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The following images were taken by the Australian Customs Service in their mission to end Japanese whaling of the Souther Ocean. Japanese Whaling Ship Yushin

San Francisco, CA (28 January): A panel of outside experts formed by the commandant of the Coast Guard to study the response to the Cosco Busan oil spill today

  Mariners, Take Full Advantage of Your 401K   By Capt. Ben Dinsmore As shipping companies continue to phase out defined pension plans for an ever

Photo by rkr806 Sea Fever brings us the annual cruise of Massachusetts Maritime Academy’s training ship Enterprise. This cruise has departed each winter

Episode 7 of Messing About In Ships is launched! Download  MP3 file here Please subscribe via iTunes. Stay tuned for the podcast shownotes which will be

Here are gCaptain editor’s Top 10 upcoming picks of the week from gCaptain’s Maritime News Discoverer. Please Vote on the ones you like to have

Artect.ent brings us Ocean Arcologies; The notion of cities condensed into a singular structure or hyperstructure, has frequented works of fiction as far back

Photo by Johnny_kgc Gothanmist brings us news of… no not another Simpson story but rather the collision of a Orange Juice tanker and a dredge. They tell

Bitterend brings us the anniversary of AMVER: Originally known as the Atlantic Merchant Vessel Emergency Reporting (AMVER) System, it became operational on

Treehugger tells us of the largest temporary hotel built to date using shipping containers. They write: We previously showed the Travelpod, an experimental

If we only had one technology related wish for 2008 it would be that every mariner watched this video. Reminder: This is important people! FROM WIRED: While

Here’s your opportunity to name a ship! This, however, isn’t just a random ship, Royal Caribbean is asking YOU to name the world’s largest

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Here are gCaptain editor’s Top 10 upcoming picks of the week from gCaptain’s Maritime News Discoverer. Please Vote on the ones you like to have

Navagear brings us info on Standard’s new floating handheld VHF: Standard Horizon HX850S VHF/GPS DSC Floating RadioNot that I spend a lot of waking OR

The law of general average is a legal principle of maritime law according to which all parties in a sea venture proportionally share any losses resulting from

In breaking news from the Antarctic Japanese whalers have taken two activists hostage after they boarded the whaling ship Yushin Maru. The BBC tells us; The

Our bandwidth is suffering today so we are going to trust Lifehacker’s advice on this one. They tell us: Do-it-yourselfer Chris Knight explains that the

Photo by AurelioZen NewYorkology tells us of the first / last ever meeting of its three grand ships; Cunard’s one-time-only royal rendezvous of its three