https://youtu.be/VSMh7E_mCoc by Captain John Konrad (gCaptain) While gCaptain joins the majority of people working from home, Coast Guard, Navy, Tugboaters, Seafarers, facilities engineers, ferry captains, and millions of maritime professionals are at work on the front lines of this pandemic. Thank you! … [Read more...]
Time-Lapse: Two Week U.S. East Coast Run in 10 Minutes
Check out this new video from Youtuber JeffHK showing an East Coast transit with calls in New York, Charleston and Savannah. According to Jeff, the time-lapse was filmed over a two-week period of continuous, non-stop shooting, resulting in 62,000 individual files encompassing 1,600GB and 500GB of rendered video that were combined to create the time-lapse. Jeff also notes … [Read more...]
Watch: Boat Catches Part of SpaceX Rocket in Net
Check out this video posted by SpaceX's Elon Musk showing part of a rocket being caught by ship at sea with a giant net. The catch comes after SpaceX launched one of its Falcon 9 rockets from Cape Canaveral. Rocket fairing falling from space (higher res) pic.twitter.com/sa1j10qAWi — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 7, 2019 The vessel that made the catch is the 'Ms … [Read more...]
Viral Video Shows Passenger Cruise Take on Huge Breaking Waves
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5Kf05BqYNo Apparently this took place in Honolulu, Hawaii on June 30, 2019. "A charter boat on their return from a sunset cruise ran into huge waves. He was coming into the channel to dock the boat, right when the biggest set of the day came." Thankfully the Captain here was able to surf the vessel into harbor after some very tension … [Read more...]
Watch: Amazing Time-Lapse Shows the World’s Biggest Nuclear Icebreakers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKaVhXn49xY Check out this mesmerizing time-lapse showing the Russian nuclear-powered icebreaker Yamal conducting Arctic operations along the Northern Sea Route. The video was released by the Russian-based media company TimeLab which had a film crew spend a week filming aboard the icebreaker in March 2019. Also shown in the video is … [Read more...]