This is somewhat old, but came across it while surfing the web and figured I’d share with those who might be interested. This is a special on freak or rogue waves produced by BBC. It goes in depth in the history of rogue waves, and their possible causes. You can view the special on youtube [...]
This past Wednesday marked the implementation of a new regulation in the state of California requiring every commercial ocean-going vessels over 400 ft in length or greater than 10,000 gross tons to switch to fuel with lower sulfur content before coming within 24 nautical miles of the state’s coast.
Gurkhas take their name after an eight century Hindu warrior-saint. Known for their tenacity, courage, and unrelenting aggressiveness in battle, Gurkhas have a history in being involved in some very tough fights. The British probably know Gurkhas the best. The British first encountered the incredible Gurkhas in 1814 during the Gurkha war against the British [...]
Lloyd’s List is reporting that Japan is deploying at least 2 P3-C Orion Maritime Patrol Aircraft (MPA) to be based out of Djibouti and used exclusively for anti-piracy patrols. The P3-C Orion MPA is specifically designed to conduct long range maritime patrols, up to 14 hours in duration and at a range of 4,600 miles [...]
Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read other users’ updates known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length which are displayed on the user’s profile page and delivered to other users who have subscribed to them (known as followers). Senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends or, by default, allow anybody to access them. Users can send and receive tweets via the Twitter website, Short Message Service (SMS) or applications such asTweetie, Twitterrific, Twitterfon, TweetDeck and feedalizr. The service is free to use over the Internet, but using SMS may incur phone service provider fees.
Here’s something we came across at Disleduck’s site – some incredible infographics depicting the cost and impact of modern day piracy. These were created by the site TravelInsurance.org and provide a good visual on the problem the world faces as modern day piracy continues to exist. For more on the effort to campaign for an [...]
It’s nearly the end of the road for the old Coast Guard Icebreaker GLACIER, WAGB-4. The ship has left the Suisun Reserve Fleet, entered the Mare Island Drydock for hull cleaning, and is now under tow to Brownsville for scrapping. The ship had been moored in the mothball fleet since 1991 following decommissioning in 1987. The ship [...]
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