This is likely a salvage mission in China. At first glance, the structure in the middle looks like a capsized ship but the rust and heavy water damage leads me to believe that it had been underwater for a long time. The colouring and the many windows make it possible that the ship was used to carry passengers. The sign on the top of the left structure says Shanghai Salvage, meaning they have raised the ship for metal parts or for the oil spilling out the sides of it. The yellow buoys are meant to contain said oil. This is what i think is going on in this picture.
I don't know what is this.
Its a control for a part of a Chinese boat being sunk underwater and now has been recovered by investigators.
They are recovering the remains of a ship that had sank at sea.
I think they recovered a miss boat and took it out the bottom of the sea
veo dos planchas en medio del mar queriendo rescatar un barco que se avia undido
In this photo I see a salvage crew cleaning up the remains of a sunken ship. There appears to be some sort of wench system along the outside of each barge.
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The tug boats are tied together.
It looks like they're recovering items from a ship lost at sea.
There were two boats out in the water, searching for something. That something was another boat. People wanted this boat because they thought that it had not deteriorated in the ocean yet because it hadn’t been in the ocean for a long time. They knew this because a flare had been sent up about thirty minutes ago not very far from shore. Also, they knew that there were many items on there that were important such as oil and goods.
I can connect this to a global issue. The global issue is water pollution. The boat might of has oil in it and that could have polluted the water. If you look closely at the picture, you’ll see that on the boat on the left there is Chinese writing and then under that it says, “Shanghai Salvage.” I think that the two boats are trying to rescue a boat. After all, it is called Shanghai Salvage. Now they have recovered the boat and they are trying to restore it.
I can connect this to a global issue. The global issue is water pollution. The boat might of has oil in it and that could have polluted the water. If you look closely at the picture, you’ll see that on the boat on the left there is Chinese writing and then under that it says, “Shanghai Salvage.” I think that the two boats are trying to rescue a boat. After all, it is called Shanghai Salvage. Now they have recovered the boat and they are trying to restore it.
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Makes sense i thought it was just an old boat that was found and picked up to salvage
This appears to be 2 barges with a small disabled ship turned on its side. The barges might be raising the ship, or dumping the ship. It appears to be in Asia.
How do you know it's in Asia? What part of Asia? How do we know whether it's being raised or dumped?
In this picture two barges are trying to contain a ship that has sunk. I can see they’re trying to contain the ship since there are ropes around the ship. You can see the ship was in salt water because if you look at the water in the background, It looks like warm water. The ship looks like this ship has been underwater for a while now since it looks badly damaged. This connects to global issues in protecting our oceans and pollution. This ship had an oil spill or it could of had bad things for the ocean. I think this ship had an oil spill since you can see oil right beside the ship. I also think the army is doing this since i’ve heard Coes is something to do with the army, and Coes is on the barge. This picture looked like it happened months ago since it looks very badly damaged. I think this happened because the ship hit something, something was wrong with the engineering, or a passenger destroyed the engines.
i think people are trying to pull the ship up
I think that this is in the present.
I see three ships but one ship is submerged.
I think that it is in the Pacific Ocean.
They are taking out a ship, this ship is dirty and broken.
I see three ships but one ship is submerged.
I think that it is in the Pacific Ocean.
They are taking out a ship, this ship is dirty and broken.
China is building another island. An island on the memory of the children and families who's lives ended only too abruptly and horrifically drowning in the wine dark waters, alone terrified and suffering.
An island would be an apt memorial.
An island would be an apt memorial.
two barges recovering a old ferry ship leaking oil or something
I've not read all the comments but I see that several have recognized this as an aerial photograph of the raising of the Sewol ferry that sank off the coast of Korea in 2014 with over 400 people, including over 300 schoolchildren aboard. I confirmed that by googling Sewol ferry and seeing a picture of the same vessels from a different viewpoint.
Learning Network, what were you thinking?? This picture should not have been the subject of your otherwise clever game for two reasons. First, the raising of the ship was a solemn event; you disrespected the families of the dead by making it into a game. Second, you are specifically directing to schoolchildren an invitation to figure out - or find out from reading the comments of others - that this picture is the result of a tragedy in which hundreds of schoolchildren died.
Learning Network, what were you thinking?? This picture should not have been the subject of your otherwise clever game for two reasons. First, the raising of the ship was a solemn event; you disrespected the families of the dead by making it into a game. Second, you are specifically directing to schoolchildren an invitation to figure out - or find out from reading the comments of others - that this picture is the result of a tragedy in which hundreds of schoolchildren died.
What I think is happening in this photo is that this abandon ship wreck was causing boat traffic and the shanghai salvage, which is their shanghai rescue, decided to move it.
What I think is happening on the boat is that there is an oil spill. As you can see by the black water, there are smashed windows and two carrier boats trying to pull it up with winches and hydraulics.
What I think is happening on the boat is that there is an oil spill. As you can see by the black water, there are smashed windows and two carrier boats trying to pull it up with winches and hydraulics.
I wonder how old that boat is? How could it have sunk in the middle of the ocean? Where was this boat found, and how did they find it? In this New York Times picture there is a recovered boat from what I think is the bottom of the ocean.
My theory about this photo is that this boat sunk in the early 19 hundreds. I think it sunk in the early 19 hundreds because the boat looks rusty, venerable and very old. This boat in the middle also looks like the Titanic. The boats that recovered the big boat is a, “Shanghai Salvage,” boat. That is a chinese rescue company. I think the boat sunk because their was hole in the boat and it got flooded causing it to drown and sink to the bottom. Maybe, they took a submarine to the bottom of the ocean and brought it up. It could have been floating on the surface of the ocean too.
All of the boats in this picture have been polluting the ocean. The boat that got recovered was polluting the water for one hundred years! When the 2 other boats came they were so big, and hade so many machines they polluted the air and water way too much!
My theory about this photo is that this boat sunk in the early 19 hundreds. I think it sunk in the early 19 hundreds because the boat looks rusty, venerable and very old. This boat in the middle also looks like the Titanic. The boats that recovered the big boat is a, “Shanghai Salvage,” boat. That is a chinese rescue company. I think the boat sunk because their was hole in the boat and it got flooded causing it to drown and sink to the bottom. Maybe, they took a submarine to the bottom of the ocean and brought it up. It could have been floating on the surface of the ocean too.
