Subjects: Design

USNS Robert E. Peary is the supply lifeline to task force (CTF-151) in the hot pirate zone of the Gulf of Aden. USNS Peary is a T-AKE 5 supply ship, one of the newest state-of-the-art ships built for 21st century naval warfare. T-AKE’s are the lifeline of the US Navy, allowing their warships to maintain a forward offensive presence in any hot zone anywhere in the world. Mighty Ships joins USNS Peary on active deployment in the hot zone of the Gulf of Aden replenishing a fleet of 20 warships.

To perform the world’s most dangerous job demands the support of the most technologically advanced ship in the world. On the frontline of exploring Earth’s final frontier, the sea floor, is a new breed of ship… the saturation dive support ship. The biggest, the best and the newest is Skandi Arctic. She’s the mother ship for aquanauts who work hundreds of meters below the surface on jobs considered, at least on this planet, the most dangerous in the world. Christened in 2009, Skandi is 157 meters long and the saturation dive habitat that sits on her stern is both state of the art and borderline science fiction.

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No! It’s Superferry! Stena Britannica was designed to change the way people and things move. It’s a bold, exciting, 21st century gamble. At a cost of over a billion Canadian dollars, Stena Line, the largest ferry company in Europe, has merged a car carrier, passenger ferry, cargo transport and cruise ship into the largest, most luxurious, most technically advanced “super” ferry in the world. There is nothing else like her.

She’s the biggest, best, most hi-tech U.S. Coast Guard ship ever built! USCGC Bertholf is brand new, the first of eight Legend Class ships built for US homeland security. It’s a new job for the coast guard and Bertholf is the first to take it on by patrolling the high seas, looking for drugs, weapons, human trafficking piracy, as well as traditional search and rescue missions.

Canadian Coast Guard Ship Amundsen is a rare breed of ship; a research icebreaker whose job is to battle Arctic extremes to understand how global warming will radically change life in the high Arctic. Amundsen is the vanguard of a rising wave of ships that will soon navigate a real Northwest Passage. For 500 years, mariners have sought the Holy Grail; an Arctic route to the Orient. Global warming is now turning fiction into fact as the indomitable Arctic icepack melts revealing open, navigable water.

Queen Mary 2 is the biggest, most expensive ocean liner ever to set sail. She is a veritable city at sea, a marvel of both luxury and engineering, and is the fastest passenger ship in operation with engines powerful enough to light up a city of 250-thousand. But this queen is no lightweight, at 150-thousand tons she can still turn on a dime. Watch as Exploration Productions Inc. captures how the ship works and how the ship’s crew manages to guide this masterpiece of engineering across the turbulent waters of the North Atlantic, all while the 2600 fortunate passengers ride the seas for a luxurious voyage of a lifetime.

Marine research vessel G.O. SARS uses advanced technologies to travel north of the Arctic Circle in search of new life forms living in extreme conditions beside toxic subsea volcanoes and hydrothermal vents.

Africa Mercy is the world’s largest NGO hospital ship. She travels port to port in the world’s poorest regions providing medical care to people who may have never met a doctor or visited a hospital. 150m long and equipped with six state-of-the-art operating theatres, Africa Mercy can deliver medical care as good as any big city hospital in North America.

Cristóbal Colón, aka Christopher Columbus, the world’s newest, largest, hi-tech ocean dredger, like her historic namesake, heralds the beginning of a bold new era of ships that will make a global impact.

In a country whose economy is almost 100% based on fishing, Akamalik, the high-tech star of Royal Greenland’s trawler fleet, plays a critical role. Akamalik is a floating, ultra-modern processing plant and a rugged shrimp boat, all in one sleek package. Fishermen haul in the catch from her gigantic eco-friendly trawling net and send it on conveyers to a pristine below decks processing plant that runs 24 hours a day. The shrimp is sorted, the by-catch removed for separate packaging, and all are boxed and frozen.