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Photo by Sean Mantey Prior to completing mission’s like rescuing self-appointed royaly the RNLI must first get its boats off the beach. The

gCaptain reader and Meteorologist Brad Snook writes: I spent 13 years as a Meteorologist, recommending routes and forecasting seas and swells for merchant

The Guardian tells us: A nuclear-powered Royal Navy submarine needed £5m worth of repairs after it struck the seabed because a piece of tracing paper covered

Download MP3: Messing About In Ships podcast episode 23 – May 15, 2008 Subscribe Via iTunes HERE Shownotes: In this episode Capt. Kelly Sweeney gives us

.Telegeography.com is selling one of the most interesting world maps I’ve seen to date. The map depicts the over 120 subsea cables including detailed

MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND SPECIAL EDITION By Robin Storm Both Captain John Konrad of gCaptain and I have written much on the importance of GPIRBs and EPIRBs

Photo of the M/V New Flame. Marine Link has the details of this incident HERE. Video can be found

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FV8WeGdDHlE . If you liked this video click HERE for one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD9aqztvdTw . For more information on this incident view our previous coverage: English Channel Abandoment – M/V Ice

Our friend Jean Pierre de Lutz is building a new boat using green technology and writing about it on his blog. Knowing we are interested in new technology

Last month in an post titled “How To Break A Bottle.. for good luck” gCaptain highlighted the bad luck expected to circle cunard’s liner

WVEC brings us news of the world’s first commercial nuclear ship, N/S Savannah. The Savannah, a historic landmark and the world’s first

Photo of the research boat Russell W. Peterson takes on water about 14 miles off the coast of Rehoboth Beach, Del., Monday, May 12, 2008. Video of this

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

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

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

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