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Captain John Konrad is the founder and CEO of gCaptain and author of the book Fire On The Horizon. He is licensed to captain the world's largest ships and has sailed from ports around the world. John has built some of the world's most advanced ships and managed billion-dollar offshore construction projects in some of the world's harshest marine environments. John is a distinguished alumnus of New York Maritime College. @JohnKonrad


Friday, September 14, 2007
gCaptain

3rd Place Contest Winner Is…

Week one of our iPhone our iPhone Contest is over and we have a third place winner… seafever! Honorable mention goes to wb6nah, the winner of our last

September 14, 2007
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Thursday, September 13, 2007
gCaptain

Server Crash

My apologies to anyone trying to access the website the past few hours. We just recovered from a huge server crash. Too many people trying to download our

September 13, 2007
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gCaptain

Special Edition Newsletter – Maritime Safety

A special Maritime Safety Edition of our newsletter was sent to subscribers yesterday. Normally I give our newsletter subscribers a few days head start but due

September 13, 2007
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Incidents

Incident Picture of the Week – M/V Tampa Maersk

How did this happen? According to Cargo Law: January 2000 the vessel was attempting to turn in the area in front of the Maersk Container Terminal, Oakland so

September 13, 2007
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Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Shipyard

Drydocking A Cruise Ship – Video

Part 2 of the video

September 12, 2007
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Incidents

The Case Of The Killer Catch – Special Edition MAC Report

Bob Couttie sent us an email yesterday announcing a Special Edition of his Maritime Accident Casebook. Why did he release this issue early? ….because

September 12, 2007
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Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Uncategorized

Google Maps – Maritime Mashup

Google has released a new Mash-up feature for their Maps service. Basically anyone can put together a map and submit it to google. Then users can overlay

September 11, 2007
Total Views: 77

Monday, September 10, 2007
Lifesaving Incidents

EPIRB Failure – F/V Papa George

What is the single most import piece of electronics aboard your ship? For me it’s the EPIRB. If all else fails I will need help fast and the EPIRB

September 10, 2007
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Saturday, September 8, 2007
Uncategorized

Shipping Logos – American President Lines

Sea-Fever and World’s Best Logos and Brands blog did a brief history of the logo for APL, formerly known as American President Lines. They write: Because

September 8, 2007
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Lifesaving Incidents

Survior Identities To Be Protected – USCG

Jess, our latest iPhone contestant submitted a story titled “CG to withhold names of people it rescues”. The Navy Times tells us: Capping a

September 8, 2007
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Friday, September 7, 2007
Uncategorized

Maritime Discoverer Contest – FREE iPhone

We are so excited by the capability of our Maritime News & Links Discoverer to bring you the best maritime related content that we have a HUGE announcement

September 7, 2007
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Thursday, September 6, 2007
Video

The Ship Breakers – Video

September 6, 2007
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Uncategorized

Submitting Maritime News – How To Enter The Contest

Here’s how to submit Maritime news and stories for our upcoming contest. Video Blocked? Right Click and Select “Save

September 6, 2007
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Uncategorized

Discover News with Tag Cloud

What are tags? One or two word descriptions of a story. For example the collision story below might be tagged incidents/photos/turkey. To help you navigate

September 6, 2007
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gCaptain

Reader “News Discoverer” Feedback

Well thanks for the kind words Richard. We’ve worked hard on the feature and are proud of the results. Stay tuned for our big contest announcement coming

September 6, 2007
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Uncategorized

How To Use A Sextant 101

See full size animated GIF on on using a sextant – Wiki Commons (Link Thanks to Never Sea

September 6, 2007
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Maritime Security

Future Anti-Piracy Weapon?

Maritime Links Editor’s Blog brings us the Pentagon’s Ray Gun. Could this non-lethal device be the answer to piracy problems and our question

September 6, 2007
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Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Lifesaving Incidents

Ships Collide in Turkey

Two ships have collided off the Coast of Turkey. The Turkish Press tells us: One of two cargo ships sank after they collided off Darica hamlet of Gebze town

September 5, 2007
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Uncategorized

Balloons and Explosions – Panama Canal Expansion Begins

The Panama Canal Expansion Project kick-off with an explosion today, literally. We have covered the project before in our post titled, “Panama Canal

September 5, 2007
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Interesting

Tugboat Photos – The Race Is On

“They get to show off their stuff,” that was the response NYC Harbor Committee Chairman, Captain Doswell, gave the New York Times in response to

September 5, 2007
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