Wednesday, June 3, 2015
WATCH Ten Things I Have Learned About The Sea [VIDEO]
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WATCH Ten Things I Have Learned About The Sea [VIDEO]

This video, shot by Lorenzo Fonda and titled “ten things I have learned about the sea“, shows footage he shot while on the vessel “Portland

June 3, 2015
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Capsize In China – Spotlight Shines On Ship’s Captain
News

Capsize In China – Spotlight Shines On Ship’s Captain

by Brenda Goh (Reuters) Three years before the cruise ship he was steering capsized in the Yangtze River, the Chinese government honoured captain Zhang Shuwen

June 3, 2015
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Aquino Says Asia Tensions Remind Him of Pre-War Nazi Germany
News

Aquino Says Asia Tensions Remind Him of Pre-War Nazi Germany

(Bloomberg) Philippine President Benigno Aquino said the situation in Asia reminds him of the international community’s failure to contain Nazi Germany

June 3, 2015
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Cruise Ship Capsize, China Confirms Force 12 Tornado
Lifesaving Incidents

Cruise Ship Capsize, China Confirms Force 12 Tornado

by Zhe Huang (Bloomberg) Chinese Premier Li Keqiang ordered an investigation into why a the cruise ship Eastern Star, carrying more than 450 people, capsized

June 3, 2015
Total Views: 58

Tuesday, June 2, 2015
News

What’s OPEC Going to Do With Iran’s Million Barrels a Day?

by Anthony Dipaola & Grant Smith (Bloomberg) Just when it looked like OPEC was winning the war with U.S. shale-oil drillers, a new front is opening up

June 2, 2015
Total Views: 17

LOOK – Close Look At The Complexity Of An FPSO [PHOTO]
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LOOK – Close Look At The Complexity Of An FPSO [PHOTO]

Today’s ship photo of the day is an extremely high detailed HDR Image the FPSO (floating production, storage and offloading) vessel constructed by

June 2, 2015
Total Views: 186

NOAA Study Ties Deepwater Horizon Spill To Dolphin Deaths
Environment

NOAA Study Ties Deepwater Horizon Spill To Dolphin Deaths

NOAA’s “mortality event investigation team” has discovered that dead bottlenose dolphins, stranded in the northern Gulf of Mexico

June 2, 2015
Total Views: 117

U.S. Faces Ship Shortage for Gas Exports
Shipping News

U.S. Faces Ship Shortage for Gas Exports

by Joachim Dagenborg, (Reuters)The expected boom in liquefied natural gas exports from the United States risks being hampered by a lack of vessels to handle

June 2, 2015
Total Views: 51

Statoil Sees Signs Of Gas Demand Recovery
Offshore

Statoil Sees Signs Of Gas Demand Recovery

by Nerijus Adomaitis, TROLL A PLATFORM, North Sea (Reuters) – Norwegian energy firm Statoil sees some signs of gas demand in Europe recovering after

June 2, 2015
Total Views: 25

News

Shipwreck Hunter Explores 5 Vessels on Atlantic Seabed

  by Sonja Elmquist (Bloomberg) A U.S. salvage company that has recovered precious metals from miles below the surface of the Atlantic over more than two

June 2, 2015
Total Views: 40

brazil flag
News

U.S. Alerted In Brazil’s Offshore Bribery Scandal

by Sabrina Valle (Bloomberg) Prosecutors investigating Brazil’s largest corruption scandal say they notified the U.S. Department of Justice of evidence that

June 2, 2015
Total Views: 237

China Ship Tragedy
Incidents

Hundreds Missing, Captain Detained In China Ship Tragedy

* Ship capsizes in “tornado” on southern stretch of Yangtze * Many of the 458 passengers on board are elderly tourists * Divers pull man, woman

June 2, 2015
Total Views: 73

Monday, June 1, 2015
Lifesaving Incidents

China Races To Rescue Passengers From Capsized River Cruise Ship

by Zhe Huang (Bloomberg) Rescuers in central China scrambled to find survivors from the cruise ship Eastern-Star carrying more than 400 people

June 1, 2015
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UPDATE: Chinese River Ship Capsizes In Storm, 458 People Aboard
Lifesaving Incidents

UPDATE: Chinese River Ship Capsizes In Storm, 458 People Aboard

WUHAN, June 2 (Xinhua) — The BBC is reporting that a passenger ship carrying 458 people sank Monday night in the Hubei section of China’s Yangtze

June 1, 2015
Total Views: 49

Navy Capt. John Rinko, Commodore of MSC Europe
Navy

Interview With MSC Commodore John Rinko, USN

[contextly_sidebar id=”zqj29HbNdElUoXruPMKVewuoOwuAgE3i”]Capt. John Rinko, commodore of the U.S. Navy’s Military Sealift Command Europe and

June 1, 2015
Total Views: 177

sea shepard ships Farley Mowat and Jules Verne
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Sea Shepard Grows “Eco-Pirate” Fleet With Purchase Of USCG Vessels

Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has secured two new ships to join its growing armada of activism. Sea Shepherd USA purchased two recently decommissioned U.S.

June 1, 2015
Total Views: 124

Ship Of Death SAGE_SAGITTARIUS
News

Sage Sagittarius, Ship Of Death – ABC Spotlights Murder On The High Seas

The ABC Australia show Four Corners today released the above video about alleged murders aboard the bulk carrier SAGE SAGITTARIUS. Four Corners pieces together

June 1, 2015
Total Views: 138

Lake Tanganyika Ferry
News

Refugee rescue | 100-year-old ship ferries thousands to safety

A 100-year-old ship ferries thousands of Burundians to safety. Meet the captain, three aid workers and a woman fleeing home for the fourth

June 1, 2015
Total Views: 130

SV VESTFONN - Baker Hughs Supply Vessel
Ship Fires

Engine Room Fire Breaks Out Aboard Baker Hughes Supply Vessel

The Indian Coast Guard hreported that a major fire broke out on the Baker Hughes Oil Field Services (India) supply vessel Vestfonn off the coast of Mumbai

June 1, 2015
Total Views: 175

Interesting

WATCH Massive Containership Take 40 Degree Rolls in North Atlantic WATCH

[contextly_sidebar id=”ZSOfcddaqQ4CioAklmhvvzUX1aKPD8Um”]Last year the Massive 2,992 TEU, 245 meter, containership OOCL Belgium was caught in the

June 1, 2015
Total Views: 1174