11/30/2012 BBB 2nd Release

AMERICAN ADMIRALTY BOOKS

Alexander Von Humbolt II , Photo by Hans George Schroder

                Presents a Reprint of the Original Book Announcement for

                                   

               BLOOD ON BROWN WATER  

This was the original book announcement from the National Mariner's Association last summer. The announcement provides all the information needed to order a spiral bound soft cover copy. We produced the book in serial form in the blog space over the summer and now have it available to read  in its entirety and in sequential order in our "Merchant Marine Interest Section. We are still making some editorial improvements in the series physical appearance, but it is all there, free of charge. We want our readers to read this work, even if we never sell a single copy, encourage others to read the work, and act on it! Congress did not stop its partisan bickering long enough this session to even consider the NMA's Second request to Congress. NMA starts lobbying again in the Spring for the occupational safety and health of our domestic fleet and Jones Act merchant mariners. BLOOD ON BROWN WATER is the TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST of the 21st Century.              

NATIONAL MARINERS ASSOCIATION

                                  For Immediate Release

E-mail: info@nationalmariners.us

Website: www.nationalmariners.us

Asserting our right “…to petition the Government for redress of grievances.”

Amendment 1, U.S. Constitution, Dec. 15, 1791

TO: NMA Members

FROM: Richard A. Block, Secretary, NMA

Our Association is working hard to put a complex message across to the 112^th Congress. While most of our individual “limited tonnage” mariners try to cope with day-to-day problems on the job, many are left to solve these problems on their own. Our Association deals with some of the broader problems that mariners put on our doorstep.

Recent History shows that any changes for the better for our 126,000 “limited tonnage” mariners will come by way of Congress only if they understand what is really going on and then press the Coast Guard to make any changes that are warranted. Unfortunately, it takes more than a written report to bring about change.

Recently, NMA Mariner #39 volunteered much of his own time and effort to walk the Halls of Congress on Capitol Hill and hand-deliver and discuss with Congressional staffers the contents of three NMA Publications, namely our reports on …

 Abuse of Mariners Under the Two-Watch System (NMA Report #R-370, Rev. 4)

 Deplorable Treatment of “Limited Tonnage” Mariners (NMA Report #R-202, Rev. 5).

 Mariner Indictment of Careless Personal Injury Reporting Practices (NMA Report #R-350-Y).

As a result, we have become much more visible to those Senators and Representatives that, through their committee assignments should be concerned with our mariners.

We are preparing one last effort in the new book listed below. This approach needs to have much wider distribution to other members of Congress who may not be those on the targeted committees and subcommittees – in other words, YOUR Representative or Senator!

We are out of money! We ask you to order one or more copies of our latest book BLOOD ON BROWN WATER and then do the following….

 First, read it yourself. Tell us what you think!

 Call the office of your U.S. Representative and/or one or both of your U.S. Senators (listed in the phone book), leave them a copy of the book, and ask for an appointment to discuss those areas that you are most familiar with.

 Call your local TV or Radio Station and do the same thing.

 Loan the book to and talk with other mariners. We need more members to support our efforts.

Our new book is…

“BLOOD ON BROWN WATER”

Table of Contents

Prologue

Chapter 1 America’s Invisible Merchant Marine Fleet

Chapter 2 Third World Work Hours and Life Expectancy in the Invisible Fleet

Chapter 3 The Industry Abandons Its Sick and Injured Mariners

Chapter 4 An Industry That Eats Its Young

Chapter 5 The Short Leash

Chapter 6 The Black List

Chapter 7 Foreign Seamen are Employed and Mistreated

Chapter 8 No Next Generation of Seamen

Chapter 9 If Injured Seamen Are Ruined

Chapter 10 A Danger to More Than Just Themselves

Chapter 11 You May Never Be Able to Go Home Again

Chapter 12 The Last Message From The Alamo

Chapter 13 How you Can help Our Mariners

Here is how one “blog” describes the book….

http://americanadmiraltybooks.blogspot.com/ 

MERCHANT MARINE INTEREST:

ANOTHER TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST?

FLASH! This Isn’t Your Grandfather’s NMA REPORT #R-370, Rev. 4.

