Join me in the fight to save the Glacier
I was delighted to be named to the board of The Glacier Society this week, the non-profit foundation fighting to save the historic icebreaker U.S.S./USCGC Glacier from demolition.
I have joined the fight to preserve this important piece of American maritime history and relocate her to Miami’s downtown “Notch”, where plans are to transform her into the world’s most comprehensive, interactive environmental museum.
The Glacier, as an historic ship, is an emblem of our commitment as an Arctic nation and represents a past era of polar exploration and is an ideal platform as a valuable educational facility for future generations.”
“The Mighty G” or “the Big Red One” (nicknames give to Glacier by the Navy and Coast Guard, respectively) is currently in Brownsville, TX awaiting destruction… Continue reading
Prosperity is not around the corner.
My eye was caught by a recent article: “Tanker Sector May Be Over the Worst”, quoting a Norwegian bank’s analysis that the tanker market, including VLCCs, suezmaxes, aframaxes, panamaxes and medium range clean product tankers, has bottomed out. Continue reading
Movement on the ground, at last?
Like that wonderful nonsense song, “Yes, We Have No Bananas”, international anti-piracy policy has had its internal contradictions. It has often been recognized that piracy off Somalia could not be defeated without an improvement in national security in the Horn of Africa’s most chaotic nation. Continue reading