By Samia Nakhoul and Yara Abi Nader BEIRUT, Aug 4 (Reuters) - A huge explosion in a port warehouse district near the center of Beirut killed more than 25 people, injured over 2,500 others and sent shockwaves across the Lebanese capital on Tuesday, shattering windows and causing apartment balconies to collapse. Officials expected the death toll to rise sharply as emergency … [Read more...]
VIDEO: THANK YOU To The Unseen Maritime Professionals On The Front Lines Of COVID-19
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...]