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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.
A wind turbine is damaged off Nantucket Island. Searchers are combing beaches for debris
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...
Barstool Sports’ Dave Portnoy Gets Rescued by the Coast Guard in Nantucket, May ‘Never’ Boat Again
Barstool Sports' Dave Portnoy was rescued by the United States Coast Guard in Nantucket, Massachusetts, after his boat lost power. “Captain Dave was almost lost to the ocean, Mother Ocean,” Portnoy, 47, said in a video shared via X on Monday, July 15. The businessman explained that he was just hoping to take his mom […]
Vineyard Wind turbine blade damaged; fiberglass debris in water south of Nantucket
A turbine blade at the Vineyard Wind offshore wind farm sustained damage Saturday, sending pieces of fiberglass into the water, the company said. Debris has been moving toward Nantucket from the location of the turbines, 15 miles southwest of the island and south of Martha’s Vineyard. The company said it is deploying two teams of four people to Nantucket to remove debris from this island’s south-facing beaches.
‘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...
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.
US Orders Stop to Vineyard Wind Construction
The Vineyard Wind debris recovery team mobilizing before beach clean-up operations on Nantucket on Wednesday, July 17, 2024. Photo Courtesy of Vineyard Wind. A federal agency has ordered a wind farm off the coast of Massachusetts to stop power production and construction until an investigation determines whether a blade failure affects other turbines, it said on Wednesday.
DEP Penalizes Island Fuel Business
NANTUCKET –The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection is fining Nantucket-based Harbor Fuel Oil Corporation nearly $12,000. The penalty is for failing to obtain an air quality permit before building a tank farm that has the potential to emit air contaminants above state air quality permitting thresholds. The Harbor Fuel facility became operational in 2020. The […] The post DEP Penalizes Island Fuel Business appeared first on CapeCod.com.
Vineyard Wind turbine blade sustains damage offshore
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A 350-foot blade partially broke off a turbine in the Vineyard Wind offshore wind project Saturday night. The company and federal officials as of Tuesday are investigating what caused it. Anthony Seiger, a commercial clammer out of New Bedford, saw the damaged turbine while...
Coast Guard rescues Barstool CEO Dave Portnoy off of Nantucket coast
Portnoy found himself stranded off the island with no way to radio for help. The Coast Guard rescued Barstool CEO Dave Portnoy off the coast of Nantucket after his boat began drifting out to sea, he said on Monday. In a video posted to Tiktok, Portnoy details the events leading...
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...
‘Like Tom Hanks in Castaway': Dave Portnoy describes harrowing ordeal aboard boat
Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy said he considers himself lucky to be alive after he found himself adrift on his boat with no power off Nantucket on Monday. "I'm a relatively new boater," Portnoy said in an interview with NBC10 Boston's Colton Bradford on Tuesday. "I spent my summer's hitting dingers, I wasn't part of a yacht club. I'm a new boat guy -- it was my third time out on a boat."
Nantucket’s south-facing beaches are closed to swimming as debris from a damaged wind turbine washes ashore
"Floating debris and sharp fiberglass shards" from the damaged turbine are landing on nearby beaches. Nantucket’s southern-facing beaches are closed to swimming following an incident Saturday that has resulted in a damaged Vineyard Wind turbine sending “floating debris and sharp fiberglass shards” ashore. On Tuesday, Vineyard Wind...
Dave Portnoy Rescued by the Coast Guard After He Was 'Lost at Sea': 'No Power, No Radio, No Anchor'
Barstool Sports CEO Dave Portnoy says he is lucky to be alive today after having to be rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard just outside of Boston. On Monday, the 47-year-old Massachusetts native and social media personality took to X (formerly Twitter) to recount the experience of how he was "almost was lost to the ocean" after his boat lost power and was drifting slowly out to sea near Nantucket.
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