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A United States Coast Guard Charter Boat Captain's Credential refers to the deck officer qualifications on a Merchant Mariners Credential which is a small book that looks similar to a passport and is issued by United States Coast Guard for professional mariners in the United States commanding commercial passenger vessels up to 100 gross tons as a Master, captain or skipper.
The International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea 1972, also known as Collision Regulations (COLREGs), are published by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and set out, among other things, the "rules of the road" or navigation rules to be followed by ships and other vessels at sea to prevent collisions between two or more vessels.
CSS Louisiana was a casemate ironclad of the Confederate States Navy built to aid in defending the lower Mississippi River from invasion by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She took part in one major action of the war, the Battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip , and when that ended disastrously for the Confederacy, she was ...
Ship stability diagram showing centre of gravity (G), centre of buoyancy (B), and metacentre (M) with ship upright and heeled over to one side. As long as the load of a ship remains stable, G is fixed (relative to the ship). For small angles, M can also be considered to be fixed, while B moves as the ship heels.
The search for a man who went overboard on a cruise ship heading from Louisiana to Jamaica has been suspended, the U.S.
Ship Image Year designated Arizona: USS Arizona (BB-39) [citation needed] Two earlier iterations of USS Arizona [citation needed] California: Californian (state tall ship) 2003 [1] Connecticut: USS Nautilus (SSN-571) 1983 [2] [3] Freedom Schooner Amistad (state flagship and tall ship ambassador) 2003 [3] Delaware: Kalmar Nyckel (state tall ship ...
The United States Coast Guard rescued a man in southern Louisiana on Thursday, November 24, after he fell off a cruise ship on the evening of November 23, officials said.Nighttime footage posted ...
The ports of New Orleans, South Louisiana, and Baton Rouge cover 172 miles (277 km) on both banks of the Mississippi River. The Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet Canal (now closed by a rock dike built across the channel at Bayou La Loutre) extends 67 miles (108 km) from New Orleans to the Gulf of Mexico, and the channel up the Mississippi River from New Orleans to Baton Rouge runs at a 48-foot (14 ...