Feb 09, 2023
Today we’ll talk about a recent sight on the river that caught my attention and the attention of some other people too: what looked like white smoke pouring from a ship heading upriver. Turns out it has a much better explanation: it’s steam from scrubbers that are pulling pollutants out of the exhaust to meet new emissions standards enacted three years ago.
Today we’ll revisit the maritime industry game-changing regulation that cut certain damaging ship emissions in half: IMO 2020.
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Feb 9, 2023 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
Today we’ll talk about a recent sight on the river that caught my attention and the attention of some other people too: what looked like white smoke pouring from a ship heading upriver. Turns out it has a much better explanation: it’s steam from scrubbers that are pulling pollutants out of the exhaust to meet new emissions standards enacted three years ago.
Today we’ll revisit the maritime industry game-changing regulation that cut certain damaging ship emissions in half: IMO 2020.
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Feb 08, 2023
With skippers having traveled about 20,000 miles in this grueling solo round the world race, boats remaining the race are approaching Cape Horn. This stretch is possibly the most treacherous part of their path to circle the globe without stopping or accepting outside aid. Already boats have suffered damaging knockdowns and endured 60 knot winds.
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Feb 8, 2023 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
With skippers having traveled about 20,000 miles in this grueling solo round the world race, boats remaining the race are approaching Cape Horn. This stretch is possibly the most treacherous part of their path to circle the globe without stopping or accepting outside aid. Already boats have suffered damaging knockdowns and endured 60 knot winds.
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Feb 07, 2023
A fishing boat was lost at sea on Sunday off Willapa Bay, with two survivors and a lost crewman who has been the subject of an ongoing Coast Guard search. Tragedies like these remind us how much we owe our hardworking fishing families. It’s a sad fact that news stories like these are often overlooked by mainstream media, because death and tragedy at sea are not uncommon. It’s up to us, their local communities, to honor their loss.
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Feb 7, 2023 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
A fishing boat was lost at sea on Sunday off Willapa Bay, with two survivors and a lost crewman who has been the subject of an ongoing Coast Guard search. Tragedies like these remind us how much we owe our hardworking fishing families. It’s a sad fact that news stories like these are often overlooked by mainstream media, because death and tragedy at sea are not uncommon. It’s up to us, their local communities, to honor their loss.
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Feb 06, 2023
In one of the most bizarre maritime stories to ever happen here on the lower Columbia, a wanted fugitive from Canada, who was also wanted by local police, allegedly stole a boat in Astoria and ended up being rescued by the Coast Guard near the mouth of the river after somehow making it across the infamous Columbia River Bar.
It’s an odd cautionary tale that has something to teach us about what we can expect from the Columbia River Bar and boats in bad weather.
And incredible kudos to our local Coast Guard pesonnel for a dramatic and successful rescue under harrowing conditions.
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Feb 6, 2023 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
In one of the most bizarre maritime stories to ever happen here on the lower Columbia, a wanted fugitive from Canada, who was also wanted by local police, allegedly stole a boat in Astoria and ended up being rescued by the Coast Guard near the mouth of the river after somehow making it across the infamous Columbia River Bar.
It’s an odd cautionary tale that has something to teach us about what we can expect from the Columbia River Bar and boats in bad weather.
And incredible kudos to our local Coast Guard pesonnel for a dramatic and successful rescue under harrowing conditions.
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Feb 03, 2023
This week you might have seen a ship with a black hull and a red stripe sitting seemingly motionless in the river, unlike most vessels that are on a journey form one port to another. If you’d been able to get a closer look at that ship, you’d have seen people hard at work on an important project.
The ship was the USCG Cutter Elm, a buoy tender, maintaining and repairing navigational buoys in the river. It’s essential work that saves lives, but goes largely unnoticed by those of us on land.
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Feb 3, 2023 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
This week you might have seen a ship with a black hull and a red stripe sitting seemingly motionless in the river, unlike most vessels that are on a journey form one port to another. If you’d been able to get a closer look at that ship, you’d have seen people hard at work on an important project.
The ship was the USCG Cutter Elm, a buoy tender, maintaining and repairing navigational buoys in the river. It’s essential work that saves lives, but goes largely unnoticed by those of us on land.
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Feb 02, 2023
Today a look at disaster averted in the UK, where pilots and tug crews kept a big containership from running aground. Expertise like this is part of doing business every day here on the river, and most of us have no idea it’s happening.
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Feb 2, 2023 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
Today a look at disaster averted in the UK, where pilots and tug crews kept a big containership from running aground. Expertise like this is part of doing business every day here on the river, and most of us have no idea it’s happening.
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