All of the boats in this picture have been polluting the ocean. The boat that got recovered was polluting the water for one hundred years! When the 2 other boats came they were so big, and hade so many machines they polluted the air and water way too much!
I think that it is a broken motor or monitor and from the words on it so I think it is from the chinese or japanese and I don't think that it is ready.
Inside this picture I see 2 barges crowding around a sunken ship. This is probably a rescue mission, or a retrieval mission bringing a ship to shore. Why I think this is that there's a sunken boat and the barges are tying it to them. If you look closely on the grey/left barge there is a banner saying "Shanghai salvage" which probably means it was taken in China. On the green/right barge there is a banner saying "coes". I don't have any ideas why it says that. It is very likely this is an old ship so they're bringing it back to land to stop pollution from it. I do not know the scale because I can't see a person. A global issue this could be connected to is pollution because the old ship could be polluting oil. Next the ship could be sold for scrap. This is my idea on what is going on in this picture.
It looks like 2 tug boats that are pulling a boat back to shore or the dock it looks lie it might be in japan or china somewere like thay by the sign on the ships
it looks like a boat with small boats on it or cars but that's not what it is cargo crates machines people and it look like they are connected together and a ship or island is in the middle of them
The barges are bringing in an old sunken ship to scrap it. It could also be part of an ocean clean up. We know that the cleanliness of the ocean is getting really bad. We can see oil or debris spilling from the ship.
I see a horrific reminder of what happens when people allow their own greed to eat away at their human obligation not to harm others. I hope this will not be the future of earth, and I wish solace to the bereaved parents of so many children.
I easily recognize a ship on its side in the water between two weird-looking things that turn out to be salvage ships. At first I think it is greatly enlarged circuit boards with connectors going off the far sides but then I see people walking on them. This is confirmed by the blue writing that says Shanghai Salvage on it. I notice oil in the water and yellow booms to contain the oil I think. I see the ropes that connect the three vessels together. I wish I could figure out what the brown hoses going into the water are. I think they might be pumping something out of the ship that sank or getting ready to pull parts off it. Now I think they're moving it somewhere because I can see a trail of oil streaming off one corner of these, so maybe it's moving to the side or maybe there's just a current going by the stationary ships.
In this picture, two tug boats are pulling a sunken ship out of the bottom to the sea and are dragging it back to shore. The reason is because you can see ropes tied to the boat.
The cruise ship, Achille Lauro, being towed between two barges, after it was raised.
In this picture it looks like there has been a cruise that had sunk and are getting it out of the ocean. They are trying to reflote the ship and get it to shore and then get the stuff out of it and thand they will take apart the ship. Then the ship is gone and there is nothing left of it and i know this because i wached a youtube video and there had been a ship in Italy that had sunk becase they hit a reef. They had filled the air in the pipes to make the boat reflote again and then they had to be careful not to let all the junk in the boat not to fall out into the ocean and one of the youtubers i know whet there on a boat and he said that it was so big and the two ships in the pic are trying to get the ship up and out of the water and this proses takes about 7 to 8 days to reflote the ship.
it looks like 2 ships are poling up a nether ship that was sunk. the ship that is being role up looks like a swordfish.
I think that it is too large boats that are pulling a sunken ship to the top of the sea or I think that the two boats are supposed to pull the boat to shore because there is oil in the water from the boat. There is lots of material on the boat to bring the boat in the middle too short. But it's going to be hard work to pull the boat to shore and they're going to have to go very slow because the bolt in the middle is very heavy. The reason why there's pulling that boat just short is because the oil that is coming out of the boat is going to harm the life that is in the ocean or sea. The boat in the middle is dirty and it has been falling apart. There is a lot of mold on the boat. There is two generators on the boat. It looks like that the China or Japanese people are pulling the boat to shore because there is handwriting over on the left boat that looks like their handwriting. if they did not take the boat out of the water there would be oil all over then it would kill every single animal in the ocean or sea that is in it.
We see two ginormous barges on either side of what looks like a cruise ship. It would appear that the barges have cables, ropes and pulleys attached to this cruise ship and are trying to pull it up from the water. The ship seems to be leaking something into the water that the barges are trying to contain with the yellow ropes. From the aerial shot, it seems that the barges are flat, but looking closer we can see that they really are tall because there are ladders that we see at the back going from the bottom up to the top. We also see when we zoom in a lot of people in full-body red uniforms. We think they must be barge staff. We also see a sign to the left that says Shanghai Salvage in English and has Chinese as well. There is another sign to the right that looks like COES but we’re not entirely sure. Based on the signage, we think this rescue effort must be happening close to Shanghai.
I think that their are two ships and in the middle of the two ships is a ship that sunk because of an oil spill. I can see that because at the back of the boat is black oil and the oil is floating.
I think that the two flat boats are lifting up the ship that has been sunken. I think that they are lifting up the boat because it's been there for a while. I can see oil coming out of the sunken ship so maybe that is also a another reason why they are getting rid out it. It looks like it is a in a different country waters because there is a different language on the white sheet. I think that maybe there was something that was valuable that these people wanted. I can also tell that that boat has been there for a long time because of the coral and stuff on the ship.
i think this is in May 5, 2017 and they are fishing the sister ship of the Titanic out of the water to investigate. The ship sank in 1914 and people have always bin interested in what really happened.
I think that the ship might be the Sewol ferry that sunk and the two machine are lifting it up out of the water and i think it has been in the water for a long time because it is dirty or there has been a oil spill has happened in the ocean.
You nailed it.
There is a ship that sunk and there is an oil spill. it is so bad that there is no fish in the sea and the ship looks like it was a cruise ship and I guess it was on the bottom of the sea for five years it looks like or the piece of the ship I am talking about is one half of the ship and the people who found that part cannot find the other half and the people who were on that ship probably died and some of the people probably lived. This ship that sunk is floating because there is wires that are holding the ship above the ship is very Rusty and the ship is it looks like it is going to get made into a new one I can tell that it looks like a cruise ship because I went on a cruise before and they are super big and that one is like split in half some of the boat is missing probably because something hit it and split it in half and it looks like the windows on the bout are gone.
