2008 marked the first full year of operation here at gCaptain.com and the growth we saw was both amazing and unexpected. In 2008, we grew by over 136%,

The above image is a wordle extraction of the keywords found in this year’s Casualties Report List. The link speaks for itself but to summarize…

The M/V BISCAGLIA was taken over by pirates last month. Of interest was that the ship had onboard a three-man security team that once the ship was lost jumped

This week we bring you a photo of the USCG’s Maritime Rescue And Coordination Center in Boston. The Unofficial Coast Guard Blog tells us: Scattered

Last Friday, the Chinese Navy set off on an historical mission: the first modern deployment of battle-ready warships beyond the Pacific.  What was the

The following is posted by Fred Fry: Welcome to this 142nd edition of Maritime Monday. You can find Maritime Monday 92 here. (Published 7 January 2008) You can

Follow the BBC Box – a shipping container that BBC News is tracking througout the year to tell the story of international trade and the global economy.

Most of you probably already know that starting in February 2009, over-the-air television broadcasts will be going digital in the United States. This means

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Oliver Hicks, 27 year old British adventure, pushes off this week from Wellington, New Zealand in an attempt to complete the first ever solo circumnavigation

Yesterday, the U.S. Coast Guard announced the release of its top 10 video compilation for 2008 that highlights the service’s operations during a year

Amazing planet brings us How To Stretch A Ship – Creating A Bigger Cruise Ship. Click HERE to view the photos. While this may photo look troubling to

. Marc Levinson is the author of, The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger. In this interview Marc talks about

A French team of engineers on board the cable repair ship Raymond Croze have begun to repair the underwater cables that were severed late last week in the

The following is posted by Fred Fry: Welcome to this 141st/Christmas 2008 edition of Maritime Monday. You can find Maritime Monday 91 here. (Published 31

The USNS MERCY (T-AH 19) was originally built as an oil tanker. Then in 1986, the ship was converted into a floating hospital. “Her primary mission is to

In the following video we discus the various types of Position Indicating Radio Beacons. We explore the diffrences between an EPIRB, GPIRB, ELT and the

An undersea cable has been cut leaving 14 Countries without high speed internet access. wired.com brings us more on this developing story. Reports from the

Here are more pirate attack photos. Best is that they use Molotov Cocktails as part of their defense strategy as suggested in my post “On Defending

The gCaptain.com Forum now has nearly 900 active users who discuss wide variety issues that apply to the professional mariner. Some are deadly serious. Others