You must read “BLOOD ON BROWN WATER”

We’ve been following this for a while and have reported on it in these pages twice. It’s worth saying again. As you read this, approximately 126,000 of America’s 210,000 plus merchant seamen are working under third world conditions. On March 28, 2012 we described how the National Mariner’s Association (NMA) had described these conditions in great detail in their new report to Congress Report No. 370, Rev. 4 that deals with working conditions in parts of the inland towing and off shore work boat industries where the “Two Watch System” prevails. Crew members on such vessels work at a minimum under present rules, 12 hours per day for officers, and 15 hours per day for men. What’s sad is that these excessively long work days were intended by Congress to be maximum working hours, not minimum; but lax regulatory enforcement and profit motives by shipping management have combined to make these horrific hours floors and not ceilings on long work days. NMA Report 370, Rev. 4 describes the working hours and other abuses in detail, outlines the status of the existing laws and regulations, and provides graphic details on examples of particular abusive practices. This report has been circulating through the halls of Congress since late March. On April 16, 2012 we described in full the resulting “Second Request to Congress” ‘by the NMA where in the NMA proposed specific legislative actions for the relief of these seamen. Back in March we asked in our blog if it wasn’t time for another Richard Henry Dana whose nineteenth century book TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST launched decades of reform of working conditions in America’s deep sea fleets. We have long felt that the long suffering segments of America’s Jones Act fleets needed a book that appealed to the general public and clearly described the working conditions in the unreformed fleets

It happened! Capt. Richard Block, the Secretary of the National Mariner’s Association and author/editor of NMA Report R-370, Rev. 4 has made his appeal in print to the general public with the publication of his BLOOD ON BROWN WATER. The reader who wonders just how such primitive and unhealthful working conditions could survive in twenty first century America need no longer wade through the grim but dry statistics of an NMA report, or skim over legal citations. BLOOD ON BROWN WATER is the agony, and the injustice, the courage, and the pain of the real world on the wet side of the levee and beyond the beach line without submitting the reader to the dry text of an OSHA report. We urge the general public to read this and then call your congressmen and senators. For information on how to obtain a copy of BLOOD ON BROWN WATER contact the National Mariner’s Association at www.nationalmariners.us or Marine Education textbooks at: http://marineeducationtextbooks.com/

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12/30/2012

       AMERICAN ADMIRALTY BOOKS NEWS FLASH

Alexander Von Humbolt II,Named for the Oceanographer, Photo by Hans George Schroder

                          HOW FAR WILL THE DRAGON SWIM? 

CHINA ANNOUNCES THAT IT WILL BOARD AND DETAIN VESSELS IN DISPUTED ZONES. CHINA HAS BITTER TERRITORIAL DISPUTES WITH VIETNAM, TAIWAN,  PHILIPPINES, AND JAPAN. THIS CAN NOT BE GOOD NEWS. POLICY CHANGE ANNOUNCED AS EFFECTIVE AS OF JANUARY 1,2013.      

Police in the southern Chinese island province of Hainan will board and search ships which enter into what China considers its territorial waters in the disputed South China Sea, state media said on Thursday, a move which could raise tensions further.

The South China Sea is Asia's biggest potential military trouble spot with several Asian countries claiming sovereignty.

New rules, which come into effect on January 1, will allow Hainan police to board and seize control of foreign ships which "illegally enter" Chinese waters and order them to change course or stop sailing, the official China Daily reported.

"Activities such as entering the island province's waters without permission, damaging coastal defence facilities and engaging in publicity that threatens national security are illegal," the English-language newspaper said.

"If foreign ships or crew members violate regulations, Hainan police have the right to take over the ships or their communication systems, under the revised regulations," it added.

China's assertion of sovereignty over the stretch of water off its south coast and to the east of mainland Southeast Asia has set it directly against Vietnam and the Philippines, while Brunei, Taiwan and Malaysia also lay claim to parts. 

Click on link below for full story

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Latest-News-Wires/2012/1128/Chinese-officials-will-board-seize-ships-in-disputed-waters

11/29/2012 Namazu Theme by Oh Land

AMERICAN ADMIRALTY BOOKS 

ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLT II, NAMED FOR THE OCEANOGRAPHER, PHOTO BY HANS GEORGE SCHRODER

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Namazu Giant Japanese Catfish Former Demigod , Now AAB Analyst

                                       NAMAZU THE EARTH SHAKER 

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Prologue to Blood on Brown Water

AMERICAN ADMIRALTY BOOKS: BLOOD ON BROWN WATER  REVISITED 

PROLOGUE

Alexander Von Humbolt II, Photo by Hans George Schroder

Merchant Marine Interest: Here you will find the original prologue to the serial by American Admiralty Books, a link to the National Mariner's Association, and a listing of relevant reports by the NMA. The actual 79 page document is contained in the Merchant Marine Interest Section. Click on "Merchant Marine Interest" in the column of special interest pages to your right and once in, scroll past the last book review. 


