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The Crazy Process of Repairing Gigantic Ship Propellers by Hands

Welcome back to the FLUCTUS channel for a discussion about how massive ship propellers are repaired and replaced, as well as some other methods of ship propulsion. Fluctus is a website and YouTube ...
Jalopnik

These Are The Monster Engines Powering The World's Largest Cruise Ships

The Icon of the Seas is a big ship. At 1,197 feet long and weighing in at 248,663 gross tonnes, she is the largest cruise ship in the world. She has 20 decks and can hold 7,600 passengers and 2,350 ...
New Atlas

Bionic dolphin skin propeller slashes hundreds of tonnes of emissions

A new propeller created by the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE) coated with a skin mimicking that of a dolphin holds the promise of significantly reducing fuel ...
OPB

Loss of ship’s power and stiff current may have led to bridge collision, experts say

Details are still scant on what might have caused a giant container ship to collide with Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge early Tuesday, sending the span crashing into the water. While authorities ...