Sep 14, 2020
We’re over our heads in wildfire smoke locally and that’s making for some foggy/smoky days on the river. Ships are noisier than usual, to keep themselves and their fellow travelers in other vessels safe from collisions. Let’s look at common ship horn signals you’re likely to hear on the river – a lot – this week.
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Sep 14, 2020 | Ship Report Podcasts
We’re over our heads in wildfire smoke locally and that’s making for some foggy/smoky days on the river. Ships are noisier than usual, to keep themselves and their fellow travelers in other vessels safe from collisions. Let’s look at common ship horn signals you’re likely to hear on the river – a lot – this week.
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Sep 08, 2020
All ships have a life span and need to retire eventually. The reason can be metal fatigue, when structural steel reaches the end of its flexibility and safety, often in the ship’s hull.
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Sep 8, 2020 | Ship Report Podcasts
All ships have a life span and need to retire eventually. The reason can be metal fatigue, when structural steel reaches the end of its flexibility and safety, often in the ship’s hull.
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Sep 01, 2020
Part 2 of a sea story: the tale of the sinking of the commercial crab boat, the Meteor, on the Columbia River Bar, as ony crewman and story teller extraordinaire Michael McCusker can tell it.
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Sep 1, 2020 | Ship Report Podcasts
Part 2 of a sea story: the tale of the sinking of the commercial crab boat, the Meteor, on the Columbia River Bar, as ony crewman and story teller extraordinaire Michael McCusker can tell it.
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Aug 31, 2020
This is the first of a two part archive interview from the early 2000’s, with former commercial fisherman and KMUN radio personality Michael McCusker. Michael was aboard the ill-fated crabber the Meteor, when she suddenly sank on the Columbia River Bar. It’s a great sea story, especially as only Michael can tell it.
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Aug 31, 2020 | Ship Report Podcasts
This is the first of a two part archive interview from the early 2000’s, with former commercial fisherman and KMUN radio personality Michael McCusker. Michael was aboard the ill-fated crabber the Meteor, when she suddenly sank on the Columbia River Bar. It’s a great sea story, especially as only Michael can tell it.
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Aug 25, 2020
What ultimately turned out to be a false positive result on a COVID-19 test ended a cruise prematurely for a Seattle based cruise line.
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Aug 25, 2020 | Ship Report Podcasts
What ultimately turned out to be a false positive result on a COVID-19 test ended a cruise prematurely for a Seattle based cruise line.
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Aug 18, 2020
It’s Buoy 10 fishing season on the lower Columbia, a time that inspires trepidation in the hearts of ship pilots and helmsmen… all those little boats in the channel! We’ll talk about what to remember if you are in one of those small boats and a ship comes by.
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Aug 18, 2020 | Ship Report Podcasts
It’s Buoy 10 fishing season on the lower Columbia, a time that inspires trepidation in the hearts of ship pilots and helmsmen… all those little boats in the channel! We’ll talk about what to remember if you are in one of those small boats and a ship comes by.
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