Word: coastguard
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...English Channel. A spokesman for the British maritime union NUMAST said the accident "beggared belief." How could the tanker have failed to register the five luminous buoys - one equipped with a radar beacon - surrounding the wreck, the French naval ship guarding it, and French, British and Belgian coastguard transmissions every 30 minutes to all traffic in the vicinity? And how could the captain of the Vicky have missed the wave upon wave of media attention that has broken over the Tricolor in the past month? First, she was hit by the freighter Kariba on Dec. 14, and keeled over...