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		<description><![CDATA[I have to admit I&#8217;m a bit of a tourist these days.  My latest assignment has my boat trading between New Orleans and Florida.  As I write this we&#8217;re waiting to get a loading berth in the NORCO terminal just above the Crescent City. While I&#8217;ve been around tugs and tows my entire career I&#8217;ve [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=captbbrucato.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5092564&#038;post=4691&#038;subd=captbbrucato&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[My first voyage to the Mississippi River was a fine fair weather trip around the Florida Keys and across the Gulf of Mexico.  I shot a few pictures and learned a few things.  More on that later.  For now, some photos..<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=captbbrucato.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5092564&#038;post=4666&#038;subd=captbbrucato&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Tugboats Have Fenders. aka; Risk Management.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to a book recommended to me by Kennebec Captain and my time spent reading it, I have found the words to express my frustration with Zero Tolerance Safety Programs with a couple of quotes. &#8220;The point of risk management is not to prevent failure, for that is impossible. The point is to have a plan ready [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=captbbrucato.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5092564&#038;post=4459&#038;subd=captbbrucato&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a good piece of reference material for future safety meeting topics and just for general safety awareness.  Thanks to gCaptain for forwarding the link. 08_12_products<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=captbbrucato.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5092564&#038;post=4656&#038;subd=captbbrucato&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s that time again..</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Dec 2012 12:31:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[‎&#8221;Again the Ghost sped on, above the black and heaving sea&#8211;on, on&#8211;until, being far away, as he told Scrooge, from any shore, they lighted on a ship. They stood beside the helmsman at the wheel, the look-out in the bow, the officers who had the watch; dark, ghostly figures in their several stations; but every [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=captbbrucato.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5092564&#038;post=4593&#038;subd=captbbrucato&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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