When visiting the beautiful South Carolina Grand Strand on your next vacation, golf, or boating trip you will undoubtedly encounter many restaurants heralding their “World Famous Calabash Style Seafood.”Just drive down Kings Highway/Business 17 in Myrtle Beach along the famed “Restaurant Row” and you are…
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The resort town of Myrtle Beach’s attractions tend to be intentionally situated on or near the beach. However, “The Grand Strand’s” latest attraction was brought to shore through the force of nature by hurricane Ian on Friday, September 30th when a shrimp trawler named the…
The Sea Hunter anti-submarine Class III unmanned surface vessel (USV) is an autonomous unmanned surface vehicle (USV) launched in 2016 as part of the DARPA, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Anti-Submarine Warfare Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel (ACTUV) program. It was christened on 7 April 2016…
The Russian Belgorod (K-329) Oscar II Class Submarine On June 25, 2021, the Russian Navy began sea trials of its new Belgorod K-329 submarine. And, while the development of this submarine has essentially remained secretive it is known that notably, it’s the largest submarine developed…
Return of the Pirate RoundThe Pirate Round was a sailing route followed by many, mainly English, pirates, during the late 17th and early 18th centuries. And, spanning the years 1719 to 1721, Edward England, John Taylor, Olivier Levasseur, and Christopher Condent plied the seas out…
The Golden Age of Piracy is the generally recognized designation for the era spanning the 1650s to the 1730s, when maritime piracy was a momentous factor in the antiquities of the Caribbean, United Kingdom, Indian Ocean, North America, and West Africa.Historical accounts of piracy frequently…
The exploits of pirates, privateers, and buccaneers have long captured America’s imagination. After all, these sea going brigands led a highly romanticized lifestyle sailing the sea lanes of the world, their canvases billowing in the trade winds, from the waters off Africa and Europe and…
The United States Navy’s Virginia-class fast-attack submarines currently in service are among the newest in the fleet. They are nuclear powered and are equipped with four torpedo tubes to launch the Mk-48 Advanced Capability (ADCAP) torpedoes. A variant of the American heavyweight submarine-launched torpedoes, the…
The Seawolf-class nuclear-powered fast attack submarines (SSN) are currently in service with the United States Navy. The class was originally intended to succeed the 688 Los Angeles-class attack boats, and design work began on it in 1983. A fleet of 29 submarines was planned to…
Just as unmanned drones have changed the complexion of warfare overhead in the sky they are now being replicated under the sea as global military powers inaugurate the development and deployment of unmanned underwater vessels (UUVs) to gain a strategic advantage in the Pacific Ocean…