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Jun 24, 20095 min read
MARINERS WANTED: the Coast Guard is hiring civilian Marine Inspectors!
Below is the text of an e-mail sent out by Cdr. Erich Doll of the U.S. Coast Guard’s Office of Traveling Inspectors. Cdr. Doll is an...
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Jun 9, 20091 min read
Coast Guard Safety Alert: The Perils Of CFL’s
The Coast Guard has issued Safety Alert #02-09 regarding the potential for compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFL’s) to interfere with your...
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Jun 7, 20092 min read
Tugnology ’09: The Papers
There’s no easy way to categorize them, so I’m not going to try. These are the technical papers that were presented at the conference in...
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Apr 26, 20093 min read
2-Watch System Or Bust!
For those of you who missed it, here’s an extremely interesting and important article by Dom Yanchunas in Issue #121 of Professional...
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Apr 25, 20092 min read
NAVSAC Openings Announced
The U.S. Coast Guard has announced that they are accepting applications for the Navigation Safety Advisory Council (NAVSAC) through June...
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Apr 17, 20094 min read
Size Does Matter
Well, it sure does if excessive “size” renders mariners incapable of performing the various emergency response duties required of them or...
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Apr 14, 20093 min read
Towing: He Gets It
Some people get it and some people don’t. Most don’t. And that’s one of the perennial problems for tug drivers: we are governed largely...
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Apr 11, 20094 min read
Risk Assessment & Dressing For Success: Killer Cotton, Wild & Wooly, Or Polyester Leisure Su
Our jobs on the water are full of risks, great and small. We constantly must evaluate and make judgments about what the level of risk is...
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Mar 30, 20093 min read
Back On Deck!
“Whether you’re in upper management, a safety director, port captain or captain, it’s easy to forget the real circumstances that the...
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Mar 12, 20091 min read
Treating Hypothermia: 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit / 37 degrees Celsius or bust!
The sun is getting higher in the sky and the days, while still somewhat chilly at times, are gradually getting longer and warmer. Spring...
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Jan 30, 20092 min read
“Y’all Can Wait”
I’ll continue on the speed riff for a bit longer. It often seems that everyone’s in a hurry to go nowhere fast. Call it hurry up and...
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Jan 28, 20092 min read
Speed And The Damage Done
Consider this to be a kind of epilogue to my last post on damaged stability for barges. What’s better and more professionally rewarding...
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Jan 27, 20095 min read
Damaged Stability For Barges
While doing the research and fact-checking for the Practical Stability For Tugs post, I realized that I normally don’t think too much...
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Jan 1, 20095 min read
Life Jackets & The Cold Water Boot Camp
Drowning is, as you would imagine, the primary job-related mortal danger to most mariners. Born without gills, we humans generally will...
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Dec 19, 20084 min read
Lack Of ECDIS Training Leads To Grounding.
Here we go again…..from a North Sea sand bar off England’s east coast: the U.K.’s Marine Accident Investigation Branch has released its...
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Dec 14, 20082 min read
Close The Crossovers!
Revisiting the tragic loss of Maritrans’ tug Valour for some lessons-learned type discussion will be a recurring project here on the MTVA...
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Dec 13, 20081 min read
The Coast Guard’s New Safety Plan?
The Coast Guard has released their new Marine Safety Performance Plan FY 2009-2014 and it makes for some interesting reading, especially...
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Nov 21, 20082 min read
Do You Live In A Barn? Close Your Doors & Stay Afloat!
The Coast Guard has issued another marine safety alert, #12-08, concerning Watertight Doors. Please read it along with the two companion...
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Nov 4, 20083 min read
Normal Practice vs. Best Practice: Fight The Inertia!
We value all comments that we receive, and one of the comments on the “Death on the River Clyde” post of October 5th is worthy of further...
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Oct 14, 20084 min read
More Thoughts On The River Clyde Tragedy…
Having read through the MAIB report on the T/V Flying Phantom a second time, some more things come into focus. This provides both answers...
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