This all started in 1959 when a twenty-six-year-old who was studying for his PhD in archaeology at the University of Pennsylvania was asked if he would like to direct the ..
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The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February last year sparked a rush for gas in Europe, as the Nordstream pipelines were blown up in the Baltic Sea and President Vladimir ..
This is a big, beautifully produced “coffee table book” that is in reality much more than just pretty pictures, although it contains many of those. It is also ..
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Late in 2022—a year of war, pandemic, climatic disaster, and attempted nuclear coercion—a number of news outlets published a photograph of a rare event. True, the pho ..
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With winter storms whirling around the northern hemisphere, masters of containerships will be worrying about whether the lashing gangs in their last ports were as particu ..
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In your website, I came across the editorial piece from November 2022 titled The Australian government’s maritime madness. It felt so good to me to see someone else ..
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What did we spy on the last trading day before Christmas 2022? Not Santa sliding down a chimney, but shares in a leading subsea mining company sliding hard to a record lo ..
Kevin Noonan, Marine Manager of Gallagher Insurance Brokers, died last Friday, December 30, aged 88. Mr Noonan was a Marine Underwriter in Australia for most of his worki ..
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This episode started off with an atomic bang and ended in a whisper. But before the atomic explosion occurred, our fisheries research vessel Charles H. Gilbert had some u ..
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Where I live, ‘tis the season for tug people to be jolly. The northeast monsoon is firmly established and ships are once again coming to grief and asking for help. Why ..
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