Forrest Booth Authors Article on Services Helping Shipowners Avoid the Damages Caused by Severe Storms

Forrest Booth authored the article, "No Sailing Blind: Weather Services Help Avoid Storms," published by The Maritime Executive on July 15, 2016.

In the article, Mr. Booth outlines new services that are available to shipowners and operators that allows them to be better prepared in avoiding severe storms and damage to their ships. Some of these services include the U.S. National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) and Applied Weather Technologies (AWT). AWT takes the government data and merges it with data from other sources, adding fronts, tides and current data, plus input from its proprietary wave model programs.

Read the full article, "No Sailing Blind: Weather Services Help Avoid Storms," on The Maritime Executive website.