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Translated from Portuguese, thanks to Will van Dorp of of the tugster.wordpress.com blog for the translation: This person has been over 50 years a captain of

I think I might have run into this guy a bar in Rio a few years back, or perhaps it was at that tiki hut in Saipan… Anyone ever

MS Zaandam is named for the city of Zaandam, Netherlands near Amsterdam. It was built by Italy’s Fincantieri yard in Venice and was delivered

U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced Tuesday that the Maritime Administration has struck a deal with NASA to convert a former space shuttle

The M/V Vega Sagittarius sits high above the water after running aground last week near Nuuk, Greenland. The 11,811 dwt vessel, which is chartered by Royal

This incredible video comes to us via Lake Michigan where an outbreak of waterspouts touched down over the weekend. The video was captured by Captain Eric

The Great Lakes’ largest freighter ran hard aground this week while carrying 62,000 tons of coal on the outbound channel of the St. Marys River. The USCG

Not sure how we didn’t catch wind of this at the time, but this past February, an unidentified spherical object made of steel with little pointy spikes

I’m not sure what this thing is, or used to be, but whatever it is, I kind of want to salvage it and convert it into a house, or

I started to see this “letter” supposedly written by the leader of a Somali Pirate Action Group (PAG) pop up on a few of my regular slapstick humor

The internets erupted last week after INTERPOL issued an easily misunderstood “Red Notice” for “Captain” Paul Watson of the

While lowering the anchor from USS Tarawa (LHA-1) in 2001, the ship’s anchor, plus 13 shots of chain were lost in a plume of rust and fury of sparks

Someone said there was a ship in this photo, but we couldn’t find it

There’s been a fair bit of discussion lately about the legitimacy of the international fugitive sometimes referred to as “Captain” Paul

20 miles off Santa Cruz, California, Mark Peters and some friends were fishing for albacore and playing around with a custom underwater “torpedo”

While on a routine maritime patrol mission yesterday between Samoa and New Zealand, a Royal New Zealand Air Force P-3 Orion spotted a rather unusual field of

Queue the cheesy music, we have 26 tugboats loaded on one ship… …And that ship is the 24,500 DWT heavy lift semi-submersible, M/V Fjord. The Fjord

America’s most notorious and controversial ship captain is now an international fugitive. On Wednesday, INTERPOL formally issued a Red Notice for Paul

The Arnold Maersk, no doubt named after Arnold Schwarzenegger because it’s so friggen HUGE, passes underneath the Bayonne Bridge. This ship is 352 meters

The US Coast Guard recently issued a press release commending participants on the success of last week’s oil spill recovery equipment exercise off the