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SF’ist blog has sent us this breaking news item: The Cosco Busan is now departing shipyard in San Francisco. UPDATES: Our friends at Jakota and BoatingSF

Here’s episode 02 of Messing About In Ships, your new maritime podcast. This week’s topics include; Listener Comments Antarctic Cruise Ship Sinking

In this week’s edition of The Maritime Executive Newsletter managing editor Joseph Keefe, weighs in on the changing dynamics of the Master, Pilot and

Effective January 1, 2008, mariners sailing in the capacity of Ship Security Officer (SSO) will have to show evidence of being “qualified” to hold that

Earlier this week I received a request from our friend Ben Ellison at Panbo to poll our readers on the use of AIS. He was especially concerned with the

In a move similar to the amazingly successful Million Dollar Homepage the Manxman Steamship Company has started selling rivets. The idea – sell 100,000

We have taken a look at ways to harness the ocean’s immense power before but this alternative energy solutions is slightly different. Using subsea

Sea-Fever.org points us to Popular Mechanic’s feature “This Is My Job. World’s Coolest Professions“. This month’s feature;

  We have already proclaimed our love of AIS, the technology that helps watchkeepers identify surrounding vessel traffic, but currently this technology

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjtH70edsGQ Want to know more about The Protector? Popular Mechanics tells us; Robots versus pirates—it’s not as

So the gCaptain team has been exceptionally busy in the last few weeks and we have the Cosco Busan partially to thank. In addition to the server traffic and

We received this note nominating us for “Most Likely To Succeed” start-up in Techcrunch‘s Web 2.0 award contest “The Crunchies”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmG0KkC8e6k . Video of the Hebei Spirit Oil Spill In South Korea. Video not working in your browser? Try the direct

We are thrilled to announce a new endeavor from the editors of gCaptain and leadership gurus at Sea Fever Consulting… A Maritime podcast; Messing About

In a well written article published by The San Francisco Chronicle Captain Peter McIsaac, president of the San Francisco Bar Pilots, lays out the reasons why

Last Minute Tax Tips For Mariners by James Maguire We’re all guilty. We don’t enjoy pondering many of the negative aspects of our lives. Having

Click Photo For Details Bloomberg News tells us: South Korea’s coast guard sent boats to contain the country’s biggest oil spill in more than a

After one long day of a full-press search for the tall ship Alvei, New Zealand Coast Guard’s P-3 aircraft crew was able to find the overdue ship. The

A harrowing weather story from the Pacific Northwest. Washington State Department of Ecology’s Website tells us; The Kauai, a 720-foot container ship

The ship that made gCaptain famous is back in the headlines. The M/V Pasha Bulker, a 76,741 deadweight ton Panamax bulk carrier launched in 2006, is the