Jan 29, 2020
Each winter around this time, a hardy Coast Guard icebreaker makes a pilgrimage south of the Equator, where summer is underway and huge ice floes are more accessible than in winter. The Polar Star makes her way to McMurdo Station, a U.S. outpost in Antarctica. She smashes a channel in the ice so supply ships can get in to bring provisions to the people living there and conducting research. She’s an older ship, but among the most hardy in the world. Today we celebrate the Polar Star, her crew, and their unusual mission.
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Jan 29, 2020 | Ship Report Podcasts
Each winter around this time, a hardy Coast Guard icebreaker makes a pilgrimage south of the Equator, where summer is underway and huge ice floes are more accessible than in winter. The Polar Star makes her way to McMurdo Station, a U.S. outpost in Antarctica. She smashes a channel in the ice so supply ships can get in to bring provisions to the people living there and conducting research. She’s an older ship, but among the most hardy in the world. Today we celebrate the Polar Star, her crew, and their unusual mission.
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Jan 28, 2020
This week marks the anniversary of a long unknown Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake that hit this region in 1700. The resulting tsunami hit the West Coast hard locally, and was immortalized in Native folklore. But documented evidence of this giant temblor was found far away in Japan, a highly earthquake prone region where they kept careful records. When the earthquake hit here, hours later a damaging tsunami hit Japan. But there was no earthquake there. As a result, the Japanese dubbed it, “The Orphan Tsunami.” It was the late 20th century before scientists discovered that there had once been a huge earthquake in the PNW. They’ve been studying it since, and their research informs our emergency preparedness now.
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Jan 28, 2020 | Ship Report Podcasts
This week marks the anniversary of a long unknown Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake that hit this region in 1700. The resulting tsunami hit the West Coast hard locally, and was immortalized in Native folklore. But documented evidence of this giant temblor was found far away in Japan, a highly earthquake prone region where they kept careful records. When the earthquake hit here, hours later a damaging tsunami hit Japan. But there was no earthquake there. As a result, the Japanese dubbed it, “The Orphan Tsunami.” It was the late 20th century before scientists discovered that there had once been a huge earthquake in the PNW. They’ve been studying it since, and their research informs our emergency preparedness now.
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Jan 27, 2020
Millennium Bulk Terminals is the company that wants to put a coal export terminal on the Columbia River at Longview, Wash. The state of Washington has so far blocked the project for environmental reasons. Now the states of Wyoming and Montana are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear their challenge to Washington’s denial, saying that state is blocking their right to interstate commerce.
This lovely photo was taken by Astoria photographer Scott Saulsbury. You’ll find his photos on Facebook and also in his book, Light, Water, and Steel: https://www.blurb.com/b/5184191-light-water-and-steel
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Jan 27, 2020 | Ship Report Podcasts
Millennium Bulk Terminals is the company that wants to put a coal export terminal on the Columbia River at Longview, Wash. The state of Washington has so far blocked the project for environmental reasons. Now the states of Wyoming and Montana are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear their challenge to Washington’s denial, saying that state is blocking their right to interstate commerce.
This lovely photo was taken by Astoria photographer Scott Saulsbury. You’ll find his photos on Facebook and also in his book, Light, Water, and Steel: https://www.blurb.com/b/5184191-light-water-and-steel
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Jan 26, 2020
Today a familiar research vessel comes to the Port of Astoria: the Marcus G. Langseth. She’s owned by Columbia University’s Lamont Dougherty Earth Observatory. She’s spent time in Astoria over the years as she’s pursued different research projects. She is the national seismic research facility for the United States academic research community.
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Jan 26, 2020 | Ship Report Podcasts
Today a familiar research vessel comes to the Port of Astoria: the Marcus G. Langseth. She’s owned by Columbia University’s Lamont Dougherty Earth Observatory. She’s spent time in Astoria over the years as she’s pursued different research projects. She is the national seismic research facility for the United States academic research community.
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Jan 24, 2020
Today I’ll share the second installment of the voyages of the good ship Jane Franklin: a 53 foot sailing yacht, a ketch, owned by Capt. Russ Roberts, a lifelong sailor, and retired airline pilot, whose exploits include sailing through the Northwest Passage.
Capt. Roberts has an extensive sea voyage planned and has kindly agreed to allow The Ship Report to chronicle his journey, with a changing crew of adventurers who want to sail with him on the high seas. Last week we heard about their tumultuous trip from Miami to the Atlantic entrance to the Panama Canal. This week we’ll hear what it’s like to transit the Panama Canal in a small boat, nestled amongst other much larger vessels like giant ships and tugs.
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Jan 24, 2020 | Ship Report Podcasts
Today I’ll share the second installment of the voyages of the good ship Jane Franklin: a 53 foot sailing yacht, a ketch, owned by Capt. Russ Roberts, a lifelong sailor, and retired airline pilot, whose exploits include sailing through the Northwest Passage.
Capt. Roberts has an extensive sea voyage planned and has kindly agreed to allow The Ship Report to chronicle his journey, with a changing crew of adventurers who want to sail with him on the high seas. Last week we heard about their tumultuous trip from Miami to the Atlantic entrance to the Panama Canal. This week we’ll hear what it’s like to transit the Panama Canal in a small boat, nestled amongst other much larger vessels like giant ships and tugs.
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Jan 23, 2020
When the weather’s bad on shore, we can be pretty sure it’s worse out in the ocean, at least here in the Pacific Northwest. Today we talk about the offshore weather forecast and what working vessels are enduring out there: fishing boats, cargo ships, tugs.
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Jan 23, 2020 | Ship Report Podcasts
When the weather’s bad on shore, we can be pretty sure it’s worse out in the ocean, at least here in the Pacific Northwest. Today we talk about the offshore weather forecast and what working vessels are enduring out there: fishing boats, cargo ships, tugs.
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