The Marine Video Library
The seafaring world in moving pictures and available for download
Authored by: Martin Leduc
Brought to you by www.dieselduck.net, comments to webmaster@dieselduck.net
The Marine Video Library
The seafaring world in moving pictures and available for download
Authored by: Martin Leduc
Brought to you by www.dieselduck.net, comments to webmaster@dieselduck.net
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| Original Productions | Engine Room and Machinery | Accidents | Awesome Weather |
| Life aboard | Funny | Miscellaneous | |
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| Film Reviews | Video on the web | ||
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51 mb | Take a walk down the center axis of the engine room on the Disney Magic. A 83,000 ton passenger ship. An original production from www.dieselduck.net |
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Dieselduck Original |
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22 mb | The Capt Bob is a large tugboat on Canada's west coast, see it unload 15,000 ton of logs in a few seconds. Drop by the webpage for more info. An original production from www.dieselduck.net |
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Dieselduck Original |
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15 mb | Dramatic video of the fire onboard the cruise ship Star Princess in Jamaica. An original production from www.dieselduck.net with exclusive footage. |
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Dieselduck Original |
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44 mb | The Holland America Line cruise ship Zuiderdam departs Nassau on a brisk evening. Not the most exciting but my first attempt a filming. An original production from www.dieselduck.net. |
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Dieselduck Original |
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214 mb | A large video file of the engine room on the cruise ship Rhapsody of the Seas and the people who tend to it. A sentimental end but interesting overall I think. An original production from www.dieselduck.net. |
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Dieselduck Original |
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16 mb | Take a tour of a container ship engine room spaces. |
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YouTube |
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5.2 mb | Some impressive footage of the passenger ship Canberra's engine room and its operation, without sound though. |
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YouTube |
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3.8 mb | Take a look at a Machinery Control Room on a ro ro ship. |
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YouTube |
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32 mb | Here's a guest presentation on the technical aspects of the SS Norway's vast engineering spaces and machinery. Not the best quality but pretty neat. |
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YouTube |
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23 mb | This is the underway engine room spaces of the Steam Ship American Victory. Pretty dark and scary looking, not like today's engine rooms. |
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YouTube |
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2.3 mb | Not the best quality or interest, but it is kind of cool to hear an engine starting, and it makes me reminisce about working with 12V46 engine and that distinctive starting sequence. |
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YouTube |
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13 mb | Tour the engine room of the Nassauborg. Certainly a modern and well maintained ship. |
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YouTube |
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12.2 mb | I don't much about this clip, but it is certainly a large ship and a well maintained engine room. |
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YouTube |
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8.6 mb | An engineer walks us through starting up what looks like a tug of some kind with Deutz engines. Poor quality but made me reminisce. |
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YouTube |
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4.2 mb | Tour the engine room of the roro Iver Pride. |
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YouTube |
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8 mb | I'm not sure what type engine this is, but its an open valve gear engine in manoeuvres. |
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YouTube |
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3.8 mb | Large diesel running at the B&W Diesel House in Copenhagen, Denmark. |
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YouTube |
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Newly built 1,700 TEU container ship Hansa Papenburg undergoing anchor test, and engine tests while on sea trials in China. Watch them spank the turbo ! |
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YouTube |
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Small video of a Becker type rudder in operation. |
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Computer generated illustration of a Voith Schneider Propeller concept applied to a platform supply ship. An actual ship has been built with this propulsion system, the first of its kind in application of VSP. The ship is the Norwegian flagged, DNV classed, MV Edda Fram, owned by Østensjǿ Rederi. The ship was delivered by ship builder Astilleros of Spain, in June 2007. It has a LOA of about 86 meters, with a beam of 19 meters. Its powered by a diesel electric system consisting of four 1,950kW main engines and a 400 kW auxiliary; powering two 2500 kW VSP and two 1400kW thrusters fwd for designed speed of 16 knots. |
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Co's Website |
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2.6 mb | A flyover by the USCG of the world largest semi submersible oil platform after Hurricane Dennis passed by. Check out our webpage about this event. |
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USCG |
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1.9 mb | This one is not all that spectacular except that I am on tugboat about that size of late and it is a bit scary how fast this thing goes down. |
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YouTube |
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145 mb | This is an in-house training video by Royal Caribbean Cruise Line of fire safety systems onboard their ships, and an excellent real world example of Hi Fog mist systems in action. An excellent video. |
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Submitted |
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9.4 mb | The final voyage of the cruise ship Sea Diamond in Santorini, Greece. The Fred Olson Line ship hit bottom and sank about 6 hours later with the lost of two French citizen. |
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YouTube |
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10.9 mb | The Great Lakes bulker Windoc hits Bridge 11 on the Welland Canal and gives the house works quite a haircut. The bridge operator is suspected to have been impaired as he lowered the bridge, before the ship had fully transited. Read the TSB report here. |
