Deepwater Horizon Hearings Postponed
The week started on Monday with numerous BP representatives not showing up to the Deepwater Investigation Hearings, listing continued injury and their 5th
Fire and explosion maritime incidents and reports.
The week started on Monday with numerous BP representatives not showing up to the Deepwater Investigation Hearings, listing continued injury and their 5th
Todays hearings commenced with the confirmation that the companymen, BP representatives aboard the Deepwater Horizon, on watch during the incident will not be
When gCaptain interviewed Admiral Thad Allen, then CG Commandant, last year and asked about the increase in the criminalization of mariners, he was quick to
In a heated debate between the lawyers of Captain Curt Kutcha and Jimmy Harrell and the investigation panel, Captain Hung Nguyen, threatened to remove the
Image courtesy of Robert Allan LTD. Here at gCaptain we’re big fans of fireboats and the latest in fireboat technology. That being said, it’s not
Today, June 15th 2010, marks the 104th aniversary of the General Slocum disaster, a twin-paddlewheel steamboat that caught fire and sank shortly after leaving
Watch CBS News Videos Online For those of you who missed it, last night 60 Minutes aired a must watch report on the Deepwater Horizon blowout. The report
Image © BP p.l.c. Yesterday evening the first containment dome, or cofferdam, departed Port Fourchon on Chouest’s M/V Joe Griffin en route to the
At his new home, maritime reporter Joe Keefe looks at BP as it responds to the recent incident in the Gulf Of Mexico. In the section of the article
I am currently in Dubai after departing my drillship, which continues on its voyage to the Gulf Of Mexico. It has been a long week for everyone both here
Latest News Read more in the gCaptain forum thread Transocean’s Deepwater Horizon is on fire BREAKING NEWS: We’ll update as more information comes
Our good friends at the Amver blog tell us of the most recent rescue at sea involving an Amver registered vessel. The United States Coast Guard Eleventh
Wednesday, February 24, 2010 EUTAWVILLE, S.C. – “Just get ‘em before the sharks get ‘em.” That’s what Hutch Holseberg, 45,
This weeks incident photos were submitted to gCaptain by Doug Pine via the gCaptain Forum. The images show the F/V Cape Elizabeth ablaze after a fire broke out
CNN has the story: Officials say it could take a week to extinguish a massive fire that burned Friday afternoon at a fuel storage complex in Puerto Rico,
Many thanks to gCaptain reader Ryan C for sending this photo of the product tanker M/V Formosaproduct Brick catching fire after a recent collision. Bloomberg
We are still debating whether this guy was using a flashlight, LED or his cell phone to check the level of this tank but we are certain it wasn’t
It’s been a bad week for lifeboats, once termed ‘the Pinto of the seas’. Over at Maritime Accident Casebook three incidents during drills and
This week’s incident photo of the week is of the Italian ferry M/V Vincenzo Florio, enroute from Naples to Palermo. The BBC tells
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