This video explains how ships slow down in emergencies using crash stop maneuvers, from reversing steam and diesel engines to the limits of fixed pitch propellers. It also explores how controllable ...

The Louis S. St-Laurent is the Canadian Coast Guard's largest icebreaker. Commissioned in 1969, she has a displacement of 14,500 tons and is driven by three fixed-pitch propellers each with a power ...

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Researchers at MIT have demonstrated that wedge-shaped vortex generators attached to a ship's hull can reduce drag by up to 7 ...

Titanic survivor Major Frank Winnold Prentice recounted his harrowing survival of the Titanic crash and sinking in a 1979 interview Prentice was just 23 when he jumped from the boat’s stern as it sank ...

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