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Aboard ship one always hopes they never need to take a sleigh ride into an unfriendly sea but Ship Happens. When it does you’re going to be very pleased the guys at Petrofac and SurvivalTech are running boats through extensive tests. The following is video of their facility and a few design drawings from lifeboat […]

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Ever wonder how graphic designers create cutaway illistrations of ship?  Khulsey.com clues us into the secrets HERE. Once you learn about the process click HERE to see close up images of the final product!

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Treehugger tells us of the largest temporary hotel built to date using shipping containers. They write:
We previously showed the Travelpod, an experimental prefab from Travelodge, and thought it was an interesting one-off. We were wrong; the company is looking seriously at prefab hotels and is building their first in the west London district of Uxbridge, […]

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Photo by Peter MacDonald
Here at gCaptain we are interested in all things we can drive our ships over, under or through… this includes bridges. Our friends at Deputy Dog bring us the world’s most interesting bridge. Ok, it’s not really a bridge but its location (map) at the north end of the Malacca Straight […]

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NPR brings us the latest developments from Dubai…

Constructing floating houses or restaurants or even villages is an idea that first came to him in his native Holland, where land to build on is scarce and water is plentiful.
The notion gained momentum for Van de Camp when he realized that rising sea levels from climate change […]

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This 50 meter yacht promises to be vastly cleaner and more fuel-efficient than traditional marine powerplants, and Sabdes says the 50M will have a higher cruising speed than comparably sized vessels. With retractable battery-powered electric thrusters fore and aft, the big boat has the ability to maneuver silently in port or through more sensitive marine […]

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Being technologically oriented ship drivers we are easily excited by new web sites that combine these interests. Having worked closely with web based AIS (Digital Seas, EarthNC, ActiveCaptain, VslTrax… to name a few) providers during the Cosco Busan incident we are also increasingly becoming interested in digital ship tracking technology so […]

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From the Freedom Ship to Underwater Hotels we have covered most of what you’ll find on weburbanist’s latest post titled “5 Floating Utopia and Ocean City Projects: From Seafaring Condos to Oceanic Micronations” but it’s worth checking out anyway.
For more interesting photos checkout deputy-dog.

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The WebUrbanist blog has an interesting post titled “7 Island Wonders of the World: Most Amazing, Mysterious, Remote” Check it out then add your favorite islands to the comments section below.

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National Theater - Hungary

Japanese Maritime Museum

Concrete Tall Ship Korea

Gerechtsgebouw, Antwerp

The Ship Residence
The Ship Residence - High upon a promontory on South Bass Island in Lake Erie at Put-in-Bay, Ohio, sits the Owners and Captains Quarters of the former Great Lakes Shipping Boat, The Benson Ford. The boat was built by Henry Ford and named after […]

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