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• U.S. Army photo by Mark Getman

  BY THE NUMBERS: America's Mariner Pipeline

  Inside the training network producing the people who keep U.S. commerce moving—and why GAO says the system still leaves too many future mariners behind

• U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Thomas M. Blue

  The Oil Pollution Act of 1990 and the Deepwater Horizon Catastrophe

  How a Law that Took a Decade to Enact Worked Better than Anyone Could Have Imagined

  By Jeffrey H. Lewis

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  Defunct Inland Waterways Users Board May be Dubious

  By Tracy Zea, President/CEO, Waterways Council, Inc.

• Photo credit: Tommy Hancock

  When it Comes to Autonomous Boats, Show, Don’t Tell

  By Captain George Galdorisi (U.S. Navy – retired)

• Photo courtesy Blue Water Autonomy

  Profile: Blue Water Autonomy

  Building a ship-sized robot for the U.S. Navy at Conrad Shipyard, Blue Water Autonomy’s Austin Gray, one of its co-founder and its Chief Strategy Officer, recently discussed with Maritime Reporter TV the technical specifications and the path forward.

  By Greg Trauthwein

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  Digging Deeper: Challenges and Trends in the Dredging Industry

  By Celia Konowe

• Image courtesy Saronic

  In the Shipyard

  New Deliveries, Contracts & Designs

• Image courtesy SciencoFAST

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