Nautical Oddities

[delmarrey]

Whoa……. You’re going to need a bigger boat….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMgfn7W2qM0

[Island Time O25]

Originally Posted by GordMay

A 146 metre, semi-submersible expedition yacht, has hit the water, in Turkey, after a three-year conversion, at the Karmarine Shipyard.
The 'OK' has room to carry a 46m sailing yacht, and a sea plane. It also features a tennis court, outdoor cinema, and room for twenty guests.

➥ https://www.boatinternational.com/ya...on-timur-bozca

➥ https://www.superyachttimes.com/yachts/ok

Ha-ha-ha, looks like a refurbished version on steroids of the contraption which started this thread.

[GordMay]

The United States has returned a set of illegally obtained artifacts, including a skull from the Parisian catacombs and golden ingots from an Atlantic shipwreck, to their rightful owner: France.

The prized objects, which also included an ancient Roman coin, were handed over on Wednesday during an official "restitution" ceremony at the French ambassador's residence in Washington.

The five golden ingots had originally been looted from the “Prince de Conty”, a ship that wrecked. in December 1746, off the French island of Belle-Ile-en-Mer, near mainland France, according to a handout provided by the French embassy.

The vessel, which was on a return trip from China, had long been forgotten, until a teacher in 1975 came across archival documents mentioning its location. He received authorization to excavate the site, but it was quickly looted, with many of the ingots disappearing before arrests were made.

“US investigation leads to return of gold ingots, other historical artifacts to France”
➥ https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/us...tag=MSF0951a18





Artifacts are displayed during a ceremony marking the restitution of cultural property from the U.S. to France at the ambassador's residence in Washington, D.C., on March 2, 2022. The items include five gold ingots from the Prince de Conty, which sank near the Breton coast in 1746, a gold coin from the third century discovered in 1985 of Corsica's Gulf of Lava, and a skull from the Paris catacombs.

[delmarrey]

Thousands of Chinese ships have vanished — AIS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhhoD2D_4SA

[delmarrey]

A Poor mans steel cart boat. 55 gallon drums……

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[GordMay]

Small island, big ambitions

A group of investors crowdfunded $250,000 to buy their own Caribbean island.
Coffee Caye is a 1.2-acre, uninhabited island off the coast of Belize, and the group wants to use it to start their own country named the "Principality of Islandia”.
Marshall Mayer, co-founder of ‘Let's Buy an Island’*, sees it as more of a quirky marketing tool. Mayer emphasizes that the micronation should be seen as "tongue in cheek," and that while they might bring in their own rules when they are on the island (such as no single-use plastics, he said as an example), Coffee Caye still falls squarely within the laws and borders of Belize.

They bought a Caribbean island to start their own country ➥ https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/i...ion/index.html

* Let's Buy an Island ➥ https://www.letsbuyanisland.com/

While it might be the first crowdfunded island, it's not the first micronation. Many self-proclaimed kings, presidents and emperors have declared themselves rulers of their own private empires over the years. Here are some of them.
Masters of micronations: Meet people who started their own tiny countries
➥ https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/m...ons/index.html

[delmarrey]

For you Techies out there. Something not so nautical but maybe in the future…..

The Hoverboard now exists….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GY4m022tgo

[GordMay]

Kidnapped by a Gray Whale

"I played with this gray whale in her breeding/mating lagoon in Guerrero Negro Mexico (Baja) for over 2 hours. She was having so much fun coming to us all for pets and kisses. Twice she lifted our boat gently onto her back and swam away with us. She went fast enough to make a wake through my fingers. I’ve been there many times and this never happens! Extremely rare occurrence. In the Part 2 video, she turned to look at me a few times and we had a soul to soul experience between two mammals. She waves at me with her pectoral fin as she lets our boat go. Almost touching my hand. She was double the size of our boat and weighed an estimate of 30 tons."

