Diesel Duck A Comprehensive Marine Engineering Website

Welcome to the web site for professional Marine Engineers worldwide. Since 1999, we have been providing information and resource to professionals and novices, in the commercial marine world.  I welcome you to discover what marine engineers do, and explore their role in worldwide commercial shipping. You will find the "site navigation" menu at the top, and a "about the site" menu at the bottom. Enjoy your stay and feel free to drop me an email.  Martin - Marine Engineer and Webmaster
Feature - I have been working on a separate, but related, project called Blue Riband. Blue Riband is a fictional business model, an employee controlled entity, much like a professional organization. Many new ideas are proposed as possible solutions to the shortage of Marine Engineers in Canada. The project presents a new way to manage the high quality human capital needed, to make sure shipping remains viable, well into the future. You can visit the project's website at www.blueriband.ca, and discuss it over in The Common Rail. If you are in Victoria, BC, in Mid March 2012, you can hear me present the ideas, at the monthly technical meeting of the CIMarE Vancouver Island Branch.
In this Update - My web authoring software remains problematic, with this nagging issue and Blue Riband commanding my time, few new things have made their way on the main site. However, The Common Rail, our forum area has been quite active with numerous topics, technical and otherwise, all well worth a check. The Monitor always has new blog entries; and of course you can gobble up a couple hours browsing the "Ship's Lounge" or the "Ship's Library".
The new year is in full swing, professionally I've been at work on my tug and barge, both are up, on the blocks, in Port Weller Drydock, so I am off to a busy year, hope you are as well.