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Bellfun:
American football o...not soccer!

Soccer.

ajalawole:
Explorer, keep up the good work sir.............. My fear is, what if those ship capsize or sink sir

Sinking is rare these days because of the advanced technology.

They can forecast weather, change route/course for safer passage.

They can withstand and go through heavy storm because of their enormous size.



Most of their disasters are caused by human error/factor.

ajalawole:
explorer, pls what are those masts for?

I think it support sail, communication, and radar.

The 600,000 tonnes, 400m long, 105m high Prelude FLNG facility, the largest offshore facility ever constructed, is nearing completion at the Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) shipyard in Geoje, South Korea.


Vessel's storage tanks have a capacity equivalent to approximately 175 Olympic swimming pools.

Cost: $10B

The Titanic, at the time the largest of its kind in the world.


Struck a North Atlantic iceberg on April 14, 1912, on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City, killing more than 1,500 people.

Russian billionaire Andrey Igorevich Melnichenko owns this, one of the world's largest sailing superyachts, with three 300ft masts that stand taller than Big Ben's tower.


It estimated to be worth £360million

Hoegh Target, the world’s largest car transporter, can carry 8,500 vehicles(Ro-Ro) including bulldozers, trucks, excavators, tractors and boasts deck space the size of ten football pitches.



Vessel's 14 deck is the size of 10 football fields and it can carry 8,500 vehicles measuring 26 miles if put end to end.

The Harmony of the Seas, pictured arriving into Southampton, is the biggest cruise ship in the world with a length of 1,188ft, 18 decks and a maximum capacity for 6,780 passengers.


Cost: $1.35 billion (2015).


https://www.nairaland.com/3536241/2016-ms-harmony-seas-worlds

Antartica/Arctic explorer.


One of the largest and most powerful icebreakers in the world.


Russian icebreaker, Kapitan Khlebnikov.




Monster: A lone human stands next to the Russian icebreaker Kapitan Khlebnikov, specially designed to sail in freezing conditions and break through thick ice

Worlds largest container vessel.



Stretching a quarter of a mile and weighing a mighty 210, 890 tonnes.

The 21,413 TEU OOCL Hong Kong, which can carry up to 21,000 20ft containers.

The Seawise Giant, later named the Mont, was a supertanker that was the longest ship ever built, at 1,504ft.

Fully loaded, its displacement was 657,019 tonnes.

The Blue Marlin, an incredible vessel which can carry 75,000 tonnes-worth of other ships is 712ft long and 138ft deep.



Carrying an oil rig: The ship set a new record in 2004 by delivering BP's 59,500-tonne semi-submersible Thunder Horse platform from Okpo, South Korea, to Corpus Christi, USA.

Humans have been crossing the oceans in vessels since 3000 BC.

Since then, they keep growing.



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-4701240/The-world-s-largest-ships-CSCL-Globe-Blue-Marlin.html

Lalasticlala, Mynd44

Neminc:
These two nations should stop disturbing the peace of the world or Nigeria will be forced to bomb them both. Is it because our President is absent that they think they can misbehave anyhow. I suggest that Ag. President Osinbajo sends a strongly worded message to Trump and Kim jong un telling them to behave themselves or face the consequences!!

Lol....Lalasticlala, Mynd44 come warn this bros o.

Pyongyang's dictator has warned that he was 'carefully examining' plans to make 'an enveloping fire' around Guam, which is home to about 163,000 people and a sprawling American military base.




America's B-1Bs are ready to fight.


The crews practiced intercept and formation training, which gave them an opportunity to improve their combined capabilities and tactical skills.


B-1B Lancer bombers are pictured during the mission.

President Donald Trump fired another flare in KimJong-Un's direction on Wednesday morning,


Tillerson said Trump's 'fire and fury' charge to Kim shouldn't have Americans panicking because North Korea does not pose an 'imminent threat' to the United States.






http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4774890/Trump-nuclear-arsenal-powerful-before.html

Modsenemy:
Explorers can you give us reasons why there's a law to carry gun legally within the school premises.

Who are they hunting ?


And dis law would never work in Nigeria. It would just look like the government has introduced a violent cult where every student must be part of

i dont know o.

If you ask them, they will tell self defence.

A woman with crutches stops to talk with a friend queuing, after casting her vote in Gatundu, north of Nairobi, Kenya Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2017.

Kenyans line up in the cold early morning at a polling station in Nairobi, Kenya, Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2017, to cast their vote.

Kenyan Opposition leader Raila Odinga, second left, with election official , left, prepare to casts his vote in the Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya, Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2017.

Maasai women wait in line to cast their vote in Eseki, 140 kms (85miles) south of Nairobi, Kenya, Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2017.

Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta casts his ballot, accompanied by his wife Margaret, center-left, in Gatundu, north of Nairobi, in Kenya Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2017.

A polling official marks a voter's finger after casting his vote at a polling station in Nairobi, Kenya, Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2017.

An electoral counting officer holds up votes counted so all in the room can see, as police providing security look in through the window, at a polling station in Nairobi, Kenya Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2017.




Party observers and election volunteers gather to count the ballots in the Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya, Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2017.


Kenyans line up to vote in Bissil, 120 kms. (75 miles) south of Nairobi, Kenya, Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2017

Voters queue at Ziwa La Ngombe Primary School in Mombasa on August 8, 2017.

A police officer monitors access to a polling station at Kariokor Community Centre in Nairobi during Kenya's general election.

People queue as they wait for a polling station to open to cast their votes in the presidential election in Mombasa.

Women carrying babies cast their vote in Gatundu in Kiambu county.

Women queue as they wait for a polling station to open to cast their votes in the presidential election in Mombasa.

Prisoners votes during the national election at the Kamiti Maximum Security Prison near Nairobi.

IEBC election officials check election papers in a polling station during elections in a village near Baragoy.

A Maasai tribeswomen votes during the Presidential election at a polling station in Olepolos primary school in Kisamis.