27.07.2021
MIGHTY SHIPS — TYCO RESOLUTE

She is the vessel that keeps the world wired. Tyco Resolute builds the information highway under water. This cable ship is designed to submerge the strength of the worldwide web. Tyco Resolute will connect the nation desperate for twenty-first century communications. Its precision work in the dangerous time – the crew members never know what they are going to find and what they find is a trouble.

The vessel is now off pacific coast of Costa Rica. A small boat rises to pick up a special piece of cargo – a telecommunications cable. Tyco Resolute – a one hundred and forty meter long state of the art cable laying vessel is about to lay a vital link in the water. The economy of the entire country depends on her success. Resolute will plug a fiber optic cable into an outlet on the Costa Rican beach.

She will then run that line out to splice it into the major telecommunications trunk line running between California and Panama. The Pan-American crossing called PAC-1 can carry immense amounts of data but right now it bypasses Costa Rica. Attached to the end of a simple rope, the high-tech fiber-optic cables start to leave the ship... This is a must-watch video for anyone interested with the modern communications and sophisticated ships.

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27.07.2021
MIGHTY SHIPS — UMIAK I

This episode will tell us about Umiak I, which is the lifeline to remote nickel mine at Canadian eastern coast. The mine desperately needs supplies. The ship has to get there. Fight through storms and swells, she returns to the mine with one hundred million dollar cargo. Out here in the ice, Umiak I is all on her own. Umiak I is the most powerful ice-breaking bulk carrier on the planet.

Driven by the largest single engine in Canada, she sails just one circuit, the 1100 miles between Quebec City and the nickel mine in the Voisey’s Bay in North-Eastern Labrador. From Quebec, Umiak I brings all the supplies required to sustain the mine and keep it working in the 24*7 regime. The returns loaded up with thirty-three thousand tons of nickel concentrate costing more than 120 million dollars. She makes a trip at least once a month, year-round, no matter what the weather.

Every journey is a heavy-duty obstacle course for the captain of the vessel and all crew members. In 2006, Captain Rose was first officer on her maiden voyage and four years later he was given command… In short, this video will provide lots of interesting information about a vessel of remarkable design and construction, and assigned a top important mission.

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27.07.2021
MIGHTY SHIPS — USNS COMFORT

She is a giant symbol of hope and her mission is mercy. While the other ships deliver cargo such as the crude oil, containers or other types of goods, she delivers hope. Designed for war and disaster, she carries hope and comfort. The USNS Comfort offers a medical lifeline to some of the most vulnerable people on Earth.

United States Navy Ship Comfort is a huge floating hospital, one of the largest floating facilities of her kind. Originally, this ship was built for the United States Navy Fleet in order to provide medical care to the wounded military personnel in war zones. But nowadays her civilian mission makes her a lifesaver when ordinary people suffer from the national disasters such as the earthquakes and hurricanes.

This remarkable floating medical treatment facility will deliver medical care to any given point of the ocean. Watch this video and join USNS Comfort in her half-year mission of delivering medical service to eleven countries located in Latin America and Caribbean region. The name of the mission designed by the Navy is Continuing Promise and includes provision of the medical care on board this ship as well as ashore. The floating hospital ship can take up to one thousand patients...

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27.07.2021
MIGHTY SHIPS — USS NIMITZ

She is the mightiest super-carrier of them all. USS Nimitz is a floating airbase – a large pad for the seventy-five aircrafts. The simplest mistake of any crew member can result in a catastrophe. USS Nimitz is preparing for the action and the Navy needs to be sure that she is ready for that. She is deservedly referred to as the deadliest warship in the whole world. Her weapon is the set of seventy-five Super Sonic Jets.

Note that we have another film about USS Nimitz waiting for you to watch it. The ship was originally commissioned in 1975 and was the first of ten Nimitz-class super carriers. Commanding Nimitz is a dream that come true for a twenty-eight-year Navy veteran… Just watch this video and you will get to know so much more about this remarkable navy vessel. The film will be of equally great value for the people with deep interest in the Navy fleet and for the shipbuilders and any other people who like sea and ships.

