The long-term trend of annual rainfall taken across Northern USA and Southern Canada for over a century reveals a steady increase. Redirecting some seasonal spring flood water through pipes into water tables would bypass frozen ground and enhance summer agricultural production. That production would influence future seasonal agricultural bulk transportation along North American inland waterways. […]
With COVID-19 and a raft of restrictions on large-scale cruise ship operations, the next Caribbean cruise season may seem far off. However, dedicated cruisers can get their fix as early as next month with voyages on America’s inland waterways. Despite well-publicized coronavirus outbreaks aboard small cruise vessels – the “superspreader” event aboard the Nile River cruise […]
NOAA Fisheries announced Friday that it will cancel five out of its six large-scale research surveys in Alaskan waters this year due to COVID-19. The canceled surveys include the Aleutian Islands bottom trawl survey, the eastern Bering Sea bottom trawl survey, the northern Bering Sea bottom trawl survey, the Bering Sea pollock acoustics survey, and […]
Virgin Voyages has confirmed a death aboard its first cruise ship, the Scarlet Lady. The deceased, a 32-year-old Philippine national, died Friday from causes not related to COVID-19, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. Officials classified the cause of death as “apparent self harm.” The individual was not awaiting repatriation, Virgin Voyages told the Miami Herald. […]
[By Gao Baiyu] The global shipping industry is shifting to low-sulphur fuel in response to global calls for cleaner shipping . At the start of the year, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) lowered the sulphur content limit in ships’ fuel oil from 3.5 percent to 0.5 percent. Since March 1, the carrying of fuel oil not meeting […]
The Iranian product tanker Fortune is approaching the 12-nm boundary of Venezuela’s territorial seas, bringing her controversial journey to a close. The Fortune and four other tankers – the Forest, Petunia, Faxon and Clavel – are carrying fuel from Bandar Abbas to Puerto Cabello, according to Venezuelan state media. Venezuela was once a prolific producer […]
Solar Solve Marine, the UK based manufacturer of SOLASOLV ® roller screens for ships’ navigation bridge windows was delighted to receive an order from Austal which came via their Australian Distributor. The order was for 42 SOLASOLV® roller screens and is the first for two Cape-class patrol boats which are being built for the Government […]
Early on Saturday morning, the San Francisco Fire Department saved the famous WWII-era Liberty Ship Jeremiah O’Brien from a four-alarm fire adjacent to her berth. At about 0415 hours on Saturday, the Caito Fisheries crab processing plant at San Francisco’s Pier 45 caught fire. The light and smoke could be seen for miles around the Bay […]
The ocean plays a major role in the global carbon cycle. The driving force comes from tiny plankton that produce organic carbon through photosynthesis, like plants on land. When plankton die or are consumed, a set of processes known as the biological carbon pump carries sinking particles of carbon from the surface to the deep […]
[By Laura Burroughs] On April 1, President Trump announced that the United States is doubling its counternarcotics operations in the Western Hemisphere. The administration is concerned that illicit actors in Venezuela will exploit the focus on the COVID-19 pandemic to smuggle narcotics undetected. It deployed Navy destroyers, combat ships, aircraft and helicopters, Coast Guard cutters, […]
