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Germanischer Lloyd, Fassmer, USMMA & Wilhelmsen hosted a party at this week’s Offshore Technology Conference in Houston. The party was well attended

Amver Blog has just posted episode 3 of the Quarterdeck, the monthly Amver podcast featuring Benjamin Strong and Admiral Jim Watson. In this latest episode

Alert! Issue No.26, via The Nautical Institute You cannot produce a safety management system on the cheap, nor expect people to snap to attention and follow

gCaptain CMO Rob Almeida and I have been walking the halls of the, truly massive, Offshore Technology Conference in Houston this week. While 90% of the booths

Just a quick note to let gCaptain friends in Houston know gCaptain founder John Konrad and CMO Rob Almeida will be in Houston this week to attend the Offshore

Some years ago in a now defunct navy journal an article was written about what people think when they fall overboard. Several predominant factors were

The following video is first in a series of interviews I did with Deepwater Horizon survivors and people intimately involved in the ongoing incident

Who wants a tug boat ride? Bids are now being accepted on eBay for a chance to win a ride for four aboard Crowley’s winningest tugboat, Hunter, as it

Since last Friday’s release of the USCG report into the Deepwater Horizon disaster, gCaptain staff has been looking over the report to see what the Coast

I seem to remember a nautical saying, something about leaving each foot on a different ship as they pull apart. Or maybe this is just nautical 101 at its

gCaptain recently ran a series of posts looking at a wide array of options for connecting to the internet at sea. Part 2 of the series looked at wireless

The following is an article published by the The National Maritime Domain Awareness Coordination Office (NMCO) to the Maritime Domain Awareness website.  NMCO

The above video is a short interview with author and gCaptain founder John Konrad on the rig Deepwater Horizon and his new book about the incident To learn

Balls-to-four has always been my favorite watch, get up a little before midnight and you have four hours of un-interupted bliss to enjoy a peaceful night under

There is much about the USCG’s Deepwater Horizon Investigation report we at gCaptain disagree with but Section 8 certainly rings true (The CG blotted out

The United States Coast Guard just published to the Joint Investigation website its findings into the Deepwater Horizon tragedy last year. You can find the

An estimated 100 of the 450 North Atlantic Right Whales left in existence have gathered in protest off the shores off Cape Cod this Earth Day in possibly the

By LTJG Stephanie Young via Coast Guard Compass blog Earlier today, the first of the Coast Guard’s fast response cutters, Coast Guard Cutter Bernard C.

I am certain that there are no shortage of TWIC card ‘victims’ out there. Back in February, I posted a commentary by Dr. John A.C. Cartner

The above video was produced solely by BP and was sent to us by a Transcoean OIM contracted to the company. This video comes along with a public memo