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Just For Fun – gCaptain 2011 Pirate QUIZ

By On August 15, 2011

      2011 gCaptain Pirate Quiz to test your knowledge of the marauders that plague our seas. Scorecard: 0-50% Pirate Bait 50-60% Landlubber In Disguise 60-70% Danger Will Robinson [...]

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Kevlar balloons to raise sinking ships

By On December 13, 2010

Bob Couttie of Maritime Accident Casebook (MAC) points us to the following press release from BMT Group, explaining a “revolutionary new system” that uses “balloons” that rapidly inflate to provide [...]

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gCaptain Weekly Maritime News Quiz

By On March 29, 2009

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! gcaptain_weekly_news_quiz

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gCaptain’s Maritime News Quiz

By On March 16, 2009

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 [...]

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Play gCaptain Nautical Terms Quiz

By On March 13, 2009

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

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gCaptain Mystery Ship Quiz – What Is It?

By On February 10, 2009

This month’s maritime quiz was pulled from the Maritime News Headlines. So what is it?

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Mini Contest: What Is This?

By On October 28, 2008

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… [...]

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Quiz – A Most Unusual Boat

By On July 18, 2008

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 [...]

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Quiz – Titan Pullers?

By On July 4, 2008

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 [...]

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Marine Geography Quiz

By On July 1, 2008

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: Bearing Bering Sea Gulf [...]

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Quiz – Which Port Detained The Most Ships in 2007?

By On May 20, 2008

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: Antwerp Bandar Abbas [...]

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gCaptain Quiz – 4 Tiny Subsea Cables

By On April 9, 2008

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 [...]

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