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This photo was sent by Jan Brand via our tips line with the following caption: Salvage of motor vessel Holmatindur at Walvis Bay, Namibia. The vessel capsized

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eg4lnKPBcqk Part 1 of a five part look at Container Ships from the television show Extreme Engineering on the Discovery Channel

We have seen a host of Maritime reality shows come on air in the past year. Some, like Deadliest Catch, have done really well while others, America’s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wcg-PYicLqg If you are in New York tomorrow (October 2nd) be sure to head down to Pier 86 to watch her return home. Thanks

Today’s Incident Photo Of The Week is the tugboat “The Carrie”. News 6 in Corpus Christi tells us: A tugboat caught fire at about 7 a.m.

A vessel found in 700 AD, several centuries before Vikings ruled Norway, an Oseberg ship from approximately 800 AD and the vessel knarr from around year 1000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMJhmOsc5vM Reuters tells us: Sep 18 – A fire on a Russian warship in the Pacific kills two sailors, the latest in a

Gizmodo points us towards the Russian navy’s Zubr Class hovercraft.  Now this is not a new design.  There have been three in service with the

We don’t have the full details on how this yacht found its way to the beach but the photos do a great job in describing the yacht salvage

While this audience is less likely to be impressed than most, Lou Minatti has video of surviving Hurricane Ike aboard a workboat in Galveston Bay. We know some

Interesting video just released by USCG on Hurricane Ike.  USCGCImagery tells us: Petty Officer Third Class Lee Gutierrez explains how the crew of the Coast

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mj-FIXlTPIo Youtube user annanoli tells us: Italian liner Principessa Jolanda sinks during launch because of defective

Crushed containers hang off the the vessel More hang off the stern including one self-unloading box While crossing the Pacific in late February 2008, M/V CMA

From the Anti-Hurricane Technology Fund in Slovakia comes this invention for mitigating the effects of cyclone damage. The invention is called “The

This is a pretty cool timelapse video shot of the Miraflores Lock in the Panama Canal over a 12 hour period. The Miraflores Lock is one of three locks

March 21, 2006 – M/V Hyundai Fortune suffered a major explosion about 43 miles off the coast of Yemen in the Gulf of Aden.  An estimated 60 – 90

This weeks Incident Photo is of German Navy mine hunter M106 Grömitz from back in February, 2007.  Cargo Law tells us; German Navy  Type 332 Frankenthal

(Image Source: blogimg.goo.ne.jp) This week’s Interesting Ship of The Week was actually recently named Ship of The Year for 2007 by The Japan Society of

This is video released from the US Coast Guard post Hurricane Gustav.  The description reads: In this video released by the U.S. Coast Guard, helicopter crews

Damage caused by Hurricane Gustav along New Orlean’s Industrial Canal. Photo by Eric Gray, NPR. More photos can be seen at NPR’s Hurricane Gustav