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Abu Dhabi’s Volvo Ocean Race entry, Azzam, is in the Chilean port of Puerto Montt today preparing their 70-foot yacht for a departure to Itajaí,

Yea right… Yuri van der Sluis interviews social media expert Scott Stratten at the B2B Marketing Forum in Amsterdam, on 20 March 2012. The interview was

Getting updates from your weather routing service can be helpful but many mariners prefer to do their own forecasting at sea. The problem is the maps

A Greenpeace ship is currently hovering around the exclusion zone surrounding the Elgin platform, the site of a large gas leak in the North Sea. “We want

The USCG says it has started to track the Japanese fishing trawler RYOU-UN MARU, aka the Tsunami Ghost Ship, after the weathered vessel drifted into U.S.

– By Amie Pascoe, Director, BLUE Communications The way that we communicate is fundamentally changing. As a society, our appetite for information and

Reaching from Chile up to the Bering Sea, then down again to New Zealand, the fault lines circling the Pacific Ocean are named The Pacific Ring of Fire and

On the morning of March 24th at 08.00 CET SMIT Salvage successfully completed the removal of fuel from the stricken cruise ship Costa Concordia leaving many to

Auctioneers have unearthed an original photograph of the gigantic iceberg that sunk the Titanic nearly 100 years ago, or at least so they claim. The photo was

A new naval weapon has attracted hundreds of thousands of views on Youtube and left most people scratching their heads… is this thing real, or is the

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f678c_k4SUc Here is some on-the-water footage of Shell’s new 360-foot ice-class AHTS, the M/V Aiviq, said to be one of

The QWERTY keyboard was invented in 1874 and yet it is still used today, largely unchanged. What’s more, the keyboard doesn’t come close to the

Very few films really portray what it looks and feels like to work in the offshore industry, but Maersk clearly put some effort into this and did an amazing

This might be the most substantial infographic we’ve ever seen from the shipping industry, and it gives an interesting top-down look at what a global

Following yesterdays amazing visualization showing us for the first time what wind over the United States actually looks like, now we take a look at what ocean

With a starting price of around $70 the Amazon Kindle has been adopted by countless readers around the world, but did you know it could also save your life?

– By Captain Richard Madden Depending on the source, piracy in the Gulf of Aden/Horn of Africa (GOA/HOA) region is estimated to be costing the world

It’s been almost 6.5 years since I resigned my commission in the US Navy where I served 2 tours at sea on board west coast-based warships followed by an

After seven years of preparation James Cameron has become the first person in history to solo dive the Challenger Deep, the deepest point of the Marianas

PUMA Ocean Racing powered by BERG crosses the first ice gate of Leg 5 in wet, cold conditions.  Here’s their latest boatfeed…