Sep 29, 2025 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
Big changes happening as of this week, with regard to the show.
Beginning this week, the Ship Report will no longer air on KMUN on Fridays, but will air Monday-Thursday instead, and as a podcast on my website at shipreport.net.
KMUN will air the Ship Report twice a day on the radio, at 8:49 am and again at 5:49 pm, Monday through Thursday.
The changes come on the heels of big federal funding cuts to the station, which have resulted in their needing to make significant programming changes resulting from the loss of NPR programming.
I completely respect the necessity for change in this situation, and support KMUN’s efforts to regroup. I’m regrouping myself, and considering what’s next for me in terms of Friday podcasts. I’ll keep you posted as I sort it out.
In the meantime, as always, I’ll continue posting ship schedules on my website (shared on Facebook) and also marine weather on my Ship Report Facebook page.
Thanks for your understanding. More to come.
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Sep 26, 2025 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
We see many signs of fall in the Pacific Northwest, as cruise ships head south and one beloved ship, the icebreaker USCGC Polar Star, heads home to Seattle to prepare for another round of her annual mission: Operation Deep Freeze, where she breaks a navigable channel through pack ice to open McMurdo station to the world, which means access to supplies and fuel.
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Sep 25, 2025 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
A look at today’s ship traffic, and a change in the weather coming this weekend.
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Sep 24, 2025 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
The Columbia River is a busy water highway, with lots of vessels working, many of them upriver in places that folks near Astoria and even upriver in Portland and Vancouver, don’t see. Today we’ll talk about some of what happens as vessels do their work upriver.
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Sep 23, 2025 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
One of my favorite ships is here in town: the research vessel Atlantis. She’s owned by the US Navy and operated by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, located on Cape Cod. She’s been doing research on underwater volcanoes in the Pacific in recent years. She comes into Astoria occasionally to change crews, pick up supplies, etc.
She’s a superstar of a ship, she’s been the subject of many documentaries about her and her famous submersible, the Alvin. We’ll talk about the ship and about times I have been fortunate to go aboard.
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Sep 22, 2025 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
A listener raised an issue about cruise ships and the pollution they create, so I thought I’d explore that topic today. As I was gathering info, I started looking at how sewage is treated both on land and at sea. Turns out, while wastewater treatment is a lifesaver, we are a planet filled with people, and that can be hard on our waterways, despite modern technology.
