Multimedia
Discover a range of multimedia content from the maritime world, including photos and videos of ships and interactive features covering all aspects of the shipping industry.
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
High Definition AIS Tracking – San Francisco
HD-SF.com has this chart of ships transiting San Francisco harbor on April 2nd. They write: Animation of ship traffic on San Francisco bay, April 2nd 2008. You
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
30 Days of San Francisco Ship Traffic – Charted
Click Image For Hi-Resolution Version/ Being technologically oriented ship drivers we are easily excited by new web sites that combine these interests. Having
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
The Twin Marine Lifter – Heavy Lift Monster
MarineLog brings us info on the new Heavy Lift design by SeaMetric International. The Twin Marine Lifter will consist of 2 DP class 3 heavy transport vessels
Starting the Wartsila – Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5A3So5eoL8 Starting a Wärtsilä 6 L 64… for a truly amazing engine read our post: The Wartsila-Sulzer Super
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Russian Nuclear Icebreakers: to the North Pole!
The Picture Blog, Dark Roasted Blend is featuring a series on Russian Nuclear Icebreakers. Here’s a sample: The balance of the pics are here. Paired up
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Bourbon Dolphin Report
Incidents always have a human factor. Fathers are lost at sea leaving friends, family, wives and sometimes young children behind. Media reports and incident
Friday, March 21, 2008
Skysails – First Ocean Voyage A Success
Discoverer user mateMB has pointed us to news of Beluga shippings Skysails project to cross the atlantic with the use of a kite. In yesterday’s press
Incident Photo Of The week – M/V Riverdance
More photos of the M/V Riverdance can be found at Cargo Law and Ships Of The
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Coast Guard Interception Of Homemade Submarine
The USCG has intercepted another DIY Semi-Submersible operated by drug smugglers. CNN tells us: In the past three months the Coast Guard has learned of more
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Queen of the North TSB Canada Video
Video of TSB report on sinking of Queen of the North. Click on the blue ‘Start Presentation’ button. (its slow loading). It also has video
Cargo Ship Beached in France – M/V Artemis
Like the Zhen Hua near Rotterdam, the Den Den in India and the Pasha Bulker in Newcastle Australia the Cargo Ship (actually it’s a container ship)
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Friday, March 14, 2008
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Ship Of The Week – M/V Slice of Reality
. The Greenwich Phantom blog brings us a slice of reality; One of the sculptures commissioned for the Millennium Dome, Slice of Reality is looking a little
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
M/V Bergensfjord – Incident Photo Of The Week
by Øystein Ellingsen Shipspotter VOX tells us: The Norwegian car ferry Bergensfjord was enroute Bergen – Hanstholm early last week when she enouctered
Sunday, March 2, 2008
Maritime Monday 100 by Fred Fry
Welcome to this 100th edition of Maritime Monday! You can find Maritime Monday 50 here. (Published 12 March 2007) You can find last week’s edition here.
Friday, February 29, 2008
Humor: The front fell off
In the vein of Abbot and Costello’s “Who’s On First,” only related to ships. Thanks to BitterEnd reader Robert S, of Seattle and
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Perfectly Dangerous – A Waterspout At Sea
Robin Storm points us to this photo of this spectacular waterspout off New Zealand’s Kapiti Coast. Be sure to check out the photo slideshow and article
Sunday, February 17, 2008
Admiral Thad Allen – 2008 State of the Coast Guard
This Week Admiral Thad Allen gave his annual State Of The Coast Guard speech at the National Press Club in Washington DC. The Unofficial Coast Guard blog has