The Ship Report

The Ship Report: Warm weather coming, but cold water remains

The Ship Report, Thursday, June 11, 2026 Today we'll take a look at our glorious weather forecast with a caveat: the water in the ocean and our rivers is about as cold as cold tap water. Try it. Too cold for swimming really, but more to the point: just right for hypothermia and cold water shock.

The Ship Report: Cruise ship aids injured mariner through the AMVER rescue system

The Ship Report, Wednesday, June 10, 2026 Today we'll talk about a wonderful worldwide network, called AMVER(Automated Mutual-Assistance Vessel Rescue), originally created by the US Coast Guard. AMVER brings together ships at sea and mariners in trouble way off shore, making far-flung rescues possible that coastal response agencies worldwide would not have the resources to handle. In this case, a man on a small boat 500 miles off the coast of Oregon was rescued by a cruise ship, a participant in the AMVER system.

The Ship Report: It's a Pacific Northwest kind of week: rain, ships and fog horns

The Ship Report, Tuesday, June 9, 2026 Today we'll talk about (and hear) some of the most familiar things we experience here on the river: rain, ships and fog horns.

The Ship Report: Rose Festival Finale as ships depart Portland

The Ship Report, Monday, June 8, 2026 Today we'll talk about the Rose Festival Fleet ships leaving the seawall in Portland, where they spent the weekend giving tours to visitors. They are the US Navy destroyer USS Chafee, and the Canadian Navy ship the HMCS Max Bernays.They'll depart along with another military ship, the USNS Watkins, which has been in Astoria the past few days. We'll also talk about the weather conditions these ships will encounter when they leave the river, and why marine weather forecasts are so important.

The Ship Report, Fleet Week Thursday

The Ship Report, Thursday, June 4, 2026 Fleet Week Thursday: Tours begin on Rose Festival Ships in Portland One final wrap up today on the Rose Festival Fleet which begins tours today in Portland. Ships are located on the seawall in Tom McCall Park, 10-4. Get there early because tours end promptly at 4 and if you are waiting on land at 4 you may not get in.  And I also wanted to share again that I learned some updated information yesterday from the Rose Festival Website that indicates that you need Real ID to board for a tour. Here’s what it says on the Fleet Week page: “When arriving for public tours, all visitors will be required to present a REAL ID-compliant government-issued photo identification (see approved identification list below), and pass through an airport-style security screening checkpoint prior to boarding the ships. A temporary form of ID is not an acceptable form of identification.” For all the current information about Fleet Week events, go to the festival website at rosefestival.org [http://rosefestival.org/], and click on the Fleet Week link at the top of the homepage. On Monday depending on what time they depart, we could see the USS Chafee and the HMCS Max Bernays heading downriver, I’ll keep you posted on that on Monday’s show and also any updates on the Ship Report Facebook and Substack pages.