"What's the wreck we're heading for?" I asked. I had never dived a shipwreck before. Something about the swinging boat; the fried breakfast and the fearsomely cold and inhospitable conditions made me wonder if I really wanted to. We were still thirty minutes out and the skipper was offering us a cup of tea. I declined. Read More >>
The world's largest message-in-a-bottle has taken to the seas, but it's not a call for rescue or some kind of timeless secret. Its message is just "drink our soft drink" but damned if it isn't still kind of cool. Read More >>
With a capacity of more than 16,000 TEU (twenty-foot equivalent unit shipping containers) the CMA CGM Marco Polo currently reigns as the "world's largest container ship" but it won't for much longer. Construction of an even larger line of mega-ships — the Maersk Triple E — will soon be complete and, once launched, will dwarf every other vessel on the high seas. Read More >>
And not just a tennis ball from 15 miles away, but a tennis ball 15 miles away and moving at three times the speed of sound. That's the sort of sensitivity the poor old radar operators on HMS Iron Duke will have to work with when it returns to service next year. Read More >>
Featured comment by lancsDavid:
"i had a friend worked for BAE who always said it was a badly run company.
who knows what they'd be capable of if they really pulled their finger ..." More »
This is the Russian cruise ship MV Lyubov Orlova. It disappeared shortly after it left Canada en route to the Dominican Republic, in the Caribbean. Two months later it has reappeared as a ghost ship, completely empty, floating adrift 2,400 kilometres off the west coast of Ireland. Read More >>
Featured comment by nerdfly:
"I hate it when things 'stop to work'...
"The Atlantic Hawk was able to intercept and secure the Orlova before it disappeared again"
- Just what ..." More »
You won't have any trouble finding this Marco Polo in the pool—even with your eyes closed. Five Airbus A380s lined up nose-to-tail still wouldn't match the length, much less the overwhelming mass, of the world's largest container ship. Read More >>
For decades, the US Navy has had a crack team of highly intelligent (and very cute) dolphins swimming around, trained to find naval mines before they blow up something big and expensive. Now, though, their time has come: like a naval Batman at the end of a fishy version of The Dark Knight, they're no longer needed. Read More >>
What you're looking at here is just one of six sections of our brand new HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier, which is currently under construction by BAE Systems. It's being moved to Rosyth to be mated with another couple of her massive sections. There's no doubt, this thing is going to be an absolute monster. Read More >>
Featured comment by toonarmy:
"I would guess that our new 'colossal' sized carrier would look quite petite parked up against one of the USA's goliaths. No?" More »
The Royal Navy's next generation of warship has been revealed, showing exactly the sort of sleek, minimal design you'd expect from something set to enter service in the distant future year of 2021. Read More >>
If Batman had to use a Batboat in the last part of the Dark Knight trilogy, this would be it. Heck, if you told me this was a stealth speedboat for the US Navy, I would believe you. Read More >>
Featured comment by irononreverse:
"Do you think that's the reason Batman only comes out at night? That suit in this Summer would get very uncomfortable..." More »
This photo of aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman is incredible—and it looks like a lot of fun too. I imagine the helmsman pushing the rudder and whispering "wowwheeeee!" Read More >>
Featured comment by Duke:
"Just the same as doing as Fast Breakaway after a RAS.
Really, a very common occurrence when ships are non nuclear powered." More »
In the early 1960s, the US Department of Naval Research needed a new way to study the acoustic targeting for submarine rockets. The ship had to be silent and stable—more buoy than boat. The design that met the requirements became the world's only vertically-flippable research vessel. Either that, or the lamest Transformer since Bumblebee. Read More >>
Though they weigh as much as 60,000 tons, the massive semi-submersible oil rigs dotting the Gulf of Mexico can still sink when faced with a hurricane's onslaught. And there's only one way to pull the rigs' 7,500 ton decks off the seafloor after such a catastrophe — with America's heaviest-lifting ship, the VB 10,000. Read More >>
Featured comment by tw@panda:
""Aptly named “The Claws”, these underwater lift devices are exactly what they sound like, gigantic pincers like what you’d find in a carnival ga..." More »
When the USS Cole was disabled by an Al-Qaeda attack in 2000, the US Navy faced a serious dilemma: How do you sail a 500-foot warship from Yemen to Mississippi when it's got a 40-foot wide gash in its hull? You hire the world's biggest semi-submersible ship to piggy-back it home, that's how. Read More >>
Australian mining billionaire Clive Palmer has announced plans to build a ship he'll be christening Titanic II, which will be constructed to the same size and layout as the 100-year-old doomed original. And guess what? In the most amazing case of tempting fate the world has ever seen, he says it definitely won't sink. Read More >>
Featured comment by midnightz:
"I've always thought that if I was a billionaire I'd build a modernised replica of the Titanic. Looks like this guy has saved me the need to make a few..." More »
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