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Current Issue April - May 2010
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COVER STORY
Maritime Training In India
The tradition of maritime training and education in India is very old. As the history of country's sea trade lies in antiquity, it goes without saying that the tradition of marine training must have been extremely old in India. The SMP world makes an attempt to trace the maritime saga of India...
- SMP Research Desk
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ADVENTURE
"JESSICA'S ODYSSEY....."
Ella's Pink Lady Covered 23,000-Nautical Miles
Jessica Watson, an Australian who just turned 17, has become Australia's newest hero as she has successfully sailed solo circumnavigated the world during her 210-day long journey...
- By Swati Deshpande
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THE INTERVIEW
India Must Be The "Main Source" Of Shipmanning Globally
China a Potential Competitor of India in the area of Supply of Maritime Personnel
To be or not be, that is the question that torments the people as a whole, but not Dr. P. Vijayan. The ideas of Dr. Vijayan are crystal clear. Knowing his priorities well, as an academician, the first Vice Chancellor of the Indian Maritime University (IMU) always analyses things in their actual perspective...
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GLOBAL MIRROR
THE BLOODY "BLOOD OIL"
The Bitter tale of "Sweet Crude"
As the pitch-dark blanket of night envelops the Niger Delta in Africa, a large number of barges can be seen lining up in total silence to stealthily fill their holds with liquid gold: the oil...
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CAPTAIN SPEAK
Proliferation Of Maritime Training Institutes In India Must Cease : Capt. K. Vivekanand
If the world is a stage and all men and women are merely players, then
Capt. K. Vivekanand indeed has played his bit very robustly. A mariner turned academician, he has added a new dimension in the area of specialized training to the mariners. It was Capt. Vivekanand who initiated the bold step in launching maritime training courses in the Southern part of India. Incidentally, he is a history maker...
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FLASH BACK
Tales They Told.....
On April 14, 1912, The Titanic Disaster took place resulting in the death of nearly 1400 People. It stll is a mystery how many people perished in that ocanic tragedy: the biggest in the history of seafaring.
Tales the survivors told had been shaking the heart of the people for decades together...
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A PAGE OF HISTORY
BLACKBEARD DID NOT DESTROY "QUEEN ANNE'S REVENGE"
The fair sex liked this unfair man
Edward Teach, the English man notoriously rolled into the history of bucaneering as Blackbeard, may be exonerated after nearly 300 long years of the charge of sinking "Queen Anne's Revenge" deliberately as the latest researches prove he might not have done that...
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FEATURE: INDIAN
ROAR OF THE "RO-RO" IN "MOTOWN"
Chennai one of the top 10-car
manufacturing centres of the world
The Chennai port, India's main hub of automobile export, is sailing very smoothly with Roll-On-Roll-Off becoming its catchword. The export of automobiles witnessed a quantum rise by about 80% during the 2008-09 financial year...
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FEATURE: FOREIGN
Where is Stoertebeker's Skull?
Even after four months of intensive search by police in Hamburg in Germany, the historic skull of Klaus Stoertebeker has not been found. The nail-pierced skull of Stoertebeker, a ferocious pirate who created a reign of terror in Baltic Sea area, was stolen on January 9, 2010 from the Hamburg Museum...
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LEISURE
Spielberg's Tryst with Piracy
Film "Pirate Latitude" to Portray Daring Life of Capt. Hunter
Celebrated filmmaker Steven Spielberg is going to take a plunge into the world of sea piracy very shortly as he has acquired the film rights of the action-adventure novel "Pirate Latitudes" which Michael Crichton wrote just before his death in November, 2008...
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MARINE TECH
Underwater hull cleaning in Dutch ports allowed on Ecospeed vessels
Throughout history the Netherlands has always played an important role in the development of nautical technology. At the beginning of 2010 the country is continuing to look for ways to refine its maritime expertise and the inclusion of Ecospeed in these plans is only a logical step. This cooperation has been ongoing for some time now but has really expanded over the last couple of years...
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SHORT TAKE
Buddha's Divinity?
Facts, sometimes, appears more thrilling than fictions. Believe it or not, a giant king cobra suddenly appeared in a ship and apparently paid homage to the statue of Lord Buddha that was to sail for India from Myanmar. This amazing event was witnessed and telecast in the Myanmar recently...
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