Serving as a one stop shop for the latest on marine casualties in the U.S. Maritime Industry, Professional Mariner’s new Marine Casualty Center has a lot of great information. It is definitely worth checking out. See it live HERE. Professional Mariner has also launched an online career center that is designed to help you further [...]
Available at no cost to maritime professionals for the first two years, students have an opportunity to earn up to fifteen college credits by completing the program, which is recognized and approved by the Massachusetts Department of Higher Education. The Maritime Executive alerts us that the Massachusetts Maritime Academy has launched a new online certificate [...]
The Maritime Executive reports: Massachusetts Maritime Academy Launches FREE Online Education Program Thursday, September 4th, 2008 BUZZARDS BAY, MA – Massachusetts Maritime Academy was recently awarded a grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation’s “Seafarer’s Environmental Education Fund” to develop and launch the Academy’s first online courses. The grant allows the program to initially [...]
The IMO estimates there are 1.5 million seafarers worldwide, and this is the day we pay tribute to them all. The 25th of June has been designated by the IMO and it’s member states as “The Day of the Seafarer” as a means to pay tribute to the world’s estimated 1.5 million seafarers for the unique [...]
The U.S. Coast Guard has issued a Marine Safety Alert reminding operators of barges and tank vessels to ensure tank high velocity vent valves and vacuum valves or combination pressure/vacuum valves are maintained in proper operating condition at all times. This follows a recent marine casualty on board a chemical/oil product tanker in which a cargo tank was over [...]
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