I think they connected wires to the boat. i don't know if the thing right next to the boat are wire panels. they might be using them to make the boat move. they also could put ropes are wires to bring up to the shore.
I think its a dinosuar bone or some kind of bone or a atifact . it looks like there moving it some were like a museum. it looks to be some were in the
I think that this happened near Shanghai.
I see two ships helping another ship that probably hit a rock.
I think that the ship was long time under water because it's very dirty.
I see two ships helping another ship that probably hit a rock.
I think that the ship was long time under water because it's very dirty.
A sunken ship has been raised from the bottom.
I suspect that the photo shows a "ship-breaking" operation in progress, whereby a ship is disassembled for scrap.
In this picture, it is taking place off the coast in an ocean somewhere in China or Asia because the banner states "Shanghai Salvage". There is a ship or boat of some kind in the center surrounded by two barges filled with equipment and people. The ship in the center looks like some kind of passenger ship or ferry, and it is on its side meaning that the barges are trying to recover it. The ship in the center looks like it may have sunk earlier because of the condition that it is in. However, there are no people coming from the sunken ship, so it probably sunk earlier.
A ship is sinking and there is oil leaking from the ship. I think they are trying to get the ship out of the water.
I think two cargo barges are trying to bring back an old Chinese ship back up. It looks like it was a cruise ship, and it must've hit something just like the Titanic.
This picture is showing a ferry being raised from the sea. As a Korean, I can infer that it's the Sewol ferry that drowned 3 years ago. This is a world wider issue that everyone is interested in since it's the first time ever raising a ferry that is underwater. The damage seems worst than what I have expected to see. I hope they could find good evidence of where different people are and save the rest of them who couldn't come out to the land till now.
I think is just a ferry in Shanghai that is being picked up to the sea surface.
People are trying to move the wrecked ship by using the ship that helps to move it. As we can see the outfit of a wrecked ship, we can infer that there is huge accident from the huge wave or some kind of accident between ship and sea-animals. Also, I noticed that there is Chinese banner on the ship, which shows it happens in the China.
it is a korean ship that has been sank and it raised out of the ocean few years later from the day that it sank. the things that are beside the ship are boats that are connected with bunch of strings so it can hold the Sewol from sinking
The half sank ferry looks like Sewol Ferry which was a disaster to all Koreans. It looks like people are lifting the sink Sewol ferry from the deep ocean.
I could notice this was Sewol Ferry raising. April 16, 2014, Sewol Ferry sink into the ocean. There were many kinds of rumors and questions why the government couldn't save them. By failing to save people, many students, teachers, and other travelers drowned into water. After 3years, we finally raise the Sewol from the ocean. Currently, a yellow ribbon is the symbol for the Sewol tragic. RIP.
The picture looks like the South Korean ferry, Seowl being refloated. The boat looks very similar to it, and there are similar pictures onlne. The ferry accident is when thousands of school children died because the ferry sank, and it is an accident that everyone should remember.
When I first looked at the photo, I thought it was some mechanical substance that I don't know. However, when I looked carefully to the photo, I realized it is some figure of a boat. Connecting to that idea, I thought about Sewol ferry since it is being raised.
This picture shows the game console that was hardly damaged in a war. There is a famous picture that shows Gameboy that was hardly damaged in the Gulf war. This picture implies the durability of old game consoles compares to the modern game console. In terms of wider sense, no matter what how you are good at certain thing, you should have strong physical or mental durability.
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I can see too big barges that are pulling out a boat from the water, which seems to be very old and became rusted
Certainly, this picture is a "Korean" ferry. Three years ago, Sewol Ferry Disaster was a great shock to Korean citizens. They did not believe the fact that innocent teenagers' lives were sacrificed due to the ex-president who handled the situation late and selfish captain who ran away, leaving the passengers to slowly die. I wish the bodies of those sacrificed high school students to come back to their parents.
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I see two big machines trying to lift up a big ferry sunken in the ocean floor. It is probably the Sewol ferry that was sunken in 2014 with students in Danwon high-school
The picture shows the Sewol ferry being recovered pray for the repose of those who deceased that day.
It looks like a dirty model ship between two electronic devices. I know from the "spoiler" comments that it's the Korean ferryboat being raised by two barges, but I said what I said because the picture seems to have no human beings in it. Given the magnitude of the disaster, this last fact is very sad.
I think it must show the raising of the South Korean ship that sank with all those schoolchildren on board. It's not the Costa Concordia; that used a different approach.
here is a link to the original article that the photo was take from https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/22/world/asia/south-korea-ferry-sewol.html
A Chinese ferry is being refloated
Probably the MV Sewol being raised
i see a broken pc
We see two boats rescuing another. We see ropes attached to the small boat that is also leaking oil. We think the small boat has sunk in the lake,river or ocean. We also think the picture is taken in Shanghai.
In this image I see two barges raising a boat. There is oil spilling out onto the ocean but the yellow tubes look like they are there to catch the oil.
What I see in this picture is a boat that has an oil leak and 2 barges pulling it up from the ocean floor so they can remove it from the water
In this photo, I can see that Two large barges are pulling a sunken ship out of the ocean. I also see that oil is being spilt from the ship as they are pulling it.
What I see in the picture is two barges recovering a old sunken ship leaking oil. I believe their reasoning for recovering the ship is due to the oil leak causing pollution in the water effecting the fish, birds, and other animals.
This looks like the ferry that sunk in 2014 the two barges are pulling the wreck up as it pours our oil into the ocean.
In this picture, at first glance I saw some kind of electric box, or circuit. Then I looked a little closer and realized that its a ship wreck. The two barges are trying to bring up or slavage the ship, for parts or to investigate the cause of the ship wreck. Theres oil draining out of the ship, perhaps they are trying to clean the oil spill with the big yellow hoses in the water.
