Ship Fires

How many vessels does it take to assist a Carnival cruise ship with 3,299 passengers and 1,167 crew adrift about 200 miles south of San Diego after an engine

Photo By OneEighteen If you work on ships it’s likely you are familiar with the Motorola HT750 Portable Two-Way UHF Radio. It’s well built, simple

Early Sunday morning, the 100-foot former crab boat F/V Arctic Dawn caught fire while the vessel was moored just south of the Ballard Bridge in the Lake

In October 2009 the Transocean rig Marianas began drilling a well named Macondo, but she suffered damage in a hurricane and was replaced by the Deepwater

Below is my letter to the Nautical Institute to nominate Captain Alwin Landry as Shipmaster Of The Year 2010. Unfortunately the deadline was last week but, if

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,