This story just keeps getting stranger. A year ago last June, the Swedish treasure hunters, Ocean X Team, saw something that they did not understand while doing sonar sweeps of the bottom of the Baltic Sea. There appeared to be a 200′ diameter disk on the bottom, which the press dubbed the “Millenium Falcon” as it resembled the Star Wars space craft. This June, the Ocean X Team dove on the site and the mystery only deepened. The object on the bottom appeared to be a dome described as “mushroom shaped.”
Now, a former Swedish naval officer and WWII expert Anders Autellus is suggesting that the structure – measuring 200ft by 25ft – could be the base of a top-secret Nazi device designed to block British and Russian submarine movements in the area during World War II.
Last February, we posted about the modification to the 
Yesterday, I went on a field trip with the New York Shiplore and Model Club to Stonington and Mystic, Connecticut. (Thanks to Lee Gruzen, Norman Brouwer and Linda Zatkowski for making the arrangements.) Our first stop was 
Early airplane wings were built of canvas stretched over a wooden frame, held together with wire rigging. Modern airplane wings are built of aluminum and other metals. The comparison to sails, masts and rigging on ships may not apply directly. Nevertheless, the last America’s Cup winner, the
The City of New York is a city of islands, large and small, floating in a vast harbor and waterway. Only one of the five boroughs is on the mainland and that even borough, the Bronx, is on a peninsula, with water on three sides. The city and the metropolitan area of 20 million people only exist because of the harbor, the Hudson River estuary, and neighboring rivers and sounds. Once again the 
To say that this will be a busy weekend on the New England waterfront may be an understatement. Following the 4th of July festivities in Boston, 
The Navy’s Floating Instrument Platform, better known as FLIP, went into service fifty years ago, in 1962. The 355-foot research vessel is capable of operating horizontally as a conventional, if somewhat odd-looking, ship. When on station, however, it “flips” vertically 90 degrees and becomes the equivalent of a massive spar buoy. Because the hydrodynamic forces act primarily on the bottom of the vessel, which is far below the surface waves, the ship is highly stable in heavy seas and up to 80′ waves.
In a previous Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for 2009-2013, the U.S. Navy estimated that 150,000 marine mammals could be harmed in sonar training and testing exercises. Now in the
Happy 4th of July! Those of us in the United States celebrate the anniversary of the adoption of the 
For several years now cruise ships fans have been concerned that the 2008 debt crunch in Dubai would result in the