Here’s a link to the entire hour long zoom interview with fisher poet, author and commercial fisherman Tele Aadsen. She recently published her first book about her life working in the fishing industry, a memoir called “What Water Holds.”
Today we have three U.S. flag vessels on the river, all coincidentally owned by the same company, Crowley Maritime. We’ll talk about that company a little, and what it means to run vessels in what’s called the “coastwise” or “cabotage” trade, taking domestic cargo between US ports. This trade is the special province of vessels regulated under the Jones Act, a 1920 law designed to protect the US merchant fleet from being replaced by foreign flag ships.
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Today we have three U.S. flag vessels on the river, all coincidentally owned by the same company, Crowley Maritime. We’ll talk about that company a little, and what it means to run vessels in what’s called the “coastwise” or “cabotage” trade, taking domestic cargo between US ports. This trade is the special province of vessels regulated under the Jones Act, a 1920 law designed to protect the US merchant fleet from being replaced by foreign flag ships.
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Today we learn a bit of Japanese history, inspired by a visiting ship’s name: Rangaku. The term is a Japanese word meaning “Dutch learning,” a reference to a time of isolationism in Japan’s history where their scientists sought to learn about western technology through contacts with the Netherlands and the Dutch language.
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Today we learn a bit of Japanese history, inspired by a visiting ship’s name: Rangaku. The term is a Japanese word meaning “Dutch learning,” a reference to a time of isolationism in Japan’s history where their scientists sought to learn about western technology through contacts with the Netherlands and the Dutch language.
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Another set of unseen mariners who do amazing work in the maritime realm: salvage experts. Today we talk about marine salvage, in the context of that deadly car ship fire off the Netherlands. Behind the scenes in this incident are highly skilled salvors, who go where others fear to tread, to save valuable property and avoid environmental disaster.
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Another set of unseen mariners who do amazing work in the maritime realm: salvage experts. Today we talk about marine salvage, in the context of that deadly car ship fire off the Netherlands. Behind the scenes in this incident are highly skilled salvors, who go where others fear to tread, to save valuable property and avoid environmental disaster.
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Today we’ll talk about the oldest woman ever to curcumnavigate the globe solo in a sailboat. She did that a few years ago at 78. Now she’s 80 and just set sail again, crossing the Pacific from Mexico to New Zealand, alone. She’s one of a number of older sailors who still take to the seas.
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Today we’ll talk about the oldest woman ever to curcumnavigate the globe solo in a sailboat. She did that a few years ago at 78. Now she’s 80 and just set sail again, crossing the Pacific from Mexico to New Zealand, alone. She’s one of a number of older sailors who still take to the seas.
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Today we take a look at an ongoing news story about a car ship on fire near the Netherlands. It’s a horror story about fire on board ship (a fearsome thing) and the possible and troubling involvement of electric car batteries as a cause for the blaze.
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Today we take a look at an ongoing news story about a car ship on fire near the Netherlands. It’s a horror story about fire on board ship (a fearsome thing) and the possible and troubling involvement of electric car batteries as a cause for the blaze.
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