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gCaptain’s photo of the week is a helicopter shot of LNG Tanker Lokoja (IMO# 9269960). Built by the Korean shipyard Daewoo in 2006 she is owned by BW Gas

What does behavioral economics have to do with lifeboat safety? Lifeboat safety has been a major topic recently with davit related incidents and injuries

One of the worst things that can happen on board any vessel at sea is a main space Bravo fire. If you’re in charge of your Damage Control organization,

Wired Science brings us news of MBARI‘s Eye Of The Sky, the world’s first deepwater webcam: The first deep-sea webcam was successfully installed on

To help promote our newly launched FireBoat Forum we write this post showing the Top 10 Fireboat Photos.  Most are from Flickr so be sure to click on the

gCaptain contributor and Weekly Leader Podcaster USCG Chief Warrant Officer Mario Vittone, recently delivered the closing keynote at the USCG’s Human

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Photo by mchaconcr Is the tsunami a maritime news story? Should gCaptain be providing coverage and at what level? These are some of the questions gCaptain

After seven months in dry dock and $40 million in repairs, the cruiser USS Port Royal is back in the water in Pearl Harbor following the embarrassing February

Photo by; gCaptain Today’s photo of the week is of the LNG tanker M/V Shagra and her sister ship the M/V Zagra. More info can be found on the

From the gCaptain archives… Our friend Peter Mello at Sea-Fever, a must read maritime blog, brings us the model building obsession of William Terra. This

More details on this January’s casualty-free collision of the M/V Marti Princess and M/V Renate Schultecan can be found HERE and

It seems that 007 technology really exits in the mega-yacht world. Wired tells us: Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich has a rather curious new addition built

From our bizarre ideas file comes the M/V Seadove or “Sustainable Energy and Desalination on Vessel” The ship is an Australian invention that hopes

Crude oil tanker M/V Elli broke her back on August 28th after considerable hogging was witnessed while she was in ballast and anchored awaiting drydock near

Photo By gCaptain Today’s Photo Of The Week is an HDR view of Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI)– Shipyard in Geoje, South Korea. This photo was taken

Ok your entering the fairway at Galveston and your radar goes out, what is plan B? How about handing the mate a plotting sheet and sending him to the

During the years I spent as a cadet on SUNY Maritime‘s training ship Empire State, I could not begin to tally up the hours spent chipping,

Ever wonder how graphic designers create cutaway illistrations of ship?  Khulsey.com clues us into the secrets HERE. Once you learn about the process click

Our friend Richard Rodriguez of the BitterEnd Blog had an excellent post titled VTS – Working with large vessels, that gives Puget Sound boaters tips on