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NOAAS Okeanos Explorer (R 337) is a converted United States Navy ship (formerly USNS Capable (T-AGOS-16) ), now an exploratory vessel for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), officially launched in 2010. [ 1] Starting in 2010, NOAA entered into a five-year partnership with the San Francisco Exploratorium.
Titan, previously called Cyclops 2, was a submersible created and operated by underwater exploration company OceanGate.It was the first privately-owned submersible with a claimed maximum depth of 4,000 m (13,000 ft), [2] and the first completed crewed submersible with a hull constructed of titanium and carbon fiber composite materials.
It has been designed for the Vendée Globe 2024, a solo tour of the world, but also participated in The Ocean Race 2023, a crewed around-the-world tour. Its skipper is the German yatchsman Boris Herrmann. [2] [3] During The Ocean Race 2023, the ship reached a new unofficial 24 hour distance record for monohulls with 640,70 nautical miles ...
OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, who died aboard Titan, pictured in March 2015. OceanGate was a private company, initiated in 2009 by Stockton Rush and Guillermo Söhnlein.From 2010 until the loss of the Titan submersible, OceanGate transported paying customers in leased commercial submersibles off the coast of California, in the Gulf of Mexico, and in the Atlantic Ocean. [5]
3-mast topsail steel schooner, originally a training ship 60 Years: 45.72 m (150 ft) Royal Craft: Alparslan Tekoğul: 2012: Steel gulet Malcolm Miller: 45.68 m (150 ft) John Lewis & Sons: Camper & Nicholsons: 1968: 3-mast steel schooner, sistership of Sir Winston Churchill, originally a training ship Heritage II: 45.30 m (149 ft) Perini Navi ...
Trieste is a Swiss-designed, Italian-built deep-diving research bathyscaphe. In 1960, it became the first crewed vessel to reach the bottom of Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench, the deepest point in Earth's seabed. [ 2] The mission was the final goal for Project Nekton, a series of dives conducted by the United States Navy in the Pacific ...
Nansen's idea was to build a ship that could survive the pressure, not by pure strength, but because it would be of a shape designed to let the ice push the ship up, so it would "float" on top of the ice. Engineering drawings. Fram is a three-masted schooner with a total length of 39 metres (127 ft 11 in) and width of 11 metres (36 ft 1 in ...
RMS Lusitania (named after the Roman province corresponding to modern Portugal and portions of western Spain) was a British ocean liner launched by the Cunard Line in 1906. She was the world's largest passenger ship until the completion of the Mauretania three months later and was awarded the Blue Riband appellation for the fastest Atlantic crossing in 1908.