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gCaptain Weekly Maritime News Quiz

John Konrad — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 21:02:01 +0000

Welcome to another addition of gCaptain’s Weekly News Quiz! the answer to each question can be found on the pages of gCaptain’s blog and Twitter Stream. Have fun!

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gCaptain’s Maritime News Quiz

gCaptain Staff — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 22:32:38 +0000

Shocked that over 1000 people took last week’s Nautical Terms Quiz we decided to try out a new weekly feature: gCaptain’s Maritime News Quiz.

The following questions are pulled from last week’s headlines. Most answers can be found on gCaptain’s blog and Twitter page, so be sure to study up before

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John Konrad — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:20:51 +0000

Are you ready for that Master’s Job? If so, show your knowledge with our Nautical Terms Quiz.

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Quiz – A Most Unusual Boat

gCaptain Staff — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:43:48 +0000

We know that Friday is not gCaptain’s most popular day of the week so today’s nautical quiz should be an easy on. At least for those of you who follow the Maritime Blogosphere.

So what is it?

UPDATE:

Congratulations to Mike who stressfully identified this boat as “A” the personal yacht of Russian billionaire Andrey Melnichenko. You can find all the photos, video and information on this yacht at Monacoeye.com and The WSJ. Thanks to Peter for the find.

Quiz – Which Port Detained The Most Ships in 2007?

John Konrad — Tue, 20 May 2008 04:21:16 +0000

Let’s check our collective intellegence with a short Quiz:

Congratulations to the 5 readers with the correct answer: Antwerp.

The top ten ports for ship detentions are:

Antwerp
Bandar Abbas
Novorossiysk
Constantza
Ningbo
Shanghai
Nikolayev
Gladstone
Koper
Singapore

Details can be found at the very interesting site Lloyds MIU

gCaptain Quiz – 4 Tiny Subsea Cables

John Konrad — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:49:40 +0000

We received email that our last quiz was just too easy so we challenge you to try this…. the above picture shows something carried aboard certain ships that’s critical to the future success of this website. What is it?

Hint: It’s being covered today in the newspapers of our 4th and 5th favorite cities.

Update

You can find the answer on our post: Cable Laying Ships – Back In Business

gCaptain Quiz – Unusual Cargo

John Konrad — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:57:50 +0000

What is it??

A free gCaptain t-shirt goes out to the first person who can correctly identify this cargo.

UPDATE:

We have a winner. Charlie of Sea Wolf Engineering correctly identified the cargo as nuclear fuel casks. The owner of the ship, Pacific Nuclear Transport Ltd tells us:

The special packages in which PNTL transports nuclear material are called “flasks” or “casks”. They are typically made from 25 cm thick forged steel and weigh around 100 tonnes. They can hold up to five tonnes of nuclear material.

The casks facilitate the movement of nuclear material by different modes of transport, protect workers from radiation, dissipate heat efficiently and are designed to withstand severe accidents.

BNFL Cask Maintenance Facility
Casks are monitored for radiation prior to loading onto PNTL ships and during transportation. They are thoroughly cleaned and inspected in maintenance facilities after each shipment.

Cask lids can only be attached and removed using specialist equipment at nuclear facilities.

The casks transported by PNTL belong to customers. Each cask design has to meet safety requirements established by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in order to be licensed by national regulatory bodies.

Click HERE to find out more and HERE for video of these interesting nuvlear transport ships.