BLOOD ON BROWN WATER: Prologue

First part of a serialization of Blood on Brown Water, NMA Report No.R- 213 by Capt. Richard Block which is now making the rounds of the Halls of Congress.


http://www.nationalmariners.us/researchreports.html

 Check out "Rpt 370". or  contact the National Mariner's Association at 985-851-2134. NMA Report 370 is Blood on Brown Water with all of the detail, foot notes, legal citations. and statistics

 PROLOGUE:

 As you read this book, many of America's 126,000 merchant seamen who serve on vessels of less than 1,600 gross tons (I.e., about 60% of the entire 210,000 U.S. merchant mariners) are laboring , and some are even dying under third -world working conditions on the rivers and inland waters of the United States, on the American Outer Continental Shelf waters, and off the coast of Alaska. The United States Coast Guard, OSHA, the Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security, and relevant Congressional Committees are well aware of this situation.

 Of more immediate concern to you, the reader, is the fact that these conditions all too often result in mariners so impaired on the navigation bridge that their cognitive performance is no better than that of a driver under the influence of alcohol. In the last few decades these fatigue impaired mariners, victims themselves of under manning and overwork in the service of greedy corporations, have struck many bridges over navigable waters and have sent dozens of automobiles, one passenger train, and one bus hurtling into the waters below with tragic and fatal results.

 These mariners serving mostly in the Jones Act domestic trades on our near coastal and inland waters aboard vessels of limited size but still able to inflict real damage on our maritime infrastructure are rarely served by labor unions that provide responsible training for their members. These mariners have no voice in the work place and are routinely abused and forced into fatigue induced states where no person should ever be operating machinery of any sort much less navigating vessels capable of taking down bridges, power lines, and damaging other structures. These same fatigued mariners are attempting to unload people and cargoes in high seas from supply vessels to offshore oil rigs and often being killed and maimed in the process. Our mariners, unlike their employers, belong to no powerful lobbying organizations able to offer cushy retirement jobs to senior Coast Guard officers; and, above all, our mariners have been easy to ignore.

 Much of this happens to our mariners out of sight of land or in remote locations wherever the industry functions. It happens to mariners scattered across many Congressional districts. It happens during or at the end of their weeks to months' long tours of duty. Our mariners make up a majority in no Congressional District.

 While losing a tugboat or an OSV or one or two deckhands may be front-page news in Texas, Louisiana, or other local media outlets, it probably won't make the national news, and the crew members' homes will be widely scattered mostly rural counties in the South. The boat company is free to recruit more hands to replace the dead and the entire process is reduced to a mere inconvenience. 

 When complaints are lodged with government regulators and departmental Inspectors General, they are dismissed as "labor disputes". When the occasional ordinary citizen is killed crossing a bridge at the wrong moment it draws little notice nationally. Such "civilian deaths" while all too common are nonetheless spread apart by time and distance and nobody seems to see the pattern except a tiny voice in the wilderness known as the National Mariner's Association whose accurate, alarming, but relatively dry and and technical reports are routinely shelved by all responsible branches of government. 

 In this book we will tell you, as members of the American Public, some of the true horror stories of what is going on offshore or even "inside the levee" in the hopes that an aroused public will be able to move Congress to act, where the rattle of dry facts and figures have been unable to do so. Seafaring American merchant seamen once faced similar conditions. Reform began with the publication of a single book-Richard Henry Dana's "TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST". Today's blue-water American merchant seamen are protected by statute from excessive work hours and improper provisioning, and by strong unions that insure decent working conditions. By contrast, too many of our Jones Act seamen do not even receive the woefully inadequate protections of the minimal regulations that apply to them. The result is death, dismemberment, and debilitating injury for both seamen and occasionally the innocent bystander in the thirty six American States served by inland and coastal navigation.

 We can't wait for another Richard Henry Dana to appear so we have brought some of the on-going horror stories straight from the pages of the National Mariners Association's documents. We urge you to read, and then to react by contacting Congress and demanding reform. (To be continued)

The following reports from the NMA illustrate some of the accidents mentioned in passing in the Prologue.To order reports click on the hyper link provided below.

http://www.nationalmariners.us/researchreports.html

Maritime Accidents – Bridge Allisions.

