Interesting Drug Smuggler Technique - Drug Smuggling Semi-Submersible

g Captain Tells Us;A Coast Guard Law Enforcement Detachment intercepts a semi-submersible vessel 375 nautical miles west of the Galapagos Islands on March 1, 2008. Four smugglers were recovered from the sea after the...

San Francisco Pilot’s Report Published

The San Francisco Chronicle has published the Pilot’s Report on the Cosco Busan Incident. Here are the parts of interest to mariners; " Meadows said problems also cropped up in “bridge management,” the...

Reporting Errors in San Francisco Oil Spill.

gCaptain's editors have been amazed lately by the number of errors in both media reports and political commentary related to the the container ship Cosco Busan that allided with San Francisco's Bay Bridge. We first...

US Coast Guard - One Million Rescues And Counting

gCaptian brings us this impressive news: While we were celebrating our numbers and sending you to Robin Storm’s post on recent Coast Guard rescues yesterday the saviors of the sea were reaching their own, much...

How Many Ships Fly Old Glory? You may be suprised.

gCaptain.com tells us:There are 33,222 large ships in service worldwide, how many do you think are U.S. Flagged?It is common knowledge that our large merchant marine and shipyard capacity provided the supplies our...

American Red Cross warns of scam targetting military families

NOTICE: This poster does not claim or imply any formal connection with the American National Red Cross. I simply ran across this and thought it deserved all the attention it could get. Please contact those listed on the press release below for more...

Why did Bush let them die?

I have had enough! I have heard this ridiculous, sing-song, slogan of Boy George Bush's War of Terror - "We fight them over there so we don't have to fight them over here." Friends, Bush and his Bushies had the...

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