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

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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

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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

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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

From the Archives: The SS Penny, Sister of the Lost Ship SS Poet, Makes One Last Trip

(Circa 1981. The Inquirer had given me a lot of leash to follow the story of the SS Poet and

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The Titanic sparked major reforms So did the SS El Faro

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

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February in Review: From Bad Barges to the Bad Boards of Review to the Marine Electric and the Jones Act

We covered some ground in February. Here is a recap of posts for the month. (Note: Last post here is

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Author/Family Query: Seeking Paul Dewey, Marine Electric Survivor

Paul Dewey was one of three survivors of the Marine Electric and helped change maritime safety history by testifying at

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Boom! Bang! Dang! With Third World Standards, One of America’s Largest Petroleum Barge Companies Has Posed an Active Safety and Pollution Threat to New York and Texas Coasts, the Coast Guard Says

 Boom First the company ran an old rusty barge to the point where vapors seeped out and it exploded killing

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The Smithsonian Documentary Gets Some of ‘El Faro’ Right, But Misses the Real Outcome — and Fabricates a Vital Scene

Comes now the Smithsonian Channel with its latest installment of famous ship wrecks, and to its credit, presents some first

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