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Have you ever seen a catamaran? you know what a catamaran is? youve got your cruising catamarans like this one. there are also racing catamarans, those are used in ocean racing, thats what they race at the olympics. but when the u.s. navy does a catamaran its a different kind of thing. this hybrid souped up catamaran is a ship called the hsv-2 swift. hsv part of that stands for "high speed vessel." this is a super fast ship. its a wave-piercing catamaran. it has a helicopter plight deck, a vehic...

Have you ever seen a catamaran? you know what a catamaran is? youve got your cruising catamarans like this one. there are also racing catamar catamarans, those are used in ocean racing, thats what they race at the olympics. but when the u.s. navy does a catamaran its a different kind of thing. this hybrid souped up catamaran is a ship called the hsv-2 swift. hsv part of that stands for "high speed vessel." this is a super fast ship. its a wave-piercing catamaran. it has a helicopter plight deck,...

This hybrid souped up catamaran is a ship called the hsv-2 swift. hsv part of that stands for "high speed vessel." this is a super fast ship. its a wave-piercing catamaran. it has a helicopter plight deck, a vehicle deck. this is a fast, versatile warship. this particular one was built in 2003, it was part of the united states navy until last year. then last year we leased this particular ship to the united arab emirates. and two weekends ago on october 1, that ship got blown up. it was destroye...

Of long island, they collected lots and lots of pieces, thousands of them. they analyzed all of them. to this day, people dispute that they got the cause right. >> you can get the latest developments on this story from our website. logon to cnn.com for the latest reporting. the crew member is missing after a fire broke out on a ferry oust northern japan. they are searching for the could and trying to put the flame out there. the fire broke out on the vehicle deck of the ship. reports say 93 pers...

Cause the ship to list and lay on her size and then capsize. >> how much water in the cargo vessel would put the water into instability? >> well, there is a similarity between this event and the herald or free enterprise, another ferry that sunk and took out 193 lives. it also had deck space, you need a lot of area to put trucks and cars. there is something called the surface-free effect, or the free-surface effect, which means that you could have water entering into the vehicle deck and only ha...

Was a ship that took on water, it also had vehicles and what you need to understand about these ships is that in order to have vehicles on the vessel, you need a very large deck space. typically close to the water line. you dont need much of a breach in the hull to introduce water that if you only have 1 to 2 inches of water on the vehicle deck of a ropax ship such as the sea wall -- and as in the case of the herald of free enterprise, in that case, the vessel sunk within 90 seconds once water e...