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Matthew Collette
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Naval architect turned educator
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Even as a Newcastle fan, I hope @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social looks at the lead picture on this piece!

www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Arteta frustrated and disappointed by Arsenal’s inability to see off Sunderland
Mikel Arteta told of his pain after Arsenal were denied a win by an injury-time Sunderland goal
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November 9, 2025 at 12:48 AM
a2navarc.bsky.social
The 60-yard throw seems to be a major escalation from the direct-play crowd against the followers of Pepball.
plnews.bsky.social Premier League News @plnews.bsky.social · 20d
Nick Pope assisted Newcastle’s second goal with this throw to Harvey Barnes
October 22, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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Great start to #PRADS2025 at the Big House! Looking forward to 4 days of discussing the state-of-the-art in Ship and Offshore Structure design and analysis with experts from around the globe
PRADS attendees in the Jack Roth Stadium Club talking over food The big house in the rain from the #PRADS2025 welcome reception
October 20, 2025 at 1:22 AM
a2navarc.bsky.social
I'd expect the EU to proceed at full speed with decarb. Looks like the fragmentation of the global fleet will continue to accelerate...the post-WWII dynamics of shipping are dissolving.

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IMO to delay Net-Zero Framework vote for one year
The MEPC ended in an anticlimax on Friday with Saudi Arabia winning a slim majority in favour of adjourning the proceedings for one year, putting the UN organisation’s climate work in limbo
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October 17, 2025 at 3:45 PM
a2navarc.bsky.social
I thought that only the USN suffers from cost overruns and a declining, under-capitalized industrial base...

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Sweden’s A26 Submarine Programme Faces New Delays - Naval News
Sweden’s next-generation A26 Blekinge-class submarine programme has been hit by another major delay and soaring costs, pushing the first delivery to 2031 and raising total expenses to 25 billion SEK (...
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October 14, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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This is continuing to get uglier. I doubt the EU back down, especially as their shipping companies have already made significant investments in decarb that they can't let become an albatross on their continued success.

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US Threatens Visa Restrictions, Sanctions Against UN Members That Back IMO Emissions Plan
Oct 10 (Reuters) – The United States on Friday threatened to use visa restrictions and sanctions to retaliate against nations that vote in favor of a plan put forward by a United...
gcaptain.com
October 11, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Two weeks to PRADS 2025 starts! The preliminary agenda is now up, we are very excited to welcome over 130 technical papers and 190+ attendees to Ann Arbor to discuss the cutting edge of marine design and shipbuilding! The preliminary agenda is pasted below.

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October 6, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Signs of strain in the system? Beyond the Red Sea will the USTR port fees start making this event worse? From UNCTAD 2025 Review of Maritime Transport: unctad.org/publication/...
Graph showing annual percentage change of ton of maritime transport and ton*miles. Lines fairly closely follow each other from 2002 until 2022, when they separated with 2024 showing 5.9% growth in ton-miles with only a 2.2% growth in tons.
October 6, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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Word has been released that after 79 years, the Ship Structure Committee is being dissolved, the much-discussed maritime "rebirth" coming too late to save it. Reports have been moved to OnePetro (onepetro.org/SSCReports) website will go dark on Jan 1st 2026. I'm not sure how many professors...
The classic 1960s/1970s Ship Structure Committee logo, with a highly stylized "s" "s" "c" letters in the form of a wave, with the full name next to the wave.
October 1, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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Great Newcastle architect. The Quayside & the Life Center are A+ spaces. I remember seeing the Center for the first time in 2001 as a PhD student its confidence & color contrasting with Central Station. The language may be different ashore vs. afloat, but great design has the same emotional impact.
theguardian.com The Guardian @theguardian.com · Sep 29
‘Nonconformist’ architect of MI6 building Terry Farrell dies aged 87
‘Nonconformist’ architect of MI6 building Terry Farrell dies aged 87
Farrell was a key member of the hi-tech movement of the 1980s and 90s, with buildings including the TV-am studios and Embankment Place in London, and the Deep in Hull Sir Terry Farrell, the “nonconformist” architect and planner, whose bold designs defined the “hi-tech” era and included the MI6 headquarters in London, has died aged 87. The architect’s studio in London confirmed the death in an Instagram post, writing: “It is with deep sadness that, on behalf of his family, the partners and practice of Farrells acknowledge the death of our founder, Sir Terry Farrell.” Continue reading...
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September 30, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Reposted by Matthew Collette
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Newcastle says no to fascism.

The far right brought a hundred or so with them, bussed from far and wide. This city turned out 1000s, from local communities, estates and streets. Geordies of all backgrounds coming together and outnumbering the purveyors of hate by some distance.

