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(Ed. note: This comes from a current student, Dave Yell. You may well be able to deduce that Dave is British. In deed he held a Unlimited License there.

The following is posted by Fred Fry: Welcome to this 103nd edition of Maritime Monday. You can find Maritime Monday 53 here. (Published 2 April 2007) You can

Caesar’s Casino Glory of Rome Glory of Rome is a riverboat casino operated by Harrah’s Entertainment. Opened in 1998, it is located outside the

Download MP3 file: Messing About In Ships 16 Subscribe Via iTunes HERE Sea Stories John – Queen of the North TSB safety board Peter – London Bridge Twitter

A big CONGRATS to gCaptain plank owner and friend Matt Michalski, who just passed the US Coast Guard’s most difficult exam, Chief Mate / Master

Photo By Tunnelbug In a new twist on the story of the S/S Independence, the EPA has issued a federal complaint for the illegal export of PCB’s. You may

Lee G, a reader over at BitterEnd sent along pics from a recent two night visit aboard Queen Mary Cruise Ship. Lee said that although the 72 year old

The following is posted by Fred Fry: Welcome to this 102nd edition of Maritime Monday. You can find Maritime Monday 52 here. (Published 26 March 2007) You can

We recently brought you an indestructible USB drive but with a price tag of $99 and up, we imagine few of you actually bought one. This video from our

Photo by Oneeighteen In October of last year the Shipping & Transport College of Rotterdam held the International Maritime English Conference. A key topic

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Marine Buzz reminds us why we never signed up to work aboard a Chemical

What is it?? A free gCaptain t-shirt goes out to the first person who can correctly identify this cargo. UPDATE: We have a winner. Charlie of Sea Wolf

(Ed. note: This entry is reposted in it’s entirety with permission from Red Right Returning. Doug Gould is a fellow tower from the East Coast.) Are you

gCaptain and others have chronicled the ongoing Whaling – Conservation controversy between environmental groups and Japanese whalers. The Independent/UK

Welcome to this 101st edition of Maritime Monday. You can find Maritime Monday 51 here. (Published 19 March 2007) You can find last week’s edition here.

An amazing collision has occurred in the center of Sydney Harbor…. well not really. Sea-Fever explains: The above dramatic photograph was taken by Google

  Activists from the Sea Shepherd group, Ralph Lowe (L) and former Dutch police officer Laurens de Groot, throw bottles at the Japanese whaling ship

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Rules, who needs them? by Captain John Denham A frequent situation popping up, expectedly in many areas in Asia and popular fishing grounds is to find oneself