Currently viewing the category: "San Francisco"
Carnival Splendor in Drydock

Mega Cruise Ship – Mega Airplane – Mega Camera, Carnival Splendor Enters Drydock

By On January 26, 2011

Our friends at Telstar Logistics, with a tip from gCaptain member DH, bring us mega ships, planes and photos in their recent post A Very Big Airplane Helps a Very [...]

Continue Reading →
cosco-busan

Operators of Cosco Busan agree to pay local fisherman $3.6m in damages

By On January 5, 2011

The owners and operators of the Cosco Busan, Fleet Management Ltd. and Regal Stone Ltd., have agreed to pay San Francisco’s local commercial fishermen approximately $3.65 million in damages as [...]

Continue Reading →

San Francisco Fleet Week kicks off

By On October 8, 2010

San Francisco’s 2010 Fleet Week kicked off today with the Blue Angels performing “Circle & Arrival” maneuvers over the entire Bay.  Not many people were out, so it was a [...]

Continue Reading →

NTSB Releases Final Report on Cosco Busan Allision

By On May 7, 2009

Earlier today, the National Transportation Safety Board released its final report on the allision of the M/V Cosco Busan with the Delta Tower of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge on [...]

Continue Reading →

Left Coast Lifter – Biggest floating crane ever to hit the West Coast arrives in San Francisco

By On March 13, 2009

Image via sfexaminer.com A massive 328-foot crane arrived in San Francisco Bay last week to start working on the Bay Bridge’s eastern span project.  The crane, called the “Left Coast [...]

Continue Reading →

Poll – What Is A Fair Sentence For John Cota?

By On March 10, 2009

To read the evidence click HERE.

Continue Reading →

John Cota, Pilot Of The Cosco Busan, Pleads Guilty

By On March 6, 2009

First revealed on gCaptain’s Professional Mariner Forum (LINK) last week, the news is now official… John Cota, pilot of the Cosco Busan, has plead guilty to charges and faces jail [...]

Continue Reading →

Bye Bye Buoy – Sinking Of The “SF” Sea Buoy

By On February 8, 2009

Bye Bye Buoy By John Denham The recent sinking of the “SF” Sea Buoy by possibly a large foreign-flag container ship causes more concern about ship management. In recent published [...]

Continue Reading →

Feedback – A failure in XXX Resource Management

By On November 1, 2008

Perusing ” A failure in XXX Resource Management” I must accept the authors concern. Although encompassing, the point is understood: the maritime industry has problems. It is mostly people and [...]

Continue Reading →

The Cosco Busan – A Failure in xxx Resource Management

By On October 30, 2008

For a business to be successful you need hard work, willingness to accept risk and a touch of luck. For gCaptain the bit of luck was someone else’s misfortune, namely [...]

Continue Reading →

Deconstructing The Cosco Busan Incident – More On Accidents And Why

By On October 29, 2008

More on accidents and why. By John G. Denham A pilotage pardox presently exists because of the lack of explanations as to the “root cause” of accidents; basically, a failure [...]

Continue Reading →

Pilot Commission Finds Cosco Busan Pilot John Cota At Fault

By On October 25, 2008

Carl Nolte of the San Francisco Chronicle writes: According to a report released Thursday by the state pilot commission… “There was unequivocally pilot error,” said Gary Gleason, an attorney for [...]

Continue Reading →

Free Subscription

Click “Get It Now” to join thousands who have signed up for a free email subscription to gCaptain’s daily newsletter.