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This IMO Visit Changed Our Maritime Careers Forever – Here’s What Happened!
Jun 5, 2025 #MLACollege #MerchantNavyCareersWhat if one visit to London could reshape your entire maritime career path?
MLA College Website - https://www.mla.ac.uk/
In this special episode, we take you through a transformative journey—beginning at the heart of maritime governance, the International Maritime Organization (IMO), and leading to a forward-looking conversation at MLA College, one of the most innovative institutions offering flexible maritime education globally.
This isn’t just a vlog. It’s a blueprint for the future of shipping professionals.
What this video covers:
Read more below the vid on youtube.
This IMO Visit Changed Our Maritime Careers Forever – Here’s
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Yacht Builder To The World's Super-Rich Caught Up In Spy Claims
By Daniele Lepido Jun 6, 2025 (Bloomberg) –In early April 2024, Xu Xinyu, an executive director at Ferretti SpA, noticed an SUV and two strange men lingering outside the elegant 18th...
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Offshore vessels get the Tripadvisor treatment - Splash247
A seafarer has launched a new website, OffshoreShipAdvisor.com, designed to serve as a Tripadvisor-style platform for seafarers and offshore workers. The goal is to allow crewmembers to rate and review living conditions onboard vessels, helping to improve overall standards and transparency...
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Here's the site:
Offshore Ship Advisor - improving life at sea
Supporting the seafarer community by sharing both positive and negative experiences from life onboard vessels. Search your vessel and add your thoughts.
www.offshoreshipadvisor.com
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The Safer Seas Digest, issued annually by the Office of Marine Safety, summarizes by casualty type the investigations completed in the previous year. Developed specifically for the marine community, the digest shares the circumstances of the casualties and lessons learned discovered during our investigations. Past lessons learned have discussed issues such as vessel stability, engine room fire containment, risk management, and crew communication—to name a few.
It is our hope that mariners apply the knowledge uncovered in our investigations to mitigate or prevent future marine casualties—and save lives.
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It is our hope that mariners apply the knowledge uncovered in our investigations to mitigate or prevent future marine casualties—and save lives.
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What Does an Israel-Iran War Mean for Shipping? | Trade Through The Strait of Hormuz | History
June 13, 2025In this episode, Sal Mercogliano — a maritime historian at Campbell University (@campbelledu) and former merchant mariner — discusses the Israel-Iran War and what impact it may have on global shipping in particular the tanker sector.
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It means it stops.
Part of our now-reverting to the historical norm. The idea of the ocean as a peaceful, safe place, with order and law respected...and enforced by the United States Navy...is about to be replaced by a new paradigm.
The Pax Americana is ending. Ending from our (our leaders' and our voters') own foolishness, desire for war-for-profit, war without aim and without end. For our reckless spending - for 54 years, we've taken our status as the world's preferred currency, and abused it to destruction. Nothing backing it; print off moar; start moar wars; indulge evil actors...including those from nation-states that once had legitimate standing and claims.
All gone, now; and our own CIA and Davos Man, have launched a domestic Color Revolution.
The Navy as the guarantor of free passage on the high seas, is all but done. Budget/status limitations will soon be imposed/tested.
The Globalist dream of shipping all manufacturing to subjugated Client States, and forcing former powers to accept it...is DEAD. Both for the sudden increased risk/cost of shipping, and the coming collapse of the perceived value of printed fiat.
The world is about to get a lot bigger than it was...shop local. You won't have much of a choice, soon.
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Good morning from Horta (Azores)! What are we doing?
Jun 12, 2025We are Weather Bound here in Horta and using the time to affect repairs and get some sightseeing in as well.
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I've posted about Oliver before. Here's another interview. Best bet is to listen in one tab, play around the forum in a different tab.
Premiered 3 hours ago
A 29-year-old man with a spine condition worse than a 120-year-old's quit his corporate job and is now sailing solo across the Pacific Ocean, inspiring millions with his authentic journey of courage over comfort. This conversation reveals how facing mortality can become your greatest teacher and why the scariest dreams often lead to the most extraordinary life.
I Quit My Job, Sold Everything & Sailed the World. Here’s Why I Did It
Oliver's TikTok
/ sailing_with_phoenix
Oliver's Instagram https://www.instagram.com/sailing_wit...
