Mar 01, 2021
Last week a gigantic iceberg broke off an ice shelf in Antarctica. Really big, like 20 times the size of Manhattan Island, or about half the size of Clatsop County. It’s now floating in the Southern Ocean.
[Photo credit: Brunt Ice Shelf, Antarctica, photo courtesy Pierre Markuse from Hamm, Germany via Wikimedia Commons]
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Mar 1, 2021 | Ship Report Podcasts
Last week a gigantic iceberg broke off an ice shelf in Antarctica. Really big, like 20 times the size of Manhattan Island, or about half the size of Clatsop County. It’s now floating in the Southern Ocean.
[Photo credit: Brunt Ice Shelf, Antarctica, photo courtesy Pierre Markuse from Hamm, Germany via Wikimedia Commons]
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Feb 26, 2021
Looks like a cool class this spring at Clatsop Community College in Astoria. It’s called “Exploring Maritime Culture.” The class is virtual so you can learn safely at home.
Professor Julie Williams Brown will be your guide. Here’s what she says about the class on her Facebook page:
“I’m teaching an awesome online class this spring: Humanities 103: Exploring Maritime Culture. We study great explorers such as Shackleton, fishing boats such as the Andrea Gail, whaling tragedies such as the Essex, watch classic films (Mutiny on the Bounty, Master and Commander), study history, art, culture, music, tattoos, and knot tying. Fun field trips on various boats and Columbia River Maritime Museum (COVID allowing). “
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Feb 26, 2021 | Ship Report Podcasts
Looks like a cool class this spring at Clatsop Community College in Astoria. It’s called “Exploring Maritime Culture.” The class is virtual so you can learn safely at home.
Professor Julie Williams Brown will be your guide. Here’s what she says about the class on her Facebook page:
“I’m teaching an awesome online class this spring: Humanities 103: Exploring Maritime Culture. We study great explorers such as Shackleton, fishing boats such as the Andrea Gail, whaling tragedies such as the Essex, watch classic films (Mutiny on the Bounty, Master and Commander), study history, art, culture, music, tattoos, and knot tying. Fun field trips on various boats and Columbia River Maritime Museum (COVID allowing). “
Check out this link to register:
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Feb 25, 2021
A new type of massive vessel is being built to meet the challenges of installing new, larger than ever wind turbine arrays in U.S. coastal waters. Today we’ll talk about these ships, which can carry giant cargoes of specialized equipment and can transform themselves into a stable platform for installation purposes, by sending huge legs down to the ocean floor.
Photo credit: German special crane ship for the setups of offshore wind farms called Wind Lift I in the harbour of Emden. Ships like this will be built in the US soon to allow installation of new, larger wind turbine assemblies. Wikimedia Commons Images.
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Feb 25, 2021 | Ship Report Podcasts
A new type of massive vessel is being built to meet the challenges of installing new, larger than ever wind turbine arrays in U.S. coastal waters. Today we’ll talk about these ships, which can carry giant cargoes of specialized equipment and can transform themselves into a stable platform for installation purposes, by sending huge legs down to the ocean floor.
Photo credit: German special crane ship for the setups of offshore wind farms called Wind Lift I in the harbour of Emden. Ships like this will be built in the US soon to allow installation of new, larger wind turbine assemblies. Wikimedia Commons Images.
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Feb 24, 2021
Today we take a look at the reopening of Trident Seafoods fish processing plants in Akutan, Alaska. The reopening after a large COVID outbreak at their facilities means fishermen around the region can go back to work after sitting idle at the docks for a month.
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Feb 24, 2021 | Ship Report Podcasts
Today we take a look at the reopening of Trident Seafoods fish processing plants in Akutan, Alaska. The reopening after a large COVID outbreak at their facilities means fishermen around the region can go back to work after sitting idle at the docks for a month.
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Feb 23, 2021
A listener from the Long Beach Peninsula sent me a few listener questions about ships in anchorages on the river, and about what’s up with that big cruise ship at the Port of Astoria.
Answers in today’s podcast.
Also, here are links to Go Fund Me pages for the fishermen who perished in the capsizing of the fishing boat Coastal Reign on Saturday she tried to cross the Tillamook Bay Bar into port.
Families are grieving, and have lost significant financial support. Please help if you can:
Todd Chase: https://gofund.me/cd514ac3
Zach Zippone: https://gofund.me/8a7f03b7
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Feb 23, 2021 | Ship Report Podcasts
A listener from the Long Beach Peninsula sent me a few listener questions about ships in anchorages on the river, and about what’s up with that big cruise ship at the Port of Astoria.
Answers in today’s podcast.
Also, here are links to Go Fund Me pages for the fishermen who perished in the capsizing of the fishing boat Coastal Reign on Saturday she tried to cross the Tillamook Bay Bar into port.
Families are grieving, and have lost significant financial support. Please help if you can:
Todd Chase: https://gofund.me/cd514ac3
Zach Zippone: https://gofund.me/8a7f03b7
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Feb 22, 2021
The Pacific Northwest commercial fishing community mourns after a commercial fishing boat capsizes trying to cross the Tillamook Bay bar from the ocean. Two fisherman died in the four man crew, and the boat, based in Warrenton, was lost. A too sad and too familiar story for fishing families.
Here’s a link to the GoFundMe page for the family of fisherman Todd Chase, 51, of Warrenton:
https://gofund.me/cd514ac3
Photo credit: This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. Photographer was identified on Wikimedia Commons as “Visitor 7.” Many thanks for the use of this photo. It has not been altered.
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Feb 22, 2021 | Ship Report Podcasts
The Pacific Northwest commercial fishing community mourns after a commercial fishing boat capsizes trying to cross the Tillamook Bay bar from the ocean. Two fisherman died in the four man crew, and the boat, based in Warrenton, was lost. A too sad and too familiar story for fishing families.
Here’s a link to the GoFundMe page for the family of fisherman Todd Chase, 51, of Warrenton:
https://gofund.me/cd514ac3
Photo credit: This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. Photographer was identified on Wikimedia Commons as “Visitor 7.” Many thanks for the use of this photo. It has not been altered.
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