It is two barges salvaging what is left of a sunken ferry. I think that the yellow hoses are pumping the boat full of air so it will float to the top, or they could be used to soak up some of the pollution from the wreckage.
It looks like they are trying to winch up a ship from the ocean floor.
I think it is a salvaging operation to save what is left of this boat try to find out why this boat sunk.
while looking at this image I see two large barges pulling a ferry that seems to have sunken. Without looking very closely I also think it looks a bit like a circuit board.
In this picture, I see two barges lifting a boat wreck out of the ocean. The object in the middle appears to be a sunken boat floating on its side. I also see a banner that says "salvage." It looks as though the oil and chemicals from the boat are polluting the water. This is probably taking place in another country because of the writing on the banners.
in this picture I see that a passenger ship has capsized and they are trying to salvage the ship and I am also guessing they are recovering people that may have passed away during the accident. On the left and right sides of the ship there are barges with what looks like possibly winches on the outside edges of the boat I am assuming this because of all of the cables going over the boat that to be hooked up to it to overturn it to the correct position. You can see that there are things that are on the edges of the Stern and bow of the ship I am guessing that they are there to collect the spilled fuel. This also must take place in or near a foreign country.
In this picture i see a sinking ship, and two barges trying to save it. I also see oil spilling into the ocean
In this picture, it looks like a piece of technology broke in half because someone could have dropped it. On the edges, it looks like water could be coming out of them because of how the background looks like. The two-word stickers on both sides look like it could be made in China just the way the letters and symbols look. The thing in the middle looks like it could be part of a ship on its side because of how the holes look like they could be windows.
In this picture I see a sunken boat with oil spilling into the ocean.
I Agree
In this picture, I see two barges salvaging the remains of a sunken ship, While I also see what appears to be a metaphor between the coexistence of technology and resource farming, and the backlash of that. The barges look quite like a circuit board, with what could be COES (Certificates of Electrical Safety) as well as a Salvaging company being highlighted on the tops of either side, with oil flowing through the water.
At first I did not think that it looked like anything but a sunken ship. Now that you pointed out that it looks like a circuit board I can see that too.
in this picture i see these two barges pulling this boat up from the bottom of the ocean. the reason i think this is because it looks like there are winches on the barges that couldve lifted it up.
I agree two large barges pulling out the ferry that sunk in 2014 in south Korea
ahh debatable
I agree
In this picture, I can see a boat in the middle of two big things .They are rescueing this boat. People use a lot of machine to pull up the boat at the bottom of the sea
I think that this is happening in Asia or somewhere that is not in America if you look at the tarp things that are white with blue writing on them. They might be pulling up a boat from something that has happened to it or a natural disaster happened. They are trying to find survivors on the boat by bringing it up maybe. Or it might be from a long long time ago.
It looks like they are retrieving a sunken boat because I could see the oil in the water. Plus with a cables connected to it.
I think that their is 2 barges and in the middle is a ship that as sunk and they have found it.They might be puting the wrecked ship on ghe 2 barges.And thry might be able to fix the ship that sunk.there were children who died on that ship because it was sunk it didnt look that old it was probably been there for like 2 or more years.Both of the barges look really huge.And the ship was leaking oil.And they are tied together because so they both dont float in different direction.And the peoplel look super small.
in this picture i dont really know whats going on but if we look at the water you see oil leaking from the boat that has been damaged and the two bases are trying to get the boat out of the water so no more water leaks from the boat to kill the fish and the other animals that like to swim
i see a boat that has flipped, it has oil leaking from it. it looks like the other boats are trying to contain the oil.
In this picture, I see a salvage operation. Oil is leaking into the ocean which makes me sad.
They are removing the oil from the old ship wreck thus all the pumps and possible at some point, a complete removal of the wreck to clear the navigation path of the obstacle.
I see a boat in the middle tipped over & the side boats are trying to rescue the middle boat and bring it home.
I think they are trying to bring the boat up from the ocean floor and get it out of the water so it stops polluting the ocean.
I would guess that the devices on the far left and far right, on the side of the barge furthest from the salvaged boat, are a series of winches that can be attached via cables to points along whatever it is you're trying to raise. I clearly have no idea how to raise a boat, but it's a solid guess! Either that or they're boat fishers and have caught a wild boat.
Two barges raising a sunken ship
In this picture I see a lot of machines pulling out a sunk boat and I see a lot of oil that is leaking out in the water.
In this picture i see two barges recovering a sunk boat from the ocean floor.
Agreed. You missed the oil leaking out.
I see two barges trying to salvage a sunken ship that is leaking oil.
In this picture I see what looks like a salvage operation for some kind of boat, and also looks like some oil is in the water. I think this because there's a tarp/banner that says Shanghai Salvage.
I think the boat is a type of ferry.
In this picture, I see two barges pulling in a boat that has been sunk and then brought back up to remove it from the water. The oil leaking out of the boat will be harmful to the water's ecosystem.
Good idea!
Two barges raising a sunken ship.
In this picture, I can see a boat in the middle of two barges. They are doing a salvage and rescue this boat. People use a lot of machine to pull up the boat at the bottom of the sea.
yea it looks like a salvage opporation.
In this picture, people used a lot of machines went pulling the sunk boat. They put some cords on the boat, and people are seeing black oil.
This is the ferry that sunk off South Korea, killing all those school children.
How do you know that?
Do you have a reliable source?
I'm a highschool student in the Boston area. Just took AP chem, so it may be clouding my judgment, but my guess is that we're looking at some sort of application of electrochemistry.
They are clearly salvaging something from the sunken ship. I see that maybe there is an oxidation/ reduction reaction going on, given the connection between the green and the grey plates through the two yellow pipes. Perhaps the green ship has copper plates that are being oxidized and the grey ship is being reduced? Perhaps the two working ships are stripping the sunken ship of its electrons and are creating electricity?
The setup reminds me a whole lot of an electrolytic cell.
They are clearly salvaging something from the sunken ship. I see that maybe there is an oxidation/ reduction reaction going on, given the connection between the green and the grey plates through the two yellow pipes. Perhaps the green ship has copper plates that are being oxidized and the grey ship is being reduced? Perhaps the two working ships are stripping the sunken ship of its electrons and are creating electricity?
