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VTS Photo Gallery – A look inside maritime vessel traffic services worldwide.

By On August 18, 2009

Our friend Richard Rodriguez of the BitterEnd Blog had an excellent post titled VTS – Working with large vessels, that gives Puget Sound boaters tips on communicating with the numerous [...]

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Flight 1592 Video Released by Coast Guard

By On January 19, 2009

The Coast Guard and National Transportation Safety Board released this Coast Guard footage of US Airways Flight 1592 performing an emergency landing into the Hudson River last week.  The footage [...]

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A Word On Vessel Traffic Service

By On February 19, 2008

A Word On Vessel Traffic Service by Captain John Denham The purpose of a Vessel Traffic Service (VTS) is to provide active monitoring and navigational advice for vessels in particularly [...]

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Artificial Intelligence – Can VTS be far behind?

By On February 11, 2008

Artificial Intelligence by Richard Rodriguez NetworkWorld.com is reporting that the US Air Forces is looking to artificial intelligence for controlling aricraft. Automated ATC – now there’s a concept. Here’s an [...]

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Ridiculous Item of the Month – Madatory VTS Instructions

By On November 29, 2007

Fairplay brings us the most ridiculous item of the day; Vessels transiting US harbours could come under tight navigational controls in the wake of the Cosco Busan bridge strike and [...]

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American’s Marine Highway

By On November 24, 2007

I am pleased to report a significant amount of positive feedback from mariners when discussing new MARAD (Maritime Administration) initiatives. In addition to being on the forefront of new LNG [...]

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Darwin Award Close Call of the Week – Video

By On November 20, 2007

Youtube commentary; While sailing on San Francisco Bay we had a close encounter with a container ship. The container ship honked at the other sailboat. We had space to turn…but [...]

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San francisco Oil Spill Hearings – A Response to Admiral Bone, USCG

By On November 20, 2007

Yesterday my comments were published on the front page of The San Francisco Chronicle in an article titled; “Hearing today at Presidio – tough queries for spill captain.” Prior to [...]

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Cosco Busan – Questions,Questions,Questions

By On November 16, 2007

By Bob Couttie  Once the US National Transportation Safety Board has produced the transcripts of the voyage data recorder from the Cosco Busan (Formerly the Hanjin Cairo, the Hanjin name [...]

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VTS Warning to Cosco Busan Pilot

By On November 16, 2007

National news sources are publishing a story about the VTS warning to the Cosco Busan’s pilot Jim Cota. In a story titled “Ship Got No Alert From Coast Guard” the [...]

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Lost in Translation – French Humor

By On October 25, 2007

Tim’s Times has a conversation that put a big smile on our faces and reminded me of my favorite TV commercial. Here’s the story: You have to imagine a heavy [...]

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