It is a tried and true cinematic gimmick to trap adults in a confined space so they must face their past and confront the present. Ships crewed by sweaty nomads with checkered pasts have all the right ingredients. Just add water and you get
Heart Stopping Terror
on the High Seas!!!
Maritime Monday for June 17th, 2013: The Horror, The Horror…
By Monkey Fist On June 16, 2013
Hiroshi Sugimoto, Seascapes, 1980-93
- Caribbean Sea, Jamaica
- Sea of Japan, Hokkaido
- Tasman Sea, Ngarupupu
- Black Sea, Ozuluce
- Red Sea, Safaga
- Tyrrhenain Sea, Scilla
These pics also look like they’ve been taken during restricted vis (rule 19).
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R.M.S. Olympic in the Southampton floating drydock.
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” Jicoo — Floating Bar “ … Departs from Hinode Pier, Odaiba Seaside Park, Tokyo Bay
More Info: http://www.jicoofloatingbar.com/
The ship, built at Sparrows Point, MD in 1911, was formerly the packet steamer SS President Warfield for theBaltimore Steam Packet Company, (American steamship line from 1840 to 1962) providing overnight steamboat service on the Chesapeake Bay, primarily between Baltimore, Maryland, and Norfolk, Virginia.
President Warfield was expropriated in 1942 by the War Shipping Administration for national defense as a transport during World War II. Following the end of World War II, the President Warfield was decommissioned and returned to the War Shipping Administration for disposal as surplus.
The old President Warfield was eventually acquired in early 1947 by Mossad Le’aliyah Bet, a Jewish organization helping Holocaust survivors illegally reach Palestine, then under British mandate.
The former Baltimore Steam Packet and U.S. Navy steamship was renamed Exodus when she embarked from France for Palestine on July 11, 1947, carrying 4,515 passengers. +
The Exodus arrives at Haifa in July 1947
1000 × 767Maritime Monday for June 10th, 2013: Movement of Jah People
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Boats ferry through a canal to bypass the Peloponnesus in Corinth, Greece, December 1956.
Photograph by David Boyer, National Geographic
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Blue Ayrfield, by Rodney Campbell.
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Maritime Monday for June 3rd, 2013:
Float, Float On…
A boat carrying boats!
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Motor Lifeboat Jam