The setup reminds me a whole lot of an electrolytic cell.
Also COES could stand for Certificate of Electrical Safety.
that is a good guess you are prob right i am a middle scholer in the alexandra area
Seems like there's been an accident and some Asian company are retrieving there bot.
Two large platforms are supporting a ship that has obviously sunken before and is being carried up. It is so heavy that it needs support. This company that is helping the ship is a Chinese company because the banner is written in Chinese. Since they are "salvaging", that means that they are looking for something.
Rather than finding out how the boat sank, they are looking for the remains of the 6-7 missing students that did not come out either alive/dead of this horrible tragedy. :( 4.16.14 #remember
Rather than finding out how the boat sank, they are looking for the remains of the 6-7 missing students that did not come out either alive/dead of this horrible tragedy. :( 4.16.14 #remember
Two circuit boards with oddly colored resistors are salvaging a toy boat. They have spread out some yellow booms to contain any oil or fuel leaking from the toy boat into the water that someone, for unknown reasons, has put the circuit boards into.
The two large barges are beginning to salvage the cruise boat in the center. The first operation is to mitigate oil spill and pump the oil out of the cruise ship. Pumping water out of the cruise ship is also needed to bring it afloat as much as possible. These barges are probably capable of partially submerged themselves (there seems to be a series of pumps on their side capable of bring it and out water in ballast tanks) to put the boat on their platform. If not, two barges could be used to bring back the cruise ship on its hull, one pulling it from its high structure, the other pulling from the low structure on the other side.
In this picture it looks like two large (large enough that they can hold cars and many people) barges are pulling up a sunken boat. I'm guessing it's somewhere in China since the sign says "Shanghai Salvage" and is in Chinese.
COES can stand for Certificate Of Electrical Safety. As I wrote in my comment, I think we're looking at an electrochemical reaction.
how about TITANIC
titanic is bigger
There recovering a boat from underneath the water, they have strings and ropes attached to it to pull it out of the water, the banners on the boats also say "Shanghai Salvage", so that further explains that they must be either recovering or studying it. Maybe there trying to find out how the boat sunk.
I didn't think that they would be studying the ship, trying to find out how it sunk. That's a good idea!
What is going on in this picture?
there is a sunken boat being pulled out
• What do you see that makes you say that?
there is a rusty boat and two floating devices on either side.
• What more can you find?
There is a sign with a foreign language on it
there is a sunken boat being pulled out
• What do you see that makes you say that?
there is a rusty boat and two floating devices on either side.
• What more can you find?
There is a sign with a foreign language on it
It looks like an old cruse ship that sunk in the past being lift back up, most likely to serve as a memorial.
They are bringing up a sunken ship in the Northern Pacific ocean because there is chinese writing and the ship looks like it was underwater for a while.
The 2 boats are recovering a sunken ship by floating it up to the surface and then bringing it to shore. The ship looks like it has been on the bottom fot some time due to its colors. The banners are written in Chinese
To me, this picture looks like two boats lifting up a boat, from the look of the boat, it looks damaged and old so it has probably been underwater for quite some time. This boat is probably a lost boat that has been found, it also has some banners on the bigger boats which most likely resemble an Asian language, meaning this boat is somewhere in Asia.
• What is going on in this picture?
-A boat is sinking and there are 2 floating devices making it stay up.
• What do you see that makes you say that?
-The boat in the middle is sinking and there two devices on either side of it.
• What more can you find?
-The sign is in a different language
-A boat is sinking and there are 2 floating devices making it stay up.
• What do you see that makes you say that?
-The boat in the middle is sinking and there two devices on either side of it.
• What more can you find?
-The sign is in a different language
The middle object appears to be either a sunken boat or a boat that was abandoned before its construction was finished. This entire complex in the water seems to be abandoned due to the poor condition the barge is in. The project was most likely abandoned due to severe weather conditions. I also see that one of the barges has a sign that appears to be in some asian language while the other barge has a sign that is in english.
There is a sunken ship in between two massive barges. These barges are safety barges of some sort that are being used to either get the ship out of the water or they are marking off a zone because they don’t want people coming near this ancient and forgotten ship.
People that are on the two boats are pulling out a sunken boat that was under water using some sort of system built in the seperate boats inbetween.
Good idea!
They're pulling the boat out of the ocean because the sign says "salvage". The boat is rusted and dirty and it looks like it's been there for awhile. It looks like they've also moved the boat closer to shore. There's a lot of cords attached to pull it out from the ocean.
This is a boat that has sunk. There are people on the docks that are working there, possibly picking the boat up out of the water. This is not in the United States, it could be in China.
I think that it's a boat a really old one . it might be part of the government. It looks like it sank and it was under water for a long time.
In this picture I think that they're taking a old ship out of the ocean because i see water around the 2 other ships that have ropes all over the ship that they're pulling up. I also think this picture is taking place in mexico because of the color of the water and the way the ship looks .
I don't think it takes place in Mexico
In this picture I think that this a boat flipped over because it is no longer being used. I see Chinese writing and other letters that don’t make sense. I think the other two boats are helping but not sure how.
Do you think the boat is flipped over because it is no longer in use or because something happened to it?
I think that It’s a electrical boat from china because the letters looks chinese and the boat it’s on the water.
What about the ship makes you think it's electrical? Based on your observations, what do you think is happening in the picture?
I think that they are two boats. They are in the ocean probably in China because of the writing. I think the two boats have some type of winch because it looks like they are bringing up an ancient boat from under water.
It looks like two salvage barges, from Shanghai, refloating a sunken ship. The water coming out of the stern of both barges, suggests that they are pumping water out of the ship. The water appears to be moving to the left, suggesting that the barges are either moving to the right, or that there is a strong wind blowing from the right. The "lines" going into the sunken ship cross the deck of the barges, and may well be connected to pumps, as lines merely securing the ship, would not have to go across the decks.
it looks like a electrical boat in the water and it has 2 signs on it but idk what it is
I agree, I think the signs are speaking in a language like Japanese or even Chinese.
