A little, Sort Of. Back on February 1st 2009, though boat owners and ship riders didn’t hear it, there were celebrations all over the rescue world as the COSPAS-SARSAT system [...]
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With the release of the new Apple iPhone comes features like new high definition cameras, dual-core processors and Siri, a voice-based personal assistant. Each has been marketed heavily on billboards, [...]
By Captain Patrick Donovan, R/V Thomas G. Thompson, University of Washington As mariners we encounter them all the time… a yellow buoy, a white ship, the daily routine of transmitting [...]
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Text messaging from sea has long been an option either via expensive internet at sea connections or via cheap (i.e. not reliable) systems like the SPOT Messenger, which do not [...]
gCaptain has long been a proponent of Thermal Imagers for firefighting use and we just received a Flir First Mate thermal imaging camera for maritime SAR and Security use (we [...]
On April 3rdh, 2011, bulkcarrier “Shen Neng 1″ hit a coral reef off the Australian west coast. In its final report on the grounding the Australian Transport Safety Bureau put forward that [...]
With the crowded nature of the GMDSS / Emergency Signaling market, does the maritime world really need another manufacturer? I’ll leave that question for you to fight over in the [...]
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