EDITORIAL: More on life and rescue boat safety
Regular readers will recall my February editorial in which I endorsed the comments of the British maritime union Nautilus on the need for “radical thinking”...
Regular readers will recall my February editorial in which I endorsed the comments of the British maritime union Nautilus on the need for “radical thinking”...
It is a very old joke that the shipping industry’s long-term personnel policy is finding a second engineer with a tanker endorsement and experience...
[caption id="attachment_61215" align="alignnone" width=""]Costa Concordia[/caption]They are an emergency service upon which the shipping industry depends....
[caption id="attachment_61190" align="alignnone" width=""]Seabed Constructor under charter to Ocean Infinity[/caption]Readers will undoubtedly be aware...
Following the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, various types of lifeboat and various ratios of them to the numbers of people on board have been mandated...
Crystal ball might be a bit strong, perhaps “what I reckon stands a good chance of happening” is a more accurate title. That being said, I’ve decided...
With the notable exception of the offshore service vessel sector, 2017 turned out to be an exciting year of great progress, both technically and operationally,...
Many years ago there was a story doing the rounds about a clever device that would enable the master of a ship to steer his vessel, using a small box...
[caption id="attachment_60139" align="alignnone" width=""]The record breaking X-51A Waverider hypersonic missile[/caption]Readers are surely aware of...
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