Friday, October 25, 2013
TIME 8:57 AM
World's Largest research vessel

-Ronald H.Brown-

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)Ship Ronald H.Brown, a state-of-the-art oceanographic and atmospheric research platform, is the largest vessel in the NOAA fleet. 

 With its highly advanced instruments and sensors, Ronald H.Brown travels worldwide supporting scientific studies to increase our understanding of the world's oceans and climate.

Commissioned on July 19, 1997 in its home port of Charleston, South Carolina, Ronald H.Brown has sailed in the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans. 

Ronald H.Brown is owned by the United States of America, Department of Commerce's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The ship is operated by NOAA's Office of Marine and Aviation Operations. 

Characteristics -
Length     83.5 m   
Beam       16.0 m
Draft        5.2 m
Displacement (Tons) 3,250   
Shaft Horsepower     3,000 hp


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Wednesday, October 23, 2013
TIME 8:22 AM
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Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
                                                                                                   -Oscar Wilde-
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Tuesday, October 22, 2013
TIME 8:42 AM
Largest ship graveyard in the world

Nouadhibou,Mauritania

A graveyard in simple terms is a more refined term for burial grounds. Ships graveyard refers to those places where ships are left for disintegration.

Nouadhibou, a major metropolis in the poverty-ridden North-west African country of Mauritania, is considered as one of the largest ship graveyards in the world with hundreds of ships abandoned together.

Bay of Nouadhibou, Located in Mauritania, this passage of water is regarded unequivocally across the world as being the world’s largest graveyard. 
However unlike the other mentioned ship graveyards, the Bay of Nouadhibou was used a ship dumping ground mainly on account of the avarice of the Mauritian authorities who allowed uncensored dumping of ships in the Bay.

There were several sources of the rotting ships. Mauritanians would purchase older ships from international shippers, hoping to run their own shipping business and compete.
But the older ships were not economically competitive. Maintenance costs and repairs were too much to bear; when they went bankrupt the ships were abandoned.
According to statistics, more than 300 vessels can be found in this dumping ground. 
However shippers from around the world were sending old ships on their final voyage to Mauritania.




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Saturday, October 19, 2013
TIME 8:04 AM
Port of Dover,UK

Dover seaport dates back to the early 17th century and is one of the busiest and most popular ports in the world. 
Dover, situated on the south-east tip of England and in close proximity to the Continent, has always been of importance to cross-Channel traffic and the history and origins of the Port can be traced right back to Roman times. 
The deep cleft in the hills formed in prehistoric times by the River Dour, has always given protection to the small ships plying across the Strait. 

Dover Port boasts state-of-the-art facilities to serve over 16 million passengers and 2.5 million cars and coaches every year. Dover also serves approximately two million freight vehicles annually.

Port facilities 
There are two docks at the Port of Dover, including the Eastern Docks, which serves the majority of the ferry traffic, and the Western Docks.
 
The Port of Dover offers a wide range facilities including 24-hour access, no locks or tidal restrictions and a minimum quay water depth of 8.5 metres. As a result, vessels can berth at any time - day or night - taking as little as 40 minutes.
It also has 9 available berths and 2 piers.
The Terminal is also ISO 9001 accredited and offers the following facilities which ensure fast, efficient and flexible turnarounds:
  • Two mobile harbour cranes, full forklift and pallet truck fleets, container handlers, tugmaster units plus four-pallet spreaders.
  • 13,000 sq. metres of ambient, temperature-controlled storage capacity.
  • All-weather outloading for up to 7,500 pallets.
  • Two-pallet, four-pallet and six-pallet capacity fruit cages to ensure quicker turn-around time.
Statistics 2012 -
  
  • Passengers - 11,921,671
  • Tourist Cars - 2,400,471
  • Coaches - 84,246
  • Road Haulage Vehicles - 1,952,138

Source- Port of Dover official website
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Friday, October 18, 2013
TIME 7:59 AM
Movie releasing Today - Escape Plan

Run time -116 min
Genres -  Action | Mystery | Thriller
Release date -  18 October 2013 (USA)
 
Plot - Ray Breslin is the world's foremost authority on structural security. After analyzing every high security prison and learning a vast array of survival skills so he can design escape-proof prisons, his skills are put to the test.
He's framed and incarcerated in a master prison he designed himself. He needs to escape and find the person who put him behind bars.
 
Stars - Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger  


                     
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Thursday, October 17, 2013
TIME 8:39 AM
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You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
-Margaret Thatcher-  

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
-Martin Luther King, Jr-


Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde-
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Wednesday, October 16, 2013
TIME 8:29 AM
World's Largest Dredger

Cristobal Colon, which forms a part of the huge vessel fleet of the Belgian shipping infrastructure conglomerate Jan De Nul, is the largest and the most high-tech dredger in the world today.


Dredger under the trailer hopper class, the Cristobal Colon ship has catapulted the company as the premier dredging ship builders in terms of dredging. Also, owing to its massive capacity and several other salient features, the Colon is currently rated as the top class dredging ship.

Features
  • The most important requirement in any hopper vessel used in the dredging operation is the capacity of its hoppers. The Cristobal Colon ship has a hopper capacity of 46000 square metres.
  • In addition to the hopper capability, the largest ship has a very high dredging depth of 155 metres. Reaching such a depth is possible because of its technologically powered dredging pumps which are submerged beneath the water surface. These pumps are operated electrically and provide a power of 6,500 kilowatts each (kW)
  • There are two pipes which provide suction for the dredger and which measure 1,300 millimetres in diameter while the pumps to discharge the collected deposits are also operated electrically with a power of 8000 kW each
  • The pipes to carry out the suction can be altered or customised to dredge deposits at three various depths. This facility gives the Cristobal Colon the feasibility to carry out the dredging operation irrespective of the level of deposits in the water
  • The material used to build this largest ship is steel as it is non-corrosive in nature and offers a lightweight movement in the water, enabling the ship to carry out its operations without any problems.

Specifications
  • The Cristobal Colon measures 223 metres lengthwise, 41 metres breadth wise and has a draught of 15.15 metres
  • It offers a deadweight tonnage of 78,000 tons and has a speed of 18 knots
  • In terms of the accommodation facilities offered, the Cristobal Colon ship can accommodate 46 people
 Source-Marine insight

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