£R-293-A.  Rev.3.  June 1, 2008.  Towboats and Bridges, A Dangerous Mix.,  28p.  $6.60.

£R-293-B.  Rev. 6. Dec. 7, 2008.  We Urge Congress to Look Into Overhead Clearance Accidents.  13p. $3.60[Previously numbered #R-411, Rev. 4, June 1, 2008]

£R-293-C.  Apr. 25, 2005.  Allision Involving the M/V Brownwater V and the Queen Isabella Causeway Bridge, Port Isabel, Texas Sept. 15, 2001.  37p.  $8.40  [USCG Report Reprint.] [Also see Report #R-399.]

£R-300.  Jan. 9, 2002.  Chao, Secretary of Labor vs. Mallard Bay Drilling, Inc.  [Reprint of U.S. Supreme Court Decision]  10p.  $3.00.

£R-301.  Uninspected Towing Vessel Workplace Safety Considerations. 42p.  $9.40.

£R-302.  Guide for Investigating for Fatigue.  [Reprint of Transportation Safety Board of Canada report]. 26p.  $6.20.

Namazu addresses periodicals

11/28/2012


NAMAZU ADDRESSES PERIODICALS IN THIS LATEST UPDATE

  READ LIKE A CATFISH:OUR LATEST UPDATE

"Change is inevitable, and the warfighter who refuses to to stop living by the sword will die by the gun."(Lt.(jg) Matthew R. Hipple writing in "Cloud Combat", July 2012 issue of the Naval Institute PROCEEDINGS page 49)

        http://www.usni.org/                                                                         


Editor's note:   If you are new to our publication you may find this a bit unusual. Namazu is our 3,000 year old Japanese giant catfish former demigod currently employed as a coastal environmental analyst with American Admiralty Books. If you would like to find his previous first person writings we have an index by date in our INDEX and SITE GUIDE. Namazu lives at the bottom of the Sea of Japan and tends to see things "in depth", his insights often stun. Namazu is drawing an ever increasing following and we were asked to publish his list of recommended readings. Namazu's reading suggestions are so extensive that we simply can't do it in a single list but so many people expressed interest in getting started that we decided to publish what he sends in the way of a reading list updated as soon as we receive new materials. We then link the suggestions to book descriptions and vendors. But today Namazu addresses maritime periodicals for the first time. If you would like to know more about Namazu, the "Catfish Perspective"and the "Read like a Catfish " program read the black letter section below. If you are a regular follower of Namazu the black letter material has been presented before. You may want to skip to the next red letter paragraph to pick up on the remarks that Namazu recently sent over the hydrophones about periodicals.

 People who have read "NAMAZU FULLY LOADED: THE FUTURE OF AMERICA" keep asking how this 3,000 year old catfish knows so much. Well, obviously being 3,000 years old gives one a unique and very deep historical perspective. While Namazu generally hangs out in the Pacific off the Sea of Japan he is a world traveler as his recent visit to our office demonstrated. Being able to take human form on rare occasions gives one an inter-species broad breath of perception. But how is he  able to predict the future? Namazu says that the ability to predict the future was never in his union contract as a "demigod", a term he now describes as "unfortunate and inaccurate."He maintains that he uses the same type of analytic tools as human prognosticators but better quality, and of course he has that unique historical and global perspective. Namazu claims no future predictive accuracy much  greater than the best computer enhanced, human team of forecasters. He does claim to use better data, some of it quite expensive as we learned in that little controversy over the "NAMAZU FULLY LOADED" references. We have asked Namazu to share with his fans a reading list that will help readers to master the Catfish perspective. He has promised to keep his suggested reading list within reasonable retail pricing and to stay away from suggesting some of the data bases that he occasionally accesses that costs thousands of dollars. So today we present the first installment of the NAMAZU READING LIST.

Editor's note: Today Namazu wrote about maritime periodicals in general and one in particular, naming his favorite periodical and article in recent months. We did not realize that he had so much interest in naval affairs. Here is Namazu on maritime periodicals:

 "When I was asked about what I read, and believe me when you've been around 3,000 years and have no arms or legs like my mortal catfish brethren, you really read a lot; I started with books that were related to my then most recent post, 'NAMAZU FULLY LOADED PARTS 1 & 2 :THE FUTURE OF AMERICA'. I'm really not through with that list yet but in the interest of Holiday season sales I did digress a bit at the request of management and named my favorite coffee table book, and I did agree with the editorial board's selection of maritime book of the year. I will get back to books shortly and I'll continue with selections related to my postings but need to say early on that books alone won't impart to you the catfish perspective. If you want to read like a catfish you have to read periodicals too. The maritime periodicals are what keep you up to date with what is happening out there right now and give you a glimpse into the future.


