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Piloting Arctic Waters And Other Major Shifts In Navigation

By On January 9, 2011

The following article by CDR Michael Hendersen, Navigation Manager NOAA was originally published in the December 2010 edition of CAMM , Council Of American Master Mariners, magazine Sidelights. Click HERE to [...]

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UAV technology to help British sailing team by predicting weather

By On December 8, 2010

The use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) has been a popular topic of discussion here at gCaptain and has been associated with a variety uses ranging from aerial surveillance to [...]

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ECDIS: Discovery or Disconnect?

By On November 25, 2010

Regulators and suppliers are going full steam for ECDIS; But are shipowners and officers onboard? Today and tomorrow hundreds of the ECDIS faithful are gathering in London to take status [...]

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USCG issues advisory on cell phone use

By On November 2, 2010

Recently, the USCG issued a Marine Safety Alert warning operators to have policies in place on the use of cells phones and other devices that may distract crew members from [...]

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The Most Remote Places on Earth – Mapped

By On October 30, 2010

From the gCaptain archives… Here at gCaptain, we are a big fan of maps and when you came across this one, we couldn’t help but to post here on the [...]

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The Most Dangerous Hour In Shipping

By On October 20, 2010

Question: What is The most dangerous hour in shipping? Answer: 22:24 to 23:45 There are three watches aboard ship 00-04 (i.e. 0000 to 0400 and 1600 to 2200) is often [...]

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‘Charting a More Perfect Union’: NOAA releases Civil War chart collection

By On October 8, 2010

U.S. Coast Survey cartographers traveled with Union forces to produce battlefield maps during the Civil War (Map of the Battlefield of Chickamauga). Credit: NOAA In recognition of the 150th anniversary [...]

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Smells like a scandal

By On September 14, 2010

When consumers get cornered into buying from one supplier, they’re gonna get soaked, then pissed By Ryan Skinner (email) Through my work, I’ve become intimately acquainted with what feels like [...]

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M/V Nordic Barents set to take on Northern Sea Route

By On August 27, 2010

A historic event is set to take place in Northern Norway in early September, as a bulk carrier with a non-Russian flag will use the Northern Sea Route as a [...]

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Dude, you can get YouTube on the ECDIS!

By On August 20, 2010

High-speed Internet connectivity on merchant ships and unintended consequences By Ryan Skinner (email) Since early this year, ships running at least one make of ECDIS can download navigational charts and chart [...]

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Critical Alarms – Are they being monitored, inhibited or both?

By On August 1, 2010

Photo by InfoClog Where the Alarms on the Deepwater Horizon being monitored, were they inhibited?  Yes and Yes. This morning the Sunday New York Times had an article so off [...]

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Moon Setting on Calm Water

By On July 29, 2010

The above photo was taken using a technique we published in a story titled “Shipboard Digital Camera Tricks“. Many more great moon pictures by the photographer, Licya, can be found [...]

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