This is the story of a great fisherman and seafarer, now a Hawaiian “kapuna” or elder, who in 1971 demonstrated remarkable seamanship and the ability to make a very ..
Work Boat World Features
BOOK REVIEW | Swimming with Fishes
Your reviewer has known Bob Iversen for more than twenty years and has enjoyed many a chat with him. He is a true intellectual of the old school who also happens to have ..
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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for the Nautical Institute journal, a young captain who had recently completed his training complained about, “how outdated the syllabus is in ..
COLUMN | Saudi Arabia abolishes flogging: Saudi Aramco feels pain too [Offshore Accounts]
At the end of last month, Saudi Arabia abolished flogging as a punishment, welcome news to adulterers in Riyadh and Jeddah’s cyber-criminals. However, the kingdom has ..
BOOK REVIEW | The Clarksons Registers (Bulk Carrier/Chemical Tanker/Containership/Gas Carrier/Tanker)
In the first quarter of each year the Clarksons Registers appear. Their arrival is a great occasion for anyone interested in the wider shipping market, in individual ..
COLUMN | The end of the world: are we there yet? [Tug Times]
It is hard not to write about the Covid-19 pandemic at the moment, since it is dominating public discourse and headlines around the world, but there are so many different ..
Welcome to Tug and Salvage Week!
Tugs fascinate me. In the more than fifty years I have been connected with the maritime business they have been practically continually launched and, most importantly, ..
FEATURE | The future of China’s nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine force
China finally achieved an operational underwater nuclear capability in recent years, almost six decades after it first launched its nuclear-powered ballistic missile ..
BOOK REVIEW | Naval Minewarfare: Politics to Practicalities
This is a very important book that should be read and studied by all defence planners, politicians and, of course, naval officers. Since World War II naval mines or sea ..
FEATURE | Undersea deterrence and strategic competition in the Indo-Pacific
Amid rapid geopolitical change at the start of the 2020s, unfolding now in the Covid-19 crisis, nuclear weapons manifest grim continuity with the previous century. ..