Captain Martin Curtin featured in April 2023 issue of Maritime Reporter and Engineering News
Captain Martin Curtin featured in April 2023 issue of Maritime Reporter and Engineering News.
December 2023
April 2018
Big dredge underway in Mission Bay
This is the most extensive San Diego bay dredging project since the late 1940's.
Mission Bay Dredging Project Underway
Dredging will redistribute mud and sand from the bottom of Mission Bay. When dredging is complete, a massive eelgrass replacement will begin, one of the largest environmental efforts of this kind in the country.
March 2018
Leaking oil well from the 1900’s getting a long awaited new cap in Summerland
Leaking oil well from the 1900’s getting a long-awaited new cap in Summerland. The capping has begun on the Summerland coast where the Becker well has been leaking for years. It’s a $1.5 million project.
September 2017
Curtin Maritime Delivers Repowered Vessel to Harbor Patrol
On April 21, Curtin Maritime, a Long Beach-based marine construction and tug and barge operator, delivered a repowered and retrofitted LCM-8, Sea Force, to the Port of Long Beach Harbor Patrol.
August 2017
Shipwrecks Removed From Protected Coral Reefs
Now there's hope for the reefs' recovery. But it could take years. On January 29, the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) completed a $5.5 million conservation project to remove three . . .
March 2014
Saving Coral Reefs – One Shipwreck at a Time
In the summer of 1991, a 121 foot long Taiwanese long line fishing vessel, the HUI FENG #1, ran aground on an atoll in the middle of the Pacific. With a footprint of just 4.6 square miles . . .
Shipwreck Removal from Sensitive Underwater Ecosystems
What started in the summer of 1991 as an ill-conceived and ultimately futile attempt in seeking political asylum by Taiwanese fishermen, ended 22 years later in a pile of scrap bound . . .
Curtin Clears Wreckage so Coral Reefs Can Thrive
The crew of Port of Long Beach-based Curtin Maritime Corp. returned Tuesday from a job in Palmyra Atoll where they collected wreckage from three ships onto a barge and brought . . .
February 2014
Saving coral reef in the Pacific Ocean: One million pounds of shipwreck at a time
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has taken an extraordinary conservation action to remove nearly one million pounds of shipwrecks to protect some of the most pristine coral reefs . . .