Oct 21, 2022
Our fall weather pattern of stormy conditions has finally arrived, with the season’s first gale force winds predicted for this weekend. Here’s hoping the wind and rain help put out area wildfires and wash away the smoke in the air.
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Oct 21, 2022 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
Our fall weather pattern of stormy conditions has finally arrived, with the season’s first gale force winds predicted for this weekend. Here’s hoping the wind and rain help put out area wildfires and wash away the smoke in the air.
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Oct 20, 2022
It happened pretty quietly, with not much press, but on Jan. 1, 2020, ships worldwide started using a much less polluting type of fuel, thanks to a new rule from the IMO, a UN agency that controls ship emissions, among other duties.
After almost two years,scientists are now seeing dramatic reductions in worldwide sulphur oxide emissions from merchant ships.
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Oct 20, 2022 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
It happened pretty quietly, with not much press, but on Jan. 1, 2020, ships worldwide started using a much less polluting type of fuel, thanks to a new rule from the IMO, a UN agency that controls ship emissions, among other duties.
After almost two years,scientists are now seeing dramatic reductions in worldwide sulphur oxide emissions from merchant ships.
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Oct 19, 2022
Today, a story about a new program in Puget Sound designed to help resident Orcas. Marine pilots will be asking ships to voluntarily slow down to cut underwater noise levels. Ship noise has been shown in studies to seriously interfere with Orcas’ ability to communicate and hunt. Experts hope the program will help the dwindling population of orcas start to thrive again.
Image of orcas is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
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Oct 19, 2022 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
Today, a story about a new program in Puget Sound designed to help resident Orcas. Marine pilots will be asking ships to voluntarily slow down to cut underwater noise levels. Ship noise has been shown in studies to seriously interfere with Orcas’ ability to communicate and hunt. Experts hope the program will help the dwindling population of orcas start to thrive again.
Image of orcas is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
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Oct 18, 2022
A 2021 accident in Ecuador that left a tall ship temporarily pinned against a bridge and a tug capsized as it tried to help, shows us the dangers of severe river current in an emergency. And how it could happen here.
Link to video of Ecuador ship accident: https://youtu.be/05bH8_8XfNA
Image: the Brazilian Navy training ship, the Cisno Bronco. Image courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
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Oct 18, 2022 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
A 2021 accident in Ecuador that left a tall ship temporarily pinned against a bridge and a tug capsized as it tried to help, shows us the dangers of severe river current in an emergency. And how it could happen here.
Link to video of Ecuador ship accident: https://youtu.be/05bH8_8XfNA
Image: the Brazilian Navy training ship, the Cisno Bronco. Image courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
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Oct 17, 2022
A listener sent in a really interesting question about ship fog signals off the Astoria waterfront. A good opportunity to talk about how ships communicate, why such signal are needed, whether they’re in danger of becoming obsolete in this moden age, and what the options are for people who don’t like the noise of foghorns on the waterfront.
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Oct 17, 2022 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
A listener sent in a really interesting question about ship fog signals off the Astoria waterfront. A good opportunity to talk about how ships communicate, why such signal are needed, whether they’re in danger of becoming obsolete in this moden age, and what the options are for people who don’t like the noise of foghorns on the waterfront.
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Oct 14, 2022
Yesterday I saw a very cool and high tech ship doing her job on the river – The USACE dredge Essayons. We’ll talk about what she does and why she’s so vital to river commerce.
Photo: The Essayons off the Astoria waterfont, doing her job, 10/13/22. Credit: Joanne Rideout.
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Oct 14, 2022 | Ship Report Podcasts
Yesterday I saw a very cool and high tech ship doing her job on the river – The USACE dredge Essayons. We’ll talk about what she does and why she’s so vital to river commerce.
Photo: The Essayons off the Astoria waterfont, doing her job, 10/13/22. Credit: Joanne Rideout.
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