May 15, 2024
We do a lot to warn people about water safety, but perhaps not enough to change their minds about how they see it, as a concept in their lives.
For everyone’s benefit: victims, emergency first responders and Good Samaritans, it’s time to make water safety “cool.”
Show transcript here: http://shipreport.nfshost.com/audio/SRTranscript051524.pdf
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May 15, 2024 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
We do a lot to warn people about water safety, but perhaps not enough to change their minds about how they see it, as a concept in their lives.
For everyone’s benefit: victims, emergency first responders and Good Samaritans, it’s time to make water safety “cool.”
Show transcript here: http://shipreport.nfshost.com/audio/SRTranscript051524.pdf
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May 14, 2024
Today we’ll take another look at a specialized maritime term, one that may seem odd to folks not involved in the maritime industry. This word, llightering, has to do with the process of moving cargo, and sometimes fuel, usually from a larger vessel to a smaller one, for the purposes of making the other vessel lighter, and more able to maneuver, especially when it comes to water depth at the dock.
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May 14, 2024 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
Today we’ll take another look at a specialized maritime term, one that may seem odd to folks not involved in the maritime industry. This word, llightering, has to do with the process of moving cargo, and sometimes fuel, usually from a larger vessel to a smaller one, for the purposes of making the other vessel lighter, and more able to maneuver, especially when it comes to water depth at the dock.
Show transcript here; http://shipreport.nfshost.com/audio/SRTranscript051424.pdf
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May 13, 2024
Folks familiar with the maritime industry use this word a lot: “bunker” or “bunkering” or even “bunkers.”
It’s not a word whose meaning you can easily figure out just by hearing it, but it refers to the fuel ships use and the process of filling up a ship’s tanks so she has fuel to travel at sea.
Today we’ll talk about bunker and bunkering, and exactly what those terms mean. And how this important maritime function came to be named in such an apparently nonintuitive way.
Show transcript available here: http://shipreport.nfshost.com/audio/SRTranscript051324.pdf
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May 13, 2024 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
Folks familiar with the maritime industry use this word a lot: “bunker” or “bunkering” or even “bunkers.”
It’s not a word whose meaning you can easily figure out just by hearing it, but it refers to the fuel ships use and the process of filling up a ship’s tanks so she has fuel to travel at sea.
Today we’ll talk about bunker and bunkering, and exactly what those terms mean. And how this important maritime function came to be named in such an apparently nonintuitive way.
Show transcript available here: http://shipreport.nfshost.com/audio/SRTranscript051324.pdf
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May 10, 2024
A look at today’s ship schedule, and a look at why our cruise ship complement for the season, and why we don’t see blue water cruise ships here all summer long.
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May 10, 2024 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
A look at today’s ship schedule, and a look at why our cruise ship complement for the season, and why we don’t see blue water cruise ships here all summer long.
Show Transcript here: http://shipreport.nfshost.com/audio/SRTranscript051024.pdf
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May 09, 2024
Every spring, we have these wonderful days (like today into the weekend) where the weather just blossoms into full summer mode – and we are understandably giddy with joy.
However, while you’re out there enjoying the beach and the riverside (as well you should!), keep in mind that winter conditions still exist when it comes to water and water dangers – it’s still dangerously cold in both our rivers and the ocean.
So even though the air is intoxicatingly warm, we’re still in the Pacfic Northwest. And that means cold water, strong tidal currents, and rip currents in the ocean, year round.
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May 9, 2024 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
Every spring, we have these wonderful days (like today into the weekend) where the weather just blossoms into full summer mode – and we are understandably giddy with joy.
However, while you’re out there enjoying the beach and the riverside (as well you should!), keep in mind that winter conditions still exist when it comes to water and water dangers – it’s still dangerously cold in both our rivers and the ocean.
So even though the air is intoxicatingly warm, we’re still in the Pacfic Northwest. And that means cold water, strong tidal currents, and rip currents in the ocean, year round.
Show transcript avaialble here: http://shipreport.nfshost.com/audio/SRTranscript050924.pdf
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May 08, 2024
Today, a look back in the Ship Report archives at an interview I did in the early 2000s, with a local maritime professional: Captain Robert Johnson, a now retired Columbia River Bar Pilot who was at the time working in the field in the waters off Astoria, Warrenton and Hammond. In this insider’s look at ship running lights, he’ll tell us what we are likely to see in a ship passing by at night.
Lights on ships are designed with great purpose: they are meant to allow other vessels to see a ship at night and determine how it is traveling, to avoid collision. Lights also illuminate working areas of the ship were crew and pilots need to be.
Show transcript here: http://shipreport.nfshost.com/audio/SRTranscript050824.pdf
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May 8, 2024 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
Today, a look back in the Ship Report archives at an interview I did in the early 2000s, with a local maritime professional: Captain Robert Johnson, a now retired Columbia River Bar Pilot who was at the time working in the field in the waters off Astoria, Warrenton and Hammond. In this insider’s look at ship running lights, he’ll tell us what we are likely to see in a ship passing by at night.
Lights on ships are designed with great purpose: they are meant to allow other vessels to see a ship at night and determine how it is traveling, to avoid collision. Lights also illuminate working areas of the ship were crew and pilots need to be.
Show transcript here: http://shipreport.nfshost.com/audio/SRTranscript050824.pdf
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