Subjects: Technology

She’s the most expensive single project in Maersk history. For the same price as 50 container ships – $1.3 billion – the world’s largest ship company has built the newest and most sophisticated ship the oil industry has ever seen. She is designed to receive oil from nearby platforms, process it, and offload it to visiting tankers. Now it’s time to for her start making good on that investment.

Umiak I is the most powerful, highest-rated ice-breaking bulk carrier in the world. Her muscular engine is the biggest in Canada. Not just the biggest on any ship, but the biggest, period. It can drive this ship through ice conditions that would send other vessels back home. Umiak I can crush sheets of ice almost 2 metres thick, and her bow can ram through ridges up to 10 metres high.

She is brand-new and ready for battle. USS Gravely is the newest ship in the US Navy. Before she is deployed, the ship and her crew are put through their paces to prove they are ready for combat. Mighty Ships has exclusive access aboard USS Gravely during this crucial time.

The World’s Largest Amphibious Transport Dock. With 7.5 tons of steel salvaged from the wreckage of the Twin Towers forming her bow stem, USS New York is tribute to those who perished on September 11, 2011. From the images of the World Trade Center, to the banner listing the fallen, to the Broadway street sign donated by NYC’s mayor, this ship is a powerful symbol. But she’s more than that.

Consistently voted the world’s top cruise ship by Condé Nast, Crystal Serenity is full of luxuries. She features contemporary suites, dining by the likes of Nobu, even penthouse suites with a full-service butler. And her guests keep coming back for more – half the passengers on any given sailing are repeat bookings. This cruise will take MIGHTY SHIPS into ports viewers have never seen before, including: the famous sites of Sydney harbour, the port of Melbourne, beautiful Bali and a large-scale furniture load in Semarang, Indonesia.

She’s brand-new and about to make history. The Dutch company Van Oord has just received its new fallpipe vessel called Stornes. She deploys a long hollow pipe that runs from the ship to the seafloor. Rocks are loaded into the pipe and “fall” down to the bottom, hence the term “fallpipe”. The rocks are used to provide foundations and protection for pipelines that are then laid on the ocean floor. Stornes has been designed and built specifically for this purpose. Now, MIGHTY SHIPS follows Stornes on a project that has her working deeper than any other fallpipe vessel in history.

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.

In the arsenal of the world’s most advanced superpower, one weapon is feared the most… the ballistic nuclear missile submarine. Get an unprecedented look at USS Kentucky, one of the U.S. Navy’s Ohio-Class ballistic missile nuclear-powered submarines; virtually undetectable, she is capable of launching a surprise nuclear attack on any country in the world.

Welcome to the future. It took $1.4 billion to build the largest, most revolutionary cruise ship in the world… but will she live up to the hype? Go onboard the Oasis of the Seas for her maiden voyage; the largest, most revolutionary cruise ship on Earth, discover the space-age technologies that help her operate, navigate and entertain 5,000-plus passengers.