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September 2009 saw the initial operation of the first high temperature fuel cell to be run on board of a ship.  The operation was launched as part of the

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Curious what the upcoming season’s weather has in store? Sure this is a maritime blog but there is no reason we can’t take advice from our land

The following is posted by Fred Fry: Welcome to this 181st edition of Maritime Monday. You can find Maritime Monday 131 here. (Published 13 October 2008) You

Van Oord Dredging became well know for their work laying the dirt for Dubai’s palm islands but their latest accomplishment is steel cutting on a new

From the gCaptain archives… Our friend Peter Mello at Sea-Fever, a must read maritime blog, brings us the model building obsession of William Terra. This

The following is posted by Fred Fry: I have been covering the efforts of the European Union to save Bluefin Tuna through declaring it an endangered species in

It seems that 007 technology really exits in the mega-yacht world. Wired tells us: Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich has a rather curious new addition built

The following is posted by Fred Fry: Welcome to this 180th edition of Maritime Monday. You can find Maritime Monday 130 here. (Published 6 October 2008) You

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzHem_zie-c Here is the latest in a series of online videos that Royal Carribean is producing on the construction of the Oasis

From our bizarre ideas file comes the M/V Seadove or “Sustainable Energy and Desalination on Vessel” The ship is an Australian invention that hopes

Fugro Survey has launched its multirole survey vessel, MV Fugro Gemini for a wide range of surveys like shallow and deepwater geophysical analogue and

The following is posted by Fred Fry: Welcome to this 179th edition of Maritime Monday. You can find Maritime Monday 129 here. (Published 29 September 2008) You

Beluga Group has announced that two of its multipurpose heavy lift project carriers, M/V Beluga Fraternity and M/V Beluga Foresight, have successfully

Ok your entering the fairway at Galveston and your radar goes out, what is plan B? How about handing the mate a plotting sheet and sending him to the

The latest report from research analyst Clarksons says that China has now overtaken Japan to become second in the world shipbuilding market. In the first six

Austal’s next generation 102-metre high speed trimaran has had its unique three-engine layout successfully installed ahead of the vessel’s launch

The following is posted by Fred Fry: Welcome to this 178th edition of Maritime Monday. You can find Maritime Monday 128 here. (Published 22 September 2008) You

We have received many great article submissions in gCaptain’s YOUblog section, the place where mariners get a chance to blog, but few posts have received

Transocean Ltd. has announced that its ultra-deepwater semisubmersible rig Deepwater Horizon recently drilled the deepest oil and gas well ever while working