The Great Green Fleet (GGF) is a year-long, Department of the Navy initiative that demonstrates the sea service’s efforts to transform its energy use. As one of the Secretary of the Navy’s key energy goals, the purpose of the GGF is to make our Sailors and Marines better warfighters, able to go farther, stay longer and deliver more firepower. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus … [Read more...]
Rio 2016 – US Basketball Stars Charter Luxury Cruise Ship
To minimize distractions and mitigate security concerns generated by the high profile of its star athletes, USA Basketball has been placing players outside the Olympic village since professional basketball players were first allowed to compete in the 1992 Barcelona Games. This year they are staying aboard a ship. The luxury cruise … [Read more...]
Search Finds Oil Sheen But No Sign Of Alaska Juris
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – The United States Coast Guard (USCG), has called off the search for the missing fishing vessel Alaska Juris which is presumed sunk in approximately 5,400 feet of water in the Bering Sea. The Alaska Juris has been lost and abandoned since Tuesday morning when crew members reported flooding in the vessel's engine room, donned survival suits and departed the … [Read more...]
Military Sealift Command To Honor Gay Rights Activist Harvey Milk
Military Sealift Command, the transportation provider for the US Navy, will name it's newest ship after Harvey Milk, the San Francisco gay rights activist featured in Sean Penn's award winning movie, Milk. U.S. Naval Institute News reported that a July 14, 2016 congressional notification, signed by Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus, indicated he intended to name a … [Read more...]
Federal Court Rules Against The US Navy, In Favor Of Whales
The US Navy has wrongly used sonar at levels that could harm whales, seals, dolphins and walruses and disrupt their feeding and mating, ruled a federal appeals court in San Francisco. In a 3-0 decision the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a 2012 lower court decision that allowed the Navy to use low-frequency sonar for "training, testing and routine operations" … [Read more...]
Green Energy Stock Skyrockets After Power-Generating Buoy Deployment
Ocean Power Technologies Inc. climbed to a 19-month high after installing its first power-generating buoy designed for commercial use, off the coast of New Jersey. Ocean Power gained 75 percent to $8.29 at the close in New York, the highest since December 2014. The shares rose 61 percent Thursday after announcing the deployment of its PB3 PowerBuoy. Chief Executive … [Read more...]
Bravery At Sea: Indian Tanker Captain First Woman To Receive Prestigious IMO Award
Captain Radhika Menon, Master of the oil products tanker Sampurna Swarajya, is to receive the 2016 IMO Award for Exceptional Bravery at Sea for her role in the dramatic rescue of seven fishermen from a sinking fishing boat in tumultuous seas. The IMO Council, meeting for its 116th session in London, endorsed the decision of a Panel of Judges that Captain Menon displayed … [Read more...]
