The Jones Act is Dead! Long Live the Jones Act
So our latest dispatches determine with conviction that half of America’s Jones Act cargo fleet is every bit as creaky
Category: Contemporary Commentary
Thoughts on issues and entertainments of our day.
Congrats Fred Calicchio!
They called them the “Sailing Calicchio Brothers” because Dom, Fred, and Michael all were sea captains. Dom is famous among
An Unapologetic Plug for a New Non-Profit Maritime News Organization and Ian Urbina
Please join me in supporting Ian Urbina’s new non-profit op for covering maritime affairs, the law of the ocean and
News and Summaries
(Note: Restores broken link in Until the Sea Shall Free Them item sent earlier today. Apologies for glitch.) The “Sky
The “Sky Captains” of the NTSB Should Own Their Own “Walk of Shame” for Decades of Inaction in Major Merchant Marine Cases
Quite rightly, the NTSB and Congress have handed the Coast Guard some sharp public “dope slaps” this past week, pointing
Formal Coast Guard Marine Board of Investigation Delayed by Possible Criminal Charges While Investigators May be Turning to Red Sea Dive Boat Tragedies for Context
The formal start of the Coast Guard Marine Board of Investigation into the dive boat Conception tragedy is being delayed
Comments and News Summary: Was the “Ready Reserve” Surge More Like the Movie “Master and Commander”? Or “Weekend at Bernie’s”? The World Cup of Maritime Writing. And a Project Lighthouse Summary
Was the “Ready Reserve” Surge More Like the Movie “Master and Commander”? Or “Weekend at Bernie’s”? The “Surge” test
New “Ships of Interest List” Added to Project Lighthouse (El Faro)
Here are the Project Lighthouse (El Faro) rankings of the Ships of Interest List. They are determined by weighted scores
Denied Coast Guard List of 53 “High Risk” Ships, Project Lighthouse (El Faro), Launches Its Own “Ship of Interest List” for Public Use
Denied a key list of 53 ships tagged as “high risk” by Coast Guard inspectors, Project Lighthouse (El Faro) is
The Sister Ship of the SS Poet Makes One Last Voyage
When I first began covering maritime safety, I was assured that old ships could be safe ships. Which technically is