The Ship Report

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Offshore weather bringing winds and rain
March 28, 2024

Today we’ll take a look at the weather, which includes an interesting storm system offshore – and be grateful that it’s missing us.

Baltimore’s bridge disaster
March 27, 2024

The horrific scene in Baltimore harbor strikes fear into communities like ours, where we have a big river and big bridges with ships passing under them. Today well talk about whats known so far abou

Waves and storms
March 26, 2024

Were getting some stormy weather this week again, and thats a good time to talk about why and how storms cause waves to get higher and more dangerous, and generally cause havoc at sea.

Farewell, Fisher Poet Clem Starck
March 25, 2024

Today we honor Clemens Starck, award-winning Oregon poet and author who was a regular performer at the annual Fisher Poets Gathering in Astoria. Clem passed away last week at the age of 86, but his e

The USNS Mercy heads to Portland
March 22, 2024

The US Navy hospital ship the USNS Mercy is slated to enter the Columbia River Friday morning. If she arrives according to the schedule, she could pass Astoria around 7:30am Friday. Shes headed to t

Beautiful, mysterious river fog: we’ll look at what makes that happen
March 21, 2024

The other morning in Astoria, residents and visitors were treated to a lovely natural event: the river and surrounding areas were shrouded in thick, velvety fog. Ships sounded their fog horns while th

More on dredging
March 20, 2024

Theres so much to talk about when it comes to dredging the river so heres more nuts and bolts of dredging as a follow up to Mondays program. Well talk about how deep the channels are, other chann

The present and future of ship emissions
March 19, 2024

Sharp-eyed ship watchers concerned about pollution noticed a ship traveling in the river yesterday, emitting what looked like smoke from its stack. As it turns out, seeing that was good news, since it

Dredging on the Columbia, and a new beneficial use for dredge spoils
March 18, 2024

Today the answer to a listener question about dredging on the Columbia River, and a look at new beneficial use for dredge spoils: the many tons of sediment vacuumed off the river bottom annually.

The rhyme and reason of ship names
March 15, 2024

Today well talk about a ship in the Astoria Anchorage thats garnered some attention lately because of her name: the bulk carrier Kobayashi Maru is out there waiting to go upriver and pick up her car