WORK WEEK OF 9/16-20/2013

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  This week we started our exploration of current maritime issues on Sunday by linking you to a story of the negative effects of sequestration on the American Blue Water Merchant Marine, especially military transport. On Monday, the Navy Sea Systems Command within the Washington Navy Yard was attacked and 12 Navy personnel were killed, as was what appears now to have been the lone gunman. Later, we examined a couple of issues impacting sectors of our Jones Act or domestic service fleet. 

 We featured the Coast Guard Cutter Eagle on this week's station identification because of the Coast Guard's role as superintendent of the American Merchant Marine.  The two stories carried Monday about regulatory actions impacting the Jones Act fleet sectors may be viewed three different ways. From the Coast Guard's view these are major steps forward in improving marine safety. From the industry management's view these are long avoided measures that they have agreed to in highly watered down versions in order to escape actual effective regulation by a less cooperative agency than the U.S. Coast Guard. From the view point of the National Mariner's Association (NMA) representing 126,000 crew members in our Jones Act fleets these measures are generally too little , too late.  We believe perhaps the best description of the measures that we described for you is that they perhaps represent small incremental improvements in marine safety. 

 

 Yesterday we alerted you to some new features within the blog and gave you a reminder to check in seasonally with our water safety guru Mario Vittone at  http://mariovittone.com/about-mario/   Today another name you see in these pages occasionally Kerry Patton is asking for some research assistance if any of you are familiar with the term "Green Arc" and know how to get illuminating information on this subject please contact Kerry via the link we provide in that posting. The cruise ship Coast Cordovia is right side up as of yesterday for the first time in a long time. We're betting that if she is not sold for razor blades that she gets a name change before reentering service. 

 Today we bring you news that India is bringing home her second aircraft carrier. The "Tigers"as we like to call them have been operating air craft carriers successfully for quite some time. Now for the first time they have two in their fleet. We are certain that number 2 will will be fully operational months before the Chinese, now bringing on line their first ever carrier, have gotten the hang of flying jets off of a floating, rolling, pitching deck. That skill set is a mark of a serious professional navy and India already has it. 

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NOTICE BOARD  : In the Blog Space today: (1) The "Tigers" (India's Remarkable Navy) are bringing home their second  air craft carrier.  (2) We remind our professional Merchant Marine readers once again about the illegality of "head hunters" (personnel recruiters) who charge the seaman for providing a job notice and interview.  Please note that due to some temporary internet service provider issues we may be posting Thursday's features well before midnight U.S. Eastern Standard Time.  Some of our visitors may be receiving Wednesday's features while it is still daylight on Tuesday in terms of California and certainly Hawaii. But we now have readers across the globe and the international date line. We long ago adopted U.S. Eastern standard time as blog time. We post news alerts and special notices any time 24/7. We post regular blog posts and changes to the special interest pages once every 24 hour period generally at a few minutes after midnight Eastern standard time. When we have technical server difficulties we most often change the time for the routine daily posts to between 6 and 9 PM Eastern Standard Time.