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BOOK REVIEW | Ship – 5,000 Years of Maritime Adventure
A big, thick, glossy and beautifully illustrated book in the usual DK (Dorling Kindersley) mould, this offers an excellent overview of almost five millennia of maritime ..
REMINISCENCES | Never-ending voyages
You have to feel very sorry for all these seafarers – 200,000 of them at the last count – whose voyages are being extended on account of the Covid-19 crisis. While ..
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FEATURE | Australian abalone fisheries: managing sharks in the workplace
Abalone diving has a reputation for being one of the most dangerous occupations on land or sea. The reality, however, is very different, says John Minehan, an Australian ..
OPINION | Islands of opportunity: Where India and Australia can work together
As India and Australia prepare for a virtual summit next month between prime ministers amid the coronavirus pandemic, a possible strategic initiative could involve the ..
BOOK REVIEW | Devotion to Duty – A Biography of Admiral Clifton A. F. Sprague
In a sea of massive egos of the Douglas MacArthur and William “Bull” Halsey type, Clifton “Ziggy” Sprague stood out as someone who shied away from personal ..
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REMINISCENCES | What’s up, Doc?
We are thinking a lot about medical professionals in these virus-infected days, people have been rightly identified as heroes for their hazardous work in combating the ..
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COLUMN | Fishing in the time of the pandemic [Fishing for a Living]
There was a time, decades ago, when I thought that a cannery or reduction plant was just something that I had to walk past to get down to the boat that I crewed on. Of ..
REMINISCENCES | Can we still learn from the training methods of the past?
In an interesting article for the Nautical Institute journal, a young captain who had recently completed his training complained about, “how outdated the syllabus is in ..