On Friday, the Indian Navy patrol vessel INS Trishul saved the crew of the Indian bulker Jag Amar from a pirate attack in the Gulf of Aden. On Friday, the Jag Amar was under way on a voyage from Romania to Jubail, Saudi Arabia. At 1230 hours, a group of 12 suspected pirates in a skiff approached, and her …
Read More »Public and private actors from 112 countries around the world made commitments worth over $7 billion (€6 billion) to tackle global oceans challenges at the Our Ocean Conference 2017 held in Malta on October 5-6. The resources will be invested to strengthen the fight against marine pollution and enlarge protected …
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Crewmembers from the Coast Guard Cutter Stratton recently offloaded 50,550 pounds of cocaine and heroin worth more than $679 million wholesale, which marks a record-breaking year in cocaine seizures for the service. The drugs were seized in 25 different interdictions in the Eastern Pacific Ocean beginning in early August. An increased presence of U.S. …
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A recent literature study on medical care in the US has put forward ten diagnostic procedures and treatments that were overused in 2016, with the intention of highlighting ways that the medical system could be made more effective and more efficient. Medicine is often a numbers game. While doctors do …
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French engineering firm Artelia is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the creation of Port Revel, its ship handling training center specializing in supertankers, LNG carriers and cruise ships. Port Revel is the largest and most technical lake-based ship handling training center in the world and has no equivalent in terms …
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The recent popularity of “designer” dogs, cats, micro-pigs and other pets may seem to suggest that pet keeping is no more than a fad. Indeed, it is often assumed that pets are a Western affectation, a weird relic of the working animals kept by communities of the past. About half of …
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