Thursday 16 March 2017

10 Biggest Ships In The World


Ships are great. They transport people, transport goods, they help fight wars, and best of all they transport cars. Oh, and they’re really big.


10.) USS Theodore Roosevelt 
A nuclear-powered United States Navy Nimitz-class aircraft carrier with the ability to carry nearly ninety assorted aircraft. This ship might not be a destroyer, but she sure as hell has the power to fuck shit up. Coming in at more than 100,000 tons of displacement at full load, the Theodore Roosevelt is one of, if not the biggest military ship in the world.
Photo Credit: Des Morris 

9.) Shell Prelude
The Prelude is massive in not only size and displacement, but also in uses and capabilities. The Prelude was developed as a natural gas collecting rig and a natural gas liquefaction facility. This meant that for the first time ever, natural gas could be collected and basically refined, at sea. Natural gas collected from sea is generally piped directly to land to be liquefied and refined, but the Prelude allows for this whole step to be bypassed.

Photo Credit: Shell


8.) Dockwise Vanguard
As a semi-submersible ship, the Vanguard is able to sink herself below sea level. This allows for the ability to transport large ships, oil rigs, or whatever else. Because of her ability to carry other ships, the Vanguard can also act as a dry dock allowing for major repairs to be completed to other ships while at sea. With something else on top, it can get huge, as DMCVegas explains:

On her own, she has a tonnage of 116,173 DWT. However, this is a semi-submersible heavy lift ship. Fully loaded she can accommodate 110,000 DWT of cargo for a combined weight of 226,173. 

Photo Credit:Vanguard


7.) International Space Station
Though the International Space Station is technically a station and not a ship, she’s still large and in charge and in space. And besides, we’ll count it as a spaceship. The ISS serves as a vital space research facility for scientific research regarding the physics and biology of space, and it’s got almost a million pounds of mass.

Photo Credit: NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center 


6.) Azzam
A floating mansion. A 590 foot, floating mansion, and the longest yacht in the world. How easy must it be to get lost in this thing? Oddly enough, it’s unusually shallow underneath the waves, with a draft of just a little over 14 feet.

Photo Credit: DiFooll 


5.) CSCL Globe
Launched just last year, the CSCL Globe is one of the largest container ships on the seas. She can carry over 19,000 twenty foot containers without even breaking a sweat.

Photo Credit: Keith


4.) TI Asia
The TI Asia is currently commissioned as a floating production storage and offloading vessel for crude oil. At full load, the TI Asia weighs in at over 509,000 tons of displacement, making it one of the biggest ships in the world. 

Photo Credit: Dan Tremper/United States Coast Guard


3.) MV Blue Marlin 
Best known for transporting a massive ocean-based radar unit (as shown above), several oil rigs, and even a war-damaged United States Navy destroyer, the Blue Marlin is not only a massive ship on her own terms, but she’s also capable of holding some of the larger ships and rigs that live on our seas.

Photo Credit: Marion Doss 


2) Oasis Of The Seas
Though she’s not much of a war fighter or hauler of goods, the Oasis Of The Seas can hold about 6000 vacationing passengers. I’m not much of an ocean-liner guy myself, but if I had to choose a ship to be trapped on for about a week, surely I would choose the one that has seven “neighborhoods” within itself.

Photo Credit: Dietmut Teijgeman-Hansen 


1.) MSC Oscar
After beating out the CSCL Globe container ship earlier this year, the MSC Oscartook the title of largest container ship. She’s so big, there may not even be a port large enough on the United States that she can dock to. Did I mention she can hold something like 39,000 cars? That’s kind of huge.

Photo Credit: Frans Berkelaar 

Sunday 5 March 2017

Dog Saves Abandoned Newborn Baby Found in Local Garbage


A dog in Thailand is being honored for rescuing a newborn who had been wrapped in a plastic bag and thrown into a garbage dump.

Pui, a male Thai Bangkaew who regularly wanders around his community, found a white plastic bag at a roadside dump in the Tha Rua district and took it home to his master, Gumnerd Thongmak, according to the Bangkok Post. Thongmak’s niece heard the pup barking outside the house and went onto the patio to find the dog with a plastic bag. Inside was a newborn baby girl.

A stray female dog from Campinas, Brazil, is being called an “angel sent from the heavens” after the homeless pet saved the life of a newborn baby boy.

The dog who was scavenging for food in a garbage dump came across the newborn who still had the umbilical cord attached. The smart dog gently carried the baby in her mouth out of the dump, walked a few hundred feet to the closest house and handed the baby over to helpful humans hands. There, as if asking “please help him,” the dog showed the humans the baby and left him to their care.
The home residents rushed the baby to the nearest hospital and doctors carefully cared for the tiny newborn. Medical representatives said the baby boy is in great condition and was unharmed by the dog.

Local residents are in disbelief that a mother would be willing to dump her newborn in a dump just minutes after giving birth. Authorities are now looking for her, the worst mother ever.
Thanks to this gentle stray dog, the baby boy is alive today.

  

Saturday 4 March 2017

Friday 3 March 2017

MAN SELLS FRESH AIR TO POLLUTED CITY DWELLERS FOR £200


This British guy is supposedly making a mint bottling up genuine Swiss mountain air…

A British man has been selling fresh mountain air to people in polluted cities for £200 a bottle.
John Green is an IT consultant from London whi has lived in the Swiss city of Basel for 20 years. His convenient location next to the Swiss Alps has meant he’s able to bottle up fresh mountain air and sell it to people who live in heavily polluted cities.
Green says in a promotional video: “I have lived here for 20 years, and the Swiss don't know what they've got. The air really is something special.
"When I go up the mountains I really do feel better, I am not imagining it. I seriously feel almost reborn."
He added: "I actually go 10,000f up to fetch it. I don't go into a car park to get it, honest.
Green’s company is called www.mountainairfromswitzerland.com and sells air in three litre bottles for £200, one litre bottles for £135, or a pint for £75.

The blurb for the company says: “As you open the box that has been delivered to your door you find your jar of Swiss air inside, you also find you have a certificate with signed authentication.
“You also find you have the GPS coordinates of exactly where in Switzerland the air was collected. We want to keep the location secret to protect supplies.
“Let's just say it's collected by a babbling mountain stream, fed by melt water from a famous glacier, near a very famous mountain.
Speaking in a promotional video for his company, John said: "If you're sitting in some polluted town, which you probably are, gasping with diesel fumes, we're at 3,000 metres, and we've just got new supplies of mountain air...so get yours!”
Thankfully, the company will give 25% of any profits to the charity World Vision Clean Water Initiative.