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boatnerd.com |
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0.9 mb | The bulker MV Bright Field hit the New Orleans pier after losing steering causing severe damage. Poor video quality, but still neat. |
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CNN |
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2.1 mb | The MV Cougar Ace is over flown by USCG plane in Alaska. The ship listed suddenly and heavily, reportedly after a ballast operation. One Naval Architect was killed during the salvage operation, but the crew and ship was saved, and the Mazdas were offloaded, but sent to the scrapyard. |
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USCG |
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0.9 mb | A mobile crane at a container terminal topples into the drink. |
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YouTube |
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1.3 mb | A still picture montage of a collision between a Maersk Chemical tanker and a bulker. I believe this occurred in 2006 in the English Channel. Poor quality but scary nonetheless. |
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YouTube |
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5.2 mb | A fire breaks out on both ships involved in a collision. Pretty scary. |
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YouTube |
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2.7 mb | A ship hits a container crane toppling part of the crane. I believe this occurred in the Mississippi in 2005. If it is, an electrician working on the crane was killed and the master of the vessel was imprisoned for few years without charges, to much condemnation of the seafaring community. The bowthruster failed and the ship hit the crane. |
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YouTube |
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15 mb | Local Victoria TV station goes over a list of BC Ferries accidents. Poor quality but interesting footage nonetheless. |
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Various Internet |
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0.9 mb | A small tugboat is in a bad spot; short but a classic. |
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Various |
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8 mb | A car carrier makes a wide turn and runs over a buoy. |
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YouTube |
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5.3 mb | This is some awesome footage. Required viewing for all that design and build ships. Most seafarers are well aware of the various forces that affect a ship, this video bring it to the common person. |
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YouTube |
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1 mb | A short collection of videos of the USCG testing its new 47 foot lifeboats at Coos Bay Oregon, near the Columbia Bar, a notorious piece of water. |
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Various Internet |
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5.8 mb | A ferry heads out to seas, taking a beating at the entrance of the harbour. I hope those vehicles are well lashed down. |
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YouTube |
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4.6 mb | This is awesome footage of a large tug heading out to sea. It hits some pretty rough seas, hard to imagine, there is people in there. I believe this is tug "Flanders" from Les Abeille in France, once part of Bourbon Group. |
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Various Internet |
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1.9 mb | This boat is quite rolly ! I have been on a few of these, and they're not that much fun. |
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YouTube |
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14.6 mb | Footage of a day at sea in the North Atlantic, onboard a Royal Canadian Navy frigate. |
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YouTube |
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This
is some dramatic footage of the Grand Voyager, a modern
cruise ship caught in a Mediterranean storm. It had
passenger onboard and suffered broken bridge windows, as
seen in the last few seconds of this video. Pretty scary,
and I imagine a great day for the china salesperson.
Click here to see a promotional pamphlet of the engine plant installed on Olympic Voyager (AKA Grand Voyager) by Wartsila. |
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YouTube |
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4.7 mb | P&O Pacific Sun gets out of Sidney Harbour on a bit of a rough start to the cruise. |
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YouTube |
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6.8 mb | The tanker Ata in some rough seas. |
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YouTube |
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10 mb | Some big seas are recorded on this video. |
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YouTube |
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6 mb | Not really marine engineering related, but a great display of some big waves. |
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YouTube |
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3.5 mb | A bulker rolls in rough seas. Plain overall, but watch it long enough and you'll get sea sick am sure. |
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YouTube |
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1.8 mb | A cargo ship gets tossed around in a beam seas. Not the greatest quality, but pretty rough looking. |
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YouTube |
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An educational video on ice navigation, and precautions to be taken while in the Baltic Sea, but applicable to any cold weather navigation. |
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Sweden University |
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A platform supply ship maintains position in some good swells. |
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214 mb | This is a promotional video by the European Union for careers at sea in the merchant navy targeted to the younger set. Modern and relevant with some good footage and perspective. Except that Italian guy in there is a little too enthusiastic, a bit scary actually ! |
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EU Government |
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26 mb | A video by Norwegian Cruise Line's "Norwegian Dream" engine room department, highlighting their funky STYLE - an acronym of NCL's quality and safety assurance program. |
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YouTube |
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27 mb | The crew of the Queen Elizabeth 2 put together this creative video for charity, with all departments taking part in it. |
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YouTube |
