Incidents

Photo via Navy.mil According to AFP, the US Navy has nabbed 7 suspected pirates in the Gulf of Aden.  The Marshall Islands flagged ship, Polaris, sent a

A chemical tanker carrying about 30 tons of oil condensate burst into flames today after colliding with a small container ship just off the coast of Dubai. 

Bye Bye Buoy By John Denham The recent sinking of the “SF” Sea Buoy by possibly a large foreign-flag container ship causes more concern about ship

Here is a brief snippit of one of the articles on the “collision” of the M/S Steve Irwin and a Japanese whaling vessel: Japanese whalers and

Today, the M/V Faina was released by Somali pirates after a US $3.2M ransom was paid.  The Ukranian ship with 21 crew members and carrying 33 soviet tanks,

Via NOAA.gov: UNH/NOAA Report: Arctic Region Underprepared for Maritime Accidents January, 29, 2009 The existing infrastructure for responding to maritime

Images via Flickr user duncandavidson Tuesday evening, the tanker Overseas Cleliamar lost all power while exiting San Francisco Bay just west of the Golden

So the cruise ship industry may be able to offer the lowest prices in 20 years, but one thing that they cannot control is the weather and unfortunately

For the full list of gCaptain’s incident photos, CLICK HERE For most, the notion of a bad time on a luxurious vacation aboard a cruise ship is eating

The timber that was lost when from Russian flagged Sinegorsk encountered rough seas earlier this week began to wash ashore along the Kent coast. Below is a

Yesterday the 450ft Russian flagged vessel, Sinegorsk, lost 1,500 tonnes of timber in a major shipping lane of the English Channel.  The cargo was lost 14

USAirways Flight1549, an Airbus A320, was headed to Charlotte, North Carolina, the Federal Aviation Administration said. A passenger said he was “pretty

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. 

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

The official AMVER blog brings us news of a rescue currently

We are excited about Garmin’s new line of Portable Marine GPS’s the Garmin Oregon GPS. Why is this the must buy Portable GPS of 2009? First it has

Photo By Cayusa Note: This article was originally posted in The Maritime Executive Newsletter and can be found HERE. The dynamic in the Gulf Of Aden is

2008 marked the first full year of operation here at gCaptain.com and the growth we saw was both amazing and unexpected. In 2008, we grew by over 136%,

The above image is a wordle extraction of the keywords found in this year’s Casualties Report List. The link speaks for itself but to summarize…

Here are more pirate attack photos. Best is that they use Molotov Cocktails as part of their defense strategy as suggested in my post “On Defending