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Rescuers with the Fewest Remedies: Cumulative Brain Injury and a Warning for Every Mariner

A new investigation finds that the elite crews who operate [...]

By |2026-07-31T18:21:16-04:00August 5th, 2026|Firm Update|Comments Off on Rescuers with the Fewest Remedies: Cumulative Brain Injury and a Warning for Every Mariner

The Right to Pass? What Manila’s Warning Means for the Hormuz Strait, the Red Sea, and the Crews Who Actually Sail

Southeast Asia's foreign ministers spent a week in Manila discussing [...]

By |2026-07-31T18:04:50-04:00August 4th, 2026|Firm Update|Comments Off on The Right to Pass? What Manila’s Warning Means for the Hormuz Strait, the Red Sea, and the Crews Who Actually Sail

No One at the Bow: A Tug Captain’s Guilty Plea and the Oldest Duty on the Water

A Miami tug captain has admitted that a blocked view, [...]

By |2026-07-31T18:04:33-04:00August 3rd, 2026|Firm Update|Comments Off on No One at the Bow: A Tug Captain’s Guilty Plea and the Oldest Duty on the Water

Laying the Keel: A $150 Billion Bet on American Shipbuilding — and the Crews the Law Was Built to Protect

South Korea and the United States have opened a new [...]

By |2026-07-31T18:27:06-04:00August 3rd, 2026|Firm Update|Comments Off on Laying the Keel: A $150 Billion Bet on American Shipbuilding — and the Crews the Law Was Built to Protect

Toll Gates at Both Ends: The Widening Gulf War, Two Chokepoints, and the Rights of the Crews Sent Through Them

Washington has sanctioned Iran’s Strait of Hormuz “extortion network,” Tehran [...]

By |2026-07-31T18:12:39-04:00July 31st, 2026|Firm Update|Comments Off on Toll Gates at Both Ends: The Widening Gulf War, Two Chokepoints, and the Rights of the Crews Sent Through Them

Safer, But Only on Paper? What IMCA’s 2025 Safety Numbers Show Mariners (And What They Don’t)

The offshore contracting industry's injury rates just got better. Its [...]

By |2026-07-29T18:17:28-04:00July 29th, 2026|Firm Update|Comments Off on Safer, But Only on Paper? What IMCA’s 2025 Safety Numbers Show Mariners (And What They Don’t)

The Waiver That Will Not Weigh Anchor: The White House Weighs a Third U.S. Jones Act Extension

A century-old law reserving trade between American ports for American [...]

By |2026-07-24T19:09:50-04:00July 27th, 2026|Firm Update|Comments Off on The Waiver That Will Not Weigh Anchor: The White House Weighs a Third U.S. Jones Act Extension

Aqueous Firm-Forming Foam: Fire, “Forever Chemicals”, and the Crews Caught in the Middle

An International Maritime Organization rule took effect this January, and [...]

By |2026-07-24T19:24:41-04:00July 24th, 2026|Firm Update|Comments Off on Aqueous Firm-Forming Foam: Fire, “Forever Chemicals”, and the Crews Caught in the Middle
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