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10-Minute Ship Reports: Monday through Thursday, featuring Daily Ship Traffic, Marine Weather, News and Interviews
Ship Report Minutes: On Fridays, where we answer listener questions. Short and sweet!
Ship Report Minutes: On Fridays, where we answer listener questions. Short and sweet!
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Last weekend a typhoon his western Alaska north of the Aleutians, with devastating consequences for coastal communities there. A reminder to all of us who live on the edge of the world, that most of our weather comes to us from the ocean.
The post A look at Alaska’s recent coastal weather disaster appeared first on The Ship Report.
In the ancient Roman calendar, the Ides of March marked the 15th of that month, and a fateful day in history for Roman Emperor Julius Caesar. In Shakespeare’s play, named for him, the story recounts a historical fact: that Caesar was assassinated on March 15 (The Ides of March) in the year 44 BC. Thanks […]
The post A look at the ship schedule, the weather and the origin of the term “ides” on this, the Ides of October appeared first on The Ship Report.
While all ships are inherently interesting, we have a few unusual ones passing by on Tuesday. One will visit the Port of Astoria. We’ll see a new Military Sealift Command replenishment oiler headed to the Portland shipyard, a container ship (we don’t see them as often as we used to) headed to the Port of […]
The post Interesting ships on the river Tuesday appeared first on The Ship Report.
Today we’ll look at transit times, how long it takes a ship to go from one place to another at sea, and here on the river.
The post A look at transit times – how long it takes to get from one place to another by ship appeared first on The Ship Report.
This week marks 15 years since the pilot boat Peacock was lifted out of the Columbia River and placed on land, on the campus of the Columbia River Maritime Museum in Astoria, where she welcomes people traveling past the museum on Marine Drive. She’s now a retired icon of Columbia River shipping, but when she […]
The post The pilot boat Peacock, now a museum exhibit, was a real game changer for Columbia River commerce appeared first on The Ship Report.
We’ve got an abundant ship schedule today, so let’s see who’s on the river today, moving cargo, or waiting their turn.
The post A look at who’s on the river today appeared first on The Ship Report.
i got an interesting listener question, about the way that marine pilot’s board a ship using a pilot ladder. The answer illustrates how dangerous the job is, and how much pilots must rely on their own expertise and judgement, moment to moment, to safely do their jobs.
The post Listener question about marine pilots and how they board ships appeared first on The Ship Report.
Today we’ll talk about an interesting and unusual sight that happened on Sunday on the river: a big bluewater cruise ship was heading downriver and out to sea from Portland. We’ll talk about why she was all the way upriver in Portland, since such ships generally stop in Astoria and go no further upriver except […]
The post A blue water cruise ship heads downriver after a stint in Portland appeared first on The Ship Report.
Today we’ll take a look at this week’s storm, which brought stormy conditions some places around the region, but missed others.
The post A look at our eccentric regional weather appeared first on The Ship Report.
Well, in typical Mother Nature fashion, she’s doing what she likes, and our predicted storm is a bit late. But arrive it will, and will likely make things messy for vessels out in it, and delay departures for ships that are in port here. We’ll talk today about what to expect, with the usual caveat, […]
The post Update on the weather appeared first on The Ship Report.
We have some of our usual, messy fall weather coming in today, and I thought it would be a good time to review some of the weather jargon we start to see in our forecasts at this time of year, and what those words and numbers mean. We’ll talk about ships on the bar in […]
The post Weather comin’ in appeared first on The Ship Report.
Big changes happening as of this week, with regard to the show. Beginning this week, the Ship Report will no longer air on KMUN on Fridays, but will air Monday-Thursday instead, and as a podcast on my website at shipreport.net. KMUN will air the Ship Report twice a day on the radio, at 8:49 am […]
The post Big changes to the Ship Report this week appeared first on The Ship Report.
We see many signs of fall in the Pacific Northwest, as cruise ships head south and one beloved ship, the icebreaker USCGC Polar Star, heads home to Seattle to prepare for another round of her annual mission: Operation Deep Freeze, where she breaks a navigable channel through pack ice to open McMurdo station to the […]
The post The Polar Star is home from Antarctica, a sign of fall in the Northern Hemisphere and spring in Antarctica appeared first on The Ship Report.
A look at today’s ship traffic, and a change in the weather coming this weekend.
The post Who’s on the river today? appeared first on The Ship Report.
The Columbia River is a busy water highway, with lots of vessels working, many of them upriver in places that folks near Astoria and even upriver in Portland and Vancouver, don’t see. Today we’ll talk about some of what happens as vessels do their work upriver.
The post On any given day, there’s a lot going on upriver with vessels that downriver folk don’t see appeared first on The Ship Report.
One of my favorite ships is here in town: the research vessel Atlantis. She’s owned by the US Navy and operated by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, located on Cape Cod. She’s been doing research on underwater volcanoes in the Pacific in recent years. She comes into Astoria occasionally to change crews, pick up supplies, […]
The post The research vessel Atlantis is at the Port of Astoria appeared first on The Ship Report.
Today we’ll talk more about the weather, which is in for a change this weekend, and about an unusual meteorological phenomenon we could see called the coastal jet that happens from time to time here. It causes winds along the coast to speed up, sometimes dramatically, while winds offshore can be much calmer.
The post The Coastal Jet: an interesting weather phenomenon we could see here this weekend appeared first on The Ship Report.
The next two weeks are packed with astronomical happenings: a new moon, a solar eclipse, and the autumnal equinox. We’ll talk about them in the context of our natural maritime world, where life continues in habitual patterns that play out in tides, moon cycles and waning daylight at this time of year. And, our coastal […]
The post New moons, tides, solar eclipses – all part of our cyclic natural world appeared first on The Ship Report.
Tis morning we’ll see the Serenade of the Seas, a big, blue-water cruise ship that will be docked at the Port of Astoria all day. She’s on her way back down south for the winter, having stopped here in May when she was headed north for a summer of cruises in the Puget Sound region […]
The post Serenade of the Seas visits Astoria on a repositioning cruise appeared first on The Ship Report.
Well, I’m back, at least mostly upright – after a supposedly mild (it didn’t feel very mild to me) bout of pneumonia! I was flat out on the couch last week, but I’m glad to be back, though I’m moving slowly. Looking forward to reclaiming my energy in the coming weeks. Today we’ll talk a […]
The post A bit about the weather, a solo sailor, ships and… a touch of pneumonia… appeared first on The Ship Report.
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this one made me weap. thank you for sharing.