tugs guide the tanker Nor'easter out of Chelsea Creek this morning. He reports: Read more.
Nine years ago, I stood on the muddy banks of the Great Marsh, a salt marsh an hour north of Boston, and pulled a thumb-sized crab with an absurdly large claw out of a burrow. I was looking at a fiddler crab – a species that wasn't supposed to be north of Cape Cod, let alone north of Boston.
As it turned out, the marsh I was standing in would never be the same. I was witnessing climate change in action. Read more.
After protesters dumped the tea into the harbor 250 years ago, they tossed the chests it had been in into the harbor as well. J.L. Bell posts a copy of an account by Rev. Dr. John Prince of Salem, who watched the Tea Party and then returned to the wharf the next morning: Read more.
WBUR interviews Sally Snowman, the last keeper at the country's first lighthouse, on her impending return to terra firma.
Mary Ellen took a break from observing winged fauna to watch this guy wading through the ocean at Winthrop Beach this morning.
The MBTA reports it's canceled its morning ferries tomorrow due to anticipated high winds and rough seas.
The Hingham ferry should resume service at 11 a.m., the Hingham/Hull/Logan ferry at 2 and the Charlestown ferry at noon, the T says.
Hkergrrl reports Boston will not be coming under attack at lunchtime: If you hear cannons and rifle fire around noon, that's just an honor guard at the Charlestown Navy Yard, no doubt to welcome the Annapolis cadets who will be facing off against Army on Saturday at Gillette.
Gary noticed what low tide exposed at Christopher Columbus Park this afternoon.
The Coast Guard reports that Boston Light is now equipped with four Webcams, letting people see the view from the entrance to Boston Harbor. Read more.