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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

Photo by Cinnamon In a short few days gCaptain will reach two big milestones…. one million pageviews and our first birthday! In celebration we are giving

Should Have Used the Grits By The Artful Blogger Hi kids! This is part two of my ways to put some spice into your fire drills and maybe .

The BBC Tells us: One of the world’s largest cruise ships has been officially named by a member of the public who won a national competition for the

The BBC Tells us: A 500-year-old ship-wreck laden with treasure has been discovered off the coast of Namibia. The country’s diamond company, Namdeb, says

A big gCaptain welcome to the 2,000+ new visitors that have stopped by gCaptain.com this week. The reason for the influx? Our CEO, Captain John Konrad,  wrote

The following happen so close to gCaptain Headquarters here in Morro Bay California that our CEO called from his ship to make sure the building was secure and

Our friends at the Unofficial Coast Guard Blog and the Coast Guard Report break this story on the USCG’s plans to restrict the blogging activities of

Episode 20 of Messing About In Ships podcast has launched, shownotes can be found at MessingAboutInShips.com and the audio file can be downloaded directly

Carrier, a new show by PBS, joins America’s Port and The Deadliest Catch as the third prime time television series chronicling life at sea. Our friends

Here’s an interesting story brought to us by The New York Times.  They tell us: In a slap to Zimbabwe, its longtime ally Angola announced Saturday that

This morning Fred Fry pointed us to this amazing time lapse video by our favorite maritime photographer. Click HERE for the

Our photo of the week shows the Canadian Tall Ship S/V Concordia undersail. It was taken by Flikr photographer Oriano nicolau. The original can be found

Our recent post Was the titanic sunk by a small key? elicited some great response from our readers. Surprisingly, the best ones had little to do with the

“As a kid you are always asked what you want to be when you grow up. This question is asked less and less over the course of your grammar

Photo by Edward Burtynsky The Economic Times of India bring us news of the world’s most infamous ship breakers; The hands that used to work on mammoth