Marine architecture is the design of architectural and engineering structures which support coastal design, near-shore and off-shore or deep-water planning for many projects such as
shipyard
A shipyard, also called a dockyard or boatyard, is a place where ships are shipbuilding, built and repaired. These can be yachts, military vessels, cruise liners or other cargo or passenger ships. Compared to shipyards, which are sometimes m ...
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ship transport
Maritime transport (or ocean transport) or more generally waterborne transport, is the transport of people (passengers or goods (cargo) via waterways. Freight transport by watercraft has been widely used throughout recorded history, as it provi ...
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coastal management
Coastal management is defence against flooding and erosion, and techniques that stop erosion to claim lands. Protection against rising sea levels in the 21st century is crucial, as sea level rise accelerates due to climate change. Changes in s ...
or other marine and/or hydroscape activities. These structures include
harbor
A harbor (American English), or harbour (Commonwealth English; see spelling differences), is a sheltered body of water where ships, boats, and barges can be moored. The term ''harbor'' is often used interchangeably with ''port'', which is ...
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lighthouse
A lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of physical structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lens (optics), lenses and to serve as a beacon for navigational aid for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways.
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marina
A marina (from Spanish , Portuguese and Italian : "related to the sea") is a dock or basin with moorings and supplies for yachts and small boats.
A marina differs from a port in that a marina does not handle large passenger ships or cargo ...
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oil platform
An oil platform (also called an oil rig, offshore platform, oil production platform, etc.) is a large structure with facilities to extract and process petroleum and natural gas that lie in rock formations beneath the seabed. Many oil platforms w ...
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offshore drilling
Offshore drilling is a mechanical process where a wellbore is drilled below the seabed. It is typically carried out in order to explore for and subsequently extract petroleum that lies in rock formations beneath the seabed. Most commonly, the ter ...
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accommodation platforms and
offshore wind farms, floating engineering structures and building architectures or civil seascape developments. Floating structures in deep water may use
suction caisson for
anchor
An anchor is a device, normally made of metal, used to secure a vessel to the bed of a body of water to prevent the craft from drifting due to wind or current. The word derives from Latin ', which itself comes from the Greek ().
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File:VolturnUS 1-8 in Castine ME.jpg, University of Maine's Floating wind turbine VolturnUS 1:8 was the first grid-connected offshore wind turbine in the Americas.
File:Floating loose mooring catenary plain.svg, A single floating cylindrical spar buoy moored by catenary
In physics and geometry, a catenary ( , ) is the curve that an idealized hanging chain or wire rope, cable assumes under its own weight when supported only at its ends in a uniform gravitational field.
The catenary curve has a U-like shape, ...
cables. Hywind uses a ''ballasted catenary'' layout that adds 60 tonne weights hanging from the midpoint of each anchor cable to provide additional tension.
Image:Clevedon Victorian pier.jpg, Victorian pier at Clevedon, Somerset, England
Image:Pier Blankenberge R01.jpg, The pier of Blankenberge, Belgium
Image:Surfer at Huntington Beach Pier.jpg, Huntington Beach Pier, California
Image:Suontee in Joutsa.jpg, A typical Finnish pier with a table, chair and ladders for swimmers in Joutsa
Joutsa is a municipalities of Finland, municipality of Finland. It is located in the provinces of Finland, province of Western Finland and is part of the Central Finland regions of Finland, region. Jyväskylä is located about north of the Jouts ...
, Central Finland
Central Finland (; ) is a Regions of Finland, region ( / ) in Finland. It borders the regions of Päijät-Häme, Pirkanmaa, South Ostrobothnia, Central Ostrobothnia, North Ostrobothnia, Northern Savonia, North Savo, and Southern Savonia, South S ...
File:USS Port Royal (CG 73) aft elevated drydock view.jpg, USS Port Royal (CG-73) in drydock
A dry dock (sometimes drydock or dry-dock) is a narrow basin or vessel that can be flooded to allow a load to be floated in, then drained to allow that load to come to rest on a dry platform. Dry docks are used for the construction, maintenance, ...
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File:Duxbury Pier light house in Plymouth harbor.jpg, Duxbury Pier Light in Plymouth harbor.
File:AereaPuertoSherry.JPG, Aerial view of a typical marina (harbor dredge and lighthouse in lower right)
File:Oil platform P-51 (Brazil).jpg,
File:Off Shore Drilling Rig, Santa Barbara, CA, 6 December, 2011.JPG, An oil drilling platform off the coast of Santa Barbara, CA
File:11-09-fotofluege-cux-allg-25a.jpg, Oil platform Mittelplate includes an accommodation platform.
File:Jawaharlal Nehru Trust Port.jpg, Harbour cranes unload cargo from a container ship at the Jawaharlal Nehru Port in Navi Mumbai, India
India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area; the List of countries by population (United Nations), most populous country since ...
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File:Oosterscheldekering, Netherlands.JPG, Oosterscheldekering sea wall, the Netherlands.
File:Oosterscheldekering-pohled.jpg, One of the three movable barrier sections of the Oosterscheldekering
File:Saipem 7000.jpg, The '' Saipem 7000'', a semi-submersible crane vessel equipped with a J-lay pipe-laying system.
File:Allseas' Solitaire, pijplegschip.jpg, The ''Solitaire
Solitaire may refer to:
Film and television
*'' Le Solitaire'', a 1987 French film
* ''Solitaire'' (1991 film), a Canadian drama film
* ''Solitaire'' (2008 film), a drama film
*''Solitaire'', 2016 Lebanese comedy film with Bassam Kousa
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'', one of the largest pipe-laying ships in the world.
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Naval architecture
Naval architecture, or naval engineering, is an engineering discipline incorporating elements of mechanical, electrical, electronic, software and safety engineering as applied to the engineering design process, shipbuilding, maintenance, and op ...
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