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Narrow Channels: Working Towards A Useful Definition
We were at the very top of the Liston Range (inbound for the ConocoPhillips refinery at Trainer, PA) when we met the massive ATB OSG...
Jul 25, 20117 min read
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Can You See Me Now?
You know those decals you see on the larger delivery trucks and tractor-trailers that read “If You Can’t See Me I Can’t See You.”? Well,...
Jun 17, 20115 min read
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Behold: The Can-Opener!
Does this look like any way to run an airline to you? I didn’t think so. I call this the “can-opener” style of caisson pad. It doesn’t...
May 3, 20112 min read
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Ice Happens, So Walk Like A Yak.
With the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast being hit by wave after wave of record-smashing snowfall and cold like we haven’t seen in a long...
Jan 30, 20113 min read
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TSAC Reformed?: Mariners Get Official Seats At The Table, Maybe.
It was a simple and obvious enough question to ask, so we called up Congressional staff members from the House Transportation Committee...
Jan 26, 20116 min read
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The U.K. Says “No More!” To Undermanning & Fatigued Mariners. What Will The U.S. Coa
Paul Coley, MCA Assistant Director of Seafarers & Ships said: “Its been known for many years that tiredness caused by long working ...
Mar 21, 20107 min read
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Close Your Doors & Stay Afloat, v2.0
Still think it doesn’t really matter whether or not you leave you’re doors open? Watch this video of a CMA CGM container ship wiping out...
Mar 13, 20101 min read
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Words Are Important: Stability, Lessons Learned, & Why We Need Better Stability Letters
Words matter. More specifically, the exact choice of words matter. English is a very complicated language, but one extremely rich in...
Mar 7, 20107 min read
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Inspecting Your Liferaft: Not Optional In The U.K.
Those Britons don’t screw around. The owner of a small passenger vessel in Falmouth recently found out the hard way that the U.K.’s...
Feb 3, 20103 min read
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Real Towing Vessel Inspectors Wanted! (Maybe)
Many of you are aware that towing vessels will be brought under Coast Guard inspection at some point in, maybe, the not-too-distant...
Jan 22, 20107 min read
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Man Overboard: What Do You Really Do?
A semi-overlapping combination of federal regulations, company operations and safety policies, and customer/charterer requirements...
Jan 10, 201016 min read
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Coast Guard Safety Alert: Bogus Batteries Found In EPIRBS.
All mariners need to read the Coast Guard’s Safety Alert 8-09 and make sure you aren’t carrying around an EPIRB with a bogus or...
Dec 3, 20091 min read
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Snap Back Kills Again: Review Your Procedures & Equipment And Maybe Save A Life.
Here’s an accident report from the U.K.’s MAIB that deserves to be read and disseminated widely. On the evening of August 7, 2007 the...
Nov 13, 20094 min read
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Sleep Apnea & The Professional Mariner
Sleep Apnea & the Professional Mariner by Capt. Doug Pine As a professional mariner you are, I’m sure, quite familiar with the sounds of...
Oct 29, 200912 min read
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GPS Down For The Count? Bust Out The Charts And The Eyeballs, Navigator! And, While You’re At
GPS brownout? Holy deteriorating critical infrastructure, Batman! News flash, fellow mariners, perhaps those amazin’ satellites in the...
Oct 25, 20094 min read
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Sleeping Is Cool!
In this N.Y Times article the long-held belief that a correlation between room temperature and quality of rest exists, that cooler is...
Aug 5, 20091 min read
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When The Wire Breaks!
We’ve had an increasing number of hits lately coming from web searches for “emergency towing for barges”, or something like it, so it’s...
Aug 1, 20093 min read
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Fire Proofing Is Better Than Fire Fighting
Fire on the high seas, off the coast, on a Great Lake, or a powerful river (or wherever), is generally the most significant threat...
Jul 28, 20092 min read
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Fun Things To Do In Your “Spare” Time: Chart & Pub Corrections
One of the more insidious problems of the ever-growing administrative burden born by mariners (itself caused by an ever-growing array of...
Jul 6, 20095 min read
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National Mariners Association Secretary To Testify Before Congress, Again…..
We start the week out with some good news: National Mariners Association Secretary and founding member Richard Block has been invited by...
Jul 5, 20093 min read
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