Sep 20, 2022
As a follow up on yesterday’s show about the costs of operating ships, today we consider another cost of a different sort: the cost (which can be counted in more ways than simply money) of invasive species introduced through ballast water.
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Sep 20, 2022 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
As a follow up on yesterday’s show about the costs of operating ships, today we consider another cost of a different sort: the cost (which can be counted in more ways than simply money) of invasive species introduced through ballast water.
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Sep 19, 2022
Today, I’ll estimate an answer to a listener question about what it costs to take a ship upriver to Porltand and back, and also about pollution ships give off while they are on the Columbia.
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Sep 19, 2022 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
Today, I’ll estimate an answer to a listener question about what it costs to take a ship upriver to Porltand and back, and also about pollution ships give off while they are on the Columbia.
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Sep 16, 2022
For the first time in history this month, a US Navy ship displayed an official Buddhist pennant, developed by the Navy for this purpose, during a religious ceremony on board. It’s part of U.S. military efforts at religious diversity and inclusion.
Image courtesy U.S. Navy Press Office
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Sep 16, 2022 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
For the first time in history this month, a US Navy ship displayed an official Buddhist pennant, developed by the Navy for this purpose, during a religious ceremony on board. It’s part of U.S. military efforts at religious diversity and inclusion.
Image courtesy U.S. Navy Press Office
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Sep 15, 2022
Today we take a look at the most common destinations ships are heading to when they leave the Columbia River, often loaded with cargo from a local port.
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Sep 15, 2022 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
Today we take a look at the most common destinations ships are heading to when they leave the Columbia River, often loaded with cargo from a local port.
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Sep 14, 2022
In the wake of the sinking of a commercial fishing boat in 2020 in the waters off Maine, the NTSB is recommending personal EPIRBs. Had the crew of the lost boat, the Emmy Rose, had them, they might be alive today.
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Sep 14, 2022 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
In the wake of the sinking of a commercial fishing boat in 2020 in the waters off Maine, the NTSB is recommending personal EPIRBs. Had the crew of the lost boat, the Emmy Rose, had them, they might be alive today.
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Sep 13, 2022
Today we take a look at a prominent boat in the Astoria community: the pilot boat Peacock. She’s on display on the grounds of the Columbia River Maritime Museum, and you can’t miss her as you drive through town.
But there’s a reason why she’s there and it’s not just that she was a good old hometown working boat. The Peacock changed the course of commerce on the Columbia River when she arrived here in the late 1960s, because she was the first pilot boat that could handle heavy weather without batting an eye.
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Sep 13, 2022 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
Today we take a look at a prominent boat in the Astoria community: the pilot boat Peacock. She’s on display on the grounds of the Columbia River Maritime Museum, and you can’t miss her as you drive through town.
But there’s a reason why she’s there and it’s not just that she was a good old hometown working boat. The Peacock changed the course of commerce on the Columbia River when she arrived here in the late 1960s, because she was the first pilot boat that could handle heavy weather without batting an eye.
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