  To the human mind lacking in the catfish perspective one might think that life at the bottom of the Sea of Japan is quiet, dark, and just about completely out of touch with the life of the surface and the coastal zones. But those of you who read some of my earlier material know that I was well aware of surface life early on, since the debris of war at sea, and the wreckage of ships caught in storms often led to trash descending from what I once considered the "sky" onto my living room floor. Periodic trips to the surface similar to whale "spy hopping" clued me in to humans and their shipping. On annual morphs into other forms I began adopting human characteristics and visited coastal communities and learned quite a bit more. Printing came much sooner to China and Japan than it did to the West, but it was thousands of years before anyone was putting out really reliable and timely periodicals on maritime subjects. Then one day in 1874 about a year after its founding I discovered the U.S. Naval Institute and ultimately the U.S.NAVAL INSTITUTE's PROCEEDINGS. 

THE U.S. NAVAL INSTITUTE'S PROCEEDINGS IS MY NUMBER ONE PICK IN MARITIME PERIODICAL READING.   http://www.usni.org/ 

 This publication accepts well written, properly researched and logically reasoned articles from naval, and maritime professionals from the U.S. sea services and other navies, coast guards, marine corps, and merchant marines around the world.  Since the start of the twentieth century I've found the seafloor to be an increasingly noisy place. It began with engine and propeller noise and then escalated to the various forms of sonar which in the hands of human operators vice whales and dolphins is especially noisy and annoying to us fish folk. There are a lot of maritime periodicals out there. You can link into most of the really informative ones that publish E versions in the American Admiralty Books NEWS SERVICE, but my number one choice, the maritime periodical that I never miss and always read cover to cover every month is the NAVAL INSTITUTE's PROCEEDINGS.

My number one favorite article in recent months was CLOUD COMBAT Thinking Machines in Future Wars by Lieutenant (Jg) Matthew R. Hipple.page 49 of the July 2012 issue. I've seen the march of human technology since the very beginning. Mr. Hipple's grasp of the the very visible future of the technological potential impact on naval warfare dovetails with my thoughts on the economic future of America expressed in the 'NAMAZU FULLY LOADED' series. I described how technology is going to reduce the labor force needed to create the World's wealth and how things will have to change when the bulk of mankind can only find intermittent employment at best. In CLOUD COMBAT Mr. Hipple first paints a detailed picture of future developments in the growth of autonomous technologies in war and then confronts the questions of how to both exploit the advantages of these technologies and yet not  remove so much of the human element from the targeting loop that war degenerates into a simple mechanized slaughter. He doesn't propose to have all of the answers for where the human mind must be in the targeting and attack decisions loops of the future, but he introduces us to the issue and forces us to think seriously about it. Mr. Hipple's description of the related technological "progress" raises our sense of urgency about the issue. Finally,  he comes down squarely on the side of making progress on these technologies and adapting them to war fighting. I have to credit him with my favorite quote in at least the last five months from the many fine PROCEEDINGS articles:

"Change is inevitable, and the warfighter who refuses to stop living by the sword will die by the gun."

 I join our Chief Editor Johnas Presbyter in urging every maritime professional, but especially every Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, NOAA Corps, USPHS, and Merchant Marine professional out there, commissioned, warranted, enlisted, licensed or unlicensed to join the U.S. Naval Institute and read religiously the PROCEEDINGS. Consider giving an annual membership to your new grad NROTC student, Midshipman, Cadet, newly commissioned ensign, or newly licensed Third Mate. A catfish spends a lot of time quietly on the bottom, then once in a great while makes quite a show on the surface. That is the entire legend of "Namazu the Earth Shaker".  If you want to develop the 'Catfish Perspective", if you want to think like a catfish, you have to read like a catfish and catfish worth their salt are devoted readers and subscribers to the Naval Institute Proceedings:    http://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings

 There are many other important maritime periodicals out there. Most have links in our NEWS SECTION, and I will address them over time. But during the Holiday rush I wanted you to know my favorite and to suggest to all of my many fans to consider the gift of a USNI membership this season to any maritime professional in your family of circle of friends

 THE NAMAZU READING LIST IS NOT REVIEWED BY THE AMERICAN ADMIRALTY BOOKS EDITORIAL STAFF OR BOARD. THESE RECOMMENDED PUBLICATIONS ARE THE SOLE OPINION OF NAMAZU THE EARTH SHAKER

THE VOTES ARE IN AND THE CATFISH SPOKE HIS MIND, THE AAB AND NAMAZU AGREE ON THE BOOK OF THE YEAR: The Winner Is.....................

