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Rob Almeida is Partner and Chief Marketing Officer at gCaptain. Rob can be reached at [email protected]. Connect with him via his LinkedIn Page or via Google Plus


Thursday, November 25, 2010
Uncategorized

Kristina Gjerde: Conserving the High Seas natural resource

64 percent of the world’s oceans are not protected by national law, these areas are known as the high seas. The following speech was given by Kristina

November 25, 2010
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Monday, November 15, 2010
Offshore

Transocean Agrees to Purchase High-Specification Jackup from PPL Shipyard

As their 3rd Quarter conference call seemed to allude to, Transocean has just signed an agreement with PPL Shipyard in Singapore to purchase a Pacific-class

November 15, 2010
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Thursday, November 11, 2010
Offshore

Seadrill Orders Four New Dual Activity Drillships

Seadrill Ltd. announced today that they have awarded the Korean shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries a $1.08B contract to build four new dual-activity

November 11, 2010
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Uncategorized

BW Offshore and Prosafe Production Join Forces

But what’s the deal with the mystery behind this merger?  According to BW Offshore’s website, Australia, Canada, Japan, and the United States are

November 11, 2010
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Saturday, November 6, 2010
Offshore

Transocean Executives Discuss 3rd Quarter Results

Transocean’s CEO Steven Newman; Ricardo Rosa, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer; Ihab Toma, Senior Vice President of Marketing and

November 6, 2010
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Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Ripping up the English Channel – from Tom Weaver – designer of the Eastport 32
Interesting

Ripping up the English Channel – from Tom Weaver – designer of the Eastport 32

Tom Weaver commented on our article we posted last night featuring his Eastport 32 powerboat design. It turns out Tom was at the helm of Playstation when the

November 3, 2010
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Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Ship Design

The Eastport 32 – a powerboat for sailors

I just returned from a few weeks in Annapolis, Maryland where I had the opportunity to catch up with my friend Tom Weaver, a career yachtsman with more

November 2, 2010
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Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Interesting

Navy Offshore Sailing Wins the MacMillan Cup

The United States Naval Academy won the MacMillan Cup Intercollegiate Regatta this past weekend in convincing fashion with 6 bullets in 8 races.  This regatta

October 27, 2010
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Offshore

Discoverer Americas Spuds In off Egypt…in almost 9000 feet of water

About a week or two before the drilling moratorium was lifted in the Gulf of Mexico, the Statoil-contracted Discoverer Americas pulled anchor and motored east

October 27, 2010
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Friday, October 22, 2010
The gCaptain FreeBoard – free and unlimited job postings for employers worldwide
gCaptain

The gCaptain FreeBoard – free and unlimited job postings for employers worldwide

We just launched yesterday!  Please have a look around and let us know what sort of tweaking is needed to make this as useful as

October 22, 2010
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Monday, October 18, 2010
Navy

Possible Changes at Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding

In a press release last week, the Northrop Grumman announced they had filed paperwork with the SEC for a possible spinoff of their shipbuilding division.

October 18, 2010
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Thursday, October 14, 2010
Uncategorized

South Korea to Ban Single-Hulled Tankers in 2011

South Korea declared yesterday that single-hulled tankers greater than 5,000 tons will be “barred from operating in territorial waters” as of 1

October 14, 2010
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Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Maritime Security

Engaging Commercial Industry to Improve Maritime Domain Awareness

by Cesar Morales, Sr. MDA Analyst, and Rob Almeida, CMO – gCaptain.com As young Ensigns fresh out of the Naval Academy, we received extensive training

October 13, 2010
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Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Maritime Security Incidents

USS COLE (DDG 67) – A tribute to her crew and the 17 who were lost 10 years ago.

By Lt.j.g. Jacob Beckelhymer, Navigator, USS Cole (DDG 67) You can’t miss them.  The 17 gold stars running across the deck in front of COLE’s

October 12, 2010
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Uncategorized

Aker Solutions Wins Major GoM Subsea Umbilical Project from Shell

Aker Solutions’ subsea intervention vessel, Boa Sub C, played a key role for BP during the Deepwater Horizon disaster this summer as a base of

October 12, 2010
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Friday, October 8, 2010
Uncategorized

Salazar Signs First U.S. Offshore Commercial Wind Energy Lease with Cape Wind Associates, LLC

There’s a divide over this issue among the locals living on Cape Cod, and those who fish these waters. Proponents are clearly in favor of the inherent

October 8, 2010
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Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Uncategorized

Flight deck cargo nets, what for?

Does anyone still have cargo nets strewn across their flight deck?  And if so, why?  Comment in the

October 5, 2010
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Monday, October 4, 2010
Blog

Effecting Change in the Workplace

How many of you are completely happy with your job?  Or, happy with the way your company operates?  Or even the relationships you have with your coworkers?

October 4, 2010
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Friday, October 1, 2010
Offbeat

Pirates? And a busted head gasket…

By Rob Almeida – 8 March 2006 It was quite a day out here in the Gulf of Aden, the 600-mile stretch of ocean separating Somalia and Yemen, but

October 1, 2010
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Thursday, September 30, 2010
Interesting

The Gulf of Maine Tragedy… did we learn anything from it?

Over most of the world, the oceans appear to many of us as a huge blue expanse of territory, the domain of King Neptune and the denizens of the

September 30, 2010
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