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Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Marine Flares – More Than Meets the Eye
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Marine Flares – More Than Meets the Eye

Imagine, if you can, the confluence of events that would have to take place to leave you with marine flares being your primary method of signaling distress.

August 10, 2010
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Thursday, March 18, 2010
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AIS SART – New Technology And The Sharing Critical Information

AIS has been a revolutionary product and, regardless of your opinion on its use, has changed the way mates handle heavy traffic situations. Jotron, makers of

March 18, 2010
Total Views: 87

Friday, October 9, 2009
Lifesaving Incidents

Time To Rethink SOLAS? Why a behavioral economist may have the answer.

What does behavioral economics have to do with lifeboat safety? Lifeboat safety has been a major topic recently with davit related incidents and injuries

October 9, 2009
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Saturday, April 25, 2009
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Abandon Ship Ditch Bag

Have an Iridium, VHF or SSB handheld radio aboard? What about a portable GPS? Create an Abandon Ship Ditch Bag that is waterproof, floats and will survive a

April 25, 2009
Total Views: 69

Tuesday, May 6, 2008
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: 142

Thursday, January 17, 2008
Lifesaving Incidents

In Pictures: Ice Prince Rescue and Sinking

The BBC has a great photo slideshow of the M/V Ice Prince sinking. You can find it

January 17, 2008
Total Views: 45

Sunday, December 30, 2007
Video

Launching Of A Free-Fall Lifeboat

. Here’s the arial view; . Finally, here’s how they test these boats: . For more info on the history behind these types of lifeboats visit

December 30, 2007
Total Views: 115

Sunday, October 28, 2007
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Ideas for a new ECDIS

Techcrunch brings us the Dash in-car GPS navigator; Map mashups may be one of the coolest things on the Web, but they would be even cooler in your car.

October 28, 2007
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