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Rendering of two waterways commerce cutter variants: an Inland construction tender (left) and river buoy tender (right). The inland buoy tender variant will be acquired separately. Rendering courtesy of Birdon America Inc.

Coast Guard commandant grilled at House hearing

Pamela Glass

Merchant Mariner Credential — A sample Merchant Mariner Credential. Coast Guard image.

Consider additional insurance coverage

Chris Richmond

WorkBoat file image

GOP promises offshore wind hearings

Kirk Moore

BOEM photo

Offshore wind and DOD clash

G. Allen Brooks

U.S. Coast Guard Responds to Deepwater Horizon Explosion — Offshore service vessels battle the blazing remnants of the offshore oil rig Deepwater Horizon on April 21, 2010. USCG photo.

Deepwater Horizon: The costs continue

Nabors Industries — Photo courtesy of Nabors Industries

WorkBoat stock index finishes the first quarter on a down note

David Krapf

IMO photo

Congress to promote US maritime jobs

Pamela Glass

Transocean — Photo courtesy of Transocean

The oil and gas money train returns

Jim Redden

Fireball ferry — The crew of the Fire Island Ferries 276-passenger Fireball was presented with a public service award from the Coast Guard in 2020 in Bay Shore, N.Y. The Fireball crew rescued six boaters on July 26, 2020, after their boat capsized near Fire Island, N.Y. Fire Island Ferries photo

Get involved and learn

Olympus, Shell’s seventh, and largest, floating deepwater platform in the Gulf of Mexico. Shell photo

Will oil industry deals upset the offshore recovery?

G. Allen Brooks

2016_January_RiverStars_BARGE_Still_4 — Photo courtesy of Ben Powell / BARGE

Don’t take anything for granted

Joel Milton

oil-tanker-FPSO-CC-Jon-Olav-Eikenes — An oil tanker approaches a floating production, storage, and offloading vessel. Creative Commons photo by Jon Olav Eikenes.

OPEC+ surprises with a voluntary 1.15 million bpd cut

The Marine Electric as seen underway before its capsizing and sinking on Feb. 12, 1983. Photo: U.S. Coast Guard

40 years ago: The sinking of the Marine Electric