September 2010

Dr. Klein of Germanischer Lloyds reflected with the ISRR staff on the viability of natural gas and offshore wind as practical, affordable, and green energy sources to supplement traditional fuel sources, and their prospects for job creation and maritime business. He was in New York hosting a successful US and Canada GL committee meeting.

The ISRR staff was alarmed to read this "Euphemism of the Month" from the latest issue of Esquire, taking it as an inaccurate jab at the entire open registry system:

The Marshall Islands Registry has made it clear that the Deepwater Horizon was always properly crewed as a Dynamically Positioned Vessel (DPV) even though one form, the Minimum Safe Manning Certificate, referred to the vessel as a Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit (MODU) without dynamic positioning, during the registration process in 2004.