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The US Navy and Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s unique FLoating Instrument Platform (FLIP) has been saved at the last minute from the breaker’s yard. Scheduled to be scrapped in Mexico, it was purchased by undersea design company DEEP.Continue Re… Continue reading Flipping FLIP ship saved from scrapyard at last minute
The number of people going on cruises keeps rising year over year, with the number passengers carried increasing from just over 3.7 million in 1990 to well over 28 million …read more Continue reading Cruise Ship-Lengthening Surgery: All the Cool Companies Are Doing It
Slicing huge cruise ships in half, then welding in an extra segment to lengthen them, is more or less a license to print money for cruise operators – so this ‘jumboization’ surgery is becoming very common. Let’s take a look at how it’s done.Continue Re… Continue reading Watch: Cruise ships chopped in half are a license to print money
Ireland’s Safehaven Marine builds search and rescue craft, patrol boats and pilot boats designed to operate in “all weather” – up to and including Force 10 storms with waves up to 23 ft (7 m) high. The firm backs this up with some spectacular testing.C… Continue reading Watch: Twin-hull hydrofoiling catamaran smashes big-wave storm tests
The first expedition to the Titanic since last year’s Titan submersible disaster that killed five people is on its way. The goal is to make the most detailed imaging survey yet of the historic wreck to ascertain how the sea environment is affecting it…. Continue reading First Titanic dive since Titan disaster launches this month
There are few things in this world that are literally unique. One of these, in the true sense of the word, is the FLoating Instrument Platform (FLIP), which was a floating barge built for the US Navy that regularly sank itself on end for science.Contin… Continue reading Remembering FLIP, the US Navy’s self-sinking research ship
The wreck of the ship used for Sir Ernest Shackleton’s final Antarctic expedition has been located by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society (RCGS) off the coast of Labrador. The Quest, aboard which Sir Ernest died in 1922, sank in May 1962.Continue R… Continue reading Famous explorer’s final ship found wrecked off Canada
A luxury superyacht is the testbed for green hydrogen technology as the ship, formally known as Project 821, is put in the water at Feadship’s Amsterdam base. It’s the largest motor yacht ever launched in the Netherlands.Continue ReadingCategory: Energ… Continue reading World’s first superyacht to run on hydrogen
Changes in the geopolitical situation are drastically altering how the major military powers are dealing with logistics. Since the Second World War, the main focus of Western planning has been in regards to a land war in Europe. This meant sorting out … Continue reading High-speed military amphibian skims the waves using Surface Effect
The public (or at least, the rich public) will soon be able to take a break from their luxury cruise to ride a luxury submersible. Triton Submarines has delivered its first Triton 660/9 AVA to a cruise company to take passengers into the depths in styl… Continue reading Video: Spacious bubble-sub lets you tour the sea floor in first class