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Friday, August 4, 2017
The hijacking of the Brillante Virtuoso
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The Brillante Virtuoso, an oil tanker carrying $100 million in cargo, was hijacked in the Gulf of Aden in 2011 (July 6th) Six years lat...
Thursday, August 3, 2017
Is technology making ships too complex?
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From Ship Technology by Garet Peters Maritime safety company Propel suggests that human failure is still top of the agenda when it com...
Wednesday, August 2, 2017
One of the first examples of a local nautical map from Hispanic America
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Image of the map of Tlacotalpa Relación Geográfica map of Tlacotalpa. Francisco Gali, 1580. Source: Royal Academy of History, Madrid ...
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Tuesday, August 1, 2017
"Inaccurate" charts or not?
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This is the track of the Deerfoot 62 Moonshadow when she was headed toward a reef off Huahine. Fortunately, it was daylight and one of t...
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Meet the man who has lived alone on this island for 28 years
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Mauro Morandi has lived alone on Budelli Island for 28 years. “What I love the most is the silence,” he says. “The silence in winter ...
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