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Should Have Used the Grits By The Artful Blogger Hi kids! This is part two of my ways to put some spice into your fire drills and maybe .

The BBC Tells us: One of the world’s largest cruise ships has been officially named by a member of the public who won a national competition for the

The BBC Tells us: A 500-year-old ship-wreck laden with treasure has been discovered off the coast of Namibia. The country’s diamond company, Namdeb, says

A big gCaptain welcome to the 2,000+ new visitors that have stopped by gCaptain.com this week. The reason for the influx? Our CEO, Captain John Konrad,  wrote

Sailor, the Nose Knows! By John G. Denham After spending most of my younger days at sea and standing topside watches on open bridges in all kinds of weather

Episode 20 of Messing About In Ships podcast has launched, shownotes can be found at MessingAboutInShips.com and the audio file can be downloaded directly

Here’s an interesting story brought to us by The New York Times.  They tell us: In a slap to Zimbabwe, its longtime ally Angola announced Saturday that

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