We know that Friday is not gCaptain’s most popular day of the week so today’s nautical quiz should be an easy on. At least for those of you who follow the Maritime Blogosphere.
So what is it?
UPDATE:
Congratulations to Mike who stressfully identified this boat as “A” the personal yacht of Russian billionaire Andrey Melnichenko. You can find all the photos, video and information on this yacht at Monacoeye.com and The WSJ. Thanks to Peter for the find.
CommentsTags: · boats, quiz, russia
You have all done well on the previous quizes so here’s a challenge. What’s featured in the picture above?
UPDATE:
Ignacio-Wenley Palacios correctly identified the photo as marine salvage equipment known as Titan Pullers. The company’s website says:
Titan’s 300-tonne linear hydraulic pullers otherwise known as “Titan Pullers” is shown above. The pullers have been used in a variety of manners including dragging vessels off the beach or onto barges, parbuckling vessels, rolling vessels onto barges or onto breakwaters or to vertically lift sunken vessels. Several examples of relevant “Titan Puller” jobs are provided on the bottom of this page to illustrate the versatility and capacity of these machines and Titan’s ability to successfully apply skill and innovation to accomplish challenging wreck removal jobs.
Here is a photo fo the pullers in action:
Read more about these masters of disasters HERE.
CommentsTags: · equipment, marine-engineering, quiz, Salvage
Test your marine geography knowledge with this URI/NOAA map of the World’s Largest Watersheds and Currents. To get you started here are the first three answers:
Click HERE for the large printable version of the Quiz and HERE for the answers.
For a full sized color version of this map download the zip file HERE. Makes for a great desktop background.
CommentsTags: · geography, marine biology, Marine Geography, quiz, watersheds map
Let’s check our collective intellegence with a short Quiz:
Congratulations to the 5 readers with the correct answer: Antwerp.
The top ten ports for ship detentions are:
AntwerpDetails can be found at the very interesting site Lloyds MIU
CommentsTags: · Ports, quiz, ship_detentions
We received email that our last quiz was just too easy so we challenge you to try this…. the above picture shows something carried aboard certain ships that’s critical to the future success of this website. What is it?
Hint: It’s being covered today in the newspapers of our 4th and 5th favorite cities.
You can find the answer on our post: Cable Laying Ships - Back In Business
CommentsTags: · cable, Cable Laying, quiz, undersea cable
What is it??
A free gCaptain t-shirt goes out to the first person who can correctly identify this cargo.
UPDATE:
We have a winner. Charlie of Sea Wolf Engineering correctly identified the cargo as nuclear fuel casks. The owner of the ship, Pacific Nuclear Transport Ltd tells us:
The special packages in which PNTL transports nuclear material are called “flasks” or “casks”. They are typically made from 25 cm thick forged steel and weigh around 100 tonnes. They can hold up to five tonnes of nuclear material.
The casks facilitate the movement of nuclear material by different modes of transport, protect workers from radiation, dissipate heat efficiently and are designed to withstand severe accidents.
BNFL Cask Maintenance Facility
Casks are monitored for radiation prior to loading onto PNTL ships and during transportation. They are thoroughly cleaned and inspected in maintenance facilities after each shipment.Cask lids can only be attached and removed using specialist equipment at nuclear facilities.
The casks transported by PNTL belong to customers. Each cask design has to meet safety requirements established by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in order to be licensed by national regulatory bodies.
Click HERE to find out more and HERE for video of these interesting nuvlear transport ships.
CommentsTags: · cargo, Nuclear, nuclear ship, nuclear transport, pntl, quiz
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