Editor’s Note: This article is part of a series focussing on the U.S. Coast Guard’s public hearing on the explosion and fire aboard the Bouchard No. 255 tank barge that claimed the lives of two people off the coast of Port Aransas, Texas on October 20, 2017. A live stream of the hearing can be found here. By Barbara Liston (Clearview Post) Deaths … [Read more...]
Bouchard Barge No. 255 Hearing Day 2: ‘He Slipped Out of His Life Jacket and Sank to the Bottom’
Editor’s Note: This article is part of a series focussing on the U.S. Coast Guard’s public hearing on the explosion and fire aboard the Bouchard No. 255 tank barge that claimed the lives of two people off the coast of Port Aransas, Texas on October 20, 2017. A live stream of the hearing can be found here. By Barbara Liston (Clearview Post) – An engineer … [Read more...]
Bouchard Barge No. 255 Hearing: ‘I Was Hearing Blasts Every Second’
Editor's Note: This is the first in a series of articles covering the U.S. Coast Guard's public hearing on the explosion and fire aboard the Bouchard No. 255 tank barge that claimed the lives of two people off the coast of Port Aransas, Texas on October 20, 2017. A live stream of the hearing can be found here. By Barbara Liston (Clearview Post) - A … [Read more...]
Shipping Associations: IMO Member States Must Progress on Key Sulphur Cap Issues at Critical Meeting Next Month
Some of the world's leading international shipping associations are calling on the Member States of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) for progress on some of the key challenges surrounding the imminent 0.5 percent sulfur limit for bunker fuel burned by the world's merchant shipping fleet. The trade associations, which include BIMCO, the International Chamber … [Read more...]
US Merchant Marine Veterans Of WW2 Have Waited 75 Years And Counting
A CASE TO SUPPORT American Merchant Marine Veterans Legislature H.R. 5879 & S. 2127 By Capt. Christopher J. Edyvean (AMMV) 75 years is an enormous amount of time to fathom for most of us. Isn’t ‘seven-plus decades ago’ a time spoken of only by historians and in documentaries? Very few adults who walked Mother Earth then are still alive now. We refer to them as the … [Read more...]