Jones Act failure and shipyard decline occur while Puerto Rico's energy crisis and Chinese research ships near the US Arctic coast make headlines.
how this picture was made
Painted by @cf/leonardo/lucid-origin on workers-ai.cloudflare.com, 2026-09-23 01:12Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.
The scene the art director wrote
A lone commercial ship sits idle in a nearly empty shipyard, with a few workers walking away, as a stormy sky with dark clouds reflects the troubled industry, and in the distance, a Chinese research ship sails near the US Arctic coast, under a faint glow of the setting sun.
Inside the house scaffold (the fixed style + safety clauses), the full prompt the painter received
Sprawling painted editorial illustration for a newspaper front page: A lone commercial ship sits idle in a nearly empty shipyard, with a few workers walking away, as a stormy sky with dark clouds reflects the troubled industry, and in the distance, a Chinese research ship sails near the US Arctic coast, under a faint glow of the setting sun. Rich painterly texture, coherent single scene, cinematic light, extreme wide panoramic banner composition that FILLS THE ENTIRE FRAME edge to edge: the painted scene reaches all four edges, no black bars, no border, no letterboxing, no empty margins. Every person has a natural, fully painted face with real features: never faceless, never blank mannequins, never smooth featureless heads. All people are fictional and resemble no real public figure. Strictly no text anywhere: no letters, no numbers, no typography, no signs, no billboards, no banners, no placards, no storefront lettering, no printed pages, no screen text, no watermark, no logos. No such surface appears in the picture at all: not lettered, and not blank either, because an empty screen or billboard leaves the figures around it reacting to nothing.
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Coast Guard's Navita platform is now primary for mariner credential applications
Navita became the primary system for Merchant Mariner Credential and medical certificate applications on Sept. 14, weeks after the service authorized 120-day sailing for mariners with expired credentials.
By Dana Whitfield · 2wThe U.S. Coast Guard launched Navita on Monday, Sept. 14, at 8 a.m. Eastern, making it the primary electronic system for submitting Merchant Mariner Credential and medical certificate applications.
The launch came weeks after the Coast Guard introduced a temporary relief measure in August that lets eligible mariners with expired Merchant Mariner Credentials keep sailing under a 120-day authorization while the National Maritime Center processes their renewals.
The credentialing work sits against the crewing rule at the root of American domestic shipping. The Merchant Marine Act of 1936 required a U.S. merchant marine built in U.S. yards and crewed by citizens. Operating vessels under U.S. laws with U.S. crews carries a cost premium compared with third-world crews, a study of the maritime industry in Puerto Rico found.
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