The construction of the vessel is explained in detail together with the various technical features. This ship definitely deserved one hour of your time. Just imagine – the huge ship with a height of a twenty-four-floor building, the area of the main deck exceeding four and a half acres, and a hangar base underneath has a volume more than the ten thousand cubic meters.

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27.07.2021
MIGHTY SHIPS — USS KENTUCKY

The domestic missile submarine USS Kentucky is America’s ultimate weapon of mass destruction, recognized and respected in any part of the planet. The USS Kentucky is an absolutely phenomenal weapon system. And she is now heading out on a top secret mission – she is capable of emitting the power of thousands of Hiroshima bombs. Her job is to dive deep, run silent and wait for the call. USS Kentucky – the most dangerous weapon the world has never seen.

The submarine has a 170-man crew and she is leaving for the highly classified seventy day mission in the Pacific Ocean. The USS Kentucky is exactly what the American navy calls a boomer – a missile boat – one of the keys of the whole American defense strategy and she can carry up to twenty-four missiles sufficient to destroy a continent – this fact makes her the most lethal machine on Earth. The cost of the machine exceeds two billion US dollars.

The boat starts her mission and the commander is ready to execute the presidential order to do the unthinkable – the order to launch the missiles. It is not a sort of training anymore – they are on mission… In short, this episode of the Mighty Ships series is a nice video for every lover of the underwater fleet and Navy facilities.

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27.07.2021
THE BEST OF MIGHTY SHIPS

The mightiest ships, the mightiest jobs and toughest tasks, the roughest seas – all aboard for the best of Mighty Ships! In short, this is an excellent compilation of best Mighty Ships episodes carefully selected by the authors. Based on the numerous reviews provided by the watchers from all around the planet, several best-of-the-best projects and series were chosen. The present video will be liked by the people with lack of time available to spend on the off-job activities.

People are getting busier and very few of them have enough time to watch every single episode of this brilliant series. That is why the decision was made by the editors of the Mighty Ships to prepare a single movie telling people about the projects deserving maximum of the attention and interest. The series covers a wide variety of the ship projects including war ships and leisure yachts, passenger cruise ships and dredgers, offshore supply boat and huge mobile offshore drilling units, floating hospitals and rescue vessels, and many others.

Without going too deep into technical details, the authors describe each of the projects in a very interesting and easily understandable way, thus the whole series become such popular in every country and even among people far from the shipping industry, ship design and ship building.

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27.07.2021
MEGASTRUCTURES — DEEP SEA DRILLERS

This video by National Geographic demonstrates the how they try to to tap maybe the most inaccessible natural gas field on the Earth; five high-tech vessels complete a 1,800 sq. mile gas network. This network includes really incredible machines - a rig that drills wells miles under the water and a ship that lies pipeline on the oceans floor.

Straight at the heart of this project is the huge gas-processing platform called the Independence Hub, specifically designed to be able float in the stormy Gulf of Mexico keeping the personnel on board safe. This system will be technically able to produce the amount of gas that will be enough to supply about 5 million households in America.

The content of this video film was produced by one of the most respected NatGeo; since the approach used by the authors implied this video to be shown to the non-professionals, we may recommend it to a very wide audience...

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27.07.2021
MEGASTRUCTURES — MEGASHIP

She is one of largest ships sailing our oceans. She is as tall as the ten-storey building. And in a year she travels two-thirds the total distance to the moon. In only twelve month time she manages to transfer nearly two hundred million standard shipping containers, a cargo worth four-and-half billion dollars, cargo that must be delivered intact and exactly on time - no delays tolerated.

Yet this huge ship has a crew of only twenty-two seafarers who have to be ready for any conditions, any emergency, and must be ready to defend their vessel. In short, an excellent and very interesting film for the enthusiasts of ship construction and amazing vessels of today, which they will definitely wish to have in their collection of marine videos.

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