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Study: USS Arizona is Still Slowly Releasing Fuel Oil

Published Oct 5, 2025 11:50 PM by The Maritime Executive

  The wreck of the U.S battleship USS Arizona could see its status elevated from a solemn memorial to a ‘living laboratory’ after it emerged that oil continues to leak from the ship more than 80 years after its sinking at Pearl Harbor. Analyzing oil samples collected from multiple points on the World War II warship, results show that oil is still seeping from the wreck. The researchers led by the University of Houston and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) used advanced molecular...

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Expedition Mounted to Follow New Lead on Amelia Earhart's Crash Site

Published Oct 5, 2025 11:28 PM by The Maritime Executive

  Researchers at Purdue University and the Archaeological Legacy Institute (ALI) are set to head out to a remote island in the South Pacific for a new search for the wreckage of Amelia Earhart's lost airplane, which disappeared in 1938 during a circumnavigation attempt. Nine decades later, the plane and her remains are still missing, despite countless expeditions.  The Purdue expedition will examine an "anomaly" in the lagoon at Nikumaroro (Gardner Island), the locus of many theories about her final...

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Op-Ed: US Navy's Networks Aren't Ready for a Contested Comms Environment

Published Oct 5, 2025 10:39 PM by CIMSEC

  [By Nicholas A. Kristof] In his remarks at his assumption of office ceremony, Admiral Caudle stated that, “Great power competition is sharpening, threats and capabilities are proliferating, technological disruption is accelerating, the maritime domain is increasingly contested and the margin for error is shrinking. To prevail in this environment, we must build and sustain a Navy that is resilient, agile, globally present, and credible in combat.” To accomplish this, the Navy must ruthlessly pursue two seemingly disparate capabilities – technical interoperability and the capability...

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Tall Ship Cuauhtemoc Departs New York After Collision Damage Repairs

Published Oct 5, 2025 10:22 PM by The Maritime Executive

  The damaged sail training ship Cuauhtémoc has been repaired at a shipyard in Staten Island, and on Saturday it departed Manhattan en route for its home port of Cozumel, Mexico. The departure ends the ship's long six-month sojourn in New York City and brings the saga of the vessel's accident to a close.  On the evening of May 17, Cuauhtémoc left Manhattan's Pier 17 with dozens of cadets aloft in the rigging for a ceremonial departure. Under the guidance of...

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The site for Arctic LNG 2 in the Gulf of Ob, early in construction (Novatek)

Despite Sanctions, Russia's Arctic LNG 2 Plant is Up and Running

  With extensive help from Chinese interests, Russian gas producer Novatek is making headway in its efforts to circumvent Western sanctions on its Arctic LNG 2 plant in the Siberian Arctic.  The remote Arctic LNG 2 facility was designed to be assembled at a large shipyard in three sections, each built on floating concrete pontoons. One by one, the pontoons would be towed into place at a terminal on the Gulf of Ob, then permanently sunk to rest on the...

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U.S. Navy Scales Up Additive Manufacturing for Critical Sub Parts

  Welding equipment manufacturer Lincoln Electric has been a big player in U.S. Navy shipbuilding since at least the Second World War, when a massive construction effort drove demand for its arc welding technology. Today, it has also become a leading player in 3D metal printing, not by selling equipment, but by manufacturing printed parts from start to finish - and once again the Navy is tapping Lincoln's technology to accelerate shipbuilding needs. Additive manufacturing (3D printing) is usually picked...

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Environment

WISTA International President Elpi Petraki

Op-Ed: A Shared Obligation to Protect Our Oceans

  This year’s World Maritime Day theme – Our Ocean, Our Obligation, Our Opportunity – reminds us of our responsibility to safeguard the ocean and highlights the importance of inclusion in supporting a sustainable maritime future, says WISTA International. Our Oceans Generating half of the planet’s oxygen, absorbing around 30% of carbon dioxide emissions, holding nearly 97% of Earth’s water and home to some of the most diverse ecosystems on the planet, the oceans are critical to our survival. Some...

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Historic UK Red Funnel Ferries Sold to Private Equity Firm

  One of the most historic names in ferry operations, the UK’s Red Funnel, which traces its origins to 1820, reported that as of the end of September, the firm was sold to the UK-based investment firm Njord Partners. While the firm has been owned by a consortium of British and Canadian pension funds since the early 1990s, there are still concerns over maintaining the service, which is called a “lifeline” for the Isle of Wight. In announcing the acquisition,...

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