GAC has been appointed the official logistics provider for the Volvo Ocean Race in 2014-15.
Volvo Ocean Race names GAC official logistics provider
Reply
Monthly Archives: September 2013
Ferries 2013 Conference & Expo
Hot topics, industry experts
Some of the major ferry operators in North America—Washington State Ferries, Staten Island Ferry, STQ, and BC Ferries—have or are considering Liquefied Natural Gas as a marine fuel. STQ has already ordered new ferries that will burn LNG and Washington State Ferries plans to convert existing boats to the alternative fuel. Does it make sense for your operation? What about bunkering your vessel and training your crew? What about designs and system costs?
For sale; Cleopatra, 2954 DWT General Cargo Vessel.
Cleopatra
Very well kept cargo ship and the owners have invested a lot of money on her. 83 x 12 metres. Built in Holland.
DWT: 2954 ton.
Jerry (Atlantic Ocean)
NASA’s TRMM satellite flew over Tropical Depression 11 on Sept. 30 at 5:28 a.m. EDT and saw a “hot tower”near the center (red) that indicated the storm was strengthening into Tropical Storm Jerry.
Image Credit: NASA/SSAI, Hal Pierce
Tropical Depression 11 formed in the central Atlantic Ocean and NASA’s TRMM satellite passed overhead and gathered information and identified a “hot tower” that indicated it would strengthen. The depression became Tropical Storm Jerry on Sept. 30 at 10:30 a.m. EDT.
Sunderland RNLI fundraising success for Sunderland teenager
Christian Carney and Ann Cantle
30/09/2013
Credit: RNLI/Paul Nicholson
A fundraising night organised by a local teenager who is volunteering for the RNLI as part of the Duke of Edinburgh Award has been hailed a huge success after raising £1,150.
Clipper Ventures announces Sydney base in global expansion
Clipper Ventures, the UK-based international marine events company behind the famous Clipper Round the World Yacht Race – the longest around the planet at 40,000 miles, is to create a base in Sydney to launch an Australian division as the first stage of a global expansion plan.
RSrnYC AVEVA September Regatta – Race Report
Report: Phil Riley. Credit all photos: Michael Austen
Hamble, Hampshire, UK:
Shifty conditions upset the pecking order on a few occasions, and final results in two classes required protest room judgements, but the Royal Southern Yacht Club’s AVEVA September Regatta put a lot of smiles on a lot of faces, with handsome trophies for the successful.
KITE SURFER REPORTED IN DISTRESS
At 09:40am on Sunday 22 September 2013, the duty Seahouses RNLI Launch Aurthority was paged by Humber Coastguard and informed that a kiteboarder was being blown out to sea at Annstead rocks, between Seahouses and Beadnell.
INJURED FEMALE REPORTED ON LONGSTONE ISLAND
At 14.05hr on Saturday 21st September 2013, Humber Coastguard paged the duty Seahouses RNLI Launch Authority and requested lifeboat assistance after receiving information from the ambulance service that a woman had fallen and had injuries to leg and wrist on Longstone Island, at the Farne Islands. It was decided to launch the All Weather Lifeboat into the harbour and await the arrival of Paramedics. By 14.43hr, the ambulance had still not arrived, so Humber Coastguard requested the Lifeboat to proceed without ambulance personel (All RNLI Crew are trained to RNLI Casualty Care Medic standard, and the Lifeboat carries a comprehensive Trauma Medical Pack). Whilst the lifeboat was underway to Longstone Island, further information was received from the ambulance service, to say that the casualty was not on the Island but on the rocks at Beadnell Point some 3 miles away on the mainland !
Wutip (Northwestern Pacific Ocean)
This near-infrared image from the AIRS instrument aboard NASA’s Aqua satellite shows Tropical Storm Wutip closing in on Vietnam (left) on Sept. 27 at 2:05 a.m. EDT.
Image Credit: NASA JPL/Ed Olsen
Tropical Storm Wutip formed in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean today after being born on yesterday, Sept. 26 as Tropical Depression 20W. NASA’s Aqua satellite passed over the tropical cyclone as it was intensifying and saw banding of thunderstorms circling the storm.