Anchor Handling Tug DOLPHIN III – Interesting Ship of The Week
This weeks Interesting Ship is Dolphin Marine international Dolphin III Towing and Anchor Handling Tug. The Dolphin III has been in service since 2001 and is
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This weeks Interesting Ship is Dolphin Marine international Dolphin III Towing and Anchor Handling Tug. The Dolphin III has been in service since 2001 and is
The first RADIO DISTRESS SIGNAL was transmitted from the East Goodwin Lightship on 17 March 1899 when the merchant vessel Elbe ran aground on the Goodwin
Freedom Ship is a concept for a floating city proposed by Norman Nixon of Freedom Ship International. Current naval engineering techniques are inadequate for
In an effort to bring our readers more “green” stories, we take a look at the worlds first wave farm off the coast of Portugal. dvice.com brings us
Earlier today the Greek-owned cargo ship MV Saldanha was seized by pirates in the Gulf of Aden. The BBC brings us more on this story. The BBC’s Jonah
To celebrate US Presidents Day we would like to bring you 5 of our favorite Presidential quotes on the Merchant Marines. 1. President John Adams, Memoirs No
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Rescuers are lossing hope for some 250 passangers of a Indonesian ferry that sank in high seas off the cost of central Indonesia early yesterday morning.
The Saudi tanker, Sirius Star, has been released after a ransom of $3 million dollars was paid to the pirates holding the ship off the cost of Somalia. A
Here at gCaptain.com we are big fans of National Public Radio. Like many of our readers, the gCaptain team, spends allot of our time traveling from place to
Anti-piracy measures in the Golf of Aden will be steeped up in 2009 after more than 100 attacks in 2008. The United States will lead a new anti-piracy task
Follow the BBC Box – a shipping container that BBC News is tracking througout the year to tell the story of international trade and the global economy.
Oliver Hicks, 27 year old British adventure, pushes off this week from Wellington, New Zealand in an attempt to complete the first ever solo circumnavigation
. Marc Levinson is the author of, The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger. In this interview Marc talks about
A French team of engineers on board the cable repair ship Raymond Croze have begun to repair the underwater cables that were severed late last week in the
The USNS MERCY (T-AH 19) was originally built as an oil tanker. Then in 1986, the ship was converted into a floating hospital. “Her primary mission is to
An undersea cable has been cut leaving 14 Countries without high speed internet access. wired.com brings us more on this developing story. Reports from the
The gCaptain.com Forum now has nearly 900 active users who discuss wide variety issues that apply to the professional mariner. Some are deadly serious. Others
Piracy in the Golf of Aden continue to grab headlines around the world. Here is a look at some of the top headlines from this weeks. BBC Chinese ships
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