Pisces is the second of two 25 knot, 149-passenger vessels recently built by WETA. The City of Alameda manages the Harbor Bay ferry service and contracts with Harbor Bay Maritime to operate the service. The City of Alameda chartered the WETA-owned ferry for use on the Harbor Bay Ferry service.

Like its sister vessel, Gemini, which set sail on the Tiburon-San Francisco commute in December 2008, Pisces is the nation’s most environmentally friendly ferryboat. Its exhaust is 85% cleaner than EPA emissions standards for Tier II (2007) marine engines and is ten times cleaner than existing Bay Area ferries. Pisces also incorporates innovative measures to protect bay and marine life, including low-wake, low-wash hulls.

This comes to us from the Bay Area magazine East Bay Express. Interesting article that discusses the human impact of the Cosco Busan incident, and the effect on key crew members from the ship who were sequestered in San Francisco for over a year in an exotic mix of legal limbo.  It is an interesting [...]

The largest floating crane on the U.S. West Coast was successfully offloaded from the M/V ZHEN HUA 22 in San Francisco Bay yesterday.  The impressive crane that is going to be used to complete construction on the East Span of the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge floated off the heavy lift ship M/V ZHEN [...]