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Dr. Tom Fedyszyn on the State of the Russian Navy

[By Ashley O’Keefe] From the intervention in Syria to the increasing range and scope of their naval deployments, Russia – and the Russian Navy – have turned our focus back to our Cold War foe. In t...

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Pentagon Releases Name of Navy SEAL Killed in Raid

The Defense Department has released the name of the U.S. Navy SEAL who was killed in a raid in Yemen on Saturday. Chief Special Warfare Operator William "Ryan" Owens, 36, was the first American casual...

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Car Carriers Win Joint Bargaining for Tug Services

Last week, the Federal Maritime Commission voted four to one to allow Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics, Eukor Car Carriers, American Roll-on Roll-off Carrier and Hyundai Glovis to jointly negotiate the...

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Mattis: "Nations with Strong Allies Thrive"

By a 98-1 vote, the U.S. Senate confirmed retired Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis to be the 26th secretary of defense on January 20. Mattis said his priority as defense secretary will be to strength...

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Is Hull Fouling as Harmful as Untreated Ballast?

At a presentation at the World Ocean Council's Sustainable Ocean Summit last month, IMO technical officer Dr. Theofanis Karayannis suggested that hull biofouling could be just as serious a problem for...

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Competition to Improve Wind Farm Cabling

The Carbon Trust’s Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA) has launched a global competition to find and fund the development of improved monitoring systems for the condition of subsea cables that ensure that...

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My Year in MET: A Mariner's Perspective

No, not weather, that’s meteo…but, Maritime Education and Training (MET).  Through an unusual set of circumstances and job changes, I found myself attending over four months of training and classes in...

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Video: ROV Explores Chimney Life

A team of scientists on board the research vessel Falkor have just finished surveying the largely unexplored Mariana Back-Arc in the western Pacific Ocean for life at depths greater than 13,000 feet (...

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10 Photos Tell the Story of the Exxon Valdez

While oil spills happen almost every day, we are fortunate that relatively few make such large or lasting impressions as the Deepwater Horizon or Exxon Valdez spills. Before 2010, when the United Stat...

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Royal Navy Commemorates Loss of Troopship SS Mendi

The Royal and South African Navies will join forces early in the new year to commemorate one of the worst disasters in the Commonwealth country’s history. The troopship SS Mendi took 616 South Afri...