A New Zealand court has sentenced a British ship captain to pay a $3,000 fine after authorities found him to be more than five-times the legal alcohol limit when his ship arrived at Northport, NZ on Friday. Anthony Michael Baker, the captain of the multi-purpose cargo ship Shansi, was arrested after harbor pilots boarded the vessel upon its arrival in Whangarei Harbour on … [Read more...]
Drunk Captain Runs Ship Aground in Germany
The captain of a Dutch-flagged cargo ship has found himself in some hot water after running his ship aground while drunk at the German port of Rostock. The 90-meter long MV Abis Bergen ran aground Saturday evening as it departed Rostock, blocking access to the port. Harbor police boarded the vessel and found that the Master had been drinking. … [Read more...]
Drunken Captain Gets Vessel Stuck in Germany
A inland freighter found itself pinned in a peculiar way on Germany's Main river after the drunken ship captain allegedly ran the vessel into a bridge and then the river bank. Local media reports that the 105-meter vessel Elsava became pinned crossways between a bridge and the edge of the river in Lohr am Main, Germany early on Thursday. Photos and … [Read more...]
Drunk Captain Jailed in UK
A Latvian ship captain has pleaded guilty and sentenced to serve four months in prison in the UK for navigating his ship with a blood alcohol content of nearly four times the legal limit, the BBC reports. Captain Andrejs Borodins was found staggering and incoherent by a Dundee harbor pilot while navigating the 1,300 tonne cargo ship MV Fritjord up Scotland's River Tay in … [Read more...]
What Do You Do With a Drunken Sailor? There’s an App for That!
The Navy knows it has a drinking problem. Fleet Week means vomit in the streets and evenings that sailors best not remember. The official Pier Pressure app combines a game with a suite of educational tools. The tools, which address alcohol abuse and how to avoid it, are actually pretty useful. But the game half is damned awful. Alcohol abuse in the military is a real … [Read more...]