Above a speed of about 10 knots, a right whale's encounter with a large ship would probably be fatal.
China's self-image as a responsible great power was also on show, however, with a large new hospital ship, useful for humanitarian missions.
Marine archaeologists working on a wreck off the coast of Sicily have discovered five large cannon from a British ship, believed to have sunk in a major battle with Spanish galleons.
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Consider the absurdity of a city in the middle of the world's biggest tropical forest having to ship in a large proportion of its fruit and vegetables.
In simplified terms the system will be a hybrid network of satellite and terrestrial facilities tied to a ship cloud to transfer very large amounts of data and store it onboard.
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The firestorm that supposedly led to the impending collapse of E3 may have been brought on by a number of large exhibitors jumping ship, which caused smaller companies to do the same (we'll save the finger pointing for now).
That was the first time the ship had hosted a large group of guests since it pulled into port.
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"Our scientists found shattered bone and large hematomas which are indicative of a ship strike, " he told BBC News.
Mr. Babits, who had been aboard the HMS Bounty replica several times and has sailed on other tall-mast ships, said he didn't understand why the ship entered the path of a large storm that everyone knew was coming.
In March the businessmen, who have called their project Wool Recycle Eco System, obtained patents for a containerised kit that can be set up in boats to deal with small spills, and for a bigger ship-based system to tackle large ones.
The U.S. government today announced that it would permit Network Associates Inc. a license allowing it to ship its 128-bit PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) product to a large number of countries, excluding countries such as Iraq and Cuba.
The Vanguard, the Blue Marlin and the rest of the Dockwise fleet are ships designed to carry other ships, drilling rigs or anything else too large or heavy to be easily transported on a conventional ship.
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Some of Richard Wilson's previous works include a large disc sawn out of the facade of a building for the Liverpool Year of Culture and a section of ship moored near the Millennium Dome in 2000, cut vertically to show its cross-section.
If Lord had been given to large interpretations, he might have seen in the one ship a symbol of the urgent force of human striving and, in the other, the immovable resistance of sheer stupidity.
Marine leaders are determined to get the program rolling despite partisan wrangling and large deficits, because they know that if the Corps lacks a credible ship-to-shore capability, then enemies will seek to exploit that weakness.
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In 2010, the IMO adopted rules that require any large cruise ship built after July 1 of that year to have a separate, redundant system able to maintain the ship's propulsion, steering and so forth in case one engine is disabled by fire.
When you are on a ship, all telephone, data, and video traffic is carried through a complement of large satellite dishes found on the top deck.
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But despite its streamline design, the shark-shaped ship travels at an average speed of just 7.5 knots -- about that of a large ocean liner.
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