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Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Video

World’s Largest Non-Nuclear Explosion

Ernie’s Place brings us the world’s largest Non-Nuclear explosion: Alaska along the coast of British Columbia, there is what is known as the inland

May 13, 2008
Total Views: 223

Thursday, May 8, 2008
USCG

Coast Guard Cliff Rescue Training

. SAN PEDRO, Calif. — The aircrews of Air Station Los Angeles spent the day training for cliff operations May 17 at Point Vicente Lighthouse. The air

May 8, 2008
Total Views: 31

Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Interesting

Full Episodes of ‘CARRIER’ Posted Online

The following is posted by Fred Fry: For those of you who missed 10-hour PBS CARRIER marathon, have no fear as they were kind enough to post the full

May 6, 2008
Total Views: 499

Video

AIDD – The Dumb EPIRB

I stumbled upon this post while doing research for our EPIRB Failure series. It’s new distress system developed by researchers at John Hopkins

May 6, 2008
Total Views: 195

Sunday, May 4, 2008
Video

Pilot Station Rotterdam – Boarding the Berge Stahl

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6UKhFpkE3Q Pilots boarding the M/V Berge Stahl, the world’s largest bulk

May 4, 2008
Total Views: 44

Saturday, May 3, 2008
Shipyard

Birth Of A Giant – Supertanker Construction Video

This video show the 1975 construction of the tanker M/V Batillus in St. Nazaire, France. she has since been

May 3, 2008
Total Views: 133

Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Marine Weather

Coast Guard Morro Bay – Surfboat Training

The following happen so close to gCaptain Headquarters here in Morro Bay California that our CEO called from his ship to make sure the building was secure and

April 30, 2008
Total Views: 42

Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Video

Carrier – Reality TV From The High Seas

Carrier, a new show by PBS, joins America’s Port and The Deadliest Catch as the third prime time television series chronicling life at sea. Our friends

April 29, 2008
Total Views: 16

Monday, April 28, 2008
Houston Ship Channel – 500 Knot Transit
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Houston Ship Channel – 500 Knot Transit

This morning Fred Fry pointed us to this amazing time lapse video by our favorite maritime photographer. Click HERE for the

April 28, 2008
Total Views: 37

Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Video

How not to anchor a ship – Video

April 9, 2008
Total Views: 15

Video

High Definition AIS Tracking – San Francisco

HD-SF.com has this chart of ships transiting San Francisco harbor on April 2nd. They write: Animation of ship traffic on San Francisco bay, April 2nd 2008. You

April 9, 2008
Total Views: 77

Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Ship Design

The Twin Marine Lifter – Heavy Lift Monster

MarineLog brings us info on the new Heavy Lift design by SeaMetric International. The Twin Marine Lifter will consist of 2 DP class 3 heavy transport vessels

April 1, 2008
Total Views: 217

Engines

Starting the Wartsila – Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5A3So5eoL8 Starting a Wärtsilä 6 L 64… for a truly amazing engine read our post: The Wartsila-Sulzer Super

April 1, 2008
Total Views: 33

Saturday, March 29, 2008
Lifesaving Incidents

Bourbon Dolphin Report

Incidents always have a human factor. Fathers are lost at sea leaving friends, family, wives and sometimes young children behind. Media reports and incident

March 29, 2008
Total Views: 804

Friday, March 21, 2008
beluga-kite-ship
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Skysails – First Ocean Voyage A Success

Discoverer user mateMB has pointed us to news of Beluga shippings Skysails project to cross the atlantic with the use of a kite. In yesterday’s press

March 21, 2008
Total Views: 250

Thursday, March 20, 2008
USCG

Coast Guard Interception Of Homemade Submarine

The USCG has intercepted another DIY Semi-Submersible operated by drug smugglers. CNN tells us: In the past three months the Coast Guard has learned of more

March 20, 2008
Total Views: 118

Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Lifesaving Incidents

Queen of the North TSB Canada Video

Video of TSB report on sinking of Queen of the North. Click on the blue ‘Start Presentation’ button. (its slow loading). It also has video

March 19, 2008
Total Views: 16

Lifesaving Incidents

Cargo Ship Beached in France – M/V Artemis

Like the Zhen Hua near Rotterdam, the Den Den in India and the Pasha Bulker in Newcastle Australia the Cargo Ship (actually it’s a container ship)

March 19, 2008
Total Views: 579

Friday, March 14, 2008
Video

A Video Overview Of The Shipping Industry

Here is a short video overview on todays shipping

March 14, 2008
Total Views: 42

Friday, February 29, 2008
Humor:  The front fell off
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Humor: The front fell off

In the vein of Abbot and Costello’s “Who’s On First,” only related to ships. Thanks to BitterEnd reader Robert S, of Seattle and

February 29, 2008
Total Views: 69