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.
Podcasting since 2024 • 43 episodes
The Maritime Education Podcast
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The Prestige - Accident or Crime?
The loss of the Prestige remains one of the most contentious maritime disasters in history due to the fundamental conflict between the Bahamas Maritime Authority’s technical focus on structural failure and the Spanish authorities' emph...
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Season 2026
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Episode 2
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50:15
The Oil Compensation Minefield.
While the CLC 1992 and the 2001 Bunker Convention are both strict liability regimes requiring compulsory insurance and allowing direct action against insurers, they are mutually exclusive in scope: the CLC 1992 focuses specifically on pollution...
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Season 2026
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Episode 1
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39:30
Which Fuel at the Pump?
While both Marine Gas Oil (MGO) and Ultra Low Sulphur Fuel Oil (ULSFO) both meet the 0.1% sulphur limit for Emission Control Areas (ECAs), they are fundamentally different: Marine Gas Oil (MGO) is a pure, "clear and bright" distil...
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Season 2024
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Episode 41
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28:45
Cargo Overboard
On December 6th 2025, the Baltic Klipper lost 16 containers overboard in the Solent near Nab Tower after experiencing severe rolling in heavy weather. HM Coastguard was alerted and issued navigational warnings as the drifting containers posed a...
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Season 2024
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Episode 40
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34:00
To Be or Not To Be a Narrow Channel
A narrow channel has no formal dimensional definition in COLREGs or IMO conventions; instead, courts, pilots, VTS authorities and the MCA determine it by practical navigational constraint. A waterway is considered a narrow channel when vessels ...
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Season 2024
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Episode 39
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42:07