Lloyds List brings us an article describing how things have changed since the Commandant of the Coast Guard ordered his employees to treat merchant mariners with more respect earlier this year.  Overall, it appears things have changed for the better since Admiral Allen issued the directive.  How have you been treated?  Do you agree?  Share [...]

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The MSC operated USNS Pililaau, a large, medium-speed, roll-on/roll-off ship, has recently completed an exercise off Camp Pendleton, CA demonstrating the capability to delivery a large volume of military cargo ashore without the benefit of a deepwater port.  The ship, anchored about 2 NM offshore, offloaded armored vehicles onto a floating platform at its stern, [...]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxWvROmfaoQ] ~Article~ The Australian submarine HMAS WALLER fired a super torpedo, the MK 48 into the decommissioned USS FLETCHER DD-992 as part of RIMPAC 2008, a joint Naval exercise off the coast of Hawaii. Check out the video of the explosion and resulting sinking. Apparently the MK 48 torpedo is now the world’s deadliest torpedo, [...]

The Torrent Shipwreck Project “Imagine a summer day 140 years ago. A wooden bark is sailing close along the rugged, uncharted coast of Cook Inlet, Alaska. The mariners aboard have no sonar, no GPS, no depth sounder, no radar, and no emergency radio. Crashing waves break along a ridge of black reefs a mile offshore, [...]