How do professional mariners learn to handle huge, oceangoing ships? For some, the educational voyage goes through a small ...
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How Scale Model Ships Predict Real Ocean Giants

Inside the Navy’s test basins, ship models are dragged, flooded with waves, and even self-propelled to reveal how their ...
Testing Ships in a Miniature OceanThe US Navy maintains an indoor ocean capable of simulating some of the world’s worst weather conditions, even with waves only four feet tall. These tests rely on ...
MASK can mimic virtually any sea condition around the world’s oceans. “We can test small-scale models of Navy ships in every single environment that it’s going to encounter as a full-scale ship,” ...
On condition of anonymity, Canadian Geographic photo editor Jessica Finn caught up with the man building Terror. It takes passion to recreate a piece of history ...
HEFEI-Wearing a mask and gloves, Wu Pei, 65, carefully worked the wooden steps on the scale model of the famed Swedish warship Vasa with a file and then polished them with emery paper. "The middle ...
She was the fastest vessel in the world's oceans and it seems the RMS Mauretania is still making waves - as a 12ft long model of the ship is set to sell for £50,000. The beautifully-crafted 1:64 scale ...