A ransomware cyber-attack on a critical Houston to New York pipeline loosed havoc on East Coast fuel supplies, creating shortages and panic buying. The Biden Administration enacted a partial, targeted Jones Act waiver to address the emergency, while the industry kept watch on the underlying need and called for a full review by Congress. The Center for Disease Control issued surprising new virus guidelines on masking and other protocols, causing some confusion, generating questions, and initiating another round of state-by-state interpretations. The Senate buckled under flag-of-convenience cruise industry pressure and passed a measure to waive the Passenger Vessel Services Act, using the pandemic to undermine the foundations of American maritime law. There were two tragic accidents at sea and two heroic and successful firefighting emergency responses by SUP crews. That and much more in the May issue of the WCS.