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2. Bayesian (yacht) - Wikipedia

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   At 4.05 the yacht was entirely underwater and a few seconds later its emergency position-indicating radiobeacon (Epirb) became detached from the top of the mast and automatically raised the alarm, which was picked up by the satellite station managed by the Bari Coast Guard. [19] The yacht sank rapidly to a depth of 49 metres (161 ft). [20]

3. Trieste (bathyscaphe) - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

4. Mariana Trench - Wikipedia

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   The Mariana Trench is an oceanic trench located in the western Pacific Ocean, about 200 kilometres (124 mi) east of the Mariana Islands; it is the deepest oceanic trench on Earth. It is crescent-shaped and measures about 2,550 km (1,580 mi) in length and 69 km (43 mi) in width. The maximum known depth is 10,984 ± 25 metres (36,037 ± 82 ft ...

5. NOAAS Okeanos Explorer - Wikipedia

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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.

6. List of ship types - Wikipedia

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   A cargo vessel used for trade between Eastern India and Indochina. Brig. A two-masted, square-rigged vessel. Brigantine. A two-masted vessel, square-rigged on the foremast and fore-and-aft rigged on the main. Caravel. (Portuguese) A much smaller, two, sometimes three-masted ship. Carrack.

7. BRP Gregorio del Pilar (PS-15) - Wikipedia

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   Gregorio del Pilar is the first Philippine military vessel to employ the now common shipboard application of aircraft gas turbine jet engines with the use of controllable pitch propellers and is equipped with two 18,000 horsepower (13,000 kW) Pratt & Whitney [1] gas turbines that can propel the ship at speeds up to 29 knots (54 km/h; 33 mph).

8. Olympic-class ocean liner - Wikipedia

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   The Olympic-class ocean liners were a trio of British ocean liners built by the Harland & Wolff shipyard for the White Star Line during the early 20th century, named Olympic (1911), Titanic (1912) and Britannic (1914). All three were designated to be the largest as well as most luxurious liners of the era, devised to provide White Star an ...

9. Full-rigged ship - Wikipedia

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   Full-rigged ship. A full-rigged ship or fully rigged ship is a sailing vessel with a sail plan of three or more masts, all of them square-rigged. [ 1] Such a vessel is said to have a ship rig or be ship-rigged, with each mast stepped in three segments: lower, top, and topgallant. [ 2][ 3][ 4] Other large, multi-masted sailing vessels may be ...