The Maritime Education Podcast
Captain Barry Sadler discusses maritime topics including recent changes to maritime practices, shipping incidents, new legislation, real life lessons from his ongoing pilotage career, hot MCA examination topics and maritime issues in general. With 40 years experience in the professional maritime field, Barry's take on various nautical and shipping matters is in depth and accurate with insightful views on all affairs maritime. If you work, watch or enjoy the sea his podcast will inform and entertain you.
The Maritime Education Podcast
Latest Episodes
Yacht vs Ship: How Harbours Enforce Safety
The Harbour Authority serves as the indispensable central nervous system of port safety, actively bridging the vast operational gap between massive, restricted-maneuverability commercial ships and vulnerable leisure craft. Through continuous ra...
Pilot vs Processor: The Strive for Zero Latency UKC.
This episode explores the invisible hydrodynamic forces of restricted waters—such as bank cushion, ship-to-ship interaction, and the devastating "2D trap" of reduced under-keel clearance that triggers exponential squat and violent sheer. We the...
60 Centimetres of Steel: The High-Stakes Game of Digital DUKC Navigation
Dynamic Under Keel Clearance (DUKC) replaces legacy, static depth rules with real-time mathematical modelling—integrating high-density bathymetry, met-ocean telemetry, and vessel squat hydrodynamics—to maximise cargo payload while maintaini...
Taxing the Tide: Mastering the UK ETS Maritime Expansion
As of July 1, 2026, the UK Emissions Trading Scheme (UK ETS) officially brought maritime shipping into its net—putting a direct price tag on carbon for roughly 4,900 domestic vessels.If you own, operate, or charter vessels in UK waters, ...
Bottlenecked: Trapped in the Strait
This comprehensive look at the maritime crisis in the Strait of Hormuz connects the long-term economic vulnerability of global seafarers—whose salaries have been systemically depressed by globalized labour pools and Flags of Convenience—with th...