As the El Faro Wreck Nears Ten Years Past, A New Masterpiece Emerges in Maeve McGoran’s “Shipwreck: How a Captain, Company and Culture Sank The SS El Faro”
Think you know a lot about the SS El Faro? I sure do. I read three great books about the
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Days of Wine and Rogue Waves: The 1960 SS Angelo Petri Cabernet Tanker Incident Off San Francisco
(This continues a series on “serial sinkers” – ships that had to be rescued more than once. Hope you enjoy
The Ship That Wouldn’t Die
Twice rescued, twice transformed, some ships just are overachievers By Robert R. Frump (Time to start writing again about maritime
At the Ninth Anniversary of the SS El Faro Disaster, Here is a Bob Frump Podcast About Maritime Safety, the SS Poet, the SS Marine Electric , the El Faro and Frump’s Forty Years on the Maritime Beat
I sat down with Cyprus-based Captain VS Parani a while back and think this podcast may be of interest to
The SS El Faro Sailed into Hurricane Joaquin and Maritime History Seven Years Ago Today to Become the Most Significant American Wreck of the 21st Century
The SS El Faro and her crew of 33 disappeared in Hurricane Joaquin seven years ago today and the matter
To Pass the Time During Virus Lockdown, Here are Two Books Free Online: The Wreck of the SS Marine Electric. And the Wreck of the SS El Faro
Need a good maritime read during virus lockdown? Here are two free online books — one on the Marine Electric; the other on the SS El Faro to pass the time.
Ready or Not, Here She Comes: The USNS Comfort, Near the End of Her Useful Life as a Hospital Ship, Sails Once More into the Breach on President Trump’s Orders
Ready or Not, Here She Comes. President Trump Orders the USNS Comfort to Manhattan
Ten Top Things Wrong with the Merchant Marine
gcaptain.com/top-10-reasons-why-the-us-merchant-marine-is-failing/ Captain Conrad and gCap nail it
Recent Maritime Tales: From the SS El Faro to the SS Poet, to Modern Day “Press Gangs” Off the Texas Coast
Modern Day “Impressment” in the Bouchard IncidentBouchard Barges and the Concept of Modern Press GangesIs the situation with those Bouchard
The Long, Slow Tide of El Faro Reform May Make This the Most Significant Era for Safety Improvement Since the Titanic
No one saw tons of change coming from the initial report on the 2015 tragedy. But the tide keeps rising and rising — to a point where it may now have provided the most significant maritime safety reforms in more than 100 years.