Month: February 2020

Watch: Grey whales migrating off California

A drone operator observed six grey whales off Newport Beach, California, during their annual migration, heading towards the warm lagoons in Baja California, Mexico.

Specifically, grey whales are known to have the longest migration of any mammal, travelling close to 20,000km from their feeding grounds in the Arctic to their calving grounds in Baja California. Yet, in June CBC Canada reported that dozens of grey whales were found dead along the West Coast, while some scientists believe the cause...

https://safety4sea.com/watch-grey-whales-migrating-off-california/

Couple Find Something Dead In Their Salad At A Health Food Restaurant (PHOTOS)

User Mercedes Conde posted two photographs on her Twitter account that would demonstrate the complaint. This happened in a well-known local healthy food restaurant in Argentina.

A few days ago a couple lived an unpleasant experience when they found a dead frog inside the salad plate they asked for for lunch. This fact, which went viralon Twitter, occurred at the Green Eat fast-food store, specifically the one found in the Dot Baires shopping mall in Argentina.

Mercedes Conde, who was...

http://www.maritimeherald.com/2020/02-01-viral-twitter-tweet-couple-find-something-dead-in-their-salad-at-a-health-food-restaurant-photos-trending-tweet-frog/

The Breathtaking Docking Of A Cruise Ship In Rough Waters (VIDEO)

The captain of a cruise ship had to face very difficult weather conditions to dock in Norway last week. 

Pushed by strong winds and shaken by rough seas, the MS Nordnorge pitched dangerously as it approached the quay.  

The wind blowing between 108 km / h and 126 km / h was so strong that even the employees on the platform had trouble standing.  

Despite the captain’s efforts, the ship still struck the wharf slightly, with no apparent breakage.  

MS Nordnorge was docking at the port of Bodo when...

http://www.maritimeherald.com/2020/02-01-viral-youtube-video-the-breathtaking-docking-of-a-cruise-ship-in-rough-waters-video-trending-youtube-video-ms-nordnorge-norway/

He Caught The Strangest Three-Legged Creature With Swollen Eyes And Unrecognizable Mouth (VIDEO)

The strange sea animal that appeared on a beach in New York quickly went viral on YouTube.

A fisherman was stunned after fishing for a three-legged viscous creature from the Atlantic Ocean, on a beach on Coney Island in Brooklyn. Then he chose to upload a video of the strange animal to his YouTube account, where he surpassed the million likes.

In the images of the clip published by Nataliia Vorobok appears a kind of elongated fish that seems to have a long tail and that writhes on the pier while...

http://www.maritimeherald.com/2020/02-01-viral-youtube-video-he-caught-the-strangest-three-legged-creature-with-swollen-eyes-and-unrecognizable-mouth-video-coney-island-brooklyn-new-york/

Συμφωνία της Safe Bulkers για 8 πλοία

Σε συμφωνία για την πώληση και την επαναμίσθωση οκτώ πλοίων του στόλου της, εξασφαλίζοντας κεφάλαια ύψους 158,3 εκατ. δολ. έφτασε η Safe Bulkers. Τα 105,2 εκατ. δολάρια θα χρησιμοποιηθούν για την αναχρηματοδότηση υφιστάμενων δανειακών υποχρεώσεων λήξης κατά τα έτη 2023 και 2025. Επίσης, θα...

https://www.naftemporiki.gr/finance/story/1556391/sumfonia-tis-safe-bulkers-gia-8-ploia

SECNAV Modly Wants Navy ‘All Ahead Full’ on Hypersonic Weapons in 2020

Artist’s concept of a hypersonic vehicle. DARPA Photo

The Navy will focus in 2020 on developing hypersonic weapons at breakneck speed, with testing to occur throughout the year, Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly said Friday in a message to the fleet.

Modly’s memo, SECNAV Vectors 9, likens the need to develop hypersonic weapons today to 1957, when the Soviet Union launched the first satellite, Sputnik. The U.S. scrambled to respond to the new reality: the Soviet Union was in space, and the...

https://news.usni.org/2020/01/31/secnav-modly-wants-navy-all-ahead-full-on-hypersonic-weapons-in-2020

Korean Register to share its technology and software

The Korean Register came in an agreement with the National Technical University of Athens and inked an MoU in order to share specialist technology and software with the students of the School Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering.

Under the terms of the agreement, Korean Register will provide NTUA students its award-winning software for free, involving SeaTrust-HullScan, a program designed to analyze the structural strength of a ship following the KR’s Rules and the harmonized CSR.

Moreover, KR...

https://safety4sea.com/korean-register-to-share-its-technology-and-software/

Maritime accidents monthly report JANUARY 2020

Maritime accidents monthly report JANUARY 2020 SUMMARY Notice: Principal idea and character of MB Daily is somewhat similar to Ambulance Emergency Service – MB priority is to find out about maritime accidents, involving merchant marine ships, ASAP. MB monitors only some major accidents in their development and outcome, i.e. further development of most part of reported accidents isn’t monitored. A number of accidents though known to MB, aren’t included – like trivial accidents with ferries, or...

https://www.fleetmon.com/maritime-news/2020/28629/maritime-accidents-monthly-report-january-2020/

Two mobile cranes fell from JUMBO heavy lift ship in Rostock

JUMBO VISION

Two mobile cranes fell into water in process of loading them onto heavy lift ship JUMBO VISION at Rostock Port, Germany, in the evening Jan 31. the ship reportedly sustained damages. Two persons engaged in loading operation were slightly injured. JUMBO VISION was loading cranes at cranes producer Liebherr berth. Cranes were already loaded and placed on deck, when suddenly, ship’s crane boom moved and contacted one of mobile cranes. Crane fell overboard, the ship listed, list forced second crane...

https://www.fleetmon.com/maritime-news/2020/28633/two-mobile-cranes-fell-jumbo-heavy-lift-ship-rosto/

Australian court curtails dockers’ strikes

Dubai terminal operator DP World was celebrating on 31 January as the Federal Court Of Australia (FCA) decided to grant an interim interlocutory injunction preventing the dockers’ union from further industrial action.

However, while the employer’s celebrated the wharfies and their union were outraged at what they see as an “attack on the fundamental democratic rights of all Australian workers.”

On a dramatic day, 31 January, the FCA took, what some regard as “unprecedented” decision to prevent...

https://container-news.com/australian-court-curtails-dockers-strikes/

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