Newcastle united.
September 27, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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The double collapse here is still strange - if it is a box failure in the aft stack first, even without lashings it did not looks like boat moved that much that you'd expect a second stack to fail. The static heel angle is large but not so large that you think collapse...
mercoglianos.bsky.social What's Going on With Shipping (Sal Mercogliano) @mercoglianos.bsky.social · Sep 10
It is Raining Container Boxes into the Port of Long Beach | MV Mississippi September 9, 2025

Breakdown of the events on board Mississippi

Video: youtu.be/IEg8EvG9o4w
September 10, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Well that's one way to keep people talking about the event...somewhat like holding a scarlet and gray themed party to celebrate U of M....
September 8, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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While the dark fleet is busily undoing the 20th-century flag-and-regulation consensus, this seems to be undoing the right-to-approach for flagless/stateless vessels and replacing it with the right-to-blow-it-up, but I'll leave it to the maritime lawyers to chime in...
jaylyall.bsky.social Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · Sep 4
Nine grafs deep into the article and we find out:

"Pentagon officials were still working Wednesday on what legal authority they would tell the public was used to back up the extraordinary strike in international waters."
Trump Administration Says Boat Strike Is Start of Campaign Against Venezuelan Cartels
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September 4, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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Continued switch of focus away from renewable energy (which has supported significant shipbuilding, ports, and maritime jobs). Not unexpected, but given the long lead time and capital-intensive nature of maritime projects, this will cause damage.

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www.transportation.gov
September 3, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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After reading numerous Cold War stories of the UK planning to secure export orders, only for those to fall through, the Type 26 is making up for lost time...

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Norway Selects British Frigates In $13.5B Defense Deal
By Nora Buli and Terje Solsvik OSLO, Aug 31 (Reuters) – Norway said on Sunday it had chosen Britain as its strategic partner for the acquisition of new frigates in its biggest...
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August 31, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Tanker Fenris, homeport Oslo, in drydock at Newport News. Unsure when, but given the ship's history and large flag / name marking under the bridge, maybe fall 1939-spring 1940 while Norway was neutral?
B+W photo of an interwar-era tanker in drydock at Newport News. Name is Fenris, and homeport is Oslo, visible on the stern. The ship has a large Norwegian flag and its name painted under the bridge. The ship was torpedoed in the Pacific in 1944, but survived, lost to fire after the war. No date or other information on this photo, but looks to be before these events.
August 30, 2025 at 10:48 PM
a2navarc.bsky.social
Something to look forward too...
samnufc.bsky.social Sam @samnufc.bsky.social · Aug 28
There's the full draw for #NUFC in the #UCLDraw 😍
August 28, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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It will be interesting to see how fast this repair is completed - it is in no way comparable in complexity to recent USN repairs (DDG-56 and 62), but will still be an interesting data point.

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Damaged Chinese Coast Guard Ship Now Under Repair at Hainan, Satellite Images Show
The Chinese coast guard ship damaged in a collision with a Chinese naval vessel in the South China Sea earlier this month is now under repair at Hainan Island, according to satellite images seen by Re...
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August 27, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Having done capstone project courses only during my sabbatical last year, I realize this is the first class lecture I’ve done in almost 18 months…which explains why I can’t find anything 🤦‍♂️
August 26, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Ahh yes let them play to LFC scores stoppage time rules in effect….
August 25, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Carbon sequestration at scale...
rosendahlke.bsky.social Knut Einar Rosendahl @rosendahlke.bsky.social · Aug 19
Interesting to visit the Northern Lights facility outside Bergen, incl seeing the second ever ship with CO2 arrived
- from the cement factory in Brevik on the southeast coast
August 19, 2025 at 7:05 PM
a2navarc.bsky.social
Bulk cargoes, like just about everything else at sea, can kill you in countless unexpected ways...
azintel.bsky.social AZ Intel @azintel.bsky.social · Aug 18
BREAKING: Cargo ship explodes in Baltimore Harbor in Chesapeake Bay, Maryland.
August 19, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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One traditional mission (of many) of a University is to preserve core knowledge that is not a "hot topic" so that when it becomes a hot topic again, society isn't starting from zero. This mission is in direct conflict with the metrics used to judge the administrative class.
returnstosender.bsky.social Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · Aug 18
A massive attack on several humanities units (Arabic Studies, Judaic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Classics, Religion, German & Scandinavian, Russian/East European/Eurasian Studies) *and* tenure now unfolding at the University of Oregon (a blue state!). Closure of units and faculty layoffs threatened.
I've now been allowed and asked to share more details about what's going down at the University of Oregon, which involves imminent announcement of firings, among others, of tenure-track and tenured faculty. Given the units impacted (see below), please share this with your professional networks in related disciplines and start getting ready to put pressure (or begin putting pressure already) on the University of Oregon upper admin to abandon this alleged plan before they finalize it. It appears that, with no prior consultations, the departments of Religion and Classics (two separate units), and the programs in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, German & Scandinavian, Judaic Studies, Arabic Studies, and Holocaust Studies (the latter five all parts of a previously-consolidated mega unit called the Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages) are facing imminent announcement of elimination (expected the week of Sept 7), with layoffs of pre-tenure, tenured, and career faculty in these units. The reason given is "financial exigency" -- upper administrations of several universities across the country (and in blue states like Oregon also) appear to be giddy to use the context of Trump attacks on higher ed to dismantle the humanities. Faculty at OU won a faculty union not long ago; this may be, in part, a retaliation for that, I've been told. The union is working with AAUP, etc.; my understanding is that the maximum spotlight is needed at this point.
August 18, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Reposted by Matthew Collette
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New Article -
China seeks a strategic advantage in underwater drone technology. What The World Is About To Learn About China’s Extra-Large Underwater Drones
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What The World Is About To Learn About China's Extra-Large Underwater Drones - Naval News
China's naval expansion continues to surprise onlookers. Less visible, until now, have been developments in underwater drones. That is about to change with an upcoming military parade in Beijing in Se...
www.navalnews.com
August 16, 2025 at 8:50 PM