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Deepwater Horizon Memorial Image By Nate Roche Please join gCaptain and rigs worldwide at 9:45 tonight for a moment of silence in memory of the Deepwater

Remember the time when people wore wristwatches, the most fancy of which had auto-wind features capable of winding your watch with just the movement of your

Does anyone remember gCaptain’s first product review? Of course not, the only readers of gCaptain in the early weeks where a half dozen guys on my ship

Let me start by saying this is not your typical gCaptain job listing but hey, you never know. Today, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and

The Journal of Commerce has this report of a tragic collision between two vessels transiting Germany’s Kiel Canal in dense fog. Two seamen were knocked

Here’s what happens when the crew of an LNG ship gets a bit stir crazy after being out at sea for months at a time.  If you’re at work,

  Ever wonder where drillship crew workers come from?  Either way, a former shipmate on the Transocean’s drillship Discoverer Americas mapped

If you have ever worked on a older Marad vessel in California waters there is a good chance you’ve been sent to Suisun Bay to steal parts off an

While departing shipyard on a 750′ exploratory drillship I was asked why, with over 42,000 of horespower at the props, we couldn’t get the

Photo courtesy tangobabe1 via Flickr 12 maritime organizations pledge their commitment to environmentally friendly shipping At the the Singapore International

As an update to gCaptain news that the US Navy has developed a new laser system, comes news of the new weapon’s first successful test at sea. Marking a

On April 9, the EUNAVFOR Finnish warship FNS Pohjanmaa obliterated a dhow used by a suspected pirate group.  18 suspected pirates have been detained. Below,

Last year gCaptain was lucky enough to attend the inaugural Maritime Congressional Sail-In in Washington, D.C. and it was a truly unique experience.  This is

Offshore wind farming has picked up steam during the last decade, with more & more countries installing these gigantic turbines in their coastal waters.

Mariners have been using man made canals since the time of Mesopotamia. Here is a look at five famous and historic canals from around the world. Panama Canal-

Dependeth the might of the chain. Who knows when thou may’st be tested? So live that thou bearest the strain! Brazilian oil giant Petrobras (NYSE:PBR)

© Stéphane Saissi Cable laying vessel “Ile De Sein” selected to recover Air France flight 447 data recorder This weeks interesting ship is the

The M/V Lone, owned by shipping company S.A.L. of Germany, together with sister ship Svenja, is the most powerful Heavy Lift Ship in the world. It has two

by Tom Roberts, Maritime Analyst Somali based pirates continue to cause serious challenges to merchant vessels transiting the Indian Ocean, and at the time

In the months since James Cameron announced his next film will be filmed on location in the Marianas Trench, the race to explore the world’s deepest