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Interesting and unusual marine facts from around the world

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The world’s smallest ship measures only 1/1000th of an inch. Built by a Dutch team of scientists, it propelled itself via chemical reaction.

The largest tanker ever built was the Seawise Giant. Completed in Japan in 1979, the ship weighed more than 564,000 tonnes and measured 458.45m in length. She was bombed and sank in 1988, but was recovered from the seabed a year later and repaired, before finally being scrapped in 2010.

The Blue Marlin and Black Marlin are ships that ship ships. These semisubmersible heavy-lift ships can carry an eyewatering 75,000 tonnes of cargo… or a whole oil rig.

The world’s deepest shipwreck is thought to be that of the USS Johnston, a World War Two Fletcherclass destroyer. It lies at a depth of 21,180 feet beneath in the Philippine Sea.

Every problem is a gift we would not grow without problems “ “

– Anthony Robbins –

According to Boat International’s 2022 Global Order Book, a record of 1,024 superyachts are on order in 2022 – a rise of 24.7 % from last year’s 821.

The largest ship ever built (although technically not a ship) is the Prelude, a floating liquified natural gas platform, it is 488m long and has a displacement of 600,000 tonnes. This is more than five times the size of a Nimitz class aircraft carrier.

The Panama Canal was completed 107 years ago and when taking into account the cost of inflation, its construction costs of $375 million would today be approximately $8 billion.

The Suez Canal blockage caused by the Evergiven is estimated to have cost the world’s economy around $9.6 billion a day in trade.

Iona, one of P&O Cruises’ newest cruise ships, is the first ship in the world to have an onboard distillery. This oneof-a-kind feature has a custom built 450-litre copper still.