COLUMN | The wind and the walruses [Tug Times]
Where I live, ‘tis the season for tug people to be jolly. The northeast monsoon is firmly established and ships are once again coming to grief and asking...
Where I live, ‘tis the season for tug people to be jolly. The northeast monsoon is firmly established and ships are once again coming to grief and asking...
“I am not orange, I am not green, I am a half-ripe fruit, needing both colors to grow into ripeness.” There are too many saviours on my...
Most of us are so jaded by now that we treat many of the things we read in the news with a large measure of suspicion. I was therefore delighted when...
“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result”. Often attributed to Albert Einstein, but...
As I write this, the world’s attention is turning towards the upcoming climate conference in Glasgow, which will probably have a lot to say about shipping....
Forgive the dramatic heading, gentle reader, but it is a quote from an American lady who positively shrieks it at the assembled company in an Australian...
In America, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) recently published their Safer Seas Digest 2020, a record of the 42 major incidents they...
With apologies to Philip K. Dick, whose dystopian novel spawned the excellent film Blade Runner, I suppose there must be an android somewhere that thinks...
Some time ago, members of the Nautical Institute in Hong Kong were treated to an excellent talk by Paul Walton on the topic of damage to wire ropes....
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