Tweet Britain’s Heritage Lottery Fund has awarded a grant of just under £1 million to the SS ROBIN, which will allow the ship to re-open to the public. Floating above the water on purpose-built pontoon, SS ROBIN returned to her London home last summer after a three year restoration program. The…
Tweet Update 4: February 3 – The PNG Maritime Safety Authority says 246 people have been pulled from the sea, vessels and aircraft are still searching. The Authority’s Captain Nurur Rahman said that people can survive for 3 or 4 days in the warmer water, and they will continue searching…
Tweet Update: February 1, the U.S. Coast Guard has received a salvage plan submitted by Foss Maritime, owners of the stranded DELTA MARINER. Local divers have confirm that debris from the bridge was not in contact with the ship’s hull and importantly that the hull did not sustain any significant…
Tweet Two bills, Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa) and Protect Intellectual Property Act (Pipa) being debated by Congress right now. While I am firmly against internet piracy, I believe these bills, if passed, could fatally damage the free and open internet. In reaction to these over broad and badly written…
Tweet January 19 — Third update: After a day delay caused by a slight shift in the position of the wreck, rescue efforts resumed aboard the wrecked COSTA CONCORDIA off the island of Giglio off the coast of Tuscany. As of today the number of people listed as missing stands…
Tweet SS PACIFIC STAR (ex ARTSHIP, ex GOLDEN BEAR), after being sold for $1, is now under tow to ESCO Marine in Brownsville, Texas, where she will be scrapped. Following an auction on November 7, 2011 at 9:00 a.m. on the steps of the United States District Court for the…
Tweet In ship historian Peter Newall’s words, “COSTA CONCORDIA (snip) the largest passenger ship to be lost in peace time, with passengers aboard, since TITANIC, 100 years ago”. Today another survivor, a senior member of the ship’s crew, was brought out of the overturned hull. The man is reported to…
Tweet Today, the Dutch salvage firm SMIT is reported to have been contracted by the owners of COSTA CONCORDIA to pump fuel oil from the capsized ship at the entrance of the port of Giglio, Italy. SMIT has several experts at the ship to coordinate, with local assistance, the removal of…
Tweet Update: According to Italian media reports, two people were discovered alive on board the ship late on Saturday night. Rescuers have managed to speak to a man and a woman but cannot not yet reach them. The survivors are stranded two decks down on the half-submerged ship. After sunrise…
Tweet Appearing like a dream, spirited back from the beach of doom, OCEAN DREAM (ex SEAWARD, SPIRIT OF LONDON, SUN PRINCESS, STARSHIP MAJESTIC, SOUTHERN CROSS, FLAMENCO I, NEW FLAMENCO) was reportedly sold for scrap and had been laid up for over a year off Singapore, yet survives in a new…