If you look closely it says "salvage" in english.
This might be a big boat or a ferry, which seems to be transporting items. This is called Ferry Sewol. Some people's attention may be averted to what is surrounding the boat, instead of the boat itself. What is surrounding the sunken boat/ship might be the dock or harbor, or maybe, PEOPLE were on the boat and they had to get off when the boat sank. So, the people had to get onto the backup ships on the side.
Its looks like a sucken boat half way under water and 2 floating devices next to it helping it stay up its probably a memorial
it looks to be a ferry that is being lifted from the water and the dezine it is south Koran that is being dreged
What I think that is going on in this picture is a team of people are trying bring up an old ship a that has sunken and putting this an a museum.O the sides are big boats with ropes pulling this boat up.
It looks like a diorama of a ship in the water and cities off to the side. I say the image looks fake. I also see cords and stuff like its automatic.
it is from the movie life of pi
What makes me say what I thought is that the ropes are tied to different point on the ship so that the workers could rescue the ship, bring it back to shore, and then go through the cargo. Also I can find that I see very few people if not none on the ships. This may mean that they are stranded too.
In this picture there are two boats side by side on the ocean. It appears to be some product judging by the signs at the edge of the boat with writing on them. There are many wires/tubes and different objects on the boat. There also appears to be cars on the boat probably being shipped across the country ready to be sold and distributed. They could also possibly be experimental bombs but I doubt this.
I feel like this is well thought out, great response.
in this picture i see a old boat half way under the water and two big float things beside it keeping it in one spot. The boat looks like it sunk and its been underwater for a while.
As a group we can read that the sign on the top left says "Shanghai Salvage" but are somewhat perplexed about what the sign on the top right means. What more can we find?
looks like the boat sank in the water on its side maybe someone trying to dig it up after years
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in this picture shows that they are trying to pull it out the ship that was sink underwater.
It looks like a half broken that was broken a long time ago and floats around. But a group of savager find it maybe when they were returning back and finding some canister.
What's going on here is that a ship sunk a few years ago and it had valuable cargo on it. Now, two groups of people and boats have gone to retrieve the cargo.
Looks like a sunken ship took out of the ocean in shanghi china and the ship looks old and half of it is missing.
it seems to me that they may be taking the boat out of the middle bc it was sunk
a computer is broke and looks burnt.it looks like a circuit board.it looks like it got burned.
there are boats
the boats
there is a big boat
the boats
there is a big boat
It looks like there are two big docks with a boat in the middle and there are some wires coming out of it, on the boats there are 2 white signs that say something on them. The boat in the middle is connected to the docks, and there is a yellow string on both sides connecting them together. The docks are two different colors ones green and ones brown/tan. In the water there is some coloration and water is coming out the dock looking things.
in this picture it looks like people are fishing out an old boat. I say this because the boat is in the water and on it's side. I see a sign on the top that says coes.
People somewhere in the ocean are recovering a cruise ship with two big barge like ships.
There is a big cruise ship in a net in between two larger barges.
There´s ropes tied to the sunken boat to tow it.
There is a big cruise ship in a net in between two larger barges.
There´s ropes tied to the sunken boat to tow it.
What makes you say these are cruise ships @KolbyL?
they are pulling up a boat
they have 2 big rafts
it is rusted
they have 2 big rafts
it is rusted
In this picture there seems to be a boat floating on top of water and it looks like its attached to the two square things. There are strings connecting both things. There is a poster that looks like either Korean or Chinese writings.
Several contributors have addressed the overhead, or aerial, point of view from which this photo was taken. Thoughts on how this photograph may have been captured?
Many of us have similar thoughts about this image. I wonder though, was there something that someone shared that made you second guess your initial interpretation? Change your mind?
This picture is depicting a Chinese organization that is most likely taking a old boat up from the bottom of the ocean and maybe moving it somewhere else. I know this is a Chinese Organization as the boat of the left has a banner that that says "Shanghai Salvage" and has Chinese writing on it. The boat is obviously dragged from the bottom of the ocean because of its old and dirty complexion. I believe the organization is moving the boat because of it's name and the fact that it seems the boats are moving. They could be doing this to create new homes for fish and other oceanic life. Overall, I believe this organization is relocating a boat for oceanic life.
@Emma AOSE—I want to make sure I understand your point, do you think “Shanghai Salvage” is placing this ship in order for it to be used as a home for aquatic life or removing it to protect aquatic life?
In this picture there are two huge boats that are floating on water. They seem to be connected by this long yellow rope or wire. They both have signs that seem to be in a different language. On the boats there seem to be cars, trucks, and cargo containers. These boats seem to be cargo holders and are transporting the materials on them. There is a strange object between the two boats. It seems to be a sunken boat that was turned on its side. Perhaps the two bigger floating boats may be rescuing the sunken boat. The sunken boat seems to be old, so perhaps it has been out at sea for a while and was discovered by the larger boats. However, if the boat was out at sea for a while, it most likely would have been at the bottom of the ocean. Maybe the boat is old and has experiences a mechanical malfunction which caused it to sink. Vaguely, there seems to be a boat that has sunk with a cargo ship coming to the rescue.
It appears that there is a sunken ship in between (maybe) 2 barges. They look as if they are trying to pull the sunken vessel out because they need something or it is affecting the sea life.
I say this because there are many ropes tied to the vessel like they are pulling it up or standing it up right because there is either large rocks (that could hold sea life) underneath the vessel or a harmful substance leaking from the boat, perhaps oil.
I also see 2 signs on each barge with maybe company names. The barges look very high technical, supplied with a system to pull the vessel indicating that this may be a highly formed society.
I say this because there are many ropes tied to the vessel like they are pulling it up or standing it up right because there is either large rocks (that could hold sea life) underneath the vessel or a harmful substance leaking from the boat, perhaps oil.
I also see 2 signs on each barge with maybe company names. The barges look very high technical, supplied with a system to pull the vessel indicating that this may be a highly formed society.
I think that along with what I said, you are right in that they have to get the ship out too. I like your comment about it disturbing the sea life. THe vaulable cargo could be oil.
