Civilian mariners with the Military Sealift Command release anchor chain pins on the submarine tender USS Frank Cable while on deployment in the Arabian Sea. Seafarer unions hope to collect penalty pay for MSC mariners who…
Carnival Corp. reported in early August that it had repatriated all but 1,600 of the 80,000 crewmembers who were aboard its ships at the start of the pandemic. The $100 million initiative required 49 of the…
For Maine Maritime Academy engineering senior Edward Dennis, a pandemic-necessitated “sail” while docked wound up being more worthwhile than normal at-sea training. “There are fewer of us on board, so we’re getting a lot of one-on-one time,” said Dennis, who trained dockside for a month over the summer aboard the academy’s State of Maine. “We’re really getting more hands-on training this way.”
The tugboat Jimmy L. assists the articulated tug-barge unit Integrity as it discharges ballast water upon arrival in Sturgeon Bay, Wis. A Canadian proposal would require U.S.-flagged “lakers” that take on ballast water in Canada to…
A U.S.-flagged bulk carrier is being built in the Great Lakes region…
Invasive aquatic species…
The winter of 2018 saw…
The lead vessel in the YT 808 class of Navy tugboats awaits the last phase of construction in May at Dakota Creek Industries in Anacortes, Wash. The new series will replace tugs built from the mid-1960s…
A workboat that capsized and sank during a boom deployment exercise on the Lower Mississippi River, killing both people on board, turned broadside to the current moments before it rolled over. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigators could not explain…
The Coast Guard estimates that Capt. Timothy Murray fell 20 to 30 feet while boarding Eagle Turin, shown below, earlier this year in the Houston Ship Channel. Murray landed on the pilot boat America and was…
USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) sustained extensive damage from…
U.S. Coast Guard personnel board a recreational vessel during a crackdown on illegal charters in Ponce Inlet, Fla., in 2018. The CGIS Tips app aims to make it easier for whistleblowers to report marine infractions confidentially.
The captain on Edna T. Gattle backed down when he had to wait for the Union Pacific Railway Bridge to open near Krotz Springs, La. His second approach was closer to the right bank and at…
Drones are everywhere these days,…
Stone scows don’t draw much attention, and the principal activity of the New York State (NYS) Marine Highway Transportation Co. is moving stone. The operator’s tugboats travel up and down the Hudson River with regularity, pushing one or more stone…
During the summer between our sophomore and junior years at the California Maritime Academy, we were required to do an internship at a maritime company or organization to get a glimpse of how things worked shoreside. Being from Washington state,…
