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The macabre and queasy maritime story of artificial vanilla extract
Dec 21, 2021It’s a hard to believe scenario with multiple layers: yes, vanilla extract is found in our waterways around the holidays in embarrassing quantities, courtesy of our sewer systems.
Worse, it’s mostly artificial vanilla extract – not even the real thing. But that’s not all.
Today we took a look at the oddly spicey pollutants in our waters at this time of year, and where artificial vanilla flavor really comes from.
Spoiler: it’s probably best that you not be eating when you listen to this one, and our story has to do with a furry, water-loving animal called a beaver.
Image: Engraving of a Beaver. Thomas Pennant, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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A closer look at ships on the river
Dec 20, 2021Today we take a close look at the ships on the Columbia River, where they’re from, where they’re going, and what’s on board.
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Working at sea: risky business
Dec 17, 2021More about the risks mariners face when they work on vessels at sea.
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Winter weather safety at sea
Dec 16, 2021In addition to the usual and considerable hazards of being a mariner, winter adds another dimension of risk, with difficult weather bringing its own hazards and challenges to the mix.
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Winter weather is happening out there, whether we on land know it or not
Dec 15, 2021A look at difficult winter weather in the ocean offshore, a place where most land dwellers will never go.
Photo: Big waves on the Columbia River Bar. Image courtesy Columbia River Bar Pilots.
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The container cargo debacle is still a mess, with no real end in sight
Dec 14, 2021An update on the tangled web that is international container shipping in the pandemic.
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Crab season opening spurs spate of rescues off Oregon coast
Dec 13, 2021The U.S. Coast Guard was busy the past few days, rescuing crabbers in trouble off the Oregon coast, as the Dungeness crab season gets off to a start.
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Behold the latest in cargo shipping convenience: the Supersack
Dec 10, 2021As container shipping continues to be snarled in ports worldwide, customers are switching gears and moving cargo the old-fashioned way: on general cargo ships in huge bags called “supersacks.”
Photo: Supersacks on the ground awaiting transport. Credit: U.S. Department of Energy from United States, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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What’s happening with the global cargo crunch?
Dec 09, 2021A look at the current state of the seemingly endless global cargo debacle, that has left containerships idling in ports worldwide.
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Flags of convenience, the reason why so many ships seem to be from Panama
Dec 08, 2021Most merchant ships are registered under what are called ‘flags of convenience,” countries of registry that exist almost solely to provide ships with a cheap way to operate with minimal regulations. There are a few very popular flags of convenience. One of them is Panama.
Photo: Pete unseth, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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