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One my early introduction to the sea was Thor Heyerdahl’s account of Kon-Tiki. Wired.com has revisited Kon-Tiki on her 60 th anniversary.  Here is a

The following is posted by Fred Fry: Welcome to this 108th edition of Maritime Monday. You can find Maritime Monday 58 here. (Published 07 May 2007) You can

Our recent post Was the titanic sunk by a small key? elicited some great response from our readers. Surprisingly, the best ones had little to do with the

Photo by Edward Burtynsky The Economic Times of India bring us news of the world’s most infamous ship breakers; The hands that used to work on mammoth

Artwork by Matt Rota Our maritime podcasting partner, Peter Mello of Sea-Fever.org points us to this must read article in the NYTimes. He writes: John S.

The following is posted by Fred Fry: Welcome to this 107th edition of Maritime Monday. You can find Maritime Monday 57 here. (Published 30 April 2007) You can

Episode 19 of Messing About In Ships has launched. Download MP3: Messing About In Ships Episode 19 – April 17, 2008 Shownotes: Messing About In Ships

This 50 meter yacht promises to be vastly cleaner and more fuel-efficient than traditional marine powerplants, and Sabdes says the 50M will have a higher

The New York Times ran a great feature last week: “What’s Making That Awful Racket? Surprisingly, It May Be Fish” Steven Senne/Associated

The Guardian tells us: A Chinese cargo ship believed to be carrying 77 tonnes of small arms, including more than 3m rounds of ammunition, AK47 assault rifles,

BBC reports on a long standing maritime tradition: Last year the Duchess of Cornwall failed to smash a bottle on the side of cruise liner Queen Victoria; later

Painful Rectal Itch By The Artful Blogger OK, I’m back from my little “vacation.” Seven months may have been a bit excessive, but what the

Via, The London Daily Mail. The world’s biggest cruise liner is to have a New York-style “Central Park” on the ship, its owners have

Fellow maritime podcaster and friend Peter Mello points us to this interesting theory about the sinking of the world’s most famous ship. The NYTimes

The following is posted by Fred Fry: Welcome to this 106th edition of Maritime Monday. You can find Maritime Monday 56 here. (Published 23 April 2007) You can

Hit hard by the internet crash in 2000 cable laying ships (video) were hard pressed to find contracts laying subsea communication cable and took on less

David Mearns, shipwreck hunter at the Maritime Museum in Fremantle talking about the finding of HMAS Sydney. Picture: Colin Murty Today’s The Australian

(56 minutes) Download MP3 file: Messing About In Ships Episode 18 (April 10, 2008) Show Notes over at Messing About In Ships blog Subscribe Via iTunes

Only in the eclectic world of the maritime blogosphere could the best provider of interesting content find its roots in a parking problem. Such is the case

On Wednesday’s  blog it was reported the that the Queen of the West on the Columbia River suffered a severe engine room fire. Ironically while