MV Blue Marlin

Here is ships being shipped by a .. ship called blue Marlin.Blue Marlin is a semi-submersible heavy lift ship designed to transport very large semi-submersible drilling rigs above the transport ship's deck. It is equipped with 38 cabins to accommodate 60 people, a workout room, sauna and swimming facilities.

History
The U.S. Navy hired the Blue Marlin from Offshore Heavy Transport to move the destroyer USS Cole back to the United States after the warship was damaged by an Al-Qaeda suicide bomber attack while anchored in the port of Aden, Yemen. During the latter part of 2003, work done on the Blue Marlin boosted its capacity and added two retractable propulsors to improve maneuverability.The ship re-entered service in January 2004. Following these improvements, the Blue Marlin delivered the oil platform Thunder Horse PDQ, weighing 60,000 tons, to Corpus Christi, Texas, for completion.

In July 2005 Blue Marlin moved the gas refinery Snohvit from its construction site in Cadiz to Hammerfest, an 11 day trip. This transport was filmed for the TV show Extreme Engineering on the Discovery Channel, and also the TV show Mega Movers on the History Channel.In November 2005, Blue Marlin left Corpus Christi, Texas, to move the massive Sea-based X-band Radar to Adak, Alaska, via the southern tip of South America and Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. It arrived at Pearl Harbor on 9 January 2006, having travelled 15,000 miles. In January 2007, the Blue Marlin was employed to move two jack-up rigs, the Rowan Gorilla VI and the GlobalSantaFe Galaxy II, from Halifax Harbour to the North Sea. [Source: Wikipedia]

Spiral Wine Cellar

It's the quickest, easiest and most cost effective way of building a wine cellar for your house. A watertight, pre-cast cylindrical system that's sunk into the ground, it can be located anywhere from kitchen to conservatory, workshop to study. It can be installed into an existing ground floor room, or incorporated into the build of an extension or new property.

A Spiral Cellar will enable you to keep hundreds of bottles in ideal conditions for as long as you want. You can buy wines by the case (still the cheapest way of purchasing) and keep them for a few years to see how they develop. You can buy a vintage of the same wine for ten years to create your own ‘vertical' collection. And you can take advantage of special one-off offers, knowing that you've got the space - and perfect conditions - to store your latest purchase. In short, a Spiral Cellar will open up the fascinating world of wine to you like never before.

Mercedes-Benz Ener-G-Force

Off-road technology and green technology do not often mix, but Mercedes-Benz has decided to show us what kind of vehicle might result if a mix were attempted. The vehicle is called the Ener-G-Force, and this is not really intended to make it to production, but rather was built originally as part of the Los Angeles Design Challenge 2012. The idea was actually to build a vehicle for law enforcement, and Mercedes simply decided to skip over the type of large but fairly dull sedans driven by most of law enforcement and instead focus on the needs of agencies that need a more capable vehicle.

Mercedes then brought a civilian version of the concept to the L.A. Auto Show.Mercedes wanted the Ener-G-Force to be green, but a battery electric vehicle clearly wouldn’t do, the limited range of these vehicles simply wouldn’t work for an off-roader. So the vehicle is powered by hydrogen, thanks to a made-up piece of technology called a “hydro-tech converter”. This converts recycled water into hydrogen for the vehicle’s fuel cells, which in turn emit nothing but water vapor. The Ener-G-Force has a roof-mounted terrain mapper, which reads the landscape and can make adjustments to the vehicle’s suspension accordingly. This, sadly, is also made up. But that doesn’t mean that everything about the vehicle is pure fantasy, the Ener-G-Force employs four electric motors to drive the wheels, one at each hub, and this is a very practical setup for whenever the rest of the electric off-roading technology becomes viable.

The vehicle’s styling is also quite logical, being essentially an evolution of the current G-Class off-roader. Mercedes say that the Ener-G-Force would have a range of “about 500 miles”, although if it is essentially powered by water, this isn’t a huge concern and is really all made up anyway. That said, were such a vehicle to actually exist, it would really be quite an exciting piece of machinery. We’re genuinely impressed by the effort made on the part of Mercedes to make the concept as plausible as they could, even if it is not currently possible. We have therefore, as you may have already seen, named it as one of our favorite picks of the L.A. Auto Show. So figure out that hydro-tech converter, Mercedes, and then we’ll take one in silver.