Eyes Off the Water: The NTSB Report on the Fatal M/V Miss Peggy Collision
Two years after a towboat capsized in our own Houston [...]
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08, 2026
“The Golden Tide”: A Record Sargassum Bloom, the Fleets Sent to Fight It, and the Law That Rides With Its Crews
A record mass of sargassum seaweed is smothering Caribbean and [...]
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08, 2026
U.S. Gulf Lease Sales: The “Blocks” on the Auction Block
Sixteen companies bid $82.7 million for the right to drill [...]
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08, 2026
An Ancient Promise at Sea: How Maintenance and Cure Crossed a Thousand Years and Every Ocean
From the medieval Rolls of Oléron to the courts of [...]
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08, 2026
Lines Drawn in the Water: Who Owns the Sea, and Who May Charge You to Cross It
Repeatedly, Iran and Oman are close to a “deal” that [...]
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08, 2026
Strangers and Saviors at Sea: Fire Aboard M/V Min Jiang Kou and the Those Who Came to Help
630 miles from the nearest shore, an engine-room fire drove [...]
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08, 2026
Fair Winds and Farewell: Celebrating the Retirement of Colonel Walter M. Herd
On July 24, 2026, at the General George Patton Museum [...]
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08, 2026
The Long Watch After the Storm: Chronic Strain and the Seafarers Happiness Index
The guns have gone quiet in the Persian Gulf (for [...]
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08, 2026
Rescuers with the Fewest Remedies: Cumulative Brain Injury and a Warning for Every Mariner
A new investigation finds that the elite crews who operate [...]
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08, 2026
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 [...]