DISQUS

John, why aren't you at these hearing testifying? You seem to know more about it than this ADM BONE guy!

Amazing photo but I'm sure even with your tricks I couldn't get it to look that good.

Seeing things like this is one of the BIG perks of working at sea!!

SWEET, sign me up!

Devon, you're all set as long as you entered your correct email address when you posted the comment. Just wait for the invite to arrive in you inbox. -John

I'd love an invite! Do I have to give you my email address or click on the banner to sign up?

Hi Jeremy. The best bet would be to head over to our forum, sign up and post your question. It can be found here: http://gcaptain.com/maritime/forum/

No Problem. Also smashingmagazine.com had a few other interesting charting tools featured last week... if you're interested. -John

The navy has been using these tethers on torpedoes for years, I'm certain they have it figured.

Interesting

Keefe asks another great question "I wonder where the environmentalists were when the Hawaii Superferry was being built."??

John, You're going way to easy on this guy!

I'd still take the beer!

Anphetamines in candy jars...fond memories... anyone else remember military hospitals of ole?

Can't Wait

Let me see... free beer or more exciting fire drills. I'll take the free beer.

I pulled into tenerife for some minor repairs and ended up spending a week. I was able to see quite a lot thanks to the ferries so I'd have to agree with Ricard on this one.

I'm glad we can all agree on something :)

Ed Case is 100% in saying that goods cost more in Hawaii due to Jones Act related restrictions.....but... being 2,300 miles from the mainland do you want to be totally reliant on foreign interests? Let's say our leaders decide to punish China for any number of reasons (environmental, led paint use, worker treatment...) and China decides to pull its products from the market and use some of its $4 trillion in reserves to buy out all the contacts on foreign hulls to redistribute these goods elsewhere in the world? The continental US would enter a recession but Hawaii wold starve unless our "Allies" (England, France, Germany...) could come to the rescue.

If The US can't fight a war in Iraqi without using foreign ships how would they supply Hawaii during a crisis?

The question for you is the same as for the average American only magnified. Do you want to risk national security and future opportunity in exchange for lower prices at Wal-Mart?

Karen, while I understand many of your worries this is a site primarily for Merchant Marine officers. The shipping industry was the very first american job base to be outsourced overseas and today the few remaining mariners sit in overcrowded union halls waiting for an even fewer number of jobs. So while I sympathize it would be nice if you took the potential loss of job opportunities into account as well as the crews currently aboard these ferries.

The reason? If a country like China ever became hostile and blockaded (or attacked) foreign shipping interests how would hawaii be supplied and defended? Without any US mariners or hulls the answer is you would not be.

I just ask where where these protesters during the approval hearings? How many showed up at their congressman's offices? How many went to Oahu to protest road funding?

Like all other issues this is grey in reality but strictly black and white to protesters who use the environmental hot card to gain support for what boils down to "not in my backyard" reasons.

I left Kapp 5 years ago for turbotax and I bought the "audit defense" insurance for the years I did the taxes on my own.

Well 2 days ago they sent me a brochure to say I could purchase protection for the years I was with Kapp for $49 per year.

I understand this insurance doesn't limit my liability but it is suppose to handle all my audit related expenses and provide me with a tax attorney. Is this offer too good to be true knowing what I know now about the judgment?

This is the service: http://www.taxaudit.com

Good stuff!

Alkali metals in water:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft4E1eCUItI

could be worse, thought he was going to ignite the barrel and put the hose to the room full of caustics!

Do these come out every tuesday? i hope so :!)

Well there goes my week,,, and it's only monday!