Occurred on March 8, 2022 / Guerrero Negro, Baja California Sur, Mexico

Video ➥ https://youtu.be/f7Ux2fhxNqs

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Giant grey whale ‘kisses’ boat passengers after breaching water

A giant grey whale "kissed" boat passengers before spraying them with water.
Alex Banky, 36, was on a boat tour off Magdalena Bay, Mexico, when a curious 45-ton whale began breaching the water near his vessel.
Amazing footage captures the moment the big grey reappears right next to Alex's boat and bob its head so close to the boat that passengers were able to kiss its giant chin.
The whale then moves closer to Alex, allowing him to rest his head against its own before spraying the passengers with water from its blowhole.

Video ➥ https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/lif...-b2012969.html

[GordMay]

USS “Kitty Hawk” Last Voyage

It was once the biggest symbol of American military power, in the Indo-Pacific, battle tested from Vietnam, to the Persian Gulf, and a survivor of a collision with a Soviet submarine [that saw the US carrier come away with a piece of the sub, “K-314", stuck in its hull*].

The retired 1,047-foot long, 252-foot wide, supercarrier is on its final, 16,000-mile journey, from Washington state to Texas, where it will be cut up and sold for scrap.

International Shipbreaking Limited, of Brownsville, Texas, bought the ship last year for less than a dollar from US Naval Sea Systems Command, which oversees the disposal of retired warships.
Launched in 1960, “Kitty Hawk” served the US Navy for almost 50 years, before it was decommissioned, in 2009. “Kitty Hawk” was the last US aircraft carrier fueled by oil, a relic of an era before the arrival of nuclear-powered Nimitz-class ships.

More ➥ https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-...the-scrapyard/

* “In 1984, K-314 collided with USS Kitty Hawk after the Soviet submarine surfaced directly in front of the aircraft carrier. K-314 suffered significant damage including losing a piece of a propeller blade that became embedded in the Kitty Hawk. The incident provided the U.S. with intelligence about the anechoic coating on Soviet subs when chunks of tile from K-314 were recovered from the carrier's hull. A red submarine "victory mark" was temporarily painted on the Kitty Hawk's island.”
➥ https://www.facebook.com/NavalInstit...522173/?type=3
and
* “Two powerful strikes: how a Soviet submarine collided with a US aircraft carrier”
➥ https://en.topwar.ru/165653-k-314-i-...skom-more.html

Navy tug boats support the ex-USS “Kitty Hawk”, in its final transit, from Naval Base Kitsap-Bremerton, Washington, to a shipbreaking facility in Texas.
Video ➥ https://youtu.be/ecU6Fg_CUQY

[delmarrey]

Putin Linked Super Yacht Arrested in Spain with a few other Russian yachts.

https://youtu.be/WXc2ibrEDzI

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[delmarrey]

A swarm of birds take the shape of a large bird over the water.

https://youtu.be/cZO3T5ei2gM

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[HankOnthewater]

what about this?
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1605...89385551276605

[StuM]

Originally Posted by HankOnthewater

what about this?
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1605...89385551276605

No thanks,


Private
Only members can see who's in the group and what they post.

[GordMay]

Mollusc of the year 2022: The Cuban painted snail (Polymita picta)
Surely one of the most beautiful snails in the world, the snail is a cross-fertilizing hermaphrodite, that fires chalk ‘love darts’, covered in hormones, at its partner, post-coital. The snail won the vote, convened by the Loewe Centre for Translational Biodiversity Genomics, in Germany, and will get its whole genome sequenced.
Press Release ➥ https://www.senckenberg.de/en/presse...the-year-2022/

More ➥ https://tbg.senckenberg.de/molluscoftheyear-2022/

[StuM]

Originally Posted by GordMay

Mollusc of the year 2022: The Cuban painted snail (Polymita picta)

Polymita picta, common name the Cuban Painted Snail, or The Oriente Tree Snail, is a species of large, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Helminthoglyptidae.


And this is a NAUTICAL ODDITY how?