Category: Shipspeak
Landlocked ports: eSwatini
I learned in 2024 that SD (Swaziland then) was registered as a port during Apartheid to avoid the sanctions against RSA at the time. Still the case, apparently:
Tug Merlot
Pictured here without sister Pinotage.
DALI vs. Francis Scott Bridge (IV)
Dali remains where it collided with/destroyed (etc.) the bridge on Tuesday 26 March (19 days so far; it’s going to be a LOT longer). Thankful as usual for much wisdom from The Loadstar on what, how, whom: NB. learning:
New words (I)
Cetacean: Should I be embarrassed that I didn’t learn this word till today? I’ve known about coelacanths forever, and they don’t even exist anymore. (But I might have thought that a dolphin is actually a fish, which IS an embarrassing obstacle to grouping dolphins and whales in the same taxonomic drawer.) I shall now go…