http://netvouz.com/gcaptain?feed=rss&pg=2 gcaptain's bookmarks on Netvouz http://gcaptain.com/maritime/blog/indestructible-usb-flash-drive/ MAximumPC tested the Survivor USB Flash Drive by dunking it in boiling water, freezing it, flinging it against a concrete wall, burning it with a butane torch, dropping it down four flights of stairs, and attaching it to a car muffler during a lunch outin gcaptain Thu, 11 Oct 2007 08:17:28 GMT http://gcaptain.com/maritime/blog/may-9-1980-tampa-skyway-bridge-disaster/ In light of the recent San Francisco Bay Bridge, ship allision here s a look at the nations worst maritime bridge disaster. gcaptain Fri, 09 Nov 2007 03:53:13 GMT http://gcaptain.com/maritime/blog/kite-powered-ships/ You've seen kite surfing, same concept only MUCH bigger kites. gcaptain Fri, 05 Oct 2007 03:54:04 GMT http://gcaptain.com/maritime/blog/maritime-flags-of-convenience-visualized/ It is well know that our Nation's Merchant Ships gave us the supplies needed to win WWII but with 33,222 merchant ships in the world today how many do you think fly the American Flag? You'd be surprised by the answer this Visualization clearly shows. gcaptain Mon, 18 Jun 2007 12:48:06 GMT http://gcaptain.com/maritime/blog/moon-setting-on-calm-water/ An amazing photo, taken using a technique we published in “Shipboard Digital Camera Tricks“. Many more great moon pictures by the photographer, Licya, can be found HERE. gcaptain Wed, 05 Sep 2007 11:52:47 GMT http://click%20on%20the%20image%20for%20the%20hi-res%20version.%20the%20photo%20was%20taken%20using%20a%20technique%20we%20published%20in%20a%20story%20titled%20%E2%80%9Cshipboard%20digital%20camera%20tricks%E2%80%9C.%20many%20more%20great%20moon%20pictures%20by%20the%20photographer,%20licya,%20%20can%20be%20found%20here./ An amazing photo, taken using a technique we published in “Shipboard Digital Camera Tricks“. Many more great moon pictures by the photographer, Licya, can be found HERE. gcaptain Wed, 05 Sep 2007 11:49:14 GMT http://www.star-telegram.com/245/story/259201.html Last month, six W80-1 nuclear-armed AGM-129 advanced cruise missiles were flown from Minot Air Force Base, N.D., to Barksdale AFB in Louisiana and sat on the tarmac for 10 hours undetected. Press reports initially cited the Air Force mistake of flying gcaptain Tue, 09 Oct 2007 18:53:02 GMT http://gcaptain.com/maritime/blog/one-million-rescues-by-the-united-states-coast-guard/ In a tough week that included the a record number of saves off the oregon coast the saviors of the sea reached a milestone; 1,000,000 Rescues! In a press release today Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff wrote: “What began as a revenu gcaptain Wed, 01 Aug 2007 08:31:53 GMT http://telstarlogistics.typepad.com/telstarlogistics/2007/11/container-ship-.html At 8:30 am this morning, the Cosco Busan, an 810-foot container ship, collided with the base of one of the towers of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge while the ship was under the control of a Bar Pilot. The crash created a huge gash in the side of the gcaptain Fri, 09 Nov 2007 04:51:03 GMT http://gcaptain.com/maritime/blog/pasha-bulker-photo-slideshow/ A neat slideshow of the coal ship "pasha bulker" that went aground on nobby's beach in newcastle australia. gcaptain Fri, 29 Jun 2007 15:25:08 GMT