Quick sped up video of shifting a 300m container vessel from one side of the dock to the other side. Full video with explanation and outside view on youtu.be/Nlcm0nAzw-U

A split hopper dredger will actually split open its hull to dump the soil

Vessel Hua Shun Da 8 colliding with another vessel (unknown) in Kanmon Strait, Japan.

Just minding my own business and then... suddenly a wall of containers. MSC Mara, loa 365m/1198ft , 15934 teu capacity (teu = twenty foot equivalent = standard container size)

Time-lapse building a cruise ship

After an 8 month deployment, the voyage is only finished when the first heaving line makes contact with the shore in the home port. (📸 forcesnews)

I talked a few times about anchors. This is what happens when the brake on the winch doesn't work

3rd shadow fleet tanker sinking in 2 days. MT Mersin seen here sinking by the stern near the coast of Senegal. She was en route from the Russian port of Taman (Black Sea) to Dakar (Senegal).

1/x As people on X were freaking out about a kite assisted ship (WOKE!!), I have another one: The rotor ship or Flettner ship. It uses large, spinning vertical cylinders called Flettner rotors to harness wind power and propel the vessel through the Magnus effect.