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DNA Analysis Identifies Sailor From the Doomed Franklin Expedition

By The Conversation

June 6, 2021

[By Douglas Stenton, Anne Keenleyside, Robert W. Park and Stephen Fratpietro] It has been 176 years since the 1845 Franklin Northwest Passage expedition, and its catastrophic outcome — the loss of...

125 Rescued From Grounded Ferry in New York's East River

By The Maritime Executive

June 6, 2021

On Saturday evening, the U.S. Coast Guard, New York City Fire Department and New York City Police Department helped rescue the passengers of a fast ferry that had gone aground just off Brooklyn. At...

Algoma’s Capt. Henry Jackman Delivers Further References for Thordon

By The Maritime Executive

June 2, 2021

Captain Henry Jackman, the 34,864dwt dry bulk cargo carrier China’s Jiangsu Yangzi-Mitsui shipyard delivered to Algoma Central Corporation in April, will begin trading on the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence...

What Seabird Populations Tell Us About the Health of the Ocean

By The Conversation

May 31, 2021

[By David Schoeman, Brian Allan Hoover and William Sydeman] Just as caged canaries once warned coal miners of the risk of carbon monoxide poisoning, free-flying seabirds are now warning humanity ab...

Using Container Spills to Understand Ocean Currents

By The Conversation

May 16, 2021

[By Andrew Turner] The blocking of the Suez Canal in March by the megaship Ever Given delayed over 200 vessels laden with thousands of containers, serving as a reminder of the scale of the shipping...

U.S. Moves to Seize Tanker Used in Illicit North Korean Trade

By The Maritime Executive

April 23, 2021

The U.S. Government moved to seize an oil tanker that they allege in a court filing was used to violate U.S. and U.N. sanctions against North Korea. The civil forfeiture complaint was part of a crimin...

Winning an AI-Enabled War at Sea

April 20, 2021

[By Dr. Peter Layton] Artificial intelligence (AI) technology is suddenly important to military forces. Not yet an arms race, today’s competition is more in terms of an experimentation race with ma...

Officials Release Names of Two More Seacor Power Victims

By The Maritime Executive

April 18, 2021

Rescue officials have released the names of the two victims of the Seacor Power capsizing who were recovered from within the vessel on Friday. The additional victims were Anthony Hartford, 53 and...

How Floating "Repair Yards" Helped the U.S. Navy Win in the Pacific

April 15, 2021

[By LCDR Ryan Hilger, USN] USS Houston (CL 81), in a hard turn with her underside exposed, felt the torpedo explosion across the ship. Commander William Behrens recalled “that all propulsive power...

Jail Sentence for First of MSC Gayane Crew in Cocaine Smuggling Case

By The Maritime Executive

April 13, 2021

The first of seven crewmembers from the MSC Gayane was sentenced to jail today for his role in the 2019 cocaine smuggling aboard the containership. A total of eight crewmembers, or nearly a third of t...

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