It started as a tweet ( a post on Twitter) from Carnival Cruise Lines: “You can view Sr Cruise Director, John Heald’s new blog post about his experience onboard Carnival Splendor here.” OK, that sounded interesting, I suppose. It turned out it wasn’t anything like what I expected. The blog post starts out by recounting a dream of a naked woman named Megan and a bit later, Heald comments that “I didn’t realise how serious was this until something slapped me in the face as hard as the time I tried to grope Sally Poole’s breasts behind the bike shed at school.” There are also references to flatulence and “ruin[ing] a really good pair of underpants.” As corporate damage control goes, this is a bit novel.
The Canadian War Museum is marking the 100th anniversary of Canada’s navy with a fascinating new online exhibit – 
On this anniversary of the armistice on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day or the eleventh month that ended the “war to end all wars,” it seems worthwhile to remember the often overlooked role of merchant mariners in national defense. Though it was kept secret during the war and largely ignored afterward, 1 in 26 mariners serving aboard US merchant ships in World WW II died in the line of duty, suffering a greater percentage of war-related deaths than all other U.S. services.
Thirty five years ago today the ore carrier 
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William Hammond’s new novel, 
Sad news from over the weekend. A 
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In September, we posted that the