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CargoLaw.com brings us this week’s incident photo. At first glance this could just be two ships at anchor, waiting on weather. To uncover the incident take a second look at the draft lines… ouch!
Full details on this incident, including more photos, can be found HERE.

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Our favorite Picture Blog Dark Roasted Blend is running  a series titled: Shipwrecks & Sea Disasters
Don’t miss it.  Here are but a few of their offerings:

gCaptain also has a more comprehensive post of incident photos in the archives, click HERE to view it.
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This post was written by Richard Rodriguez, Rescue Tug Captain, and US […]

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Our photo of the week shows the Canadian Tall Ship S/V Concordia undersail. It was taken by Flikr photographer Oriano nicolau. The original can be found HERE.

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Stunning, dramatic shipwreck photography by Donibane Sanjuan. See more here.
Via Dark Roasted Blend
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This post was written by Richard Rodriguez, Rescue Tug Captain, and US Coast Guard approved instructor for License Training. You can read more of his articles at the BitterEnd of the net.

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It’s time to cast your votes for the 2008 webby awards. While we are sad to report gCaptain did not receive a nomination this year we are please to find some other great sites that did.
The image above links to the most innovative and graphically pleasing website of the year “The Whale Hunt“. What is […]

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Click Image For Hi-Resolution Version/
Being technologically oriented ship drivers we are easily excited by new web sites that combine these interests. Having worked closely with web based AIS (Digital Seas, EarthNC, ActiveCaptain, VslTrax… to name a few) providers during the Cosco Busan incident we are also increasingly becoming interested in digital ship tracking technology so […]

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The Picture Blog, Dark Roasted Blend is featuring a series on Russian Nuclear Icebreakers.
Here’s a sample: The balance of the pics are here.
Paired up for the voyage

The Voyage Plan

Sunrise

The Reactor Control Room

The Reactor

Here’s the video version via Sea Fever.
Nuclear Icebreaker
for more Nuclear Goodness CLICK HERE or take our nuclear cargo quiz HERE.

Photos by Svetlana […]

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Use the links below to learn more about ten of the world’s largest oil spills.

Amoco Cadiz
The Amoco Cadiz encountered stormy weather and ran aground off the coast of Brittany, France on March 16, 1978. Its entire cargo of 68.7 million gallons of oil spilled into the sea, polluting about 200 miles of Brittany’s coastline.

Arabian Gulf […]

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The task is to lift the whole bridge sections, each weighing approx. 3500 tonnes.

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More photos of the M/V Riverdance can be found at Cargo Law and Ships Of The Mersey.

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