4 • Jan. 15 - 28, 2016 • The Log Largest container ship docks at Port of LA


SAN PEDRO — The Port of Los Angeles welcomed its largest guest yet as CMA CGM Benjamin Franklin, a 177-foot wide vessel, pulled into the harbor on Dec. 26, 2015. According to the port, the vessel is the largest container ship ever to call at a North American port. Launched by the French shipping line CMA CGM on Dec. 10, 2015 CMA CGM Benjamin Franklin is 1,300 feet long, and has the capacity of nearly 18,000 containers, according to the port. The vessel’s capacity of nearly 18,000 TEUS (Twenty-


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Foot Equivalent Units) is about a third larger than the biggest container ships that currently call at the San Pedro Bay Port Complex, according to the port. CMA CGM Benjamin


Franklin departed the port on Dec. 30, 2015 for the Port of Oakland where it tied up at the port’s Outer Harbor upon its arrival. According to media outlets, the ship was greeted by groups of photographers, helicopters and watercraft. The container ship


returned to Asia at the con- clusion of the voyage to the U.S.


Alaska. The shipwrecks and parts of other ships found are most likely the remains of 33 ships trapped by packed ice close to the Alaskan Arctic shore in September 1871. The whaling captains had counted on a wind shift from the east to drive the ice out to sea as it had always done in years past. The ships were


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Remains of lost 1800s whaling fleet discovered off Alaska’s Arctic coast


NOAA archaeologists have dis- covered the battered hulls of two 1800s whaling ships nearly 144 years after they and 31 others sank off the Arctic coast of


destroyed in a matter of weeks, leaving more than 1,200 whalers stranded


until they could be rescued by seven ships of the fleet standing by about 80 miles to the south in open water off Icy Cape. No one died in the incident but it is cited as one of the major causes of the demise of commercial whaling in the United States. With less ice in the Arctic as a


result of climate change, archae- ologists now have more access to


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Welcome Home — Greg and Samantha Kahn, now residents of St. Petersburg, Florida, stopped along the way in the Bahamas while they were taking their 42-foot Kadey Krogen from Sint Maarten. This picture was taken at Dean’s Blue Hole which is the world’s deepest known salt water blue hole with an entrance below the sea level. It plunges 202 meters in a bay west of Clarence Town on Long Island, Bahamas.


CMA CGM Benjamin Franklinis 1,300 feet long, and has the capacity of nearly 18,000 containers. The ship recently made stops at the Port of L.A. and Port of Oakland.


potential shipwreck sites than ever before. In September, a team of archaeologists from the Maritime Heritage Program in NOAA’s Office of National Marine Sanctuaries scoured a 30-mile stretch of coastline in the nearshore waters of the Chukchi Sea, near Wainwright, Alaska. Previous searches for the ships had found traces of gear sal- vaged from the wrecks by the local Inupiat people, as well as scattered timbers stranded high on the isolated beaches that stretch from Wainwright to Point Franklin. Using state-of-the-art sonar and sensing technology, the NOAA team was able to plot the “magnetic signature” of the two wrecks, including the outline of their flattened hulls. The wreck site also revealed anchors, fasten- ers, ballast and brick-lined pots used to render whale blubber into oil.


James Delgado, maritime her-


itage director for NOAA’s Office of National Marine Sanctuaries, said he believes the wrecks were pressed against a submerged sand bar that rests about 100 yards from shore.


Maine-made yacht wins Australian race PORTLAND, Maine (AP) —A Maine-made yacht has won a prestigious sailing race from Sydney, Australia, to Hobart, Tasmania, and back. Billionaire Texan Jim Clark, a


co-founder of Netscape, and his wife, Kristi, own the 100-foot Comanche. It finished the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race on Dec. 28, 2015 in two days, 8 hours, 58 minutes and 30 sec- onds.


Dangerous seas caused dam- age that knocked out some of


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