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Maritime Monday 206
You can find last week’s edition here » This Week’s Flickr Galleries: Maritime Monday 206 - Nautical Tattoos 1 – Nautical Tattoos 2 In Case You Missed It: Announcing gCaptain’s New Resume Services » Aker Philadelphia Shipyard Celebrates Keel Laying for 11th Product Tanker Aker Philadelphia Shipyard held a ceremonial keel laying recently for Ship 015, the [...]...
Skysails – Plus – Top 10 Green Ship Designs
In honor of Earth Day, let’s take a look at an archived post on Skysails. But first, here is a brief update into the current state of affairs provided by Skysails: Within the framework of the pilot phase, the SkySails-System is being explored on board the MS “Michael A.” and the MS “Beluga SkySails” during regular [...]...
Wartsilla CBM – Live Condition Based Monitoring Of Ship Systems
The days of anonymity at sea are long gone. With LRIT and satellite based AIS tracking the office has, for some time now, had access to the precise location of your ship… in real time. The next wave of innovation came with remote monitoring systems used for reasons as diverse as anti-piracy monitoring and [...]...
Bridge Technology Poll – Most Wished For Gadget
Two weeks ago, in cooperation with 59-56, we asked you to design the ship of your dreams in a feature called “Pimp My Ship“. Not suprising we had a few really good ideas posted to the forum. Considering the amount of time the average gCaptain reader spends standing nav watch I was also not surprised [...]...
Announcing – gCaptain Resume Services
Since the initial launch of our Maritime Jobs Board gCaptain has helped countless mariners find jobs at sea. To my surprise one, Jeffrey an engineer and fellow Fort Schuyler alumni, recently used the job board to find a job aboard my ship! A ship, I myself found, via the maritime employment section of our forum. Needless [...]...
Incident Photo (and video) of The Week – Collision at Port of Constanta
This weeks incident photos and video is of the M/V CMA CGM Debussy pinning the tug Vadeni. The incident occurred on March 8th at the Port of Constanta, Romania. Cargo Law has some of the details: 73,157-gt French container M/V CMA CGM Debussy (IMO 9235907) struck the stern of Turkish cargo M/V Haci Fatma Sari (IMO [...]...
AIS SART – New Technology And The Sharing Critical Information
AIS has been a revolutionary product and, regardless of your opinion on its use, has changed the way mates handle heavy traffic situations. Jotron, makers of various SOLAS compliant marine safety electronics, is looking to bring this revolution to Search And Rescue operations with the introduction of an AIS enabled Search And Rescue Transponder (SART). The [...]...
Solo Fisherman Caught in His Own Net! (Accident Investigation Report)
The following is posted by Fred Fry: Here is an investigation report covering an accident where a fisherman alone on his fishing vessel managed to get caught in his fishing gear and it took a navy boarding team to set him free. It is funny because the guy lived to tell about it. (He was seriously injured [...]...
Q & A: Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood on Marine Highways Program
By Wayne McCormick via AmericanMarineHighways.com Update 03/16/2010 Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood was in San Diego on February 5th to speak at a Town Hall meeting with port leaders from around the country at the first ever “National Port Summit”. After his speech I had a brief meeting with him to specifically discuss MarAd’s “Marine Highway Program” and [...]...
Marine Air Bags – A Most Unusual (and effective?) Ship Launching Technique
To educate everyone on the use of air bags as a cost effective technique used for ship launching, we reached out to Song Tao of Qingdao Evergreen Shipping Supplies Co.,Ltd. Let’s here what he has to say… What were the first uses of air bags in the launching of ships? The history of marine air bag ship [...]...

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