Sep 21, 2021
Today, a listener question about lightning and ships. What happens when a ship is struck by lightning? As it turns out, cargo ships are often good conductors because they are made of metal that is mostly wet. But that doesn’t mean ships are never damaged by a direct hit.
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Sep 21, 2021 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
Today, a listener question about lightning and ships. What happens when a ship is struck by lightning? As it turns out, cargo ships are often good conductors because they are made of metal that is mostly wet. But that doesn’t mean ships are never damaged by a direct hit.
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Sep 19, 2021
Today, we commemorate the wreck of the sailing cargo ship Oriole, which sank 168 years ago Saturday on the the Columbia River Bar. She was carrying the materials to build the Cape Disappointment lighthouse.
We’ll hear an account from Long Beach Peninsula historian Frank Lehn about what happened to that ill-fated ship (her crew and captain were saved by the quick thinking of her bar pilot, the famous Captain George Flavel).
And we’ll talk about how the region has changed since sailing cargo ships plied its waters, and how it still remains one of the most dangerous river entrances in the world.
[Note: image courtesy of the Columbia River Bar Pilots. The buoy is about 16 feet high, so those waves are mighty big!]
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Sep 19, 2021 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
Today, we commemorate the wreck of the sailing cargo ship Oriole, which sank 168 years ago Saturday on the the Columbia River Bar. She was carrying the materials to build the Cape Disappointment lighthouse.
We’ll hear an account from Long Beach Peninsula historian Frank Lehn about what happened to that ill-fated ship (her crew and captain were saved by the quick thinking of her bar pilot, the famous Captain George Flavel).
And we’ll talk about how the region has changed since sailing cargo ships plied its waters, and how it still remains one of the most dangerous river entrances in the world.
[Note: image courtesy of the Columbia River Bar Pilots. The buoy is about 16 feet high, so those waves are mighty big!]
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Sep 13, 2021
In the midst of all the sad and horrific remembrances of the 9/11 terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, a some events stand out as triumphs of the human spirit in a time of tragedy. One of those in the maritime realm was Boatlift – a spontaneous and heartfelt response to a call from the US Coast Guard for “all available boats” in New York Harbor, to come to the southern tip of Manhattan Island to help in a rescue effort. More than 600 sailors on 150 different vessels heard the call and immediately converged on the scene. Together they evacuated more than half a million people from the wreckage of lower Manhattan. Today we remember Operation Boatlift.
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Here’s a link to the film “Boatlift”: https://youtu.be/MDOrzF7B2Kg
[Note: Image Courtesy Wikimedia Commons]
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Sep 13, 2021 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
In the midst of all the sad and horrific remembrances of the 9/11 terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, a some events stand out as triumphs of the human spirit in a time of tragedy. One of those in the maritime realm was Boatlift – a spontaneous and heartfelt response to a call from the US Coast Guard for “all available boats” in New York Harbor, to come to the southern tip of Manhattan Island to help in a rescue effort. More than 600 sailors on 150 different vessels heard the call and immediately converged on the scene. Together they evacuated more than half a million people from the wreckage of lower Manhattan. Today we remember Operation Boatlift.
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Here’s a link to the film “Boatlift”: https://youtu.be/MDOrzF7B2Kg
[Note: Image Courtesy Wikimedia Commons]
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Aug 17, 2021
The Delta variant seems to be a new ballgame in the pandemic in terms of worldwide shipping, hammering markets that previously seemed to be rebounding. Today we’ll talk about this dangerous variant’s destabilizing effects on the global shipping market, which could affect our 90 percent of everything as the Christmas season approaches.
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Aug 17, 2021 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
The Delta variant seems to be a new ballgame in the pandemic in terms of worldwide shipping, hammering markets that previously seemed to be rebounding. Today we’ll talk about this dangerous variant’s destabilizing effects on the global shipping market, which could affect our 90 percent of everything as the Christmas season approaches.
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Aug 16, 2021
The new Delta variant of COVID is popping up on cruises now that they’ve started carrying passengers again. With its more contagious profile and ability to spread via vaccinated people too, it’s turning out to be a game changer.
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Aug 16, 2021 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
The new Delta variant of COVID is popping up on cruises now that they’ve started carrying passengers again. With its more contagious profile and ability to spread via vaccinated people too, it’s turning out to be a game changer.
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Aug 13, 2021
Today is the final installment in our five-part series on cargo hold inspections, featuring Dan Sealy, a cargo hold inspector who works on ships in the Astoria Anchorage.
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Aug 13, 2021 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
Today is the final installment in our five-part series on cargo hold inspections, featuring Dan Sealy, a cargo hold inspector who works on ships in the Astoria Anchorage.
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