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

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This month’s maritime quiz was pulled from the Maritime News Headlines.

So what is it? [Continue Reading →]

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We are giving away a free SPOT t-shirt to the first person who can tell us about what is going on in this image.

Let us know in the comments…

Wow.  Great responses everyone.  While this wasn’t any trick question, most of you did get it correct.  Click on to see the answer and the winner… [Continue Reading →]

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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.

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You have all done well on the previous quizes so here’s a challenge. What’s featured in the picture above?

UPDATE:

Ignacio-Wenley Palacios correctly identified the photo as marine salvage equipment known as Titan Pullers. The company’s website says:

Titan’s 300-tonne linear hydraulic pullers otherwise known as “Titan Pullers” is shown above. The pullers have been used in a variety of manners including dragging vessels off the beach or onto barges, parbuckling vessels, rolling vessels onto barges or onto breakwaters or to vertically lift sunken vessels. Several examples of relevant “Titan Puller” jobs are provided on the bottom of this page to illustrate the versatility and capacity of these machines and Titan’s ability to successfully apply skill and innovation to accomplish challenging wreck removal jobs.

Here is a photo fo the pullers in action:

Read more about these masters of disasters HERE.

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Test your marine geography knowledge with this URI/NOAA map of the World’s Largest Watersheds and Currents. To get you started here are the first three answers:

1. Bearing Bering Sea
2. Gulf Of Alaska
3. California Current

Click HERE for the large printable version of the Quiz and HERE for the answers.

For a full sized color version of this map download the zip file HERE. Makes for a great desktop background.

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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:

1. Antwerp
2. Bandar Abbas
3. Novorossiysk
4. Constantza
5. Ningbo
6. Shanghai
7. Nikolayev
8. Gladstone
9. Koper
10. Singapore

Details can be found at the very interesting site Lloyds MIU

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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

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