Sep 20, 2023
Today we’ll talk about an emergency at sea in the Ocean Globe Race, the round the world race that started just 10 days ago in the UK. A crew member on one of the sailboats suffered an injury that was so severe he needed to be rescued. The incident shows the limits of rescue at sea, and also the dangerous environment mariners take on when they go far offshore.
Image Caption: The crew of French OGR entrant Triana (66) FR assisted Stéphane Raguenes into the liferaft before being winched onboard the helicopter and flown to Madeira for medical attention. Credit: OGR 2023 / Margault Demasles
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Sep 20, 2023 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
Today we’ll talk about an emergency at sea in the Ocean Globe Race, the round the world race that started just 10 days ago in the UK. A crew member on one of the sailboats suffered an injury that was so severe he needed to be rescued. The incident shows the limits of rescue at sea, and also the dangerous environment mariners take on when they go far offshore.
Image Caption: The crew of French OGR entrant Triana (66) FR assisted Stéphane Raguenes into the liferaft before being winched onboard the helicopter and flown to Madeira for medical attention. Credit: OGR 2023 / Margault Demasles
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Sep 19, 2023
Yesterday the National Weather Service in Portland issued a sneaker wave warning for Oregon and Washington beaches for Monday and Tuesday. That prompted a listener to ask: how do we know that sneaker waves are coming?
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Sep 19, 2023 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
Yesterday the National Weather Service in Portland issued a sneaker wave warning for Oregon and Washington beaches for Monday and Tuesday. That prompted a listener to ask: how do we know that sneaker waves are coming?
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Sep 18, 2023
Today we’ll feature an esteemed visitor at the Port of Astoria docks: the famous research vessel Atlantis, which has on board the also famous submersible Alvin. We’ll talk about what this high tech ship does and why she’s in our neighborhood.
Image of the Atlantis courtesy Wikimedia Commons. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
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Sep 18, 2023 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
Today we’ll feature an esteemed visitor at the Port of Astoria docks: the famous research vessel Atlantis, which has on board the also famous submersible Alvin. We’ll talk about what this high tech ship does and why she’s in our neighborhood.
Image of the Atlantis courtesy Wikimedia Commons. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
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Sep 15, 2023
More today about who’s coming and going on the river today. Meanwhile, our fall weather pattern continues to see-saw between summer and autumn, with gusty winds and bigger seas, and then – back to sunshine next week.
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Sep 15, 2023 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
More today about who’s coming and going on the river today. Meanwhile, our fall weather pattern continues to see-saw between summer and autumn, with gusty winds and bigger seas, and then – back to sunshine next week.
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Sep 14, 2023
Today an in-depth look at our daily ship schedule and marine weather: we’ve got a good complement of ships on the river today, and they are true to form for us here on the Columbia – mostly dry bulk carriers with a smattering of other kinds of vessels.
And a little about our autumny weather, which includes high pressure here and low pressure to the south. The perfect prescription for gusty northerly winds.
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Sep 14, 2023 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
Today an in-depth look at our daily ship schedule and marine weather: we’ve got a good complement of ships on the river today, and they are true to form for us here on the Columbia – mostly dry bulk carriers with a smattering of other kinds of vessels.
And a little about our autumny weather, which includes high pressure here and low pressure to the south. The perfect prescription for gusty northerly winds.
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Sep 13, 2023
Right now a cruise ship sits aground in a remote fjord in a Greenland national park, days away from the nearest rescue vessel. So far the crew has been unable to refloat her with the rising tide. The situation so far is stable, but it brings up troubling issues of ships with lots of people on board, traveling where resources to help them are few and the consequences high if anything catastrophic goes wrong.
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Sep 13, 2023 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
Right now a cruise ship sits aground in a remote fjord in a Greenland national park, days away from the nearest rescue vessel. So far the crew has been unable to refloat her with the rising tide. The situation so far is stable, but it brings up troubling issues of ships with lots of people on board, traveling where resources to help them are few and the consequences high if anything catastrophic goes wrong.
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