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• Chilean Earthquake Tsunami – Videos March 10, 2010
  Yesterday we showed you maps of the tsunami created by the February 27th 8.8 magnitude Chilean earthquake.  Today we follow up with a collection of videos of the actual tsunami as it reached shores along the Pacific.  All videos are aggregated by the International Tsunami Information Centre. An International Post-Tsunami Field Survey is being coordinated by […]
• Hospital ship USNS Comfort sailing home from Haiti March 10, 2010
  By Steve Sternberg, USA TODAY The U.S. Navy hospital ship Comfort pulled up anchor Tuesday in Port-au-Prince and began the long trip home to Baltimore, ending its role in Operation Unified Response-Haiti. The ship’s departure brings to a close a dramatic naval mission launched three days after the Haitian earthquake Jan. 12, when the ship’s crew ended [...] […]
• Shipping IPOs Ready to Embark March 10, 2010
  By Scott Eden NEW YORK (TheStreet) — About half a decade after the first maritime shipping concerns sold shares to the public on U.S. stock exchanges, another fleet of IPOs is preparing to set sail into the capital markets of New York. Kicking it off on Wednesday is the expected pricing of two new issues — an [...] […]
• Pimp My Ship! March 9, 2010
  Fit out the phattest sea-ride… Make your suggestions to the best, wildest fantasy ship, and see your ideas come to life By Ryan Skinner for 59° 56′ N Somewhere, at some time, someone probably said: "Yeah, this ship’s OK, but it’d be better if it had…." And anyone who’s ever seen MTV’s Pimp My Ride knows that all [...] […]
• Chilean Earthquake Tsunami – Mapped March 9, 2010
  This post is brought to us by Peter Mello of Sea-fever.org (via NOAA), in two seperate installments.  The first post a map of Ocean Energy Distribution Map from Chile Earthquake Tsunami (shown above).  Peter writes: 8.2-foot tsunami wave expected to strike Hilo, Hawaii 11:05 a.m. local time (4:05 p.m. ET) according to the Pacific Tsunami Warning [...] […]

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• Deep-Sea Robot Lost at Sea March 11, 2010
  A deep-sea exploration robot — one of the first successful submersible vehicles that was both unmanned and untethered to surface ships — was lost at sea Friday, […]
• T&T Marine Salvage Responds to Oil Spill March 11, 2010
  T&T Marine Salvage helped clean up an oil spill after a collision between an oil tanker and a barge spilled 450,000 gallons of crude oil into the Sabine-Neches Waterway. […]
• MarineCFO Nominated, Tech Co. of the Year March 11, 2010
  MarineCFO has been nominated for the Louisiana Governor’s Technology Company of the Year Award. The Governor’s Technology Award honors organizations […]
• Ocean Carriers, Others Pay Penalties March 11, 2010
  The Federal Maritime Commission announced four compromise agreements in which an ocean carrier and intermediaries agreed to pay a total of $625,000 in civil penalties […]
• Hijacked UBT Ocean Arrives off Somalia March 11, 2010
  On March 8, the chemical tanker Marshall Island flagged UBT Ocean hijacked on March 5, was reported to be in the vicinity off the pirate stronghold east of Haradere. […]

Marine Propulsion News

• Ultrajet Power Three High-Speed Catamarans March 11, 2010
  Ultra Dynamics supplied three sets of twin UltraJet UJ377 Waterjet installations to South Boats for their New Mk II GRP 43/12m WFSV RRV Catamarans RRV Audrey, Offshore Response 1, and Spike Islander. […]
• London Places Power Turbine Order March 10, 2010
  H. Cegielski – Poznan S.A. has ordered two MAN Diesel TCS-PTG18 Power Turbine systems from MAN Diesel’s Turbocharger Business Unit. The TCS-PTGs will […]
• MAN B&W Tier-II Engine Ready for Delivery March 5, 2010
  The first Tier-II compliant MAN B&W engine has finished production at HHI-EMD (Hyundai Heavy Industries Engine & Machinery Division) in Korea and is ready for delivery. […]
• Wärtsilä Powers Polar Supply & Research Vessel March 1, 2010
  Wärtsilä has signed a contract with the STX Finland Oy shipyard in Rauma, Finland, to deliver four Wärtsilä 32 engines for a Polar Supply and Research Vessel. […]
• STX Emergency Gen-Sets February 24, 2010
  Relative to the huge MAN B&W ship engines manufactured at the STX Engine Company factory on the southern coast of South Korea, their emergency generators are small in size. […]

Ocean Energy News

• Best Rank Enters the Solar and Renewable Energy Marketplace, Educates Companies on the Benefits of Internet Marketing March 10, 2010
  Best Rank, Inc. plunges into the renewable energy industry, seeing numerous opportunities to help companies with cost-effective, online marketing techniques, such as SEO/SEM, social media channels, web design, etc. […]
• Best Rank Creates New, Environmentally-Friendly Cloud-Based Site Search Technology March 9, 2010
  Best Rank's new Cloud-Based Site Search technology is the first development of a cloud-based software product suite to reduce costs along with environmental impact. […]
• CLEAN ENERGY PATENTS HIT RECORD HIGH IN 2009 -Clean Energy Patent Growth Index March 9, 2010
  Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C. is pleased to announce results for the fourth quarter of 2009 for the Clean Energy Patent Growth Index (CEPGI) by the firm's Cleantech Group, along with the year end 2009 results. […]
• Video: Renewable Energy World Conference and Expo A Huge Success March 3, 2010
  Last week, close to four thousand renewable energy professionals gathered in Austin, Texas to take part in the 7th Renewable Energy World Conference and Expo. Attendees took part in technical tours to places such as the Ercot Control Center and Austin Energy, conference sessions that covered pressing renewable energy topics and walked the show floor where […]
• Marine Energy Hydropower Test Center Expanding Workforce as Demand Grows March 2, 2010
  A leading marine energy hydropower test center for wave and tidal energy technologies is expanding its workforce to meet the growing demands of companies developing devices that harness energy from the sea. […]

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