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Aerial Cargo Ships at Sea

Aerial perspectives of cargo ships cruising across vast blue oceans, leaving trails in the water under clear skies.

Aerial of cargo ship at sea

France, Saint-Nazaire, 44, mouth of the Loire, quay of the outer harbour.

Panoramic view of Wellington from a ferry, New Zealand

The large harbor tug EUFAULA (YTB-800) is towed by the salvage ship USS HOIST (ARS-40). Base: Naval Station, Rota Country: Spain(ESP)

small seagoing ships floating off coast resort

Mile Rocks Lighthouse on water, San Francisco , Buoys. Edmund L. Mitchell Collection

060722-N-6214F-015. Base: Beirut Country: Lebanon (LBN)

Tugboat towing self dumping log barge in Georgia Strait, near Nanaimo, Vancouver Island,BC, Canada

Bulgaria, Black Sea Coast, Balchik, elevated view of the port

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Workers aboard Freedom Star, one of NASA's solid rocket booster retrieval ships, disconnect their ship from the Pegasus Barge, which is carrying the Space Shuttle Program's last external fuel tank, ET-122, toward NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The tank traveled 900 miles by sea from NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. After reaching the Turn Basin at Kennedy, the tank will be offloaded and moved to the Vehicle Assembly Building where it eventually will be attached to space shuttle Endeavour for the STS-134 mission to the International Space Station. STS-134, targeted to launch in Feb. 2011, currently is scheduled to be the last mission in the Space Shuttle Program. The tank, which is the largest element of the space shuttle stack, was damaged during Hurricane Katrina in August 2005 and restored to flight configuration by Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company employees.

Coast Guard Cutters - Dauntless (WMEC 624) - 26-HK-73-263. CGC Dauntless --RHI boat with crew in hoist, CLIPPER POSH STAVANGER in background --050928. Hurricane Katrina

U.S. Coast Guardsmen from the coastal buoy tender USCGC Maria Bray (WLM-562) make final preparations prior to getting underway from Coast Guard Sector Jacksonville, Fla., Dec. 5, 2022. The Maria Bray, launched in 1999, is 175-feet long and is typically tasked with maintaining aids to navigation, search and rescue, and law enforcement.

ship sails in Yugorsky Strait to Barents sea red ship is in Arctic Strait between green and blue rocky shore Copyright: xZoonar.com/MaximilianxBuzunx 7910175

A life-saving practice on a ship in the Arctic Ocean.

Subdue boat hunter of the Friesland-class Hr.Ms. Rotterdam (D 818) saves the entire 14 stubborn crew and the shiphound of the Portuguese Trawler Ribeira de Asseca. The ship was abandoned when it burned around 30 miles south of Cabo Sardaô. In the distance the burning trawler. See also: 2009-13-088_012 to 2009-13-089_002.

High angle view of a ferry in the sea, Grimaldi Ferry, Barcelona, Spain

DN-ST-90-00526. Country: Pacific Ocean (POC)

Boat wrecked. a container ship wrecked and beached in the shallows in a stormy sea. View from the shore.

Cruise ship refueled by an oil tanker on the port, Valparaiso, Chile

USA, Washington State, Seattle. Fireboat Duwamish water monitor display.

An Agusta-Bell 204B (i) UH-1 Air Sea Rescue (ASR) / Transport helicopter (1962-1978) on the aircraft cover of the HR.MS Poolster (1964-1994).

Cruise ship off Maui Hawaii

High angle view of a rope tied up with a bollard

Domestic Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) in lorry, transported on a car ferry, Thailand, March 2009

Chile, Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego, Antarctic Ocean, Drake Passage, Antactic Dream navigation on rough seas near Cape Horn.

boating to an island

SAN DIEGO, Calif. -- The Orion crew module is recovered after splashdown in the Pacific Ocean about 600 miles off the coast of San Diego, California. NASA, the U.S. Navy and Lockheed Martin coordinated efforts to recover Orion and secure the spacecraft inside the well deck of the USS Anchorage. After lifting off at 7:05 a.m. EST atop a Delta IV Heavy rocket from Space Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, NASA's Orion spacecraft completed a two-orbit, four-and-a-half hour mission to test systems critical to crew safety, including the launch abort system, the heat shield and the parachute system. The Ground Systems Development and Operations Program is leading the recovery efforts.

