Rishab Joshi is marine engineer with extensive experience of tanker vessels. Presently working with General Maritime Corporation (GMC), he loves reading maritime case studies and reports on trending issues. Also an amateur photographer, he doesn’t miss a chance to use his camera while at sea. Currently busy writing an e-book on oil tankers.
3rd Officer Rahul Gupta captured this beautiful picture of seawater with two different colors while sailing from Arabian Sea to Persian Gulf. Checkout this amazing photograph which is also our photo-of-the-day inside the article.
The Great Lakes form an important internal navigable channel in the Central North American region. However traversing through these water areas isn’t easy and many ships in the past have succumbed and irrevocably lost in their swirling depths. Here are the top 10 great lakes shipwrecks.
The video shows a container ship in heavy storm with a tensed crew and a messed up bridge.
The anti-fouling paint is so designed that it gets removed gradually by the flow of water. As the ship moves forward in the seawater, the anti-fouling paint gets eroded at a very slow rate. This brings fresh layer of biocide to the surface, which acts as toxin for the marine growth and prevents it to stick to the hull’s surface.
Diar Yudianto sent us some great photographs of rough weather in the Taiwan Strait while sailing on tanker vessel MT Sun Hope. They have been selected as our photo of the day. Check them out.
Main engine bearings are opened up for inspection or renewal if their is a breakdown in the rotating equipment, grounding/ accident, or for routine maintenance and survey. Learn important steps that must be considered while checking engine bearings.
The Stad Ship Tunnel is a proposed ship tunnel that would bypass the Stad Peninsula in Selje, Norway – one of the most exposed and dangerous areas for ships along the coast of Norway.
Mark V Class Vessels are the world’s largest Ro-Ro ships owned by Wilhelmsen and constructed by Mitsubishi. The advanced Mark V Class is a series of four vessels Roro with M/V Tonsberg as the first.
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