A Colorado tourist was gunned down in Mexican waters while his wife dodged bullets and raced her Jet Ski back to American soil.
SAN ANTONIO – A Colorado tourist was shot in the head and thrown from his jet ski as his wife frantically tried to dodge bullets and escape from Mexican pirates marauding on a U.S.-Mexico border lake, according to a transcript from a 911 call released Saturday.

Search teams over the weekend combed the U.S. side of Falcon Lake for David Michael Hartley, 30, whose wife told police he was shot in the the head Thursday after being ambushed by gunmen on boats.”

If a person gets caught fishing without a license, in most cases, it results in a fine of perhaps a few hundred dollars.

For those aboard Citation, however, the infraction represents a setback of nearly $1 million.

The vessel’s anglers had been participating in the 52nd annual Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament, June 11-19 off North Carolina. Andy Thomossan landed what was by far the biggest fish: an 883-pound marlin, a tournament record.”

Over 30 metal supports are holding the ship in place, while James Moores and his crew try to realign the hull and replace much of the underside of the 93-foot yacht, which served five American presidents.”

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Teen sailor Abby Sunderland, who today made international headlines by requesting a rescue via various distress-signal units, is in a portion of the southern Indian Ocean that is so remote it could take nearly two days for a ship to reach her position.

Sunderland, 16, had been a little past the halfway point in an attempt to become the youngest person to sail around the world alone.

Helicopters reportedly do not have the fuel capacity to reach her but a crew aboard an airplane from Australia had expected to arrive at the position issued via her EPIRB satellite positioning devices at daybreak (she’s 11 hours ahead of Pacific Daylight Time). But the crew aboard the plane would be unable to do much other than keep track of the vessel and talk to Abby via marine radio, if it can get close enough and the radio is functional, and if Abby is able to operate the radio.”

Doyle says the loan from the Community Development Block Grant program run by the Department of Commerce will go to Marquis Yachts, LLC.”

‘We’re maxed out,’ said Sean Geary, sales manager at American Boom & Barrier Corp. ‘I’ve probably turned down 300,000 feet of orders.’

Ever since the Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling rig exploded and sank more than three weeks ago, boom manufacturers have struggled to catch up in what amounts to the biggest boom in booms ever.”