Top 10 posts of 2010

What were the top 10 Amver posts of 2010?  Take a look at what were the most popular posts of 2010.

10.  Concordia rescue update

 9.  IAMSAR Manual Survey

 8.  Amver ship helps rescue crew of Concordia

 7.  How do you enroll a ship in Amver

 6.  Concordia update- Amver ships save school children in high seas rescue

 5.  Amver tanker rescues 4

 4.  Cruise ship averts Antarctic disaster

 3.  Amver ship responds to Carnival Splendor fire

 2.  Free

 1.  Exclusive photos of the Concordia rescue

So it seems the Concordia rescue dominated our top 10 list for 2010.  What will 2011 bring?  Hopefully safer seas.  Happy New Year!


Photo credit: Fotolia

Holiday Greetings

One thing we look forward to each year are the holiday messages we receive from all of our Amver participants.  Here are some of the messages we received this year.  Thank you for helping make 2010 a remarkable record setting year.

Best Regards,

Capt. Conrado S. Alipio

Master of LPG/C CONISTON

Wishing You a Merry Christmas and a Prosperous New Year!!!

Wishing Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Vincenzo AMITRANO

Master

M/T MARE ADRIACUM

Season Greetings & Best regards,

Capt. Bipin Kumar Singh

Master Torm Lana

 

TO : AMVER

FROM: MONTE GRANADA

MERRY CHRISTMAS.....

TO: AMVER N.Y.

FM: MV POUNDA

WISHING YOU & YOUR FAMILIES A MERRY CHRISTMAS & A HAPPY NEW YEAR

BRGDS,MASTER 

to: Amver

fm: Master mv'Daniela Schulte'

Merry Christmas

Best regards

Cpt Vladimir Tavberidze

TO:AMVER

FM:M/V MALINDI

MERRY CHRISTMAS and PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR TO AMVER.

BRGDS

MASTER

Dear Sir,

G'day, me and all crew on board wish you a happy and peaceful Christmas, splendid and prosperous new year 2011.

Have a Nice Day!

Best Regards,

Capt.Zhang Shiquan

Master of Bianco Bulker

Merry Christmas & a Happy 2011.

Regards,

2/MATE

Pioneer

A/LE MANS EXPRESS/ZDJR9

x/MERRY CHRISTMAS

Z/E0R//

Thanks & Brgds

Capt E.T. Limboy

TO: AMVER USA

FM: MASTER COSMOS VENTURE

X/MERRY CHRISTMAS/NEXT REPORT/262000Z//

AMVER/SP//

A/MSC LESOTHO/A8VO8//

Z/MERRY CHRISTMAS//

Gooday,

Merry Christmas!

AMVER/PR//

A/MT MTM WESTPORT/VRGN6//

Best Regards,

Capt. Thurane Nyi Nyi

MTM Westport

"MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU ALL"

AMVER/PR//

A/AQUITANIA/MADG//

Best Regards

Master

M.V.Aquitania

FROM: GLORIOUS PLUMERIA

TO: AMVER

DT: 25-DECEMBER-2010

X/MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL//

AMVER/PR//

A/SETSUYO STAR/C6VI8//

Y/MERRY CHRISTMAS//

AMVER/PR//

A/CAPE FLAMINGO/MKVN2//

BRGDS,

MASTER

PS:MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILIES !

AMVER/PR//

A/NORTHWEST SANDPIPER/VNVG/8913150//

Z/EOR//

MERRY CHRISTMAS

TO: AMVER NYK

FM: MASTER CROWN STAR

DD: 25 DEC 2010

Y/MERRY XMAS//

Z/EOR//

fr:MV Ugo De Carlini/ICMB

AUSREP/FR//

A/MV UGO DE CARLINI/ICMB/9511466//

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR..

AMVER/PR//

A/KUALA LUMPUR EXPRESS/DFNB2//

X/MERRY CHRISTMAS//

A/TAHAROA EXPRESS/3EHG8//

MERRY XMAS

MASTER

BRGDS + MERRY CHRISTMAS

MASTER/SUMMER FORTUNE

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of our Amver participants as well!

Photo credit: Fotolia 

 

Amver ship battered by waves, 2 crew dead

Tradewinds reported two crewmen from the Amver participating tanker Aegean Angel, the 47 year old captain and 33 year old chief mechanic, were killed when a massive wave struck their ship as it steamed from Estonia to Houston.  The ship is currently en route to Bermuda for assistance.

You may remember the Aegean Angel rescued 11 sailors from the sunken vessel Tell Tale II after it went down 300 miles south of Puerto Rico April 15, 2010 2008. The crew even earned the Lloyd's List Amver Assisted Rescue at Sea award for their efforts.

