MarineCraft News Desk 
A U.S. District Court on August 7 sentenced the captain of the shadow fleet tanker Marinera (Bella 1) to jail, followed by deportation for his role in fleeing the U.S. Coast Guard and not obeying orders to stop his vessel.
Leaking crude oil from a tanker grounded off a nature reserve in Oman has created a slick covering almost 400 square kilometres, the country's government said on Monday.The Caroline Bezengi is loaded with close to one million barrels of Russian…
US autonomous vessel developer Saronic has established an operations site at the Port of Gulfport in Mississippi to conduct on-water testing and commissioning of its medium unmanned surface vessels (MUSV).The more than 30,000-square-foot facility includes port access, offices and warehouse…
Flying a drone along a hundred kilometres of pipeline, or out to an offshore platform, means flying it where the pilot cannot see it. That single step, beyond visual line of sight, is where casual drone work ends and a formal safety case begins. Here is what regulators, including Malaysia’s, actually require.
A shipyard can lose a contract before the first weld if its welders cannot prove their qualifications on paper. The welder qualification test looks simple, weld a coupon, test it, but it fails people constantly, and an expired certificate voids a sound weld just as surely as a bad one.
Two pieces of breathing equipment on a ship look similar and are constantly confused. One lets a firefighter enter a burning space. The other only buys a few minutes to escape one. Mixing them up, or letting either run down, is a deficiency that recurs on inspection after inspection.
