Ken Hocke | WorkBoat

Ken Hocke

Senior Editor

Ken Hocke has been the senior editor of WorkBoat since 1999. He was the associate editor of WorkBoat from 1997 to 1999. Prior to that, he was the editor of the Daily Shipping Guide, a transportation daily in New Orleans. He has written for other publications including The Times-Picayune. He graduated from Louisiana State University with an arts and sciences degree, with a concentration in English, in 1978.

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Coal transportation on the inland waterways — Part I

Tug designers, owners and operators focus on the here and now, while keeping one eye on tomorrow’s demands — autonomous vessel applications, full battery power, and more hybrid fuel operations. Bollinger Shipyards Inc. photo

Tug companies looking to the future

Adjunct Instructor and New Orleans Fire Department District Fire Chief, Albert Faciane explains XVR. Doug Stewart photo

Louisiana college's advanced firefighting course puts mariners under pressure

The 399' heavy icebreaker Polar Star was commissioned in 1976. U.S. Coast Guard photo

Put up or shut up

Wade Crappell, Douglas Natoce, David LeBlanc and the Miss Ida. Doug Stewart photo

Diesel outboards on the Atchafalaya River

The Seacor Power remains in the same location where it sank but has rotated, and salvors report cracking and separation of the hull from the superstructure. U.S. Coast Guard photo

Capsized liftboat in GOM beginning to break apart

The new boat's mission is to be used as a support vessel around the inner harbor of Tampa Bay. ACI Boats photo

ACI Boats delivers new support vessel to Tampa Bay Pilots

The NTSB has issued a preliminary report concerning the capsizing of an offshore liftboat on April 13 off the coast of Louisiana. U.S. Coast Guard photo

NTSB issues capsized liftboat preliminary report

The operation took place approximately eight miles off Port Fourchon, La.

Coast Guard finishes removing diesel fuel from capsized liftboat

Recreational fishing around the Block Island Wind Farm off Rhode Island. Ørsted says the five-turbine pilot project has shown wind turbine projects can be an "enhanced fishing destination." Ørsted photo.

It's in the Wind