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16 mb | Archival footage of seafarers, looks like engineers, and some good times aboard the steam ship United States. |
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ssunitedstates.org |
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1.9 mb | Every time I watch this one it makes me chuckle. |
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Various Internet |
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6.8 mb | This is a mock interview - or at least I hope it is - of a politician trying to reassure, ineptly, the interviewer, that shipping is safe. Highlights the need to be educated about a topic before mouthing off. |
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Submitted |
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1.5 mb | A classic. |
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Various Internet |
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9.6 mb | A promotional video by TeeKay Shipping's LNG newbuild "Madrid Spirit". Great shots of the building process. |
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TeeKay |
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41 mb | A promotional video from the MAN B&W engine company. Cool shots and good overview of their operations. |
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bandw.com |
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76 mb | European Union government video on short sea shipping initiatives. Good footage but a bit, well, governmental. |
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EU Government |
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8.2 mb | A time-lapse montage of a container ship re-supplying Antarctica research station. |
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YouTube |
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25 mb | A time-lapse montage of activity on the Panama Canal. Not the best quality but still pretty neat. |
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YouTube |
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11.6 mb | As a rule I don't like to include any military material on this website, but I am just so fascinated by these machines; the massive Russian Navy Typhoon submarines. |
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YouTube |
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29 mb | Some footage of the beaches of a ship breaking yard in India. |
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YouTube |
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2.9 mb | Not really marine related but interesting nonetheless. Its a Snow Steam engine in action. |
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YouTube |
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1.5 mb | A very short 3d animation of BC Ferries Spirit class boat. |
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Submitted |
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15 mb | This another video from cruisejournals.com and of the Radiance of the Seas in a time-lapse montage of a transit through the Panama Canal. |
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cruisejournals.com |
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5.3 mb | Not an overly special video other than its of the world's largest container ship in service, the Emma Maersk. With a reported capacity of 14,500 TEU, 140,000 hp and just a crew of 13. |
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YouTube |
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79 mb | Part 1 -A two part documentary about the first dry-docking of the Radiance of the Seas at the Grand Bahamas Shipyard in Freeport Bahamas. |
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cruisejournals.com |
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102 mb | Part 2 -A two part documentary about the first dry-docking of the Radiance of the Seas at the Grand Bahamas Shipyard in Freeport Bahamas. |
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cruisejournals.com |
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4.1 mb | This little video illustrate the awesome power of electricity. |
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Various Internet |
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5.2 mb | I know deck officers like to blow their own horn, but this takes the cake. Dueling ships horn in Miami. |
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YouTube |
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8 mb | Part 1 - Canadian Coast Guard Ship Samuel Risley breaking ice, listen to the racket of the ice on the hull. Pretty neat. |
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boatnerd.com |
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8.5 mb | Part 2 - Canadian Coast Guard Ship Samuel Risley breaking ice, listen to the racket of the ice on the hull. Pretty neat. |
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boatnerd.com |
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Quick Time File of Victoria, BC, TV station A Channel on the French cable laying ship Ile de Sein in Canadian waters for the Neptune project. |
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UVic |
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Quick Time File of Victoria, BC, TV station CH on the French cable laying ship Ile de Sein in Canadian waters for the Neptune project. |
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UVic |
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A quick overview of construction of Color Line's new ferry, Color Magic, by Aker Yards in Turku, Finland. The ferry is very similar to Royal Caribbean International's Eagle Class ships (aka Voyager Class) |
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Co's web |
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An older video from Hover Barge of the UK showing their barges working in a pipeline in the Yukon, Canada's northern territories. |
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Co's web |
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Quick Time File of Royal Caribbean International's 3600 passenger vessel, Liberty of the Seas, floated out for the first time. It is built in Turku Finland, by Aker Yards and nearly identical to the Eagle Class except it has one more fire zone (longer) than its previous 5 Eagle class. Liberty of the Seas is the middle boat of a three boat contract, the first was Freedom of the Seas, and the last is Independence of the Seas.. |
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Co's web |
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Quick Time File Computer animation of Tyco Communication's cable ship, Tyco Reliance. Brief but cool, also in print. |
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Artist's Website |
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Not really engineering related, but of local interest to us in British Columbia. Some kayakers are close to a pod of killer whales near Port McNeil, when one of them gets an up close encounter. |
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Quick Time File of the St Lawrence Seaway locks in illustrated operation. |
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Artist's Website |
I recently came across some marine theme documentaries, and wanted to let people know about them. They are an interesting look into the life and bus