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Types Of Ships – A Master List Of Vessel Types

By On May 28, 2011

We recently had to map out all ship types for a client of Unofficial Networks, the maritime consulting arm of gCaptain.  This is only the first draft so I’m sure [...]

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NASA Hurricane Forecasting – GRIP

By On July 27, 2010

The Genesis and Rapid Intensification Processes mission, or GRIP, will use 15 cutting edge instruments, a Global Hawk UAV, a McDonnell Douglas DC-8 and a Martin WB-57F Canberra to gain [...]

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BP’s (not really) Top Secret Oil Spill Command Post

By On July 24, 2010

So, just how transparent is BP with online media? Today the third set of Deepwater Horizon hearings came to a conclusion when, unexpectedly, an e-mail message came through “Your Flight [...]

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2010 Submarine Cable Map

By On July 18, 2010

Click on image for enlargement. 2010 Submarine Cable Map TeleGeography’s popular Submarine Cable Map has been fully updated for 2010. The latest edition of our map depicts 111 of the [...]

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Who Has The Oil? A Map of World Oil Reserves.

By On July 15, 2010

“The United States consumes more than 20,000,000 barrels of oil per day but has less than 2 percent of the world’s remaining oil” This map, produced by BP’s Statistical Review [...]

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Real Time Mapping of BP Oil Spill Response Vessels

By On June 14, 2010

Today, NOAA has launched an exciting new web tool that offers the general public a glimpse into the information responders to the Gulf Oil Spill are receiving.  Among a number [...]

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Chilean Earthquake Tsunami – Mapped

By On March 9, 2010

This post is brought to us by Peter Mello of Sea-fever.org (via NOAA), in two seperate installments.  The first post a map of Ocean Energy Distribution Map from Chile Earthquake [...]

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Tsunami Infographics – Best Of The Web

By On September 30, 2009

Photo by mchaconcr Is the tsunami a maritime news story? Should gCaptain be providing coverage and at what level? These are some of the questions gCaptain editors have been facing [...]

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Crossing The English Channel Visualized – The BBC’s Britian From Above

By On July 22, 2009

The English Channel is the busiest shipping lane in the world: on a typical day over 400 vessels travel through the Dover Straits. In a new series titled Britain From [...]

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American Flag Turns Gray – New Paris MOU Rankings Target US Ships

By On June 5, 2009

In an official statement the Paris MOU writes: At its 42nd meeting last month, the Paris MoU Committee approved the 2008 inspection results and adopted new performance lists for flag [...]

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Twitter Clone Hunts Down Somali Pirates

By On March 16, 2009

We have already seen how the Red Cross and United States Coast Guard has successfully implemented Twitter in their effort to dissimenate information and update participants during times of emergency. [...]

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Container Shipping Companies – The Ten Largest Visualized

By On March 7, 2009

UDPATED: January 2012 The data visualization above represents the worlds 10 largest container shipping companies by TEU capacity. WORLD TEU CAPACITY: 15,899,687 For those who prefer more traditional data we [...]

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