Ship porn

Tabnabs wrote: »

Health and Safety was banned in Finland until 1962

You would want to make sure you ended up on the correct side of the ice after the dust settled or it could be a *very* long walk home.

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Fished on her out of Burtonport nearly 20 years ago she sank off the West Coast of Scotland in 2010.


http://afloat.ie/safety/mcib/item/16951-mcib-report-on-sinking-of-fishing-vessel-ainmire

Tabnabs wrote: »

The Inca Queen dancing seamen :pac:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poxMc07mkus

Weirdly hypnotic too.

Jesus :eek:

I lasted 45 seconds!

Life on a ship must be really, REALLY boring

Thargor wrote: »

What's a beach club in the features list on that super yacht?

If you have to ask then you probably can't afford it :-)

Question about the video of the oil rig. Is the oil rig itself actually listing/tilting over as much as it appears or is it that the viewpoint of the camera is being moved that much that it is giving that appearance. I know some oil rigs are floating but I thought there would be enough mass deep enough below the water or that the anchor cables would restrict the movement. I always thought of these as very stable or is it just a case that in this bad weather they do list a fair bit.

Treadhead wrote: »

Were they deliberately designed to be the maximum size those locks could accommodate?

Apparently they were designed to Panamax capabilites - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iowa-class_battleship

Design Division section of the Bureau of Construction and Repair, was a "cruiser-killer." Beginning on 17 January 1938 under Captain A.J. Chantry, the group drew up plans for ships with twelve 16-inch and twenty 5-inch guns, Panamax capability but otherwise unlimited displacement, a top speed of 35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph) and a range of 20,000 nautical miles (37,000 km;

and they were the widest ships to ever traverse the panama canal http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/iowa-class-battleships-are-the-widest-ships-to-ever-use-1680273877

USS New Jersey was the only US warship to go to war with two swimming pools :

Were they the first Panamax vessels ??

Tabnabs wrote: »

Ever see a tanker do a 'hand-brake' turn?

Pffffft....

Slicemeister wrote: »

What's the beauty or the beast? Some oligarch s new toy?

Yas a 141m former Dutch Frigate http://www.oceanofnews.com/watch-wild-462-superyacht-yas-go-maiden-voyage/?hvid=4kyjtM

this one is only visible via facebook : https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=749318288447670

Blatant disregard for the life and the yacht in that picture, surely he would have had loads of time to steer clear of the yacht.

At first I thought for sure it was photoshopped.

But I found this comment on a FB page about the picture

Okay, before we see more misunderstandings: the vessel Argent Iris heard a mayday close to Gibraltar and tried to help the yacht. There was just one person on board and he was rescued by a helicopter not long after the photo was taken (by the same helicopter). This is no guesswork: I work for Tokyo Marine and have spoken to the Master of the vessel.

The amount of people on the bow looking down at the yacht would lend some credence to it.