A Haunting Tribute Of A Mummified Mariner To His Dead Wife
A haunting note 'The power of the demons was stronger than the will to live' was recovered along with some photos near the mummified body of...
COSCOCS Challenges Maersk, MOL By The Newly Formed Alliance
China Cosco Shipping Corporation, formed by the merger of former rivals China Ocean Shipping Group Company and China Shipping Group(COSCOCS), one of the World’s...
Container Carrier Ran Aground In Kiel Canal
The 8,634 DWT container carrier ran aground near Kiel Holtenau, Germany. The vessel rammed breakwater bank by starboard and stuck hardly. The captain of...
Baltic Index Inches Up & Speculations On SALT (Scorpio Bulkers) Up...
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We are happy to write to you on this first day of the new month. So what the shipping market has to say...
SS Grandcamp Exploded Killing 567 People
The SS Grandcamp was a re-activated 437-foot-long (133 m) Liberty ship. The SS Grandcamp was originally named the SS Benjamin R. Curtis in Los...
Collision Between Chemical Tanker And Cargo Ship During An Ice Convoy!
Kara Sea witnessed the collision of a Chemical tanker with a Cargo ship which happened during an ice convoy escort. Both giants are Russian...
Seafarer Falls Overboard A Bulker And Dies
A Chinese seafarer fell overboard and died over the weekend at the Port of Tauranga in New Zealand
A seafarer was working on a bulker...
Don’t Drop Anchors In The Scapa Flow Area!
Don't Drop Anchors In The Scapa Flow Area! Torpedo-Like Object Found
A 3280 feet exclusion zone has been marked for all ships and the divers...
Worker Fainted Aboard An Oil Tanker, Found Covered In Oil
The Sembcorp Marine Admiralty Yard, Singapore has reported on an incident where a person working on the repairs of a Russian flagged Oil Tanker...
[Watch] Pororoca, the Longest Wave on Earth
One of the vast and overwhelming subject is Ocean. Numerous changes happen under water. Experts have analysed the top 10 uncovered phenomena. One...
Shipwrecks Upon Land? Here Are Top 8 Of It!
When someone thinks of the word “shipwreck” they immediately picture wreckage beneath a lake or ocean. However, there are shipwrecks above water, usually from...
Bunker Mass Flow Metering – A New Standard
A Provisional Standard For Mass Flow Metering Systems
Mass Flow Metering system:
A mass flow metering system aims at providing a fair basis for measuring the...
New Shipping Lane Inaugurated In Suez Canal
The Suez Canal Authority has inaugurated a new shipping lane in the Suez Canal, in east Port Said on 24th February 2016. The new...
Euroship Container Vessel Rescues 105 Refugees
On 18th February, the crew of Vento di Grecale rescued 105 migrants from an endangered wooden boat that sank in choppy waters a few...
[Watch] Awesome Lapse Movie Of A Baltic Runner
Baltic Runner from George Leonov on Vimeo.
Check out the time lapse footage which was made on a container ship, the MV Carat, sailing around...
Storm And Norovirus Breaks Trip Of Anthem Of The Seas
Royal Caribbean's Anthem of the Seas cut shorts it's one other trip again on Saturday due to norovirus outbreak and trying to avoid a...
Hand Injury Due To Hydraulic Oil Injection
People can become exposed to the chemicals in hydraulic fluids. The exposure to chemicals may be due to inhalation, ingestion, or touch. There are...
A Ship With 6,000 Tons Of Cement Catches Fire!
A short circuit by personal appliances in crew room damaged the cement carrier.
The 8,830 DWT vessel carrying 6000 tons of cement on board caught...
Car Carrier Sinks As It Collides With Containership In English Channel
Accident
: Collision
Date
: 28th February 2016
Vessel type
: Car Carrier and container ship
Location
: English Channel
Casualties/Pollution
: Nil
A Norwegian Car carrier collided with another container ship and sank...
USS Arizona Exploded Killing 1,177 Souls
USS Arizona was a Pennsylvania-class battleship built for and by the United States Navy. The ship was launched on June 19, 1915. USS Arizona...