Keep looking at and thinking about this image. We've done a great job of looking at the whole image. Consider taking 30 seconds to a minute to study one area and share some of the details you notice.
This picture takes place in China. There is Chinese text on the side that says "Shanghai Salvage". If you look at Shanghai Salvage, it's an ocean towing company, but I don't really think that this picture is ocean towing. What I think is that Shanghai Salvage is either a sponsor of the event, or the owner of the ship in the middle of the picture. To me, the two objects on each side of the picture look like swimming lanes, as if the people are having a swimming competition with Shanghai Salvage as the sponsor. The boat might be in the middle to prevent the swimming lanes from crashing into each other, and the ropes are there to make sure the lanes don't float away.
@Janine AOSE thinks perhaps this picture depicts a swimming competition. Can others find additional evidence to support this idea?
I like your observations @Janine AOSE and how you leave most of them open-ended and up to interpretation.
In this picture above,it looks like the boat is transferring oil to another boat and ready to take it where it needs to go.
I believe that in this picture they are Pulling a cruise liner out of the ocean and the big boats have lines tied to it and they move which pulls the cruiser higher out of the ocean. that is what i believe
@Jason Murphy can you share what you see that makes you think that the ship at the center of the image was designed to carry people rather than cargo?
Several have mentioned the abstracted qualities of this image that make us think of other things—it makes @cassie think of the inside of a computer chip; @JareBear mentioned a circuit board. Photographers’ compositional choices and point of view sometimes make one object look like something else altogether. What more can you find?
in this picture some people might be fishing in old broken down boats. it makes me say that because of the boat and area around it. i also notice it looks like a computer chip on water.
@melany Martinez wonders if this photograph is of a fishing expedition. What do you see that makes you think that?
In this picture some people might be fishing in old broken down boats. IT makes me say that because of the status of the boat and area around it. I also notice it looks likes like a computer chip on water.
You have an interesting comment @Cassandra. First, why do you think the boats are fishing boats? Do you see people with fishing poles are large nets for fish? Do you have prior knowledge of what fishing boats look like? Next, what do you think the object in the middle of the two bigger boats may be? Is it another ship that is sinking? Is it something the "fishing boats" may have picked up by accident? Last, where do you think this picture takes place? I know it's on an ocean, but where do you think the boats are from? The writing does not look like English, so where are these ships from?
@ZoeAOSE thanks for thinking about what your peers have offered and for asking some follow-up questions.
Let's keep the possibility alive that where these boats are from and where this scene takes place are not one in the same.
Let's keep the possibility alive that where these boats are from and where this scene takes place are not one in the same.
i see a ship in the middle and the things on the side look like something they use to clean the ocean or find things so they can look through the mysterious things. and i can see people standing on the border of that thing so they aren't gonna lay the ship onto it.
It looks like an in side of a chip.Like when u brake a computer chip and thats the way how it looks like in the in side?
What makes you say that this looks like a computer chip?
It looks to be 2 other platform ships that are flipping the one that is turned over back over. They have a bunch of wires and strings hooked up to it and they are on both sides. They all look to be very old and rusty.
A large boat or ship is being recovered from being sunken beneath the ocean
This image shows two vessels surrounding what looks to be a sunken ship. The oddly colored water makes me think of oil, so these people could be cleaning up the oil by first removing the ship, which is supported by the wires going across. Maybe they could just be removing the ship and not the oil, or oil from the ship. Whatever the case, these vessels are owned by either chinese or japanese companies due to the blue and white banners with text on them. not much else is obvious besides the fact that this is within the past 20 years due to the technology and it is in an ocean.
You have a very detailed comment @Zachary B, and I agree with your conjectures. You say that the two larger vessels are removing the ship, but is there a possibility that the ship has sunk and the two larger vessels are on a rescue mission? You also stated that the banners have to be Chinese or Japanese because they are in white and blue banners, why do you say this? Are blue and white the colors of Chinese or Japanese ships or did you come to this observation based on the characters?
Hi JMHS! Thanks for joining the conversation. Some of you think there are people present in this image. When you zoom in and look more closely, does that help confirm/deny the presence of people? Can you describe to others where you in the photo you think you see figures?
i see that there is two ships that carry the big containers i think. theres a side ways ship between them and they might be trying to flip it over or they found it in the water and there pulling it up
It looks like to me that there are 2 barge boats that has found and dragging a ship wrecked boat that has sunk. These two large boats are holding up the shipwrecked boat. It looks like an old boat from many many years ago. this picture is captured by a drone or possibly a helicopter.
A sunken passenger liner or ferry is being recovered after it has been sunken. Looks like the ships' oil and fuel has spilled from the wreckage. picture may have been taken in 2014 2015
@Dylan what do you see that makes you think this photo was taken in the last few years?
In this picture I see a boat on its side in the middle of two platforms or docks it looks like. it says shanghai salvage so its in china or somethig on the platform or boat has to do with china.
two barges on either side of a sunken ship or somthing that has sunk and it looks like there trying to recover it.
cause you can see all the lines tied to it and stuff
it lookd like the oil and stuff is leaking out of it as they pull it up
cause you can see all the lines tied to it and stuff
it lookd like the oil and stuff is leaking out of it as they pull it up
What's going on in this picture? Well it looks like there are on the ocean and it looks like them two big boards are trying to pick or take out that old boat from the ocean.
What do you see that makes you say that? Well there are strings attached to the boat that looks like it pulled it from the bottom of the ocean. Might be power cords to like maybe their trying to turn it back on.
What more can you find? Well i don't see people on there so maybe it's automatic control by machine.
What do you see that makes you say that? Well there are strings attached to the boat that looks like it pulled it from the bottom of the ocean. Might be power cords to like maybe their trying to turn it back on.
What more can you find? Well i don't see people on there so maybe it's automatic control by machine.
@Y.C.L thanks for pointing out the cords connecting the barges to the ship in the middle and for wondering about the mechanics of bringing a sunken vessel to the surface. Can you zoom in to the image to take a closer look? When you do, you might find some people!
i think it looks like a chip or something when you break it open inside
i think its a boarding ship taking trucks and cars to different countries through the water
@nikki can you share what you see that makes you think the vessels in this image are designed to transport vehicles?
it looks like people are trying to recover a sunken ship.