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Premiered 3 hours ago
A 29-year-old man with a spine condition worse than a 120-year-old's quit his corporate job and is now sailing solo across the Pacific Ocean, inspiring millions with his authentic journey of courage over comfort. This conversation reveals how facing mortality can become your greatest teacher and why the scariest dreams often lead to the most extraordinary life.
I Quit My Job, Sold Everything & Sailed the World. Here’s Why I Did It
Oliver's TikTok
/ sailing_with_phoenix Oliver's Instagram https://www.instagram.com/sailing_wit...
Listen to this episode on the go!
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/07GQhOZ...
Impossible.
Anyone who's been involved in drydocking a vessel - I have been, but only as a spectator, a non-Navigation sailor onboard an LPD that was going in for yard time - anyone doing that, knows of the difficulties of shoring and supporting the hull. Typically the hull is two inches or so thick - which, compared to the weight and bulk of a ship, is like the plastic wrapping bag on a loaf of bread. It's DELICATE work shoring up and bracing the hull. When the drydock is pumped out, there has to be watches to note any abnormal flexing or shift.
You can see this when a loaded ship goes aground. Even if in a calm sea, when the tide goes out, and the hull is supported unnaturally, the whole vessel is twisted, often tearing apart. The Costa Concordia showed considerable distortion when refloated, even though its landing was soft and in relatively-shallow water.
Put the load, PLUS the load of fuel and operating machinery, on the bottom of a container ship, and it's going to bust open, maybe tear apart there on the tram.
Anyone who's been involved in drydocking a vessel - I have been, but only as a spectator, a non-Navigation sailor onboard an LPD that was going in for yard time - anyone doing that, knows of the difficulties of shoring and supporting the hull. Typically the hull is two inches or so thick - which, compared to the weight and bulk of a ship, is like the plastic wrapping bag on a loaf of bread. It's DELICATE work shoring up and bracing the hull. When the drydock is pumped out, there has to be watches to note any abnormal flexing or shift.
You can see this when a loaded ship goes aground. Even if in a calm sea, when the tide goes out, and the hull is supported unnaturally, the whole vessel is twisted, often tearing apart. The Costa Concordia showed considerable distortion when refloated, even though its landing was soft and in relatively-shallow water.
Put the load, PLUS the load of fuel and operating machinery, on the bottom of a container ship, and it's going to bust open, maybe tear apart there on the tram.
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Day in the Life Aboard Algoma Buffalo: Duluth to Sault Ste. Marie | Great Lakes Captain Vlog
Day in the Life Aboard Algoma Buffalo: Duluth to Sault Ste. Marie
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- what comes of "efficiency" by abolishing all/most jobs and just depending on luck and continuation of routine events.
In that case, NO tugboat services; nothing running on standby. Oh, the ENVIRONMENT - that dirty diesel smoke! All the wasted money on tugboats - we can put in a gee-whiz rotating propulsion pod, and six computers, and the ship can moor ITSELF!
Until it can't.
As a railroader, I have an ear tuned to this. The New Palestine train wreck and eco-disaster illustrates the problem well - doubling the train length, and using digital-radio links to computer-controlled power units, deep in the train, works great. Better even than power just on the head-end.
But, after the first time I ran a coal train with those things set into it, I said to the road foreman, "Those things are gonna lead to sloppy habits."
And they have, and IMHO, poor habits, lack of experience, AND the dynamic nature of a train getting both push- and pull-forces throughout the string, as it came off the rails, was why it kept going for many miles, with a car thumping along on the ground, and why the final crash happened at such speed and so violently.
A shorter, more-traditionally-powered train would have given seat-of-the-pants feeling to the crew, and would have pulled apart far earlier. Maybe, one or two or a handful of cars rolled over - slower, since they'd have been braking already to stop and inspect.
This, too, is what comes of depending on gee-whiz hardware and computers. Neither a computer, nor the weather service, could predict that microburst. Probably the ship's crew couldn't have predicted the parting-strength of the mooring lines. Most certainly there weren't enough sailors onboard to quickly secure additional lines when it became obvious there was trouble. And starting an immense diesel prime mover in such a ship, is not that much faster than firing up a boiler, a century ago.
