Three weeks ago we posted about the MV Wisdom, which had been on her way to a Gujarat scrapyard when the tow line parted. The drifting ship nearly hit a major bridge near Mumbai before finally grounding on Juhu Beach, where is became a tourist attraction, much to the distress of local lifeguards and the the police. The ship did prove to be a short-lived windfall for local beach vendors. Late last Saturday at high tide salvage crews using three tugs freed the ship from the beach. The ship was towed to the Mumbai outer anchorage in preparation for towing to Alang-Bhavnagar Gujarat for scrapping. Three beach-goers drowned and thirty seven had to be rescued when they attempted to get too close to the grounded ship.
The wayward ship may be gone from Juhu Beach, but has been added to an on-line game, Mumbai Underground , where the ship has been added to the game’s story line.
While an international flotilla of naval vessels continues to play “catch and release” with pirates off the Horn of Africa, the Indian Ocean and the Arabian Sea, the pirates themselves have become far more sophisticated. Where a few years ago, the typical pirate venture appeared to be three men in an open skiff with small arms, today the pirates are well funded, operate from wide ranging mother ships and and use high tech tracking to locate their prey.
New Jersey’s Official Tall Ship, the
If you hear a loud cracking sound today, it might another glass ceiling breaking. In the beginning of June, 
Last February we posted
What is harder than clawing to windward off a lee shore? I suspect that trying to raise funds, almost from scratch, to fund a new tall ship during a major recession can make a lee shore and a foul wind look like a minor problem. Nevertheless, the folks at 
Not quite a year ago, a tourist amphibious “duck boat”
Last week, divers from