Our thoughts and prayers go out to the families of the crew who died and the entire Arcadia ship management family.

Photo credit: Fotolia

Holiday reading, part 2

What else are we reading this holiday season?  We were given a copy of The Bottom of the Harbor, by Joseph Mitchell, from our friend Peter Johansen of Great American Lines.  Mitchell's book is a collection of short stories focusing on New York harbor during the 40's and 50's when it was at its grittiest.



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Welcome Wednesday!

We hope you are enjoying the holiday season.  What was our greatest gift this holiday season?  Your enrollment in Amver.  Thank you, and please thank the following new participants.

•          NORD IMABARI            
•          MAERSK VISBY            
•          KEY EVOLUTION           
•          STENA COMPASS           
•          GEORGIOS P              
•          CMB CHARLOTTE           
•          OCEAN OUTBACK           
•          OOCL JAKARTA            
•          MINERAL STONEHENGE      
•          SHINYO AYUSH            
•          OVERSEAS CHINOOK        
•          STENA TRADER            
•          MILTIADIS JUNIOR III    
•          KALLIOPI                
•          NORTHERN JUSTICE        
•          CALYPSO                 
•          LAMBELU                 
•          OCEAN HARMONY       

Wishing you a prosperous 2011!

Photo credit: Fotolia   

Holiday reading

While the Amver team takes some time off this holiday season we wanted to share what we were reading.  Currently on the nightstand is a copy of Max Hardberger's book Seized.  It's a story of a sea captain battling scoundrels and pirates while recovering stolen ships.  It's a great way to live vicariously through someone else!



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Related articles

• Max Hardberger: Repo man of the seas (guardian.co.uk)
• The Repo Man of the Seas (neatorama.com)

Avoid huge ships

We have no idea how we missed this one.  Amazon is selling a book titled How To Avoid Huge Ships, written by Captain John W. Trimmer.  The book is designed to help yachtsmen avoid getting run down by commercial ships.
Despite the intent of the book, many people offering reviews of the book took a more humorous approach. 

Here is an example of one of the cheeky reviews.  We hope you get as big a laugh as we had. Oh, and if you're a sailor of a recreational boat please avoid those huge Amver ships.
 
"It is a perfect example of the cruelty of fate- my life was forever changed by a huge ship. It was the winter of 1991, 2 years before Cap'n Trimmer published this masterpiece. If only I had known... the wanton destruction that only a huge ship can do to life and limb and all smaller vessels. My bonnie wife and I had set sail in our beloved scupper, 'Nam Chowder (a pun from my years in the Navy). We were heaving to in the deep and treacherous waters off Cape Hatteras, when lo and behold a ship appeared, as sinister as Poseidon in denim cutoffs.

"O wife!" I called out. "A huge ship approaches!" But right at that moment, the huge ship sounded her horn, and my cries were drowned out in the overwhelming din. My fair wife continued to snack upon Exxtreme Olestra Pringos with reckless abandon- and so focused on these leakage-inducing sweetmeats that she failed to notice the huge ship, barreling towards us at a blinding 6 knots. I screamed like a hyena, bellowed like a bull, but so intense was her snack craving that my warnings were ignored. Finally I rushed towards the bow, to snatch the bushel of crisps from her unsightly maw and force her help in avoiding our certain shiply doom, but my extremities became tangled in the rigging and I could do nothing but struggle as the huge ship continued its advance, closing within a few hundred cubits.

"Lord, hail this ship and allow us safe passage, I beg of you!" I cried, but it was no use. God and his minions have no time for foolish adventurers upon his seas, who disregard the dangers of huge ships. And so it was, that a huge ship smashed our boat into splinters, and my wife was keelhauled for an eternity, her lifeless, bloated body finally floating to the surface in he wake of the huge ship, still clutching her snak pak. My body was torn assunder, and I sustained such horrific injuries that I shudder to recall that terrible day. Know that I peck out this review with my eyelashes, for the huge ship took everything from me save the use of my facial muscles.

Although he will not admit it, Cap'n Trimmer wrote this book in honor of my late wife, Grossinda, for her memory lives on in every book sold, so that the world may know of the dangers lurking in the bowels of every huge ship. Make no mistake, huge ships are out there and their hunger for fresh souls know no bounds. May everyone read this book and commit to memory its passages, and Grossinda's demise will not be in vain.

It is my creed- to find the huge ship that took everything from me. Armed with this book and the grace of God, I will get my revenge. HUGE SHIP- I COME FOR YOU"