They are also an excellent hub of information about each ship and the people who work aboard them.
The journal revealed tales about the ship's maiden voyage and a joyful conga line celebrating the new speed record.
No further details about the ship, its crew or cargo were immediately available, said Mwangura, whose organization keeps tabs on the welfare of sailors captured by the pirates.
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He knows about the click language of whales, and has a theory about why the ship was attacked.
Had Triumph vacationers looked up information about the cruise ship through those two agencies before boarding, they would have found mostly clean marks and few red flags.
The emergency, as she and other passengers would learn, was a fire that started in the rear of Royal Caribbean's Grandeur of the Seas cruise ship about 2:50 a.m.
Their 67-foot Seafarer became disabled Wednesday and was being towed by another ship about 15 miles east of Assateague Island when the two vessels became separated in heavy seas.
For instance, you come upon a stranded ship about to go belly up and can decide if you want to try to dock on and save them, send a shuttle, or ignore them.
Enoch Powell once said that any politician who complained about the press was like a ship's captain who complained about the sea.
The average ship burns about 5 metric tons of fuel each day in port.
He wouldn't be drawn about when Intel might ship a 2GHz chip commercially.
Current HDDs ship with about 730 Gbpsi maximum areal density.
Over the past month, drybulk shippers have watched the Baltic Dry Index fall from just under 1700 to just about 1100, as ship supply still far outweighs global demand.
While the ship's captain fretted about being trapped for the winter, the crew and shore party hurried to unload the ship and build the hut that would be the expedition's base and winter quarters.
"No one here at Carnival is happy about conditions on board the ship, " Cahill said.
Residents then pay an annual service charge of around 6% of the cost of their apartments, which covers about 85% of the ship's operating costs.
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The unit was the subject of a recent TV movie about the Bin Laden raid in Pakistan and will feature in another film, about the rescue of a ship's captain kidnapped by Somali pirates.
It had 30 ships sailing each week from ports around the globe with about 3, 000 passengers per ship.
Readers learn about the sound of a rippling ship's sail, the look of a stand-alone wooden confessional, the feel of an aristocrat's cloth-of-silver gown.
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Dell doesn't break out sales of Linux products but a spokesperson recently said that about 12% of its servers ship with Linux installed on them.
Some of the passengers on board the ship described hearing a horrendous noise as the ship struck rocks at about 21:30 (20:30 GMT) on Friday.
"Essentially, it's less about earning money and more about getting the seafarer and his ship on the next technological level in the 21st century, " Ijon said.
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But the ship had already drifted about 90 miles north due to strong currents by Monday night, prompting the decision to instead move the Triumph to Mobile.
U.S. Navy barges have been carrying fresh water to Fukushima Daiichi, and Tokyo's foreign ministry has asked Russia about using a Japanese-built ship outfitted as a floating decontamination plant.
Most funds are clustered near a few places, such as Connecticut and London, and there is a steady buzz about the latest manager to jump ship and start his own firm.
There were roughly 4, 200 people on the ship when it ran aground -- about 3, 200 passengers and 1, 000 crew members, the vast majority of whom made it off the ship safely.
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