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Was the Deepwater Horizon Incident Really Unprecedented?

By Thibaut Eude

May 5, 2020

Ten years ago, the accident of the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform occurred, killing 11 oil workers and resulting in the largest oil spill in US history (3,190,000 bbl). Eighty-seven days was need...

75 Years Ago: U.S. Coast Guard Operations at Okinawa

By U.S. Coast Guard News

May 4, 2020

[By BM1 William A. Bleyer, U.S. Coast Guard] In late March 1945, nearly 1,300 ships of the Allied forces of America, Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada assembled to support the large...

NOIA Elects New Chairman

By The Maritime Executive

April 26, 2020

The National Ocean Industries Association (NOIA) Board of Directors has elected Galen Cobb, Vice President of Industry Relations of Halliburton, as Chairman and Matt McCarroll, President & CEO of Fiel...

"The Blob" Could Raise Climate Change's Impact on NE Pacific Fisheries

By UBC IOF Communications

April 22, 2020

A large marine heatwave would double the rate of the climate change impacts on fisheries species in the northeast Pacific by 2050, according to a recently released study by researchers from the Univer...

The Building of the RMS Titanic

By The Maritime Executive

April 14, 2020

RMS Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on April 15, 1912 after striking an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City. She was built by Harland and Wolff in Belfast,...

Total Loss: No Remote Control of Ventilation Inlets

By The Maritime Executive

April 12, 2020

The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has released a Marine Accident Brief about the sinking of the fishing vessel Ariel in August 2019 when a fire broke out in the vessel’s engine room...

55 Years Ago, the U.S. Coast Guard Joined the Fight in Vietnam

By William Thiesen

April 8, 2020

"I want to make sure that the Coast Guard people in Vietnam know that I am hearing about them often and that I am pleased with what I hear." - General Wallace Greene, Jr., Commandant, U.S. Marine...

100 Years Ago: The Dawn of U.S. Coast Guard Aviation

By U.S. Coast Guard News

March 27, 2020

[By John Moseley and William Thiesen] The Naval Appropriation Act of 1916 provided the authorization, but not the funding, for 10 Coast Guard air stations. These air stations were to be located alo...

Watch: Aurora Australis Completes Final Antarctic Voyage

By The Maritime Executive

March 24, 2020

After more than three decades of service, Australia's icebreaker Aurora Australis sailed up the River Derwent to Hobart on March 25, returning from her last resupply expedition to sub-Antarctic Macqua...

Caring for Seafarers During the Coronavirus Outbreak

By Susan Huppert

March 18, 2020

Ship visits by chaplains from seafaring centers are normally a primary contact for meeting seafarer’s needs while in port. The opportunity for face-to-face contact is slimming quickly as fear of the s...

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