Short videos about the sea and boats
The essentials and the curious details of the sea and boating, each in under a minute: why the left side is called port, why a big ship can’t just stop, how a lighthouse tells you which one it is. Made by a naval reserve officer and former boat-handling instructor.
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Brief #020 · SEAWISE GIANT
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Seawise Giant, 458 metres long, was the longest ship ever built: longer than the Empire State Building is tall. Too deep for the Channel, Suez or Panama, she was hit by Iraqi missiles in 1988, rebuilt, and scrapped at Alang in 2009–10.
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