Professional Mariner - March 2022 - Professional Mariner

NTSB: Mate misjudged approach speed in Virginia bridge strike

Island Lookout before the incident voyage. A mate helming a towboat in the Intracoastal Waterway misjudged his tow’s approach speed before colliding with a swing bridge near Chesapeake, Va., according to federal investigators. The 1,350-hp Island Lookout was eastbound in the Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal when its single barge BH 2903 hit the Centerville Turnpike Bridge as it swung…

Rt. Hon. Paul J. Martin passing through the Lower St. Mary River in early January.

The (DOE) report predicts that during the offshore wind ... construction period, there will be a need for 31,300 full-time-equivalent jobs per year. Mariners are in high demand as the labor shortage that has impacted countless shoreside industries has taken hold in the maritime trades. There are many reasons, including retirements among older mariners that are creating openings faster…

Chef on Great Lakes freighter dishes on an unusual cooking career

Schmuck published Ship to Shore Chef, which contains recipes and stories. Catherine Schmuck has cooked on 22 ships during her maritime career. Meals on Schmuck’s ships include burgers.Beef stew.Turkey dinner.Roasted duck.he documents her travels on social media with images that include sunset over the Soo Locks. Rt. Hon. Paul J. Martin passing through the Lower St. Mary River in early…

Maritime high schools can prepare the next generation of mariners

Back when I was a kid, my dad would tell me what it was like working in the merchant marine. He sailed as an able seaman and boatswain, and I loved hearing his tales of working on a tanker off Venezuela, a stick ship in Africa and a freighter in Alaska. After dad retired, one of his friends who’d heard…

LOOKING BACK

Looking Back is a new feature in Professional Mariner that will run in this space each issue. It will primarily showcase work by our longtime Gulf Coast correspondent Brian Gauvin, who retired last spring. For a generation, Brian documented the maritime industry throughout the Gulf and beyond. His vast archive of photos contains many that have never been published before,…