4/16/2013 Station Identification and Notice Board


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TUESDAY APRIL 16, 2013

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IN THE NEWS TODAY: Of course we are watching the investigation unfold in Boston . As our regular readers know our staff has a high level of interest in terrorism, particularly international terrorism as it affects ocean going commerce and port operations. We are usually pretty opinionated and out spoken but we are fact based and analytic , and at the moment we don't have any more information than the national media. Because we read foreign language and foreign owned English language media we have often been the first to offer insights that our national media is a week or two picking up behind us. But we are more of an on line library that happens to have a book store and some shops to support us instead of taxes and fines than a news organization. But if we find anything unusual we'll post here. Meanwhile we solicit your prayers for  the people of Boston and their visitors who were affected by this attack on America.

Despite the attention focused on Boston we continue to monitor the China Seas where the dragon continues to misbehave. But the Dragon doesn't confine his naval misbehavior to the near sea, today in the blog space we carry the story of the reptile on ice, in the arctic Waters that we share with Canada, Iceland, Greenland, The Scandinavian nations and Russia. The Dragon has announced that he intends to play in our near seas as well.


The U.S. Navy has sent one of its bomb disposal units to Boston to assist in the aftermath of the second Attack on America.
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IN THE BLOG SPACE TODAY:  FREE STUFF-Check out the new free downloadable booklet charts from NOAA all the information you need to get yours in the blog space today 
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THE BIG LINKS LOCKER:

UNLOCKING THE MARITIME WORLD: Our mission is literally to  unlock the maritime world by making all English language maritime data easy to find,  available, evaluated when possible, and affordable. We suggest checking our subject pages to your right first, by clicking on the subject section most like your particular interest. These pages will bring you to short introductions,  free links, free videos, book reviews and book lists on the subjects. If that doesn't answer your question come back here and click any of the "super links" below that appear most appropriate, the broadest and most general is hyper linked just below. This is an entire web site of nothing but links to maritime websites and blogs of every description.

"The Mother of All Maritime Links": http://www.boat-links.com/boatlink.html#top 

If you don't find the book you need among those we have reviewed so far or linked to click into the Amazon general search engine via the link below or as provided within our special interest sections which you reach by clicking on their titles listed to your right.

GENERAL MARITIME BOOK SEARCH :

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=admiralty%2C+marine%2C+maritime%2C+boating

We think the following links to major sites aligned with our "Special Interest Pages" can often provide answers to commonly asked questions:

ADMIRALTY or MARITIME LAW:

http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/admiralty 

Note: The Cornell site when you arrive in the Admiralty section has two tabs : "Overview" and

"Resources". If you are doing legal research the "Resources" tab is a fast route into most relevant statutes, and regulations, Supreme Court Cases, and even some state cases.

GENERAL MARITIME NEWS

WORLD MARITIME NEWS:

http://worldmaritimenews.com/

MARITIME TV: Videos and television broadcasts on all manner of maritime subjects http://www.maritimetv.com/

NAVAL HISTORY:

Naval History Blog, Joint Effort of the U.S. Naval Institute and the Naval history and heritage Command.

http://www.navalhistory.org/

NAVAL NEWS:
USNI NEWS:  http://news.usni.org/author/slagrone  

A NAVAL NEWS CLIPPING SERVICE: NOSI Naval Open Source Intelligence:

http://www.nosi.org/


OCEANOGRAPHY: The Scripts Institute

http://scrippsnews.ucsd.edu

SHIP RESEARCH: 

SHIPINDEX.ORG

Find publications that mention a particular ship recently or deep into recorded history:  http://www.shipindex.org/  limited free service very reasonable short and long term subscriptions.

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NEWS OF NAMAZU THE EARTH SHAKER

NAMAZU, giant Japanese catfish former demigod, turned maritime analyst

Namazu is our senior maritime analyst and star commentator, many visitors check in just to see what the giant catfish has to say lately. When he has something new we post it in this space. Other wise his stuff is all over the blog postings and an index to his posts is in the INDEX AND FINDING AIDS SECTION. Most recently, we revisited a Namazu classic WHERE IS THE MERCHANT IN THE AMERICAN MERCHANT MARINE?
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To read more about the China sea issues from sources other than us visit our NEWS SERVICE there are links there to the World's maritime periodicals, news papers, and even "Maritime TV"