THE WAY OF THE SHIP: AMERICA'S MARITIME HISTORY REINVISIONED 1600 -200  by W. Jeffery Bolster and Alexander Keyssay (published 2007)

 American Admiralty Books gives this history a rare "recommended" rating meaning that we think every marine professional should have this volume in his or her personal professional library. Click on the link below the book cover image to read more or to order.

                                                           

http://www.amazon.com/Way-Ship-Americas-Reenvisoned-1600-2000/dp/0470136006/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1353904516&sr=1-1&keywords=THE+WAY+OF+THE+SHIP

Check it out in our MERCHANT MARINE INTEREST SECTION or read about it at Amazon via the link above

THE NAMAZU PICK FOR MARITIME COFFEE TABLE BOOK OF TH E YEAR

Illustrations, photos, drawings, plans histories and more on the schooner designs of William Burgess, Cox and Stevens, Samuel Crocker, the greats of  American schooner design  A reference work for yacht designers, and nautical historians ,and a work of art for the rest of us. If you have a serious sailor on your Christmas list  just click on the book cover icon link below and put one of these babies in your Amazon shopping basket.
http://www.amazon.com/Great-American-Schooner-Yachts-Rudolph/dp/0764340891/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1353900463&sr=1-1&keywords=GREAT+AMERICAN+SCHOONER+YACHTS 

           Check it out in our sailing and boat building sections or at Amazon via the link above.


READINGS RELATED TO NAMAZU POSTINGS:

 In this first installment Namazu reminds readers that oil isn't the first commodity to drive the global economy. In the ancient past other commodities have had serial central roles. The first step in understanding the role of oil in the global economy is understanding the rise and fall of predecessor central commodities. Namazu suggest that if you weren't actually alive and involved in ocean shipping for the last 3,000 years that the following books can help you to see the global economy from the catfish perspective: Click on the book cover icons to read more about, or to order the books.

   SPICE THE HISTORY OF A TEMPTATION by Jack Turner



 SALT: A WORLD HISTORY by Mark Kurlarshy      


  THE DEVILS MILK, A SOCIAL HISTORY OF RUBBER                                                                    
                                                                       
                                                                                        
   CLAY, THE HISTORY AND EVOLUTION OF HUMANKIND'S RELATIONSHIP WITH EARTH'S MOST PRIMAL ELEMENT by Suzanne Staubach

The one commodity that is presently driving the world economy and which Namazu sees as having a shift in its center of gravity towards the United States driving a strong economic recovery in the next several years is of course oil. To better understand the global oil based economy Namazu suggests the following.

AND THEN THERE IS OIL THE SUBJECT OF NAMAZU FULLY LOADED PARTS 1 &2: THE FUTURE OF AMERICA. YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND OIL TO UNDERSTAND THE PRESENT AND THE NEAR FUTURE 

Start with this primer : OIL 101  by Morgan Downey

(The Book covers are not hyperlink Icons a single hyperlink is at the bottom of the book covers, This link takes you to "THE QUEST" and all of the other hyper links can be found by scrolling down from there)

Then get deeper into the skull duggery:

 


                                             

     





  CLICK ON THE "QUEST "ICON FOR THIS BOOK AND FIND THE LINKS TO THE REST BY SCROLLING DOWN AT THE" QUEST" SITE.


COASTAL ZONE EROSION AND PROTECTION

Click on the hyperlink below to read a description or to order

http://www.amazon.com/Mitigating-Shore-Erosion-Sheltered-Coasts/dp/0309103460/ref=sr_1_11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1353899953&sr=1-11&keywords=Coastal+Zone+Erosion+and+Protection

                                   
 BAYOU FARWELL by Mike Tidwell the story of the rapidly eroding Louisiana coast , the disappearing environment and human culture. Available as a book or on Kindle click on the above icon and then click on the book cover icon in Amazon to read excerpts.

                                           

Coastal Building Codes and Design:

                                             


NEW NAMAZU READING LIST SUGGESTIONS WILL BE PUBLISHED WEEKLY, POSSIBLY MORE OFTEN. 

