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• Maritime Administration ahead of schedule in scrapping Suisun Bay mothball fleet
  10/15/2012
  

  Aged and crumbling ships may be leaving the Suisun Bay "mothball" Reserve Fleet at a steady pace, but some of their value is being left behind. Vallejo's California Maritime Academy, one of six state maritime schools nationwide, soon will see a nearly $400,000 funding influx, proceeds from the sale of the obsolete vessels. The new funding, $2.2 million overall, is due to a federal mandate requiring federal reinvestment into maritime schools.
• State delays horseshoe crab sculpture sinking for two weeks
  7/26/2012
  

  Artist Chris Wojcik and his Art as Reef team will have to wait at least another two weeks before they can see their 47-foot, life-like horseshoe crab sculpture reach its final destination, the Axel Carlson Reef.
• Artificial Reef Project Moves Forward Despite Controversy
  7/26/2012
  

  Roughly five weeks ago, with the hope of jump-starting a plan to install a fish ​— ​and fishermen ​— ​friendly artificial reef offshore of Santa Barbara, Chris Goldblatt and some colleagues dropped two 1,300-pound hollow concrete igloos into the ocean offshore of Hendry’s Beach.
• STRI Board of Directors
  8/25/2009
  Steven M. Barsky
  Joel Geldin
  Dick Long
  Eleanore Rewerts
  Robert Watts