Tugboats and sailing cruiseship Star Flyer (Star Clippers Cruises),Puerto Caldera, Puntarenas, Costa Rica, Central America

Cargo ship with port in the background, horizontal image

Aerial view of expedition cruise ship SH Diana (Swan Hellenic) with reef behind, Cosmoledo Atoll, Outer Seychelles, Seychelles, Indian Ocean

FERRY TARIFA TANGER SALIENDO DEL PUERTO DE TARIFA. Location: EXTERIOR. TARIFA. Cadiz. SPAIN.

Africa, Namibia, Luderitz. Waterfront port area of Luderitz, fishing boats at pier.

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Bagan (floating fishing platform) Cenderawasih Bay, West Papua, Indonesia. Local artisanal fishing platform used to catch baitfish at night by using lights to attract them into submerged nets. Some now attract whale sharks where tourists may visit

Natural gas platforms transported in the Black Sea, Istanbul, Turkey

South Africa, Cape Town, Ships at the waterfront docks

Aerial view of white traditional filipino boats near Panglao, Philippines.

Cargo TK Bremen beached classified in Kerminihy

A starboard bow view of the Soviet-built Indian Charlie I class cruise missile submarine ISN CHAKRA underway. Exact Date Shot Unknown. Country: Unknown

ESU Incident Command Post New Orleans - CGC Harry Claiborne - Support Fleet - 26-HK-314-3. Support Fleet includes CGC Decisive, CGC Greenbrier, CGC Hatchet, CGC Pamlico, CGC Harriet Lane, CGC Hudson, CGC Oak, CGC Primrose (Ret), CGC Barbarra Mabrity, and Various Navy Ships and Aircraft. Hurricane Katrina

Sunken vessel, Gibraltar, Europe

Open door of big ferry in Thailand

Shipwreck in front of coast, Cape Algulhas, West Cape, South Africa

Fishing boats and oil platform off Cabo Blanco, Peru, South America

ASTILLEROS. Location: EXTERIOR. Pasajes. Guipuzcoa. SPAIN.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The SRB Retrieval Ship Liberty Star tows a spent solid rocket booster back to Port Canaveral. The booster is from Space Shuttle Discovery, which launched on July 4. The space shuttles solid rocket booster casings and associated flight hardware are recovered at sea. The boosters impact the Atlantic Ocean approximately seven minutes after liftoff. The splashdown area is a square of about 6 by 9 nautical miles located about 140 nautical miles downrange from the launch pad. The retrieval ships are stationed approximately 8 to 10 nautical miles from the impact area at the time of splashdown. As soon as the boosters enter the water, the ships accelerate to a speed of 15 knots and quickly close on the boosters. The pilot chutes and main parachutes are the first items to be brought on board. With the chutes and frustum recovered, attention turns to the boosters. The ships tow line is connected and the booster is returned to the Port and ,after transfer to a

020423-F-9528H-011. Base: Valdez State: Alaska (AK) Country: United States Of America (USA)

DN-ST-87-02531. Country: Mediterranean Sea (MED)

DN-SC-88-08296. Base: Bay Of Palma

Cargo vessel ship in Aegean Sea Mediterranean sea. Greece

The Dragon capsule that launched from Launch Complex-40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is recovered in the Pacific Ocean about 500 miles west of the coast of Mexico. The rocket lifted off at 10:43 a.m. EST. The spacecraft went through several maneuvers before it re-entered the atmosphere and splashed down at about 2 p.m. EST. This is first demonstration flight for NASA's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program, which will provide cargo flights to the International Space Station in the future.

