In 1717, the notorious pirate Blackbeard was hunted down by two Royal Navy sloops, decapitated and his crew hanged. The golden age of piracy was soon to end. But 300 years later, it is on the rise again, and the Navy has fewer “resources” to combat it than in the 17th and 18th centuries.
The admission, [...]
Continue reading about UK Navy debating throwing up white flag over pirates
The legendary World War II aircraft carrier USS Intrepid got stuck in deep Hudson River mud Monday as powerful tugboats fought to pull it free to tow the floating museum down river for a $60 million overhaul.
The mission was scrubbed at around 10:30 a.m. as the tide went down, said Dan Bender, a Coast Guard [...]
Continue reading about Aircraft carrier stuck in New York City mud
Sonar Finds What May Be Lost Submarine
Underwater sonar images of a black shape against a background of grainy monochrome are safely stored on two computer hard drives at Bruce Abele’s home in Newton, Mass.
Blurred by odd shadows and striations, the silhouettes are the biggest clues in more than 60 years to the fate of [...]
Continue reading about Sonar Finds What May Be Lost WWII Submarine
I love Top Gear, and generally they only talk about Automobiles, trucks, motorcycles and that sort of thing. But this episode they talk about a bad ass boat.
If Darth Vader had a boat, this would be it. Top Gear checks out the Wallypower 118, a new stealth jet-yacht. It’ll cost you $25 million, but [...]
Continue reading about Top Gear looks over the Wallypower 118
Personal, Rechargeble Submarines Hit
Oh, man, this is cool. The Dutch company U-Boat Worx is selling one-man and two-man C-Quester SUBMARINES. The C-Quester keeps you totally dry inside, and dives to a maximum depth of 150 feet — 50 percent deeper than the recreational scuba diving limit — and has a safety system that won’t [...]
Continue reading about Personal, Rechargeble Submarines Available
“Nazi Aircraft Carrier” Located
The Polish navy says it is almost certain that it has located the wreck of Nazi Germany’s only aircraft carrier, the Graf Zeppelin.
A Polish firm searching for oil first detected the wreck in the Baltic Sea, 55km (34 miles) offshore.
The ship’s whereabouts had been a mystery since the end [...]
Continue reading about ‘Nazi Aircraft Carrier’ found in Baltic
Rinspeed “Splash” sets English Channel record - Autoblog
‘Tis the season for channel crossings… Driven (piloted?) by Rinspeed chief executive Frank Rinderknecht, the custom “Splash” amphibious car zipped across the English Channel Wednesday, covering 36 km in 3 hours 14 minutes, setting a new Guinness Book of Records mark for a hydrofoil car on the world’s [...]
Continue reading about Rinspeed ‘Splash’ sets English Channel record
Wired 14.08: Posts
The marriage of sports and marketing is strangely incongruous. Consider: It’s 9:30 am in the Ericsson Pavilion overlooking Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, and the bar is open. “Grab a drink,” says Dusyant Patel, Ericsson’s suave director of marketing and external communications, nodding toward the sleek white bar on the second-story balcony. Moored at the [...]
Continue reading about High Tech Sailboats with no Cell Phones Allowed
Clue found in mystery of Civil War sub
Scientists say they may have found an important clue in the mystery of why the Confederate submarine Hunley sank 140 years ago after making history by sinking an enemy warship in battle.
Archaeologists and others working to restore the submarine recovered six years ago from the bottom of the [...]
Continue reading about Clue found in mystery of Civil War sub
A veteran of two wars, ship surrenders to sea
A U.S. Navy warship whose service stretched from the Korean to the Vietnam wars surrendered to the sea Wednesday after explosive charges sent the vessel to the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.
Contrary to Navy engineers’ predictions of a sinking lasting as long as five [...]
Continue reading about Oriskany is no more, long live Oriskany
