Each week we present an audio podcast from our archives An explosion aboard a ship carrying flammable cargo is a master's nightmare. This nightmare will really make your hair stand on end. Listen To The Podcast We're alongside berth number 1 in Santa Cla

Keen darts players will envy the precision with which the Liberian-registered Grand Rodosi neatly speared the, fortunately unmanned, Australian-registered  tuna fishing boat Apollo S, crushed her against the berth and sank her in Port Lincoln on 8 Octobe

Lifejackets are useless unless worn. It's a simple lesson that applies to merchant mariners and fishermen. It' a lesson still not getting across. Britain's Maritime & Coastguard Agency says that 86 maritime deaths between 2007 and 2010 may have been avo

Providing Jobs for young Somalis, neutralising heads of pirate gangs and lifting legal constraints to prosecute and imprison the pirates and criminalize their sea-borne raids in all states are among key measured urged by Jack Lang,special adviser to Secr

We're in the process of tidying up some of our older podcasts and transcripts and here's the latest update. The podcast and transcript is available in the free library. An explosion aboard a ship carrying flammable cargo is a master's nightmare. This n

Three men lay dead in the anchor locker. What they'd needed to live was all around them except in one place: the air they once breathed. Listen To The Podcast Transcript and podcast available in the Premium Library

Failure to report defects on the bulk carrier Ocean Emperor have resulted in conviction of the master in the Cairns Magistrates Court on six charges under section 268(1B) of the Navigation Act 1912. The master had pleaded guilty on 11 August, to all six c

MAC’s interests are nothing if not eclectic so he was intrigued by a report of a rather spectacular UFO sighting from the P&O Nedlloyd containership Tokyo Bay while enroute from Port Klang, Malaysia to Southampton. The report, made to the UK Meteorologi

When accidents happen, SOPEP is your friend says the fifth, and last, episode of Take 5 News Marpol reports available in the Premium library. Find out more here.

With rains upon us here in the Pacific and South China Sea MAC is releasing The Case Of The Unlucky Hooker, the story of the Pasha Bulker. When Pasha Bulker dropped her nearly 7.5 tonnes anchor off the coast of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, nobod