Apr 20, 2022
A story about a missing ship crewmember, who may have gone overboard in the river, highlights the risks of swimming in a river like the Columbia, with its powerful and dangerous currents.
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Apr 20, 2022 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
A story about a missing ship crewmember, who may have gone overboard in the river, highlights the risks of swimming in a river like the Columbia, with its powerful and dangerous currents.
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Apr 19, 2022
Today we’ll talk about the achievements of an intrepid young Oregon woman who has become one of only 15 women to become a USCG surfman. Surfmen are those skiilled folks on board the motor lifeboats that go out regularly on our local waters saving lives, often under challenging conditions.
Photo Credit: USCG DVIDS archives: The instructors, crew and students of the National Motor Lifeboat School, Ilwaco, Wash., practice at the entrance of the Columbia River Bar on Feb. 08, 2011. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Jamie Thielen.
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Apr 19, 2022 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
Today we’ll talk about the achievements of an intrepid young Oregon woman who has become one of only 15 women to become a USCG surfman. Surfmen are those skiilled folks on board the motor lifeboats that go out regularly on our local waters saving lives, often under challenging conditions.
Photo Credit: USCG DVIDS archives: The instructors, crew and students of the National Motor Lifeboat School, Ilwaco, Wash., practice at the entrance of the Columbia River Bar on Feb. 08, 2011. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Jamie Thielen.
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Apr 18, 2022
After a month of intense salvage work in Chesapeake Bay, on Sunday crews were able to pull the aground containership Ever Forward off the mud and back into the ship channel. She’d been stuck there since March 13, when she missed a turn in the channel and plowed into 20 feet of mud.
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Apr 18, 2022 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
After a month of intense salvage work in Chesapeake Bay, on Sunday crews were able to pull the aground containership Ever Forward off the mud and back into the ship channel. She’d been stuck there since March 13, when she missed a turn in the channel and plowed into 20 feet of mud.
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Apr 15, 2022
We take a look at dry bulk carriers, cruise ships, ATBs, and a smattering of other vessels.
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Apr 15, 2022 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
We take a look at dry bulk carriers, cruise ships, ATBs, and a smattering of other vessels.
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Apr 14, 2022
It’s a question being raised in maritime news reports regarding the grounding of the Ever Forward in Chesapeake Bay, and last year the Ever Given in the Suez Canal – two mega containerships.
As ships get bigger, companies achieve greater economies of scale, but much larger ships pose particular challenges. We’ll take a look.
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Apr 14, 2022 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
It’s a question being raised in maritime news reports regarding the grounding of the Ever Forward in Chesapeake Bay, and last year the Ever Given in the Suez Canal – two mega containerships.
As ships get bigger, companies achieve greater economies of scale, but much larger ships pose particular challenges. We’ll take a look.
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Apr 13, 2022
This weekend, while media eyes were on the still-stuck containership Ever Forward in Chesapeake Bay, another potential disaster was unfolding on the West Coast, as a containership lost power and started drifting toward the beach. Lots of expertise involved, and it all ended well. The kind of good news you hardly hear about.
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Apr 13, 2022 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
This weekend, while media eyes were on the still-stuck containership Ever Forward in Chesapeake Bay, another potential disaster was unfolding on the West Coast, as a containership lost power and started drifting toward the beach. Lots of expertise involved, and it all ended well. The kind of good news you hardly hear about.
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