Ergo, a need for an on-duty tug crew.
Also, a need for adequate ship-operations crew. Not for relaxed duty in port - but a full duty section, able to take charge in the space of a few minutes. Not unlike a fire party - this was almost as urgent.
This primacy of corporate bean-counters, and their dumb bottomless faith in technology and tecnocrats, is what caused this. Will we learn from it? Don't be silly.
- what comes of "efficiency" by abolishing all/most jobs and just depending on luck and continuation of routine events.
In that case, NO tugboat services; nothing running on standby. Oh, the ENVIRONMENT - that dirty diesel smoke! All the wasted money on tugboats - we can put in a gee-whiz rotating propulsion pod, and six computers, and the ship can moor ITSELF!
Until it can't.
As a railroader, I have an ear tuned to this. The New Palestine train wreck and eco-disaster illustrates the problem well - doubling the train length, and using digital-radio links to computer-controlled power units, deep in the train, works great. Better even than power just on the head-end.
But, after the first time I ran a coal train with those things set into it, I said to the road foreman, "Those things are gonna lead to sloppy habits."
And they have, and IMHO, poor habits, lack of experience, AND the dynamic nature of a train getting both push- and pull-forces throughout the string, as it came off the rails, was why it kept going for many miles, with a car thumping along on the ground, and why the final crash happened at such speed and so violently.
A shorter, more-traditionally-powered train would have given seat-of-the-pants feeling to the crew, and would have pulled apart far earlier. Maybe, one or two or a handful of cars rolled over - slower, since they'd have been braking already to stop and inspect.
This, too, is what comes of depending on gee-whiz hardware and computers. Neither a computer, nor the weather service, could predict that microburst. Probably the ship's crew couldn't have predicted the parting-strength of the mooring lines. Most certainly there weren't enough sailors onboard to quickly secure additional lines when it became obvious there was trouble. And starting an immense diesel prime mover in such a ship, is not that much faster than firing up a boiler, a century ago.
Ergo, a need for an on-duty tug crew.
Also, a need for adequate ship-operations crew. Not for relaxed duty in port - but a full duty section, able to take charge in the space of a few minutes. Not unlike a fire party - this was almost as urgent.
This primacy of corporate bean-counters, and their dumb bottomless faith in technology and tecnocrats, is what caused this. Will we learn from it? Don't be silly.
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Fire-damaged Morning Midas car carrier sinks - Splash247
The salvors, Resolve Marine, have reported that the Morning Midas car carrier sank in international waters in the North Pacific, following a fire that broke out onboard on June 3. Damage caused by the fire, compounded by heavy weather and subsequent water ingress, caused the Morning Midas to...
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I wonder if it was scuttled by the salvage tugs.
The ship was burned throughout. There was gonna be nothing but cleanup and ship-breaking, there. By far the cheapest solution, even allowing for expensive under-the-table pay to the salvors for a covert scuttling, would be to deep-six it.
It had stayed stable for three weeks, abandoned. It was not taking water. They get the salvage teams on-site, and onboard, and it goes down? What are we, idiots?
The ship was burned throughout. There was gonna be nothing but cleanup and ship-breaking, there. By far the cheapest solution, even allowing for expensive under-the-table pay to the salvors for a covert scuttling, would be to deep-six it.
It had stayed stable for three weeks, abandoned. It was not taking water. They get the salvage teams on-site, and onboard, and it goes down? What are we, idiots?
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Sailing Alone From Oregon to Hawai'i Q&A + Channel Updates
Jun 25, 2025 #solosailing #sailinglife #QandAAfter sailing solo from Oregon to Hawai'i — and taking a much-needed break — I’m finally back on YouTube to answer your most asked (and weirdest!) questions. From terrifying moments in the middle of the Pacific, to whether I saw aliens, to what’s next for me, Phoenix, and the channel — it’s all here.
Thanks for being part of this journey — it means the world.
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RADIO ROOM on board M/V TOBIAS MAERSK
Jun 25, 2025A very interesting clip while the ship was in the FAR EAST waters, the video has been made between the end of 60's and beginning of 70's and the clip has been extracted from a full movie about MAERSK Lines ships from the youtube channel: Jens Vand- & Vejmand - @reslevelpo.
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