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Barstool owner rescued by Coast Guard after losing control of boat off Nantucket
The owner and founder of Barstool Sports lost control of a boat off Massachusetts before being rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard.Dave Portnoy, 47, said in a TikTok video that the harrowing Monday rescue off Nantucket happened after he unhooked his boat from buoys. Heavy winds then caused him to drift out to sea, and his engine was dead, he said.Portnoy said another boater saw that he was in distress and radioed the Coast Guard.Coast Guard rescuers towed the boat back to mooring, Portnoy said. He said he appreciated the work of the “four burly dudes” who rescued him, and...
A wind turbine is damaged off Nantucket Island. Searchers are combing beaches for debris
NANTUCKET, Mass. (AP) — Offshore wind developers have sent teams to search for debris on the beaches of Nantucket Island, a popular summer tourist destination, after one of their turbine blades suffered damage. Vineyard Wind said Tuesday it is mobilizing teams on Nantucket to recover debris on south-facing beaches. The development said a “blade damage incident” took place Saturday. Vineyard Wind said it’s also working with the U.S. Coast Guard to maintain a safety zone of 500 meters (1,640 feet) around the affected offshore turbine. It said that the debris consists of nontoxic fiberglass fragments and that any washing ashore will be pieces of one square foot or less. “Vineyard Wind is fully committed to a swift and safe recovery of all debris, with an unwavering focus on community safety and environmental protection,” it said in a statement.
Broken windmill debris washes up on beach; will it make it to Jersey Shore
A windmill off the coast in New England broke down over the weekend and debris appears to be washing ashore. One of the blades from the Vineyard Wind turbines near Martha’s Vineyard was damaged over the weekend. On Monday, chunks of foam started washing ashore in areas near Nantucket,...
Barstool Bro-in-Chief Dave Portnoy Rescued by Coast Guard Off the Nantucket Coast
The U.S. Coast Guard came to the rescue of Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy off the coast of Nantucket on Monday, scooping him and his mother up after their unmoored boat lost power. The 47-year-old executive, by his own admission an inexperienced seaman, said in a video posted to social media he hadn’t realized he had “no power, no radio, no anchor, no nothing” until he’d unhooked his boat from a buoy. “Heavy, heavy winds,” he explained. “Next thing you know, Captain Dave is lost at sea.” Portnoy said that he’d fired a flare gun and screamed for help, and...
Vineyard Wind turbine blade failure
A turbine in the Vineyard Wind array had an apparent blade failure July 13, leaving debris in the water and washing up on Nantucket beaches. Developers and turbine experts are investigating the damage. Joint venture developers Avangrid and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners said Tuesday they had two recovery teams on Nantucket...
Broken Vineyard Wind turbine blade washes up on Nantucket beach
Investigators are probing the cause of a damaged Vineyard Wind offshore wind turbine blade that sent debris washing up all over Nantucket's south shore on Tuesday. Residents began reporting pieces of green and white foam, along with larger pieces of what appears to fiberglass, along southern Nantucket beaches at daybreak, the Nantucket Current reported.
‘Incident’ at offshore wind farm leaves debris in water, on beaches
Vineyard Wind, a joint venture between Avangrid and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, reported an “incident” occurred on Saturday regarding blade damage on one of its turbines. Although Vineyard Wind has not yet clarified what the “incident” was, it said none of its employees or contractors were in the area...
Dave Portnoy thought he was ‘dead meat’ in harrowing boat scare
As Dave Portnoy realized his boat no longer remained tethered to a buoy, leaving him at the sea’s mercy with a dead boat, the brutal reality of the situation set in. “I knew I was dead meat right then,” Portnoy told NBC Boston on Tuesday of his recent boating scare. “The current was strong. It was probably 20-mph wind on Nantucket. I had no radio. I had no engine. I had no nothing. And I was just floating off to sea, and I knew I was screwed. I knew I was in trouble right then.
An ‘unusual and rare’ wind turbine failure is littering Nantucket beaches with debris, angering locals
CNN — Debris from a broken offshore wind turbine has for days been washing up on the Nantucket shore, prompting beach closures and frustrating locals at the peak of the summer season. The massive turbine blade – as long as a football field – was part of the Vineyard...
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