Category: Foghorn Focus
Safety Culture
Why Your Crew’s Habits Are Your Biggest Liability (or Your Greatest Asset) Rhiannon Silvashy // Vessel Vanguard This is the second in a three-part ser [...]
Maintenance: Necessary Evil or Winning Philosophy?
Angel Island: Why the Way We Think About Maintenance Shapes the Future of Passenger Vessel Operations Capt. Aaron Swerkes // Angel Island–Tiburon Ferr [...]
Saving Lives and the Bottom Line
How a Proper Safety and Risk Mitigation Plan Can Save on Insurance Premiums Crista Larochelle // Starkweather & Shepley Insurance Brokerage Inc. [...]
The Bowtie Risk Assessment Tool
And How it Relates to Passenger Vessels Paige Castagno // Safety Management Systems, LLC Conducting risk assessments is a core part of running a safe… [...]
The Value of Harbor Safety Committees
Harbor Safety: Capt. Mike McElroy // Wendella Sightseeing Boats and Chicago Water Taxi When I first got involved in the Chicago Harbor Safety Committe [...]
Safety Management
Safety Management: Moving Beyond “We’ve Always Done It This Way” Capt. Greg Gifford // Marine Safety Consultants After nearly sixty years in the… [...]
Celebrating America250
America’s 250th anniversary was a once-in-a-generation celebration, and PVA members shared how they helped make it memorable in communities across th [...]
Promises Made. Promises Kept.
In the early 1970s, Brian R. D’Isernia made a very unusual career move—he went from practicing law to building fishing vessels. After falling in love [...]
The Maritime IRA
Passenger vessel operators have had a powerful financing tool sitting in plain sight for decades, and most of them could not use it. The Capital Cons [...]
Let’s Go Holoholo
Lush emerald sea cliffs tower 4,000 feet above crystal-clear water. Waterfalls cascade into the ocean teeming with spinner dolphins, green sea turtle [...]