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5 Subsea Tunnels

By On August 3, 2010

The Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel Crosses: Chesapeake Bay Length: Two one mile long (1.6 km) tunnels. Length Toll Plaza to Toll Plaza: 20 miles Connects: Eastern Shore of Virginia with Hampton Roads, [...]

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Bridge Facts, History & Photos – 5 Beautiful and Historic Bridges

By On July 16, 2010

Brooklyn Bridge: 1883 – Brooklyn, New York Spans the East River. First steel-wire suspension bridge. Designated a National Historic Landmark in 1964. Initially, Brooklyn Bridge was known as ‘New York [...]

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Ship Photo of The Week – Willis Avenue Bridge

By On July 15, 2010

This weeks ship er, barge photo comes via flickr user joseph a, who has this to say about it: On July 13th, the new Willis Avenue Bridge was transported down [...]

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German Water Bridge – Magdeburg Canal Bridge

By On July 14, 2010

The Magdeburg Canal Bridge This could be the worlds strangest bridge but here at gCaptain we think it is pretty cool. Germany’s water bridge known as the Magdeburge Canal Bridge [...]

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Bridge Designs – 5 Most Ambitious of Today

By On June 23, 2010

History is littered with bridges designed to do the impossible. One example, Euroroute (pictured above), would literally take drivers through the White Cliffs of Dover to an island five miles [...]

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A Day with a New York Harbour Ship Pilot

By On February 20, 2010

 From Financial Times The sun is rising somewhere off the starboard bow, lending the East River the reflective properties of burnished steel… Those of us unaccustomed to morning sea-glare stumble [...]

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Large Ships Call for Taller Bridges, Tight Squeezes

By On February 16, 2010

With the construction of bigger and bigger ships these days, a number of ports throughout the world are being forced to re-evaluate infrastructure to accommodate these ships of greater size.  [...]

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Tugboat Goes from Trash to Treasure

By On January 22, 2010

The owner and crew of the Nels J., formerly the Ares, will tell the story of how they got the tug from a scrap yard in Texas to the Duluth [...]

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Building An Earthquake Resistant Bridge – Video

By On June 23, 2009

. Frequently passing under bridges for a living and over them in the family sedan we, like most mariners, have a fascination with bridge design and basically all things we [...]

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The Century’s Most Devastating Bridge Collapses

By On April 5, 2009

Hot on the heels of our featured stories “5 Most Ambitious Bridge Designs of Today” and “Windoc Incident – Story Behind YouTube’s Most Chilling Video” our digg friend msaleem points [...]

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Popps Ferry Bridge Collapse – Incident Photos

By On March 20, 2009

Today, a towing vessel pushing eight barges allided with the Popps Ferry Bridge in Biloxi, Miss., causing a 150-foot section of the bridge to collapse  into the bay.  Here is [...]

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Spotting Bridges 101 – A Basic Guide To Bridge Design

By On January 24, 2009

Frequently passing under bridges for a living and over them in the family sedan we, like most mariners, have a fascination with bridge design. In fact one of the most [...]

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