Merchant ships lie tied up along the shore as they wait to complete their transit of the Suez Canal. Country: Egypt (EGY)

Sailing boats, sailing regatta, Lipari, Rinella, south coast, Salina, Aeolian Islands, Sicily, Italy, Europe

Boat at sunset on the Gulf of Saint-Florent, Corsica, France, Europe

rear sailor man sailing sea ocean in a boat with captain cap looking horizon

COTS-2 Freedom Star Thermal Imaging Test

PETROLERO DESCARGANDO - FOTO AÑOS 60. Location: PUERTO. Santander. Cantabria. SPANIEN.

The coastal mine sweeper Hr.Ms. Naarden (1956-1999) during fishing inspection.

radar screen on bridge of container ship

Aerial View of Evangelia Cargo Ship Shipwreck Beached On The Coast, Romania.

The Marine Coastal Sleepboot Wielingen (1968-1992)

Churchill Manitoba Canada

Side View of Sand Pump Vessel Spraying Water at Surfers Paradise

Trailing suction hopper dredger at sea and pipeline for sand replenishment, beach nourishment to reduce storm damage along the Belgian coast

Young men on shipwreck

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Liberty Star, one of NASA's solid rocket booster retrieval ships, tows the right spent booster from space shuttle Atlantis' final launch, to Port Canaveral in Florida. The shuttle's two solid rocket booster casings and associated flight hardware are recovered in the Atlantic Ocean after every launch by Freedom Star and Liberty Star. The boosters impact the Atlantic about seven minutes after liftoff and the retrieval ships are stationed about 10 miles from the impact area at the time of splashdown. After the spent segments are processed, they will be transported to Utah, where they will be deserviced and stored, if needed. Atlantis began its final flight at 11:29 a.m. EDT on July 8 to deliver the Raffaello multi-purpose logistics module packed with supplies and spare parts for the International Space Station. Atlantis also delivers the Robotic Refueling Mission experiment that will investigate the potential for robotically refueling existing satellites in orbit t

USS Ships in Harbor at Argentina, N.F.

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Hawaii, Oahu, Two deck decompression chambers on a commercial dive boat.

Sailing ship at a port, Barbados

A large container ship enters Port Philip Bay near Point Nepean enroute to Melbourne Australia

A dock-side scene. Base: Casablanca Country: Morocco (MAR)

Shipwreck at point San Jacinto, Baja, Mexico

Autonomous wave gliders, right, are seen onboard the the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution research vessel Knorr on Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2012, in Woods Hole, Mass. The autonomous gliders will be deployed in the Atlantic Ocean as part of the Salinity Processes in the Upper Ocean Regional Study (SPURS) which is set to sail on Sept. 6. The NASA-sponsored expedition will sail to the North Atlantic's saltiest spot to get a detailed, 3-D picture of how salt content fluctuates in the ocean's upper layers and how these variations are related to shifts in rainfall patterns around the planet.

Waves Crash Over the Bow

A view of the wreck of the former battleship/target ship UTAH (BB-31/AG-16), which was sunk at her moorings on the west side of the Ford Island on December 7, 1941, during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Base: Pearl Harbor State: Hawaii (HI) Country: United States Of America (USA)

fire hose boat spraying water on Kamchatka on Paciic ocean

Boats in Aberdeen Harbour, Hong Kong, China, Asia

The submarine harr.ms. Overijssel (1957-1982)

Snow King snow removal vehicles are used to clear a runway. The vehicles are operated by Icelandic civilian contractors. Base: Naval Air Station, Keflavik Country: Iceland (ISL)

The Coast Guard Cutter Douglas Denman crew offloading the 2022 Togetherness Tree in Juneau, Alaska, December 10, 2022.The Douglas Denman crew assisted the U.S. Forest Service transport the Togetherness Tree to Juneau from Sitka to be displayed in the Alaska Governors house for the holiday season. - U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Lexie Preston

Icebreaker ship cruising at night in the polar seas

Pier on Heligoland

J-Class 'Velsheda' thrashing upwind at Antigua Classic Yacht Regatta, Caribbean, 2004

DN-ST-89-11053. Country: Mediterranean Sea (MED)

Hr.ms. Mine-fighting vessel Vlaardingen Explosion (1989-present).

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