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 [...]
Read the ful synopsis HERE Via NTSB.gov Washington, DC – The National Transportation Safety Board determined today that a medically unfit pilot, an ineffective master, and poor communications between the [...]
Today, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) held a public board meeting on its investigation into the Cosco Busan allision. The goal of which, was to formally cite the probable [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Today’s AP wire tells us: The U.S. Justice Department filed a lawsuit six months ago accusing the pilot and the owner of the Cosco Busan of breaking environmental laws when [...]
BYM Marine and Maritime news is reporting: A federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging John Joseph Cota, a U.S. Coast Guard and California licensed ship pilot, with making [...]
Not Being John Cota by Bob Couttie “Capt. Cota acknowledges the lack of situational awareness and does not expect it to happen again.” Board of Pilot Commissioners for the Bays: [...]
TROUBLE ON OILY WATERS. MV COSCO BUSAN vs THE BRIDGE ON SAN FRANCISCO BAY BY John G. Denham On Wednesday 7 November 2007, it started as a short 10 AM [...]
Sailor, Mariners, seafarers and to whom it may concern by Captain John Denham The Department of Justice has submitted “information relative to a criminal action ” in U.S. District Court [...]
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