The Most Recent Ship Report Podcast:

Norwegian Jade in town, and a look at tides and ships

A few things today: a closer look at our cruise ship du jour in Astoria, a look at ships coming and going, and a reminder of how ships at anchor let us know what the tide is doing.

Archive Podcasts:

Atlantic rescue shows amazing luck, and the need for preparedness and redundancy

Dec 14, 2022

Two people and a dog on board a small sailboat missing since Sunday were rescued 200 miles off the coast of Delaware by a cargo ship. The boat had lost power and run out of fuel, and the vessel was the subject of a huge coast guard search. The search was somewhat urgent, because the boat’s path took it past  infamous Cape Hatteras, the Graveyard of the Atlantic. All on board were rescued, but, per the US Coast Guard, they could have saved themselves a lot of grief with a little more knowledge and planning.

Image credit: Captain-tucker, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Rogue wave causes cruise ship death

Dec 05, 2022

A rogue wave hits a cruise ship, killing one passenger. We’ll talk about how this could happen and what it says about changes in the cruise ship industry – ships are going in places where they have not gone in the past, places where sea conditions can be more unpredictable than in calmer waters of the world.

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