05 JUNE 2021 A vessel reported to be the largest in the Iranian Navy caught fire and sunk in the Gulf of Oman near Iran’s southern port of Jask. The supply ship Khark was reportedly operating a training exercise in international waters not far from the Strait of Hormuz. The Iranian Navy …
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04 JUNE 2021 The burnout-out containership X-Press Pearl is continuing to slowly settle to the bottom off Sri Lanka with the salvage and firefighting teams continuing to monitor the situation while the investigation into the disaster continues. The owners of their vessel also apologized for the disaster while defending the …
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04 JUNE 2021 On May 7, a pipeline system carrying almost half the fuel used on the east coast of the United States was crippled by a major cyber attack. The five-day shutdown of the Colonial Pipeline resulted in widespread fuel shortages and panic-buying as Virginia, North Carolina and Florida …
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03 JUNE 2021 The global maritime community is calling for enhanced efforts to tackle the rising menace of piracy in the Gulf of Guinea with the adoption of new IMO resolutions on increased collaboration. The resolutions adopted at a meeting of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) safety committee are centered …
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02 JUNE 2021 As part of the world’s longest-running analysis of extremely low birth weight (ELBW) babies born prematurely, scientists have discovered that the genes of male ELBW babies age more quickly than those of full-term male newborns. We’re talking about biological aging or senescence here: these men aren’t suddenly rushing through …
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01 JUNE 2021 PLEASE RED IT FOR FUN ! How long is your little finger compared to your ring finger? This is what it says about your personality! Is your little finger shorter, longer or the same height as the upper line of your ring finger? There are loads of …
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31 MAY 2021 Long hours and overwork are likely to be causing hundreds of thousands of deaths a year around the globe, according to a new study from the World Health Organization (WHO) – and the problem is getting worse. In 2016, researchers estimate that around 745,000 people died worldwide from strokes …
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30 MAY 2021 Humanity’s vast problem with single-use plastics doesn’t come out of nowhere. Before this avalanche of transient, throwaway waste is disposed of in landfill or by burning – unless it finds its way into the natural environment – somebody gets paid to produce it, making money by bringing this inevitable pollution into existence. Now, …
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29 MAY 2021 Asthma affects hundreds of millions of people around the world, but an experimental vaccine offers new hope to successfully treat this chronic lung disease, linked to hundreds of thousands of deaths each year. So far the prototype vaccine has only been tested in animals, but the researchers now …
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28 MAY 2021 On National Maritime Day, in addition to honoring mariner heroes from 1776 forward, I also like to reflect on the significant challenges that the merchant marine faced during the preceding 12 months. This year, that exercise was eye opening! We were well into the pandemic by this …
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