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Dungeness crab season opens on time for the first time in years
Nov 23, 2021Thanks to robust crab meat in sampled crabs, the 2021-2022 Dungeness crab season will start on time this year on Dec. 1, something that hasn’t happened in about six years.
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A sweet story for hard times: the story of how sailors saved Beluga whales
Nov 22, 2021We’ve all had just about enough bad news for a lifetime since the pandemic started. So here’s a story to warm your soul: the true story about how some sailors in the Artic saved the lives of beluga whales trapped in the ice. Slight spoiler: it involves music and lots of icebreaking.
Photo credit: Creative Commons, photograher Patrick Kelley.
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Containers get a makeover that could help unsnarl cargo issues
Nov 19, 2021The humble shipping container has remained relatively unchanged in basic design since it was first invented in the 1950s. Now a relatively new take on containers could become more popular. The collapsible container – a more flexible version of the original could take up less space on board and help unsnarl the world’s cargo issues in the pandemic.
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Wind power equipment a big economic driver for Port of Vancouver, USA
Nov 18, 2021The Port of Vancouver, Wash., has been doing steady business during the pandemic, even though it’s not a container port. Part of the reason is the importing of wind energy equipment for wind farms inland. The port is uniquely equipped to import the huge components, and that’s made it a prime destination for such equipment on the West Coast.
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BC endures catastrophic flooding as big storm just misses OR and WA
Nov 17, 2021Locals here in Northwest Oregon and Southwest Washington held their collective breath as a huge atmospheric river weather event slid by our area and barreled into British Columbia to the north. Even we got lots of rain here. But the storm left B.C. communities swamped and residents stranded.
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A personal look at the Edmund Fitzgerald tragegy
Nov 16, 2021Even though it happened more than 40 years ago, the tragedy of the Edmund Fitzgeral ore carrier still hits home, especially people who were living in the area and working in the maritime industry at the time the wreck happened in 1975.
Reid Johnson was in the USCG stationed on a cutter in Lake Huron when the Mighty Fitz sank. He still remembers how the wreck haunted all of them on board, because the ship was so familiar to everyone in the region.
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USCG to the rescue in Tillamook
Nov 15, 2021We usually think of our beloved Coasties rescuing people on the water, but sometimes they also help people on land. Sometimes, as in this case of some folks in an RV park stranded by rising flood waters, water is also involved.
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Operation Deep Freeze
Nov 12, 2021This weekend, a USCG icebreaker departs from Seattle on a three-month mission: to clear a channel through thick ice in Antarctica to McMurdo station, opeing a path for supply vessels to reach a research facility at the bottom of the world.
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The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Nov 10, 2021Each year, I commemorate the loss of this beloved ship on Lake Superior on November 10, 1975. She was beloved to people around the region, who called her “The Mighty Fitz.” She and her crew hauled iron ore between Canada and the US for 17 years. Then one night, in a terrible storm, she was lost with all hands, in one of the worst maritime tragedies in U.S. History. This is my annual tribute to the sailors and families of the Mighty Fitz.
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US cargo ports in line to get federal help with slowdowns
A look at a statement yesterday from the Biden administration on ways to speed up deliveries of bogged down cargo containers, as the president speaks with big box executives about solutions.
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