It’s that time of the year, time to play - once more – gCaptain’s all time favorite TV commercial… the German Coast Guard.
While arctic ice patrols and real-time satellite imagery has made iceberg avoidance routine, some ship captains still seek the thrill of getting close to these ice-cold arctic behemoths. Lucky for [...]
As Royal Caribbean’s Oasis of the Seas departed Port Everglades, Florida last week, the hydrodynamic response of the ship as it interacted with the surrounding tidal areas left beach-goers puzzled, and for [...]
This dramatic video shows UK forces stopping a group of Somali pirates that were trolling for ships in the Indian Ocean on January 13. A total of thirteen Somali pirates [...]
We’ve all been there. That lucid moment when all of a sudden you look around and realize, “I am wasting my life right now and it’s time for a change.” [...]
In another big hint that digital and shareable media is fully spreading into the commercial shipping world, Maersk Line announced the launch of their Vimeo channel. Lots of good stuff [...]
ARABIAN SEA (Jan. 5, 2012) A U.S. Navy SH-60S Sea Hawk provides support to a visit, board, search and seizure team (VBSS) in a 7-meter rigid-hull inflatable boat, assigned to [...]
Stan Ayscue from Securewest International spoke at a recent conference for maritime security experts in Washington, DC: “You’re looking at militants spraying the wheelhouse with machine gun fire before they even get [...]
Travis Niemi, a commercial fisherman, talks to the US Coast Guard about the importance of offshore lifesaving equipment after his boat capsized and sank off Key West, Florida at the [...]
We don’t know much about this video except: The helicopter pilot is bad ass and; It was released by Prism Defence, an Australian-owned company that specializes in ship helicopter integration. [...]
Here, cameras role while Georgian and Turkish men who are being held hostage by Somali pirates tell about the harrowing ordeal. If you listen closely, they speak of the poor [...]
Lloyd’s List interviews IMO Secretary General Mr. Efthimios E. Mitropoulos, Swedish Navy Commander Frank Johnsson, BIMCO’s Torbin Skaanild, and Robert Young Pelton, the publisher of one of the most insightful [...]
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