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Coming Ashore? 10 Things You Should Do When Interviewing
10 Things You Should Do When Interviewing by Matt Furhman – Faststream Last week we brought you the Top 10 Things You Shouldn’t Do When Interviewing. Hopefully you did a self evaluation and were able to catch yourself guilty of too many...
What Jobs are Done with Dynamic Positioning? – Pt. 5
The fifth in our series of Dynamic Positioning job types. Make sure to check out the other entries in the series: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, & Part 4. Heavy Lift This serious operation has a large potential for disaster should something go wrong. ...
What Jobs Are Done With Dynamic Positioning? – Pt. 4
Part 4 in our series continues on with a look at Dynamic Positioning & how it is used on more conventional, deep sea vessels. Make sure to look at Part 1, Part 2 & Part 3 as well! Shuttle Tankers Used for running product between FPSO’s...
What Jobs Are Done With DP? – Pt.2
Part 2 in our series about the jobs that are done with Dynamic Positioning Vessels. You can view the first part of the series HERE. ROV Boats Another important task offshore is ROV support. An ROV, or Remote Operated Vehicle, is a tethered robot d...
U.S. Seafarers Already Seeing Affects of Proposed Changes to Jones Act
Upon arrival in the office this morning, I had the following press release from about 4 people sitting in my inbox. It reads: The impact of proposed changes to the Jones Act and the use of foreign flagged vessels in the US offshore sector is alread...
gCaptain Announcement - Maritime Job Section Launched!
Today, we are excited to announce the launch of the all new Maritime Job Section on gCaptain.com! This decision finally comes after numerous requests and a high demand from gCaptain community members, not to mention our own frustrations in dealing ...
