Mighty Ships Series

This is Northern Eagle, the most technologically advanced vessel operating in the Alaska fishery. She is heading out into the unforgiving bearing sea in high season when the chance of award is greatest and the risk of failure is the most devastating.

On the most important fishing trip of the entire season the Northern Eagle gets the full catch of come back empty-handed. You are getting a chance to hit the harsh and frigid Bering Sea together with the mega trawler Northern Eagle embarking on the biggest fishing trip.

This is the enormously large fishing ship coming with the processing plant, and maybe this is the future of the commercial shipping. Have a look at one of the best episodes of "Mighty Ships" and you will see so many of the secrets revealed.

She is a new breed, a ship designed and constructed to carry cars, lorries, and passengers - she is a really super-sized super-ferry. The Stena Britannica is the multi-million pound gamble; that size and style will allow her to rule the North Sea along the busiest ferry route. The stakes are truly huge.

To survive, this super-ferry must convince millions to come on board. Stena Britannica and her sister-ship Stena Hollandica are biggest ferries on the planet - two hundred forty meters long, two and half times as tall as Big Ben, these ferries are monsters.

Seven decks, each having the size of the football field, capable of holding more than five hundred vehicles; three passenger decks, 538 cabins, three restaurants plus the cinema hall that can entertain twelve hundred passengers. They cost an astonishing 360 million pounds... Long story short, you are definitely obliged to spend some of your time watching this film if you are interested in the maritime industry and engineering marvels of today's world...

The United States Navy Fleet's Robert E. Peary is the ultimate sea-going superstore, her mission is re-supplying pirate-busting warships in the Gulf of Aden. It is a high-risk job with no room for error. Her specialty is delivery of everything - from fuel and medical supplies to deserts.

Peary sails into the harm's way to keep the fleet fed and fueled. USNS Robert Peary is a truly mighty and technically sophisticated vessel constructed specifically for the XXI century naval warfare. Her major mission is to supply the fleet consisting of twenty warships that patrol the waters of Gulf of Aden infested by the maritime pirates.

She is maybe the most luxurious navy vessel on duty; note, however, that this is not a pleasure cruise at all. Peary is a sort of supply lifeline for the anti-pirate navy forces playing critically important role of keeping the navy ships constantly and fully operational. Should she fail in performing subject task, the entire fleet of warships may be at serious risk...

Well, maybe the most luxurious hotel at sea. Crystal Serenity travels the world with the ship load of incredibly wealthy passengers. On the way trip her crew members will face monumental challenges in unfamiliar waters and they must ensure that everything will go smooth.

This excellent video is dedicated to one of the best cruise ships in the world. That is what they call luxury! This super-liner, Crystal Serenity, has no equal on the seven seas. Other cruise ships travel the same route every two weeks but Crystal Serenity visits different destinations all year around.

She may call at the same international port only once in two years. At two hundred and fifty meters in length and fourteen decks, Crystal serenity is the number one mid-size cruise ship on the planet. Crystal Serenity offers ultimate service and the most sophisticated food. The motto of this his "Never Say No"...

United States Navy Ship New York is deservedly treated as one of the most technologically advanced amphibious war ships in the world. Navy and marines fighting as one force by sea, land, and air. This great warship was named in honor of victims of the terroristic attack, the American 9/11 tragedy.

This team of military people has been given only three weeks to prove they are tough enough for the front lines. Did you know that the bow stern of this famous vessel has been made of the eight tons of steel salvaged from the remainders of the Twin Towers wreckage. A brilliant tribute to the people who perished on that terrible day...

On a dangerous expedition to the northwest passage the ice breaker Amundsen must push herself to the brick. But deadly weather and icebergs threaten her critically important mission to take twenty four specialists including scientists and researchers to the absolute roof of the world and later bring them back alive.

Inside the Arctic circle, the CCG, i.e. Canadian Coast Guard ice breaker Amundsen does what she was originally built to do. Longer than a football field and powerful enough to plow through three meters of ice, the Amundsen is one of the very limited number of research ice breakers on the planet and a real state-of-the-art vessel.

With twelve world-class laboratories on board and multi-beam echo sounder mapping the ocean floor and other sophisticated scientific equipment, she is really battle-tested workhorse...

This episode of "Mighty Ships" is about the supertanker Maersk Peregrino which is planned to undergo a truly astonishing transformation. Offshore Brazil she will be subjected to the conversion into one a huge floating oil production facility, one of the largest on the planet.

It is massively complex and dangerous operation with billions on the line. For a marvel of the contemporary marine engineering this is the ultimate makeover. This supertanker is on her final voyage. Before long, she will be hooked up to the Brazil's Peregrino oilfield with her supertanker mission getting over. However, she will immediately begin a new job serving as an oil installation pumping, storing and offloading billions of US dollars-worth crude oil.

The captain, Fritz Juul, has been at sea his all life. he will be last captain to command her. Over the last thirty-four days, Captain Jull has safely guided the vessel from a Singaporean shipyard to Rio-de-Janeiro. The transformation project actually began five years back at Singapore...