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This 50 meter yacht promises to be vastly cleaner and more fuel-efficient than traditional marine powerplants, and Sabdes says the 50M will have a higher

The New York Times ran a great feature last week: “What’s Making That Awful Racket? Surprisingly, It May Be Fish” Steven Senne/Associated

Via, The London Daily Mail. The world’s biggest cruise liner is to have a New York-style “Central Park” on the ship, its owners have

David Mearns, shipwreck hunter at the Maritime Museum in Fremantle talking about the finding of HMAS Sydney. Picture: Colin Murty Today’s The Australian

An engine room fire at 12:31 this morning forced an evacuation of Queen of the West. From a Coast Guard Media Release: SEATTLE – The Coast Guard, state

This map shows the antipodes of each point on the Earth‘s surface – the points where the blue and pink overlap are land antipodes. Notice that most

BBC News tells us: The French military are continuing to track a luxury yacht seized, with its crew, on Friday by Somali pirates. There has been no contact

USCG Capt. Elmo Alexander in better days. Reading like a chapter from Herman Wouk’s 1951 novel The Caine Mutiny the commander of Coast Guard Cutter

(Ed. note: Thanks to colleague and regular gCaptain commenter, Capt. Jack Richards pointing me to information on Argo.) Brief History of Argo The name Argo was

Four weeks ago, I had my original TWIC enrollment experience. The post is here. Today I picked up my TWIC. Last Thursday I went online to see if the

The Picture Blog, Dark Roasted Blend is featuring a series on Russian Nuclear Icebreakers. Here’s a sample: The balance of the pics are here. Paired up

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation is reporting the head of Japan’s Navy (a civilian)  has been removed in the wake of the sinking of a fishing

  Press reports from around the world are reporting info on the above.   Here’s an excerpt from the  Guardian UK:   A vast hunk of

(Ed. note: This comes from a current student, Dave Yell. You may well be able to deduce that Dave is British. In deed he held a Unlimited License there.

Caesar’s Casino Glory of Rome Glory of Rome is a riverboat casino operated by Harrah’s Entertainment. Opened in 1998, it is located outside the

Video of TSB report on sinking of Queen of the North. Click on the blue ‘Start Presentation’ button. (its slow loading). It also has video

Lee G, a reader over at BitterEnd sent along pics from a recent two night visit aboard Queen Mary Cruise Ship. Lee said that although the 72 year old

The damaged Cosco Busan is seen in Oakland, Calif., on Saturday, Nov. 10, 2007 The Associated Press is reporting that criminal charges were filed today against

via Military.com Women have been serving as an integral part of the US Navy since the establishment of the Nurse Corps in 1908. Nine years later, the US Navy

(Ed. note: This entry is reposted in it’s entirety with permission from Red Right Returning. Doug Gould is a fellow tower from the East Coast.) Are you