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Shark attack ship
It just lured to the bait
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Final Voyage of the Costa Concordia
The Costa Concordia rises from the sea floor during its refloat operation on July 22, 2014.
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Ship found at World Trade Center site
For more than 200 years, it lay quietly hidden beneath New York City's World Trade Center, concealed from view.
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A Hundred Years Old Today, the Panama Canal Is About to Get a Lot Bigger
To accommodate today's oceangoing behemoths, the canal is getting a $6 billion makeover.
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Calif. protesters block Israel-owned ship at Port of Oakland
Pro-Palestinian activists for the second day blocked an Israeli-owned ship from docking at the Port of Oakland in a protest against Israel’s military action in Gaza.
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Divers identify sunken vessel as World War II wreck of USS Houston where 700 troops perished
Navy divers from the U.S. and Indonesia confirmed that a sunken vessel in the Java Sea is the World War II wreck of the USS Houston, a cruiser sunk by the Japanese that serves as the final resting place for about 700 sailors and Marines, officials announced Monday.
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Where Is All the Buried Pirate Treasure?
Movies are constantly showing us pirates hoarding their gold instead of spending it, so how can we get our hands on real-life pirate treasure?
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Rescue under way after separatists claim first attack on Ukrainian ship
Ukraine said one of its naval vessels came under artillery attack from the shore on Sunday, in what pro-Russian rebels claimed as the first sea victory of their separatist war. "A Ukrainian border patrol cutter in the Azov Sea was attacked from the shore today. Artillery was used. A rescue operation is under way," Ukrainian military spokesman Andriy Lysenko told Reuters.
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Pilots of the Pacific Graveyard
Along one of the world's busiest and most treacherous shipping lanes, fifteen men risk life and limb on a daily basis to guide colossal cargo ships to safety.
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Cargo ship's last moments
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Drones at Sea: Automated cargo ships to set sail by 2035
By 2035 the world’s cargo will be carried by 200m fully automated vessels operating entirely without an onboard human crew, according to researchers. Carrying food and minerals, such ships will be safer, more environmentally friendly and cheaper to operate than current cargo vessels, according to members of MUNIN, a European Union-funded research project aiming to make unmanned cargo ships a reality.
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Fabled Franklin Arctic Ship Found
One of two British explorer ships that vanished in the Arctic more than 160 years ago has been found.
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China's Island Factory
New islands are being made in the disputed South China Sea by the might of the Chinese state. But a group of marooned Filipinos on a rusting wreck is trying to stand in the way.
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We nearly hunted blue whales to extinction. Now they're bouncing back.
It's easy to get pessimistic about the state of the oceans. Coral reefs are dying. Various fish species are getting wiped out by overfishing. Jellyfish are taking over. But not all news is bad news. A recent study published in Marine Mammal Science found that blue whale populations off the coast of California have almost entirely rebounded after being nearly hunted to extinction in the 20th century. (Many thanks to Andrew Revkin for pointing out this study.)
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Arctic Shipwreck Found After 170 Years, Solving "Great Mystery"
One of the most famous ships lost in the 19th century has been located in the Arctic, the Canadian government announced Tuesday, prompting Prime Minister Stephen Harper to declare that "one of Canada's greatest mysteries" has been solved.
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This ship is a delivery drone for the open sea
Amazon got the biggest headlines for its drone delivery plans, but it's an idea that's catching on across the shipping industry. At a nautical trade fair in Hamburg this week, the shipping research firm DNV GL revealed designs for a new electric vessel that would ferry cargo with zero crew members — roughly the nautical equivalent of Amazon's automated delivery drones.
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Ferry sinks in central Philippines; 29 people missing
At least 29 people are missing after a ferry sank in the waters off the central Philippines in bad weather Saturday, the government's civil defense office said. A rescue operation is ongoing off the southeast coast following the sinking of the MV Maharlika, according to the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council.
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The Box That Built the Modern World
How shipping containers made distance irrelevant.
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Accident between two vessels in suez canal 29/09/2014 in portsaid
Two container ships collided on Monday morning in Egypt's Suez Canal, reported Al-Ahram's Arabic news website.
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A Dolphin Jumping From the Bow Wake of a Container Ship
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