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James Bond is Envious – Kongsberg’s C’Inspector

By On October 25, 2010

Meet the newest maritime security toy; Kongsberg’s C’Inspector UUV. Not sure what a UUV is? Well neither did we but we quickly discovered the acronym stands for Unmanned Undersea Vehicle. [...]

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The Most Dangerous Hour In Shipping

By On October 20, 2010

Question: What is The most dangerous hour in shipping? Answer: 22:24 to 23:45 There are three watches aboard ship 00-04 (i.e. 0000 to 0400 and 1600 to 2200) is often [...]

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Health Effects Of Working The Night Shift – A Cause Of Concern

By On October 15, 2010

Photo by OneEighteen We have some bad news to report for mates working the 00-04 watch. Like UV rays and diesel exhaust fumes, working the graveyard shift will soon be [...]

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Our Biggest Export to China; Recycling Material (aka Trash)

By On August 5, 2010

From the “Maritime Monday” archives a popular post from original MM author Fred Fry a story straight from the trash heap….. ”Guangzhou Customs Intercepted and Captured “Imported Rubbish” While China is [...]

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Ghost Ship – The Flying Dutchman

By On July 15, 2010

The legend of The Flying Dutchman is said to have started in 1641 when a Dutch ship sank off the coast of the Cape of Good Hope: In the year [...]

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Collision Avoidance Tip – Call his boss!

By On May 28, 2009

It’s the classic scenario from the Academy… You are the stand on vessel with no room to maneuver and a zero CPA contact is bearing down on you. You try [...]

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The Ocean’s Tyrannosaurus Rex

By On December 17, 2007

The Star Tribune points us to a new prehistoric discovery; Remains of a bus-sized prehistoric “monster” reptile found on a remote Arctic island may be a new species never before [...]

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Underwater Ocean Turbines

By On December 12, 2007

We have taken a look at ways to harness the ocean’s immense power before but this alternative energy solutions is slightly different. Using subsea moorings and 100′ diameter turbines this [...]

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The Protector – Anti Piracy Robot

By On December 10, 2007

Want to know more about The Protector? Popular Mechanics tells us; Robots versus pirates—it’s not as stupid, or unlikely, as it sounds. Piracy has exploded in the waters near Somalia, [...]

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Happy Thanksgiving

By On November 22, 2007

Happy Thanksgiving to all our readers at home and away at sea. Since launching gCaptain in late May we have logged over 100,000 unique visitors and over 300,000 pageviews and [...]

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Chinese Sub and the Carrier Group

By On November 15, 2007

While we have been preoccupied with the Bay Bridge Allision readers of our Maritime News Discoverer know of this troubling news from the pacific; When the U.S. Navy deploys a [...]

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Kappsized Clarification

By On November 14, 2007

Kappsized Clarification?! By James MacGuire In my last article Kappsized or Scuttled?!, I forwarded a client question which was, “Do I HAVE to file these amended returns?” regarding recent amended [...]

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