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The Largest Waterpark at Sea

The Largest Waterpark at Sea

Royal Caribbean launched the gargantuan Icon of the Seas, an over-the-top, maximalist combo of mega ship/floating city for 7,600 passengers. It’s so huge that cruisers will forget they’re on a boat. The cherry on top is Category 6, the largest waterpark at sea with six thrill rides covering 17,000 square feet.

Sinking LEGO Ships in an Aquarium

Sinking LEGO Ships in an Aquarium

Expert LEGO builder Brick Technology put together a series of unusual mechanisms designed with one purpose – to sink LEGO ships. After starting with a machine that fires bricks at rowboats, he stepped up his efforts with machines that create waterspouts, waves, and floods and tested them on progressively larger boats.

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Sinking Ship Drinking Glass

Sinking Ship Drinking Glass
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The sea was angry that day, my friends… an old man trying to send back soup in a deli. Each time you sip a drink from this unique glass, you’ll put the imaginary passengers on this tiny cruise ship in peril. The handblown borosilicate glass is perfect for sipping colorful cocktails with icebergs made in your freezer.

Cruise Ship Building Time-Lapse

Cruise Ship Building Time-Lapse

MK Timelapse GmbH recorded the entire construction process of the AIDAnova, an 1105-foot-long cruise ship that carries 6600 passengers. The footage from Germany’s Meyer Neptun and Finland’s Meyer Turku shipyards starts out with massive engines being built and takes us through the fascinating modular assembly process.

Everybody vs. Lord Beckett

Everybody vs. Lord Beckett

Lord Cutler Beckett was a real jackass in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, so it’s no wonder he got what was coming to him. YouTuber Shrubbery imagines what it might have been like if an entire armada descended on Beckett to put him out of his misery and send his ship to Davy Jones’s locker. (Thanks, Orion!)

Expert Rates Movie + TV Shipwrecks

Expert Rates Movie + TV Shipwrecks

From Titanic to The Perfect Storm to Finding Nemo, Hollywood has been depicting shipwrecks for decades. Insider asked maritime archeologist and historian James Delgado to evaluate the realism of on-screen disasters and the wreckage left behind. While they’re not always accurate, a few of the films are surprisingly spot-on.

Ship Ramp Jumping

Ship Ramp Jumping

This insane iOS and Android game puts you in control of gigantic ocean vessels that you float down a ramp and send flying into structures with the goal of crash landing into buildings and cities. It kind of reminds us of the addictive Burnout crash modes.

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The Icebreaker

The Icebreaker

Timelab.pro captured this incredible footage of 50 Years of Victory and Yamal, two Russian icebreaker vessels as they headed out across the Arctic Ocean. These nuclear-powered ships use their 75,000 horsepower engines to cut through ice up to 9.2 feet thick to reach the northernmost waters of the Russian Federation.

Giant Cruise Ship vs. Homes

Giant Cruise Ship vs. Homes

The biggest cruise ships out there can be taller than a 10-story building. So imagine what it must be like living in a cozy Norwegian cottage when one of these floating behemoths pulls up outside your window to dock. Odveig Klyve’s wordless short film View puts things in perspective.

Fictional Watercraft Comparison

Fictional Watercraft Comparison

For their latest comparison video, MetaBallStudios looks at the relative sizes of boats, submarines, and other watercraft from movies, video games, and TV shows. They kick things off with the microscopic Kraken II pod from Innerspace, and wrap up with the city-sized Pravda vessel from the anime Girls Und Panzer.

LEGO Ideas Roman Warship

LEGO Ideas Roman Warship

LEGO builder Iyan Ha created this detailed model of an ancient Roman warship. Other than the fabric sails and capes, dyed ropes, and custom stickers, every part is an off-the shelf LEGO brick. We love the colorful shields along the sides of the ship, and the armor on the minifigs. Show your support for the design on LEGO Ideas.

LEGO Ideas Pirates of Barracuda Bay

LEGO Ideas Pirates of Barracuda Bay
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Inspired by a fan-submitted design, this LEGO set lets you build your own pirate ship, shipwrecked on an island. The 2545-piece kit features lots of awesome details like a captain’s cabin, kitchen, tavern, bedroom and jail cell, while the island splits in half to reveal treasure. Measures over 23″ H x 25″ W x 12″ D when complete.

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Lifting a Cruise Ship

Lifting a Cruise Ship

So when you’ve got to dry dock a big ship, you need to get it out of the water somehow. Watch in awe as Boskalis show off their BOKA Vanguard, the world’s largest heavy lift sea vessel. Measuring over 900 feet long, it’s capable of lifting even the enormous Carnival Vista cruise ship.

Viking Ship Fire Pit

Viking Ship Fire Pit
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While fiery Norse ships are normally reserved for viking funerals, we’ll make an exception for this truly awesome handmade fire pit from sculptor Trevor McIntire of ImagineMetalArt. It’s made from 18 ga. sheet steel and measures about 39″ long x 16″ wide.

LEGO Ideas Ship in a Bottle

LEGO Ideas Ship in a Bottle
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Born from the LEGO Ideas website comes a 962-piece set which lets you build an old-timey ship inside of a clear plastic bottle with a LEGO cork. The ship features sails, cannons, and a crow’s nest, and the bottle sites on a stand with compass and globe details. Drops 2/1/18.

Shipwreck Kayaking

Shipwreck Kayaking

Get a unique perspective on a rusted out shipwreck, as a kayaker takes us on a slow float through the submerged innards of the Evangelia Shipwreck, which rests on Romania’s Black Sea coast. It’s surprisingly relaxing, but we can only imagine how creepy it would be in the dark.

Autonomous Cargo Ship

Autonomous Cargo Ship

The YARA Birkeland will be the world’s first autonomous and zero-emission container ship. It will be manned when it launches in 2018, but is expected to launch, sail and dock on its own by 2020. It will reduce YARA’s diesel truck haulage by up to 40,000 trips a year.

Cargo Ship Bridge Tour

Cargo Ship Bridge Tour

Seaman JeffHK gives a tour of the amenities, tools and controls of his home away from home, the OOCL Atlanta. It’s fascinating to see the numerous navigation and communication redundancies in place.

Skeletons of Staten Island

Skeletons of Staten Island

Photographer George Ivanoff used a DJI Phantom 3 drone to provide us with a unique perspective on the numerous defunct and rusted out ships which call New York’s Arthur Kill their final resting place.

Cruise Ship Go Kart Track

Cruise Ship Go Kart Track

Setting sail in 2017, Norwegian Cruise Line’s latest cruise ship, the Norwegian Joy, will sport a two-level outdoor go kart track, as well as an indoor attraction with bumper cars that hover. Now passengers can get both seasick and carsick at the same time.

You Sank My Batttleship

You Sank My Batttleship

Back in November 2015, Rosarito Underwater Park sank a former Mexican Navy battleship as the basis for an artificial reef. Photographer JP Ussel was on hand with a plethora of GoPros to capture the action from inside and outside the ship as it met its final resting place.

Container Ship Time-Lapse

Container Ship Time-Lapse

This incredible 4K time-lapse by Toby Smith was taken aboard the Gunhilde Maersk, a large container ship, as it makes its way from Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam to Ningbo, China. The visual spectacle that plays out before us more than makes up for the lack of sound.

The Floating City

The Floating City

Launched in 2002, The World is a 644ft. luxury ship that houses permanent residents, with 130 families living in 165 personalized living areas. The ship caters to all their needs and wants and continuously sails around the world.

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