Captain Harris, 53, died in February, almost two weeks after a crippling stroke on his ship, the Cornelia Marie, while docked at St. Paul Island off the Aleutian Islands.
On the reporter's crossing, instant messaging, e-mail, and Web browsing worked uninterrupted at speeds comparable to those of broadband home Internet connections while the ferry was in transit and while docked.
Now, Port Metro Vancouver, Canada's largest port and host to more than 250 cruise ship visits in 2009, is offering a greener alternative: ships can now plug into the city's electrical grid while docked.
Some passengers were so concerned by the tilt that they asked the captain to cancel the trip while docked at a port earlier Sunday, but the captain refused, Itar-Tass reported.
While docked to the space station, Atlantis will use its own engines to boost the complex by about 19 miles, which should put it safely beyond the Earth's atmosphere until the arrival of the Russian module, Zvezda, now scheduled for mid-July.
(I was told by the former senior intelligence official that there was an unexplained incident, this spring, in which an American warship was spray-painted with a bull's-eye while docked in Qatar, which may have been the source of the boasts).
Sonny Meredith, a state representative who was a powerful committee chairman, concluded that, if gambling cruises would be an economic benefit to river towns, then gambling boats that operated while docked in a town—his own Delta city of Greenville, for example—would be even better.
He said that while he could not speak for his good friend Captain Walbridge, "I do know that Robin always thought a ship is better at sea in a storm like this," considering the damage such a large vessel could incur and inflict while docked.
While dock-less bikes have their fans for making access to bikes easier, they have also adopted criticism for large cycle 'dumps' which have become commonplace across China.
That iPhone overheats and melts while docked.
