Today’s mega-sized cruise liners are more akin to a floating city block than they are to any boat that harnessed the wind.
And when they’re sufficiently gigantic, these ships aren’t even built in one piece — they’re welded together from enormous prefab sections. Our friends at Oobject have 12 of the most impressive these Frankenboats.
When we told you yesterday that America was gonna give that derelict tsunami boat a nautical spanking, it was no joke: here’s photographic proof of the brutal attack on the poor, unarmed shrimping vessel. Kaboom. The seas are safe again.
This video is great: witness a new detailed reconstruction of Titanic sinking narrated by none other than James Cameron, filmmaker, adventurer and overall cool dude. It’s really detailed and fascinating.
Japanese problem: an abandoned shrimping boat is found adrift near Canada, displaced by last year’s tsunami disaster. US solution: let’s sink that motherf**ker.
When the devastating earthquake and tsunami hit Japan last year, it created more than 22 million tons of debris — the size of California, pretty much. Included in that debris was this ghost ship, a 45m long squid-fishing boat that’s just been found, a year after the tsunami, near the coast of Canada.
Getting dragged behind a boat is no fun. Getting dragged behind a boat but underwater is freakin’ awesome. At least that’s the idea behind the new Subwing system.
The 60.2m superyacht Yogi sunk under a Force 8 storm in the Mediterranean Sea. This video shows the Hellenic Air Force rescuing the passengers in the middle of the gale. It took only seven hours to sink after the authorities got the first mayday, according to the builder Mehmet Karabeyoglu:
