The Swedish Club has launched its “COVID-19 Handbook,” offering clear, simple and practical advice to help both those at sea and those on shore to face the day-to-day challenges posed by the pandemic. These challenges have caused the whole shipping industry to pull together and provide a quantity of high-quality and informed advice to those formulating policies in these new and difficult
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Nuclear Radioactive Materials in the Oil and Gas Industry by Khalid Al Nabhani and Faisal Khan is a book that comprehensively discusses the TENORMs generated from various types of oil and gas processes and their associated adverse human health effects; effective TENORM waste management strategies; and quantitative risk analysis. The book thoroughly investigates current knowledge, addressing the three main gaps identified in available
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Dr. Christopher Lavers has published a new edition of his best-selling book “Reeds Vol 6: Basic Electrotechnology for Marine Engineers” in the Reeds Marine Engineering and Technology Series. He is a physics lecturer and subject matter expert in maritime and remote-sensing subjects at Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth. This book provides comprehensive coverage of the basic theoretical work required by
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Thomas Teague has worked in the tugboat industry since 1974, when he was hired as a deckhand, and he now commands a tugboat in New York Harbor. Teague has assembled a collection of stories of his adventures on board: “Tales from a Tugboat Captain.” The book tells how Teague got started in the tugboat industry and gives an inside look
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A eyewitness to profound change affecting marine environments on the Newfoundland coast, Antony Adler argues that the history of our relationship with the ocean lies as much in what we imagine as in what we discover. We have long been fascinated with the oceans, seeking “to pierce the profundity” of their depths. In studying the history of marine science, we
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