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
Category: Contemporary Commentary
Thoughts on issues and entertainments of our day.
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
Remembering the SS Poet 39 Years After She Sailed from Philadelphia
The loss of the SS Poet 39 years ago this month set me on a path and a quest that
The Last Remaining SS El Faro Mystery Four Years Later: What in the World Happened to the Civil Charges Against Tote?
The Coast Guard has been at its nimble and frisky best these days. It’s been jumping on to min-submarines to
News Summary: Recent Posts, Podcasts, Articles and Books
Here’s a summary of recent posts and a few also pulled from the “evergreen” file. If you’ve not read about
Four Years After the Loss of the SS El Faro, the Coast Guard has Forced a Reckoning Over America’s Rust Bucket Merchant Marine and Sent Shivers Through the Military “Unready Reserve”
Nearly four years after the loss of the SS El Faro and her crew of 33 on October 1, 2015,
In a Major Military Command “Turbo Test” of Maritime Readiness, Two Old Rust Buckets Strive to Answer the Call
Two of the 28 ships called up in a critical “Turbo Test” of military sealift capabilities this month have among