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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
John Konrad
Captain John Konrad is the founder and CEO of gCaptain, one of the world’s most-read maritime news websites, and a member of the Pentagon Press Corps. He holds a USCG Master Unlimited license. John studied naval architecture at the U.S. Naval Academy before graduating from SUNY Maritime College with a degree in Marine Transportation. He is also a Y Combinator Startup School alumnus. His decade at sea included service aboard Military Sealift Command-operated ships, crude-oil supertankers running to Valdez, and dynamically positioned drillships supporting deepwater projects. In industry leadership roles, he participated in major offshore exploration and drilling campaigns, including the KG-D6 discovery with Reliance Industries and world record-setting deepwater work with Chevron. On April 20, 2010, John had finished overseeing the $750 million Deep Ocean Ascension newbuild project for BP when the Deepwater Horizon exploded. His seven years at Transocean and personal ties to members of the Horizon crew drove him to investigate the disaster, resulting in Fire on the Horizon (HarperCollins, 2011). In 2025, he co-authored Returning from Ebb Tide: Renewing the United States Commercial Maritime Enterprise for Marine Corps University Press. John has contributed to publications including Forbes, CIMSEC, Lloyd’s List, and the U.S. Coast Guard Compass, and has appeared on outlets including NPR and the BBC. He has also consulted for major newsrooms and public institutions on maritime reporting and offshore industry topics. His reporting draws on primary documents, official maritime records, and on-the-record sources cultivated over two decades in the industry. He is an Associate Fellow of the Nautical Institute and a member of the Council of American Master Mariners and the Navy League of the United States. His work has been recognized with the U.S. Navy Combined Maritime Forces Naval Support Award and SUNY Maritime’s Distinguished Alumnus of the Year award.
Saturday, September 8, 2007
Friday, September 7, 2007
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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
Thursday, September 6, 2007
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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
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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
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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
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How To Use A Sextant 101
See full size animated GIF on on using a sextant – Wiki Commons (Link Thanks to Never Sea
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
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
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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
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
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‘Bringing the Ocean to the World’ – Hi-Tech Subsea Research
The University of Washington is embarking on “…a NASA-scale mission to basically enter the Inner Space, and to be there perpetually. What
Tuesday, September 4, 2007
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Watchstander Fatigue – Sleeping on Watch
The Shipping Gazette has an interesting article on a study conducted by World Maritime University that shows 73% of mariners admit to having fallen asleep on
Shipyard
The Fairfield Titan
Shipping Times brings us the story of the Fairfield Titan: When constructed in 1911 it was the biggest crane in the world. Over the years it has lifted
Monday, September 3, 2007
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MARPOL and the Death of an Albatross
Our friends at Never Sea Land bring us a story on the fate of an Albatross after consuming plastic. Cynthia Vanderlip, manager of the State of Hawaii’s
Sunday, September 2, 2007
Video
Supplying McMurdo Station – Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Pg6CdettEQ Video Notes: The annual supply ship the American Tern being unloaded at McMurdo Station, Antarctica. Time-lapse
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Maritime News Bookmarklet
You can easily submit stories to gCaptain’s all new Maritime News page. Just bookmark the link below in your favorite browser. After that, the only thing
Saturday, September 1, 2007
gCaptain
gCaptain – Maritime Mobile Edition
We continue to roll out new features as part of our latest site re-design. You may notice our forum is changing as we speak (it is still usable however)
Ship Design
Floating Nuclear Power Plants – Russia
The Wall Street Journal brings us video on Russia’s newest idea, floating nuclear power plants. Thanks to Sea-Fever for the
gCaptain
Maritime Custom Searches – Google Powered
Introducing gCaptain’s new AJAX search technology! This is exciting news. We just put the finishing touches on our new Google powered search engines, a
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