The Titanic and Evacuation, Survival and Rescue
The TITANIC, as fitted out, proved deficient in at least one important item: lifeboats. Continue reading
The design lessons learned from the Titanic
A great deal has been learned about the fate of the TITANIC since the location of its wreck by an expedition led by Dr. Robert D. Ballard, then of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and Jean-Louis Michel of IFREMER in early September, 1985. Continue reading
Titanic: 100 years of lessons learned
I had the pleasure this week of addressing the audience at the World Maritime Day Observance event in Banff, Alberta on the subject of the Titanic and the Artic and in particular the lessons learnt from the disaster and would like to share my thoughts in a series of related blog posts. Continue reading
SUNY Maritime College vacation programme floats many boats!
When 20 high school students from the New York City and Baltimore City public high schools get back to school for the fall semester, they’ll have plenty to talk about when their friends ask them “What did you do on your summer vacation?” Continue reading
SHIPPING FACES SOME GRIM REALITIES
Attend any given conference on shipping, particularly maritime finance, and you will hear, and see, many presentations, accompanied by PowerPoint, predicting a recovery some time in 2013. Read some articles in the trade press, and you will learn that “cash-rich Greek shipowners” are heavily invested in second-hand and newbuilding-resale purchases, notwithstanding ominous economic and market signs. Continue reading
Join me in the fight to save the Glacier
I was delighted to be named to the board of The Glacier Society this week, the non-profit foundation fighting to save the historic icebreaker U.S.S./USCGC Glacier from demolition.
I have joined the fight to preserve this important piece of American maritime history and relocate her to Miami’s downtown “Notch”, where plans are to transform her into the world’s most comprehensive, interactive environmental museum.
The Glacier, as an historic ship, is an emblem of our commitment as an Arctic nation and represents a past era of polar exploration and is an ideal platform as a valuable educational facility for future generations.”
“The Mighty G” or “the Big Red One” (nicknames give to Glacier by the Navy and Coast Guard, respectively) is currently in Brownsville, TX awaiting destruction… Continue reading
Prosperity is not around the corner.
My eye was caught by a recent article: “Tanker Sector May Be Over the Worst”, quoting a Norwegian bank’s analysis that the tanker market, including VLCCs, suezmaxes, aframaxes, panamaxes and medium range clean product tankers, has bottomed out. Continue reading
Movement on the ground, at last?
Like that wonderful nonsense song, “Yes, We Have No Bananas”, international anti-piracy policy has had its internal contradictions. It has often been recognized that piracy off Somalia could not be defeated without an improvement in national security in the Horn of Africa’s most chaotic nation. Continue reading
Goodbye to all that
The shipping industry has been dependent on borrowed money for as long as anyone can remember. It’s the way things have worked since the start of the post-World War II boom. The growing prospect of a global “credit famine”, however, may change all that. Continue reading
Great time at ABS Gala dinner
I recently attended the American Bureau of Shipping’s 150th Gala dinner celebration in New York and had a wonderful time – congratulations ABS for reaching such an important milestone. Continue reading
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