gCaptain is a global provider or maritime and offshore news and maintains signed partnership agreements with Bloomberg, Reuters, and Navionics.

In addition to publishing new and influential articles to gCaptain, Unofficial Networks works closely with the top media outlets worldwide to provide expert analysis, commentary and research for maritime and offshore news articles. The following is just a sample of the organizations gCaptain has worked with:

Trade Magazines

• Lloyd’s List – Mariners relish bout of sea fever
• The Maritime Executive – A New Maritime Podcast From gCaptain
• NOAA Mariner’s Weather Log – Skysails, A New Look At Ancient Technology
• Workboat – Top maritime news picks questioned
• Workboat – A cheaper, easier way to launch boats?
• Power and MotorYacht: AIS on ships, words from the gCaptain
• The Digital Ship: AIS vessel tracking on the iPhone
• Coast Guard Compass: How The Titanic Changed The World
• Fairplay: Blodding The Greenie
• The Maritime Executive – Piracy, A New Solution To a Pressing Problem

Traditional Media

New York Times

• After Another Close Call, Transocean Changed Rules
• No Shortage of Books on Oil Spill
• New Hope For Turnaround at Troubled Service Academy

Wall Street Journal:

• Podcasting From The High Seas – Maritime Bloggers Talk Via Satellite
• Sunk: Shippers Try to Balance Fuel and Emissions Worries
• Food Fight: Caterer Stews Over Delta

Forbes

• Terrorism, Pirates, and Blowing the Whistle on Commercial Fishing
• 100 Years Since The Titanic
• Bravery At Sea

San Francisco Chronicle:

• Ship strayed from course before spill
• CRASH PROBE: Radar systems OK
• Hearing today at Presidio – tough queries for spill captain, pilot

Fox News

• Pirates Kidnap Two Americans In Ship Attack Off Coast of Nigeria
• Strangers log on to help satellite search for missing schooner
• US ship captain recounts 18-day ordeal as hostage of crack-smoking Nigerian pirates
• Abandoned ship: Sailors left adrift by transport firms’ legal battles
• Russia sinks own ship to block Ukrainian vessels, official says
• Group of monkeys hitch ride to Europe after boarding ship in Malaysia

NBC News

• Kidnapped Captain: How I Survived Den of Crack-Smoking Pirates
• Pirates seize two Americans off Nigeria’s coast

CNN

• Kidnapped ship’s captain told ransoms may be funneled to Boko Haram

NPR

• Take That! High-Tech Ways to Fight Off Pirates
• Container Ships Collide on Suez Canal

Vanity Fair: Costa Concordia Captain’s Deadly Error
Bloomberg Businessweek: No Apologies Over Gulf Oil Spill
Bloomberg Businessweek: Risk Ahoy: Daewoo Builds The World’s Largest Ship

Los Angeles Times: Foreign flagging of offshore rigs skirts U.S. safety rules
Miami Herald: What Happened On The BP Oil Rig
Publisher’s Weekly: The Untold Story of the Gulf Oil Disaster
Washington Post: An Ax To Grind
CBC : The Wreck Of The Costa Concordia

Radio

• NPR: NPR: Mariner Details Life Aboard A Lifeboat
• NPR: High-Tech Ways To Fight Off Pirates
• NPR: From Maps To Apps: Where Are We Headed?
• NPR: The Rig Behind The Gulf Spill
• BBC World Service: The Gulf Oil Spill
• CBC: The Homestretch – Gulf Spill Anniversary

Notable Websites

• Huffington Post: Fire On The Horizon
• Gizmodo: Why Capping a Blown Oil Well at the Bottom of the Ocean is so Insanely Difficult
• The Daily Beast The Government Case Against BP
• The Daily Beast: This Week’s Hot Read
• Boing Boing: Laptop distraction for “Duck Boat”
• Telstar Logistics: Blogging on the High Seas with gCaptain
• NowPublic: Reporting From The Gulf of Mexico
• Neil Strauss’s Inner Circle: How To Hitch A Ride On Big Ships

Professional Organizations

• New Zealand Company of Master Mariners – Cosco Busan Incident Report
• IMC Brokers: gCaptain – The Inside Story
• International Maritime Association:  Maritime Knowledge Center
• Council of American Master Mariners: Saving Lives & Your Cell Phone
• Council of American Master Mariners: Today’s Captain is expected not to make any mistakes.
• SUNY Maritime College: Hot News Topics
• USMMA KP Alumni – Chapter Presidents Alliance:  Where is MARAD Administrator David Matsuda?  
• United States Coast Guard: ALCOAST Announcement, Required Reading
• US Navy War College: Maritime News Survey
• Navy Postgraduate School – Unmanned Surface Vehicles – The Future of Robotic Pirate
• Department Of Defense: Blogger’s Rountable
• Committee on Natural Resources U.S. House of Representatives – Perspectives on the Outer Continental Shelf
• Committee on Natural Resources U.S. House of Representatives – OFFSHORE DRILLING: ENVIRONMENTAL AND COMMERCIAL PERSPECTIVES
• National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council – Reducing the Threat of Ship Strikes on Large Cetaceans
• USCG Commandant – gCaptain’s “Top Contributor”
• United States Pacific Command: Reading List

Academic Papers

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology – An Early Conceptual Design and Feasibility Analysis of a Nuclear-Powered Cargo Vessel
• U.S. Army War College – China’s Military Transformation
• Earthquake Engineering Research Institute – Seismic Performance of Port de Port-au-Prince during the Haiti Earthquake
• Aalborg University – Emerging Markets Case Studies Collection
• University of New South Wales – Tsunamis and Stranded Vessels: Up Ship Creek without a Paddle?
• UNH Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping – Vessel Tracking Using the Automatic Identification System (AIS) During Emergency Response
• New York University – Image Based Instructions
• Ocean Science Trust – Evaluating Alternatives for Decommissioning California’s Offshore Oil and Gas Platforms
• University of Kentucky – Fighting Piracy: Experiences in Southeast Asia and off the Horn of Africa
• Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro – TECNOLOGIA DOS MÉTODOS DE CONTROLE DE POÇO E BLOWOUT
• Stanford University – Sea Shepherd Conservation Society v. Japanese Whalers, the Showdown: Who Is the Real Villain?
• University of Southern California – Designing Practical Motions for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles: A Ship Hull Survey Mission
• California Polytechnic State University – Cinq Essais sur le Développement Durable
• University of Maryland – Water & Architecture
• Copenhagen Business School – Shipping industry – containership case studies
• Copenhagen School of Design and Technology – STRUCTURES ON EARTHQUAKE ARES AND EARTHQUAKE TECHNOLOGY
• University of Stavanger – Suggested improvements for ship-installation collision risk models
• Bremen University – The International Law on Foreign Investments and Host Economies in Sub Saharan Africa

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