The Marine Safety Forum gives us information on this lifeboat air bottle explosion: A gas bottle exploded in a lifeboat of a vessel during the process of

. SAN PEDRO, Calif. — The aircrews of Air Station Los Angeles spent the day training for cliff operations May 17 at Point Vicente Lighthouse. The air

Masig Island, one of the low-lying islands of the Torres Strait The Independent/UK is reporting: No one on Murray had ever seen such a high tide before. Other

Photo by Peter MacDonald Here at gCaptain we are interested in all things we can drive our ships over, under or through… this includes bridges. Our

911 Dispatch brings us this map of International Emergency phone numbers. Click HERE for the latest version. For more time zone and international dialing

The following is posted by Fred Fry: For those of you who missed 10-hour PBS CARRIER marathon, have no fear as they were kind enough to post the full

Our friend Bob Couttie of Maritime Accident Casebook asks; Pirates, A Doom With A Q? He writes: Earlier this week the US and France introduce a draft UN

Congratulations to Mr. Platt and Viessman, grand winners in our birthday contest. Our winners will be receiving: Apple iPod Sony Noise Canceling Headphones

I stumbled upon this post while doing research for our EPIRB Failure series. It’s new distress system developed by researchers at John Hopkins

The BBC tells us: Latvian authorities have begun evacuating hundreds of people from a cruise ship stuck on a sandbank. So far tugs have failed to free the

The following is posted by Fred Fry: Welcome to this 109th edition of Maritime Monday. You can find Maritime Monday 59 here. (Published 14 May 2007) You can

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6UKhFpkE3Q Pilots boarding the M/V Berge Stahl, the world’s largest bulk

The Old Royal Naval College was designed by artist Sir Christopher Wren and built between 1696 and 1751. It started life as the Greenwich Hospital for Seamen,

Download MP3:Messing About In Ships podcast # 21 Subscribe Via iTunes HERE Shownotes: Coming

This video show the 1975 construction of the tanker M/V Batillus in St. Nazaire, France. she has since been

It might soon be time for a revision of Pilot Charts. NatGeo tells us: Europe and North America may soon experience chillier temperatures, thanks to natural

NPR brings us the latest developments from Dubai… Constructing floating houses or restaurants or even villages is an idea that first came to him in his

Inhabitat brings us the RECYCLED FERRY HOME. They write: How many of you have wished you could trade your apartment & crappy office space for a floating

Apparently it’s scurvy awareness day. Limestrong, the “official” website of the event tells us a little about this once common affliction:  

CargoLaw.com brings us this week’s incident photo. At first glance this could just be two ships at anchor, waiting on weather. To uncover the incident