WEST MICHIGAN -- Boaters along the eastern shore of Lake Michigan now have the freedom to activate foghorns whenever they wish, as the result of a new system implemented by the Coast Guard.

Fog horns around the country's coastline are to be switched off. The signals have been part of the maritime safety network for over a century and have become part of the rich heritage of some of the ...

IN NATURE of August 8, attention was called to some recent investigations, published in Hansa, on the inaudibility of fog-horns at sea within certain zones surrounding the signal, although the horn is ...

Read the full text version of this story at KQED’s QUEST site. East Brother Island, with the 19th-century lighthouse on the left and fog signal building on the right. On foggy mornings, I wake up to a ...

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FOGHORNS at Tuskar Rock and Hook Head lighthouses were silenced this week following a decision by the Commissioners of Irish Lights to discontinue their use. The lighthouse authority announced that ...

FOSTER CITY — The good news is that a new foghorn on the San Mateo Bridge will be equipped with a device to direct its blasts away from shore, shielding residents from the noise. The bad news is that ...

THE COMMISSIONERS of Irish Lights says it consulted widely about its decision to discontinue the last fog signals around the coastline. Nine lighthouses directly run by the lighthouse authority will ...

If you live near downtown Seattle, you may have recently heard a long, low horn reverberating through the soupy nighttime air. It happens every once in a while and has some Seattleites mystified.