TO DEVELOP THE INCREDIBLY COMPLEX AND INSIGHTFUL CATFISH PERSPECTIVE.....
YOU HAVE TO READ LIKE A CATFISH!   GO DEEP!

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11/28/2012 B/B serial announcement 2
                         

                        AMERICAN ADMIRALTY BOOKS PROJECT REPORT

THE LONG OVERDUE SERIALIZATION AND LONG TERM RELOCATION OF

                         BLOOD ON BROWN WATER

Alexander Von Humbolt II, Photo by Hans George Schroder

Last Summer the National Mariners Association attempted to stir public opinion to get the Congress to do something to end the unnecessary carnage among America's Jones Act Merchant Seamen who in large numbers in the Gulf of Mexico off shore service vessel industry and the inland towing industry are laboring under Third World working conditions.  The tool that the National Mariners Association hoped would propel the effort into public visibility was a book called BLOOD ON BROWN WATER. Here is a link to a YouTube musical video published by Jerry Collins , lyrics by Larry W. Jones, Music by Jerry Collins titled "TIDEWATER MARINE YOUR BOATS RIDE LOW". We urge you to click in, watch and listen, and like it on FaceBook. It will give you a lot of the sights and feel for the offshore service vessel industry and the lives of the crews that bring you America's oil. We hope it becomes the unofficial theme song of the campaign for occupational safety regulation of this industry bloodied by so many accidents. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbeC8y7ulxg                                              Below is the original press release.

                                                             

For Immediate Release

National Mariners Association announces the Release of "BLOOD ON BROWN WATER".

The National Mariners Association (NMA) long noted for lengthy documented and foot-noted reports on maritime occupational safety and health issues, especially in the inland towing and offshore workboat industries, has released its first publication intended for the general public. Their publisher Marine Education Textbooks (MET) of Houma, LA, has long produced Coast Guard license exam-prep textbooks, the American Admiralty Bureau's series on marine legal topics, and similar works of a technical maritime nature. This is MET's first venture into a general interest publication though the subject is maritime. BLOOD ON BROWN WATER is the story of personal injury and ill health caused by working conditions under the two-watch system in use throughout the industry told in language free of technical jargon and legal citations intended to alert the general American public to working conditions in certain sectors of the maritime industry that the book describes as "Third World."

The opening statement in the book is the expressed hope that BLOOD ON BROWN WATER will result for the mariner working on certain commercial vessels of less than the 1,600-ton range the same type of protective movement that Richard Henry Dana's "TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST” inspired for 19th. century merchant seamen.

74p. Coil bound. 8½x11.” $15.80 +S&H.

Order from Marine Education Textbooks, 124 N. Van Ave., Houma, LA 70363. 985-879-3866

 We knew the claims of the National Mariner's Association (NMA) as contained in their numbered report on the issues and in their "Second Request to Congress" were accurate, and the injury to the work force unacceptable. With the permission of the NMA we reprinted the book in installments in our blog. We didn't really know what we were doing editorially but over the space of a month or so we managed to post the entire 74 pages on the blog. The result while readable, was very truncated. We had hoped to find a semi permanent place where people could read it for free in our special pages. There we hoped to display it in a single scroll that could be read without having to jump around the dated appearances in the original daily blog postings which so often had unrelated material in between chapters and chapter sections. So much time went by trying to figure out where to put and how to get the cut and paste and editorial work done that we began to feel that the time had passed. We did not reckon with our grid locked Congress. Now nearly a year later we have learned that absolutely no progress has been made on the NMA's Second Request to Congress. The time is not past, it is yet to arrive. The Congress will struggle with an unsatisfactory non solution relative to the "Fiscal Cliff" they invented for themselves until this present Congress closes out. The struggle for necessary maritime safety and health regulation will begin again in the Spring. We still believe that BLOOD ON BROWN WATER is the simplest explanation for the general public of what America's domestic fleet merchant mariners need and want. Perhaps now with a year of experience under our belt we will be able to do a better job of bringing the contents to the general public. In the blog space over the next several days we will be bringing various elements of our earlier presentation. While we are doing that the entire 79 page document is being edited and relocated where our readers will be able to easily find it and read it in its entirety in one sitting of desired.  

