DISQUS

John, Great Job!

Excellent first episode! The intro music is impressive and great narrative by Peter. Keep up the good work!

I thought I saw it all when we took a pilot on from the bridge wing... guess not!

John, Spot On.

That's truly insane!

Swedish Finnish Ice Class rating of 1D: "for ships intended to navigate in light first-year ice conditions"

Ice Classes:
http://www.sjofartsverket.se/templates/SFVXPage...

I believe that ship was originally designed as a russian research vsl.

Those are only US stats and we all know the worst ships avoid the US. Try parismou.org

Laura, I retired in 2002 but RINA had a bad reputation most of my career. They got a portion of blame for the ERIKA tragedy in 2000 and made promises to improve but were only moderately successful by the time I left. The CG publishes statistics:
http://homeport.uscg.mil/mycg/portal/ep/content...

Happy Thanksgiving too!

Towboater, no I agree the Rules supersede all which means the capt's to blame. My argument is the blame goes as follows:
Cosco: For changing out an entire crew at once
Capt: For taking a suicidal job assignment
Cota: for leaving in bad weather with these newbies on the bridge

meme, thanks for the info! We made the correction on the main story just not on the photo page:

http://gcaptain.com/maritime/blog/incident-phot...

From sfgate.com

Newsom (San Francisco's Mayor) saw the disaster as an even larger statement on the weakness of America's dependence on oil.
"We can do better than large oil tankers coming in and out of the bay of San Francisco, and move to a more energy independent future," he said at Crissy Field. "We'll continue to have these kinds of disasters inevitably if we continue to have more tankers come in and out to feed our addiction."

Is this guy a complete idiot? I'm asking only because my son know the difference between a tanker and a container ship

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=...

SWEET!

"That biodiesel is good for the environment" ...or that ethanol is a miracle cure (it takes a lot of diesel to run the tractors/combines/ect to make it!).

Larry, good point and I do believe that is in fact the case.. but only for the canal. I'll double check though.

I like the new layout, easy to navigate.