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Snap Back Kills Again: Review Your Procedures & Equipment And Maybe Save A Life.
Here’s an accident report from the U.K.’s MAIB that deserves to be read and disseminated widely. On the evening of August 7, 2007 the ferry Dublin Viking was alongside the dock at berth #5… more →
Towmasters: the Master of Towing Vessels Assoc. Forum
Erie Basin Cut, New York Harbor
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captbbrucato wrote 1 week ago: Erie Basin is home to the Erie Basin Barge-Port co-owned by the Hughes-Reinauer partnership. It is … more →
Snap Back Kills Again: Review Your Procedures & Equipment And Maybe Save A Life.
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towmasters wrote 2 weeks ago: Here’s an accident report from the U.K.’s MAIB that deserves to be read and disseminated … more →
REMINDER –New SOLAS requirements for buddy lines
Erin wrote 2 weeks ago: The SOLAS amendments with respect to buddy lines and lifting loops on SOLAS life jackets and immersi … more →
REMINDER -- New Infant Life Jacket SOLAS Required On Passenger Ships
Erin wrote 2 weeks ago: Effective 1 July 2010, SOLAS requires infant jackets for passenger ships. The text below is taken f … more →
Sleep Apnea & The Professional Mariner
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towmasters wrote 1 month ago: Sleep Apnea & the Professional Mariner by Capt. Doug Pine As a professional mariner you are, I … more →
"Single Man Error" and Digital Distraction
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captbbrucato wrote 1 month ago: Errors happen all the time. Course lines are mislabeled, current calculations are left uncorrected … more →
EPIRB
navshack wrote 1 month ago: Category I EPIRBs can be either activated manually or set to activate automatically in the event of … more →
GPS Down For The Count? Bust Out The Charts And The Eyeballs, Navigator! And, While You're At It, Try To Get Some Sleep Too.....If You Can
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towmasters wrote 1 month ago: GPS brownout? Holy deteriorating critical infrastructure, Batman! News flash, fellow mariners, perha … more →
Reporting Main Propulsion Failures
Erin wrote 1 month ago: Coast Guard (a.) reminds Masters of requirement to report loss of main propulsion, (b.) advises of … more →
Hurricane Preparedness
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westmarine wrote 3 months ago: Your Hurricane Preparedness essential shopping list: Nylon Dock Lines Nylon Anchor Lines Chafe Gear … more →
Sleeping Is Cool!
towmasters wrote 3 months ago: In this N.Y Times article the long-held belief that a correlation between room temperature and quali … more →
Tuesday at SNNE
Lauren Chatmas wrote 4 months ago: Today I had the privilege of meeting Major John Fetterman of the Maine Marine Patrol during his visi … more →
When The Wire Breaks!
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towmasters wrote 4 months ago: We’ve had an increasing number of hits lately coming from web searches for “emergency to … more →
Fire Proofing Is Better Than Fire Fighting
towmasters wrote 4 months ago: Fire on the high seas, off the coast, on a Great Lake, or a powerful river (or wherever), is general … more →
Fun Things To Do In Your "Spare" Time: Chart & Pub Corrections
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towmasters wrote 5 months ago: One of the more insidious problems of the ever-growing administrative burden born by mariners (itsel … more →
National Mariners Association Secretary To Testify Before Congress, Again.....
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towmasters wrote 5 months ago: We start the week out with some good news: National Mariners Association Secretary and founding memb … more →
MARINERS WANTED: the Coast Guard is hiring civilian Marine Inspectors!
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towmasters wrote 5 months ago: Below is the text of an e-mail sent out by Cdr. Erich Doll of the U.S. Coast Guard’s Office of … more →
Coast Guard Safety Alert: The Perils Of CFL's
towmasters wrote 5 months ago: The Coast Guard has issued Safety Alert #02-09 regarding the potential for compact fluorescent light … more →
Tugnology '09: The Papers
towmasters wrote 5 months ago: There’s no easy way to categorize them, so I’m not going to try. These are the technical … more →
