Peru-based Aqua Expeditions launches the MV Aria this month, a 150-foot boat that will sail up the northern Amazon to view remote locations and rare wildlife like the native pink dolphins.

BBC: Openings

The incident happened on the MV Tombarra, a British-registered car carrying ship.

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In June 2011, Novatek, Russia's biggest non-state gas company, sent 60, 000 tons of gas condensate from Murmansk to the Chinese port of Ningbo aboard the MV Perseverance on a three-week voyage.

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Last week, the company announced plans to dispatch the MV MacArthur, a 183-foot vessel with a crew of 14 and a helicopter pad, to the Gulf of Aden to provide escort services for ships in need of security.

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Part of that need will be met in the future by a new generation of rotorcraft, including the revolutionary MV-22 tiltrotor that combines the vertical agility of a helicopter with the speed and range of a fixed-wing plane.

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Granted, the vernacular might be a bit off, but apparently Meridian gets the gist of it, as it showcased the MV-D1 iPod video dock at CES as a means of getting a "real HD video experience" out of that yet-to-be- widescreened 5.5G rendition.

ENGADGET: Meridian MV-D1 iPod dock outputs 1080p content to your HDTV

The 1998 traveling exhibit, "Art of the Motorcycle, " offered up a century of biking history, from a 1868 Michaux-Perreaux steam-powered machine to a Massimo Tamburini MV Agusta F4 racer.

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It probably explains why a report of a deadly shoot-out amongst the pirates onboard the MV Faina was denied by the vessel's hijackers.

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