6/4/2013 Station Identification and Notice Board

WELCOME TO AMERICAN ADMIRALTY BOOKS

                    YOUR PORTAL TO THE MARITIME WORLD          

                                             TUESDAY JUNE 4, 2013

We Welcome Back Our Favorite "Cover Girl" The S/V ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLT II As We Start The Week Out With  A Green Theme With Descriptions Of Ocean Clean Up And Coral Repair Programs And Requests for donations To These Worthwhile Projects.

                                    

                                                   

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TUESDAY JUNE 4, 2013   

TO VIEW A SHORT VIDEO DESCRIBING THIS SITE CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFw32RRJY98
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THE NATIONAL ANTHEM TODAY IS PERFORMED AS THE FULL VERSION, MANY AMERICANS HAVE NEVER HEARD THE COMPLETE LYRIC, WHAT IS SUNG AT MOST PUBLIC EVENTS IS A SHORTENED VERSION 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAYPN-1Yjt0 Full Lyric version

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NOTICE:     BACK THE BOT THE DRIVE IS STILL ALIVE!

THE FUND RAISING  PROJECT FOR THE CORAL BOT-"SWARM ROBOTICS" FOR THE REPAIR OF DISTRESSED CORAL REEFS CONTINUES. HAVE YOU BACKED THE BOT?  http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/restoring-coral-reefs-with-robots  Please, all of you who pledged on Kick starter click on the link above and donate on Indiegogo. This time we have 52 days to raise less money than was actually raised on Kick Starter. The Bot still needs money beyond that, but setting the fund raising efforts in smaller increments makes it  more likely that the funds will actually be delivered . The present goal is for $30,000 which should be easily achievable, it is less than was actually pledged on Kick Starter. Indiegogo projects differ from KickStarter, all funds are delivered to the approved project whether the funding goal is met or not. But fund drives do come with deadlines . At the end of the 60 day period a project is allowed to run it must shut down so that others may draw attention. IF YOU CAN GET THE BOT TO THE GOAL IN UNDER 60 DAYS OTHERS GET ON FASTER AND THE BOT GETS BACK IN LINE FOR EXPOSURE QUICKER.  

  PUT THIS BOT TO WORK! http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/restoring-coral-reefs-with-robots

Ocean Bots: Learn about, and hopefully contribute to the development of these diving robots intended to help repair the world's damaged coral reefs . To learn more about the Coral Bot and its team of developers  or to contact them  click here:  http://www.coralbots.org/   

SWARM ROBOTICS,   A  " HIVE MIND" BENT ON THE COMMON GOOD, CORAL REEFS.  These are all terrible things to waste. 

WE STILL "BACK THE BOT" WE URGE YOU TO CONTRIBUTE AND WE'LL KEEP YOU POSTED ON PROGRESS RIGHT HERE.

TO CONTRIBUTE CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW:
 http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/restoring-coral-reefs-with-robots

Over the weekend very little was apparently raised.   Over $ 23,000 yet to raise  & 52 days to go on this solicitation. 
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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.. At the end of last Thursday's s second posting Namazu predicts the most probable year for the start of the China vs Japan, Philippines, and U.S. naval war over the islands of the China Seas. On Memorial Day  he retold the story of Sgt. Reckless the Marine corps horse, and non biped war heroine.

 Today Namazu is hard at work doing the project he always dreamed of. We still can't afford that cube farm full of researchers dedicated to his self selected projects that he keeps asking for. But we gave him temporary command of every junior researcher available for his next project which will track the path from :minimal regulatory compliance to Operational excellence in ocean mineral exploration and production, with an insightful look at how present applicants for High Arctic drilling permits stack up on that long curve between "minimal regulatory compliance" and "Operational excellence"

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SCROLL DOWN FROM HERE:  To read today's posts and keep scrolling to read older posts, or click on a date for posts in the right hand column. We will soon have a new feature, a parallel blog where among other things it will be easier to find certain blogs. Blogs that fit into series descriptions like our How Far Will The Dragon Swim? will be on a single scroll in date order from oldest on top to newest on the bottom or the reader can run the arrow to the bottom and start searching from the most recent to the oldest by scrolling up. This is not the only feature of the parallel blog which is going to help  reduce clutter in the primary blog space, but also revolutionize our INDEX and USER'S GUIDE, and provide easy to find deep background materials. The parallel blog just began construction today but you are welcome to visit: http://americanadmiraltybooks2.blogspot.com/ 

IN THE BLOG SPACE TODAY: Not in order of occurrence: (1) The CoralBot "Ought to be Patented" Pick Up System (revisited by popular demand. (2) Namazu on Sun TZU

SPECIAL INTEREST PAGES SUCH AS ADMIRALTY LAW, DIVING, FISHING, BOAT BUILDING ,ETC. : Click on the title of interest in the column on your right.

New Feature under construction American Admiralty Books 2 Supplemental , reference, and background readings related to the posts and special interest pages her in the primary blog.

http://americanadmiraltybooks2.blogspot.com/    It is in the very early stages of construction.