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Saved from the Angry Atlantic
gCaptain and myself have reported heavily on the rescue of the s/v Sean Seamour II and we are please to report that the US Coast Guard Crew that resc read more »

Speed limit exemption for winged ships
Winged ships (WIGS) are one step closer to serving Juneau travelers after the Juneau Assembly this week adopted an amendment to add “wing in ground e read more »

Sole survivor holds key to tug mystery
Tug accident at Clydebank on the River Clyde in Scotland takes the lives of 3 sailors. read more »

GE invests $54 Million In Oil Drilling Ship Off Brazil
A unit of General Electric Co. (GE) announced Tuesday it is investing $54 million to become part owner of a ship drilling for oil off the coast of Br read more »

Australia to tag Japanese whalers in Southern Ocean
SYDNEY (AFP) — Australia will deploy a ship fitted with machine guns to monitor Japanese whalers in the Southern Ocean, a report said Tuesday. read more »

Nuclear-Powered Ships May be Too Costly
A provision in the final version of the Defense Authorization Bill for Fiscal Year 2008 that requires the Navy to make its next fleet of cruisers nuc read more »

Fred Fry International: Maritime Monday 89
A weekly recap of Maritime-related news and events. read more »

DANICA WHITE Hijacking - ‘Minimum Safe Manning’ Partly to Blame
How is it that a ship is permitted to travel offshore with a crew of only 5? read more »

Scientists worry as oceans grow more acidic
even hundred miles west of Seattle in the Pacific at Ocean Station Papa, a first-of-its-kind buoy is anchored to monitor a looming environmental catastrophe read more »

Here are gCaptain editor’s Top 10 upcoming picks of the week from gCaptain’s Maritime News Discoverer. Please Vote on the ones you like to have them published.

More Than 400 Fall Ill On Hawaii Cruise Ship
Norwegian Cruise Line said about a sixth of the 2,500 passengers onboard its Pride Of Hawaii cruise ship became sick this week.
The passengers fell read more »

Intoxicated Captain Sees Jail Time After Collision with Platform
An allision on August 3, 2007 with an unmanned gas platform in the North Sea led to the sinking of the MV Jork,a 1922 gross tonne coaster and registe read more »

Hostile Shores: Greece Casting off Asylum Seekers
According to recent reports, the Greek coast guard has not only been rejecting but torturing asylum seekers that are arriving in ever greater numbers read more »

ConocoPhillips oil spill case will make the state’s waters safer
The smoking gun. Whistle-blower Jim Legg’s surreptitious documentation of rule-breaking by ConocoPhillips resulted in the oil company’s agreement to read more »

Navy Cancels General Dynamics Ship Contract
The U.S. Navy yesterday canceled a General Dynamics Corp. ship contract worth potentially hundreds of millions of dollars, in a blow to the defense c read more »

The bleedin’ obvious at Tims Times
Tweedle Dumb and Tweedle dumber proceeded to the deck and looked through the near opaque glass inspection hatch, the beam of their flashlight glaring read more »

Container ship hits Bay Bridge tower - fuel spills, but span undamaged
There was an allision this morning between the German-flagged, 810-foot vessel Cosco Busan and the San Francisco Bay Bridge, in heavy fog. While the read more »

Hostile Shores: Greece Casting off Asylum Seekers
According to recent reports, the Greek coast guard has not only been rejecting but torturing asylum seekers that are arriving in ever greater numbers read more »

Straits of Malacca Shortcut…Tenth Degree Canal Project
A 1500 nautical mile detour of the pirate infested Malacca Straits route is possible with a canal cut across the Isthmus of Kra between the Gulf of T read more »

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Hawaii Superferry Back on Course
It looks like the embattled Hawaii Super Ferry may have a new lease on life. The Hawaii Legislature voted overwhelmingly to override the HI Supreme read more »

Russia launches three GLONASS navigation satellites
It’s a bit behind schedule, but Russia’s GPS-challenging GLONASS satellite navigation looks to have just taken a fairly big step forward, with three read more »

Panama Canal Rate Hikes
The Panama Canal will probably resist calls from shipping lines to spread out proposed toll increases, threatening profits for companies such as A.P. read more »

U.S. Navy helps crew of hijacked North Korean ship
The U.S. Navy said Tuesday it provided medical assistance and other support to the North Korean crew of a vessel hijacked by pirates off the East Afr read more

Coast Guard Test its Arctic Wings
As global warming opens new shipping lanes in the Arctic Ocean, the United States Coast Guard(USCG), conducts aerial reconnaissance of a Europe-Asia read more »

Coast Guard trains Navy in ship-boarding tactics
Boarding a ship is a risky operation. A lot can go wrong quickly, and Navy ship-boarding teams have to be ready for anything, from armed pirates to t read more »

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WIGS come to Alaska
This is a big deal. The first use of a commercial WIG is being planned for the Lynn Canal. A 12 passenger $1.2m vessel. Docks and Harbors Board ha read more »

Update on Arctic Expeditions - MAREX
In prior years, the question of who owns the North Pole and the Arctic in general was simply a theoretical one. The territory had been trapped in ice read more »

COAST GUARD CONDUCTING FIRST NORTH POLE FLIGHT
“The northern reaches of the Arctic is a new area for us to do surveillance,” said Rear Adm. Arthur E. Brooks read more »

BIMCO Feature - Feature: The blossoming of LNG shipping
The established, low-key world of LNG shipping is changing out of all recognition as trade volumes mushroom, the supply chain extends and offshore read more »

CNOOC Building Deep-sea Drilling Rig
China will finish its first deep-sea drilling rig with a maximum working depth of three kilometers by 2011, a spokesman for China National Offshore O read more »

Iran to Buy 52 ships by 2010
The Managing Director of the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines says IRISL has signed a contract for purchase of fifty-two ships. Mohammad-Hosse read more »

Forward Looking 3D Sonar System for Collision Avoidance
FarSounder, Inc. a Warwick, Rhode Island based technology company has been awarded a $2 million grant from the US National Institute of Standards and read more »

Watchkeeper: Getting closer to the crew
There is concern about the quality of seafarers, and of the lack of experience of some given accelerated promotion to fill gaps. read more »

Crew Study Reveals Benefits and Perks Boost Morale and Retention
Amen! ….bring on the lobster tails. read more »

10 Reasons Why Captain’s Sink with the Ship
Whenever a ship sinks due to any reason, the Captain of the Ship prefers to sink with the ship. In my last post “Cargo ships collide in Thessaloniki read more »

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