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Monday, March 31, 2014
Video: OSV Deck Crew Gets Pummeled By Crashing Wave
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Video: OSV Deck Crew Gets Pummeled By Crashing Wave

Check out this video of an OSV crew working on deck in extremely harsh conditions. At about the 1 minutes mark, a huge wave actually crashes over the rail,

March 31, 2014
Total Views: 855

Friday, March 28, 2014
Is the ‘Titanic II’ Cruise Ship Already Sunk?
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Is the ‘Titanic II’ Cruise Ship Already Sunk?

Aussie Billionaire Clive Palmer set out for an ambitious goal when he announced plans to build a replica of the RMS Titanic, now it seems the Titanic II

March 28, 2014
Total Views: 1481

Thursday, March 27, 2014
Subsea Storage Unit
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Will FPSOs Soon Be Obsolete?

For the past nine years or so, the U.S. Army has been using giant bladders to store the fuel needed to run their vehicles in Afghanistan.  Exposed to the

March 27, 2014
Total Views: 105

Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Video: Ship Hits Rough Seas NOT in Search of Flight MH370 – UPDATE
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Video: Ship Hits Rough Seas NOT in Search of Flight MH370 – UPDATE

Update: And you guys cracked the case once again. Turns out this video is not from the search, rather it was filmed in January 2013 aboard the LPG carrier

March 26, 2014
Total Views: 294

Tuesday, March 25, 2014
VIDEO: Polar Class Cargo Ship Uses Drones to Scope Ice
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VIDEO: Polar Class Cargo Ship Uses Drones to Scope Ice

Montreal-based shipping company Fednav claims to have recently become the first shipping company to employ aerial drones for ice reconnaissance on a commercial

March 25, 2014
Total Views: 175

Sir Richard Branson Looks to Launch Virgin Cruise Line
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Sir Richard Branson Looks to Launch Virgin Cruise Line

Virgin founder and eccentric billionaire Sir Richard Branson is reportedly seeking investors to launch a new fleet of Virgin cruise ships with two new

March 25, 2014
Total Views: 165

Ship Operator in Texas Spill on Probation for ‘Magic Pipe’ Pollution Case
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Ship Operator in Texas Spill on Probation for ‘Magic Pipe’ Pollution Case

The operator of the bulk carrier that collided with a barge carrying fuel oil in the Houston Ship Channel was on probation for a 2011 federal pollution

March 25, 2014
Total Views: 102

CNN Video: Captain Hazelwood Recreates Exxon Valdez Grounding in Maritime College Simulator
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CNN Video: Captain Hazelwood Recreates Exxon Valdez Grounding in Maritime College Simulator

CNN’s Kyra Phillips takes a close look at what went wrong on the Exxon Valdez with the ship’s captain, Joseph Hazelwood. The full CNN documentary

March 25, 2014
Total Views: 237

A member of staff at satellite communications company Inmarsat poses in front of a section of the screen showing the southern Indian Ocean to the west of Australia, during a search for missing flight MH370, at their headquarters in London
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How Inmarsat Used Satellite Data and Physics to Track Flight MH370 to Southern Indian Ocean

ritain's Inmarsat used a wave phenomenon discovered in the nineteenth century to analyse the seven pings its satellite picked up from Malaysia Airlines Flight

March 25, 2014
Total Views: 551

Photos Show Extent of Houston Ship Channel Oil Spill and Cleanup – Update
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Photos Show Extent of Houston Ship Channel Oil Spill and Cleanup – Update

On Saturday, the Liberia-flagged bulk carrier MV Summer Wind collided with a barge carrying about 924,000 gallons of a heavy bunker fuel in the Houston Ship

March 25, 2014
Total Views: 171

Friday, March 21, 2014
Maersk-Rickmers Announces Breakup
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Maersk-Rickmers Announces Breakup

The U.S.-flagged joint venture known as Maersk-Rickmers quietly announced this week that its operations have been discontinued.

March 21, 2014
Total Views: 141

Join gCaptain’s Career Page – The Latest Featured Jobs
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Join gCaptain’s Career Page – The Latest Featured Jobs

Make sure to post and update your Resume or CV. There are lots of new Employers on the job board browsing the Resume Database Here’s the latest Featured

March 21, 2014
Total Views: 23

Maersk Drilling Names World’s Largest Jack-up
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Maersk Drilling Names World’s Largest Jack-up

Maersk Drilling this week officially named the jack-up formerly known as B331 during a star-studded ceremony at the Keppel FELS shipyard in

March 21, 2014
Total Views: 426

Operação do Navio Maersk Lavras santos brasil
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Maersk Says Historic P3 Alliance Could Start Mid-2014

By Ole Mikkelsen and Keith Wallis SINGAPORE, March 21 (Reuters) – Denmark’s Maersk Line, the world’s No.1 container shipping firm, said it

March 21, 2014
Total Views: 142

Thursday, March 20, 2014
hoegh st. petersburg autoliners roro
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Höegh St. Petersburg Car Carrier Arrives at Possible Crash Location in Southern Indian Ocean

After analysts from the Australian GeoSpacial-Intelligence Organisation detected possible pieces of large debris floating in the remote southern Indian Ocean,

March 20, 2014
Total Views: 135

Tuesday, March 18, 2014
VIDEO: Stuntman Runs Up 30-Meter Mast of Moving Yacht… Literally
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VIDEO: Stuntman Runs Up 30-Meter Mast of Moving Yacht… Literally

Watch as solo round the world yachtsman Alex Thomson, the same guy who brought us , climbs up a 30-meter tall mast of a moving high-speed yacht…. in a

March 18, 2014
Total Views: 115

Monday, March 17, 2014
PHOTOS: Loading the World’s Largest Containership Propeller
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PHOTOS: Loading the World’s Largest Containership Propeller

The world's largest-diameter containership propeller was loaded onto a ship at the Port of Hamburg this weekend bound for a South Korean shipyard from it's

March 17, 2014
Total Views: 2636

Navy SEALs Seize Tanker Carrying Oil From Libya Rebel Port – UPDATE
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Navy SEALs Seize Tanker Carrying Oil From Libya Rebel Port – UPDATE

U.S. special forces have seized a commercial tanker that fled with a cargo of oil from a Libyan port controlled by anti-government rebels, halting their

March 17, 2014
Total Views: 51

Sunday, March 16, 2014
Coast Guard Investigating Collision on Houston Ship Channel
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Coast Guard Investigating Collision on Houston Ship Channel

The U.S. Coast Guard is investigating the cause of a collision between a cargo ship and a barge loaded with 840,000 gallons of #6 fuel oil in the Houston Ship

March 16, 2014
Total Views: 112

Search for MH370: Indian Ocean Poses Daunting Challenge
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Search for MH370: Indian Ocean Poses Daunting Challenge

The southern Indian Ocean, where investigators suspect missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 may have come down, is one place where a commercial airliner can

March 16, 2014
Total Views: 60