11/27/12

 AMERICAN ADMIRALTY BOOKS:  NEWS FLASH/LINK

Barque:  ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLT II, Named for the Oceanographer

Photo by Hans Georg Schroder

INTERCEPTS: The Official Blog of DefenseNews has the story:

X-47B unmanned test aircraft hoisted aboard ship for first sea tests (videos and photos) by Christopher P. Cavas

Covered in protective wrapping, the X-47B sits on a barge before being hoisted aboard the aircraft carrier USS HARRY S. TRUMAN (CVN 75) at Norfolk naval base on Nov. 26. In the background is the amphibious assault ship USS WASP (LHD 1). (U.S. Navy photograph)

One of two Northrop Grumman X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) demonstrator aircraft was barged down from Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland, and arrived on Nov. 26 at Norfolk naval base, Va., where it was promptly hoisted aboard the aircraft carrier USS HARRY S. TRUMAN (CVN 75).  This marks the first time one of the stealthy aircraft has been on board a ship

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Click here for the full story:    http://blogs.defensenews.com/intercepts/2012/11/x-47b-unmanned-test-strike-aircraft-hoisted-aboard-ship-for-first-time/

                                                                                                                            

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11/27/2012

                   AN AMERICAN ADMIRALTY VIDEO LINK

 Alexander van Humbolt, Photo by Hans George Schroder

                                  
PIRACY:  VIDEO "BACKGROUNDER"

    U.S.NAVY COUNTER PIRACY PATROL 29 minute video cruise with U.S. Navy pirate hunters.

•  Both here in the blog space and in our News Service Section in recent months we have been spending a lot of time covering the anti piracy efforts in the Gulf of Aden. Here is a 29 minute U.S. Navy video that, provides an excellent "backgrounder" on our coverage of the Gulf of Aden piracy problem. Click on the hyper-link below and crank up the sound, for a more visceral appreciation of what's going on in the Gulf of Aden. We assure you this video will raise your interest level and understanding of the news coverage of the issue.

Click on the hyperlink below to view the video

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=0vXJFU4h7DM

Our News Service is fully operative including our headline service but it has been rearranged. You will now find links to the World's maritime journals near the top of this section and our head line service and retained headline service is now lower on the scroll. The below samples will give you an idea of both the sources that we link you to for the full news treatment of each headline, and our actual headline services. We don't plan on carrying the daily maritime news on the Station Identification, Weekly Bulletin Board, or anywhere else in the opinion blog postings. We occasionally displace the normal programming here to alert our readers to certain important events but the place to follow all of the maritime news is our NEWS SERVICE, one of the SPECIAL INTEREST Pages listed to your right. China Lands Jet on New Aircraft Carrier

11/27/2012 In The News

                    AMERICAN ADMIRALTY BOOKS

ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLT Photo by Hans Schroder

IN THE NEWS RECENTLY:

Our News Service is fully operative including our headline service but it has been rearranged. You will now find links to the World's maritime journals near the top of this section and our head line service and retained headline service is now lower on the scroll. The below samples will give you an idea of both the sources that we link you to for the full news treatment of each headline, and our actual headline services. We don't plan on carrying the daily maritime news on the Station Identification, Weekly Bulletin Board, or anywhere else in the opinion blog postings. We occasionally displace the normal programming here to alert our readers to certain important events but the place to follow all of the maritime news is our NEWS SERVICE, one of the SPECIAL INTEREST Pages listed to your right.

China Lands Jet on New Aircraft Carrier 

The People's Liberation Army's navy has reached a new milestone.we have a hyperlink to the full story and a video by g captain

http://gcaptain.com/china-lands-jet-on-newaircraft-carrier/

Exporting Natural Gas Would Add Billions to the US Economy

BY GCAPTAIN STAFF ON NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Don't forget that you heard this news about natural gas first out of the mouth of our own NAMAZU the Earth Shaker in now famous post election day blog post NAMAZU FULLY LOADED PARTS 1 AND 2 THE FUTURE OF AMERICA. Here is the same fact set, presented somewhat differently by g Captain.

http://gcaptain.com/exporting-natural-billions-economy/

Vietnamese Authorities Recapture Hijacked Tanker

http://worldmaritimenews.com/archives/69946

South Africa: Cape Town Agreement Adopted

A diplomatic conference to consider a new agreement aimed at implementing the provisions of an international treaty on fishing vessel safety has adopted a new agreement on fishing vessel safety, to be known as the “Cape Town Agreement of 2012 on the Implementation of the Provisions of the 1993 Protocol relating to the Torremolinos International [...]

http://worldmaritimenews.com/archives/67039