We’ve seen multiple designs of late for ferries, cargo and container ships, and yachts focused on lower fuel consumption. What is driving these new designs?…
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TGIF: Maersk Alabama Edition
John Stewart interviews Captain Richard Phillips of Maersk Alabama, which was hijacked by Somali pirates last year. The ship was carrying aid to the region.…
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Oil: Not just for autos but coral reefs as well
In part two of unintended series on oil… Unless you live under an oil covered rock you probably already know that a Chinese ship carrying…
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Pattra Chaisawat is an Industrial Design student at the Academy Of Art University in San Francisco. He is doing a class project on hand-held GPS…
View More Hand-Held GPS and You!Britain’s Unaffordable Defender of the Realm
This sub very posh and quite brill indeed. “This is the best submarine in the world. It is virtually undetectable, has reinvented the periscope and…
View More Britain’s Unaffordable Defender of the RealmThe Queen of the Grand Banks Schooners
This is where I’d like to be this Monday morning.
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The National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT) in India’s motto is “The Technology for Harnessing the Wealth of the Ocean Starts Here.” In April, NIOT…
View More Unfortunate News of the WeekA Requiem for ABE
It is with great sadness and a heavy we report on the loss of the Autonomous Benthic Explorer (affectionately known as ABE). It was lost…
View More A Requiem for ABEChilean marine science devastated by earthquake
UPDATE: The Consortium for Ocean Leadership has set up a University of Concepcion Oceanographic Relief Fund. You can donate here. Along with the lives lost…
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