@Nicholas Lewis can you share two or three details that you see that make you think the ship was submerged?
Thanks to those who are respectfully asking one another follow-up questions. If you can't see what someone else pointed out, or don't completely understand their point, it's great to ask for clarification. You are doing a great job working together to solve the mysteries of this image. Keep it up!
There's a boat on it's side in between two large barge-like platforms. Although I see many people say that the platforms are highly populated, there are in fact only a few people if you zoom in. The sign up left says Shanghai salvage so perhaps the capsized boat serves some sort of historical importance.
@Emily is introducing another possible reason for this salvage mission—the boat being collected may have some historical significance.
Immediately I recognize it is an aerial shot, possibly from a drone. It seems to be two car freight carriers, I'm assuming barges. They are parallel to each other with a lopsided ship in between. The ship has many windows from what it seems like, which makes me think it is a passenger ship, maybe a cruise ship. The sides are damaged pretty severely, possibly a rescue mission or just a boat retrieval from a previous wreck. The ocean surrounding the boats gives no hint to location, yet the sign suggests Shanghai in English, either as a location it originated from, departed from, or is scheduled to end at.
@Julia thanks for sharing many details you’ve noticed. Great job of looking closely and describing for others what you see and think. What more can you find?
Her comments make me wonder more about how this photograph was taken and how it was composed.
Her comments make me wonder more about how this photograph was taken and how it was composed.
This is very interesting! Good job noticing all the details.
From what I can see, there is a boat turned over between two ports. Maybe people are looking through capsized ships and looting them for parts and valuables.
What in the photo makes it look like the boat sunk between two ports?
There's a ship flipped on its side in the middle. It was probably some sort of boating accident. The 2 things on the side looked like computer chips at first until i saw the ship in the middle. There's Asian letters on the sign in the top left corner.
This picture shows two boats that appear to be leaking oil in the water, since there are dark spots on the water streaming from them. The boats look to be attached by cables. They are locking in a boat that is turned on its side in the water, and looks to be salvaging the boat.
There is a ship that appears to have sunken in the middle of two other boats. There is a banner that has oriental text, so it may be in a country like China. The 2 other boats could be rescue boats or are attempting to salvage the remains. On the two flat boats, a vast array of devices, vehicles, and mechanisms pepper their surfaces, lined up cohesively like the bellows (the part that stretches) on an accordion.
This picture is probably taken from a drone or from a high angle. I see a ship on it's side and a picture that says Shanghai Salvage. I would speculate that this is an oil spill in China.
This is what looks to be a electronical board. One board says Shanghai Salvage and the other says Coes. Maybe it a difference in an electronical war going on between Shanghai and a competitor. But if you look closer it's actually a ship trapped between two platforms. Maybe Shanghai and a competitor are trying to see what the ships from, but they're fighting over it.
In this picture, there seems to be a boat on its side, almost like it has been cut in half. It could be in shallow waters, because you can make out what seems to be rocks or possibly oil. These platforms or ships could be trying to turn it back up on its side and remove the wreckage. If the black spots are oil, they could be removing it for pollution reasons. If they are rocks, they could be simply removing a wrecked ship.
It seems that a ship sunk and flipped on it's side (the middle boat) and the two things beside it are holding in the oil from the boat so it does not spread and are trying to turn it upright and out of the water. On the right, it says "Shanghai Salvage" in English which would indicate that they are trying to pick and clean up the mess.
I also noticed everything you pointed out
Looking at this picture, I am thinking that this is some large ship or boat that is used to claim sunk or sinking ships or boats. I am thinking that these devices are found in a foreign country due to the wording that is found on the top of the large devices that may be try to get to ship to stand upright again. I am thinking that there is peoples on the two large devices.
Many of us are wondering what the mission of the people on the barge-like vessels is—to recover a sunken ship and salvage it for parts? To remove what appears to be oil from the water? To sink the ship so that it can act as an artificial barrier reef? Other possible ideas?
the boat looks like it was there for a whyl.
From the looks of it, the signs on the top of the picture are in a foreign language, clearly not in the US. There are a lot of ropes between the two platforms, as well as a broken ship. The ship may be from the military, since the dull colors oddly protrude military vibes. It seems as though they are lifting the ship out of the water. Maybe it had sunk and they are retrieving it.
In this picture is looks like they are trying to recover a sunken ship/boat, or something like that. I'm not sure where this was taken because it looks like they are in the ocean or other big body of water.
i see some sort of circuit board.
The photo is of a tilted ship, with the writing of "Shanghai" located on the left banner. You can easy see from this that the incident might've been located in China or of Chinese origin.
Two platforms appear to be lifting or salvaging a very old boat from the ocean. The banner on the left platform reads "Shanghai" along with other Chinese characters, and the other banner might be an abbreviation of the organization leading this salvage. This is obviously a China-based organization taking care of this salvage mission.
The first thing I thought when I looked at this picture was that this was some type of project or broken device because I only took a quick glance. But then I saw the water and tipped boat and realized I was wrong. The boat in the middle seems to be leaking oil as you can see the trail of black stuff in the water. I believe the boat could of broke down and the two outer boats are trying to rescue it. I believe this boat is old because of how worn out it is and that it was just recently found and that they are trying to take it out of the water.
There is a boat in between what appears to be two other huge boats. The only thing I can think of is that maybe the two boats are trying to get the other boat to shore. I know that the other boat is definitely stuck because it is turned on it's side. It looks like there is oil spilling from the boat in the middle. it says Shanghai Salvage, which is in China so I'm guessing it is near China.
what i think is going on it look's like is a boat going in the water because it look's like is a old and no one go on it anemone so thar putting it in the water so it can go to the floor of the sea
It look's like they are getting the remains of boat that crashed and made a oil spill. Why is there two other boats? Are they tug boats? Why is there a blue spot on the middle boat and what happen'd to the boat. Did it sink? or did it hit something solid.
There are two boats trying to pull out the sinked boat. I see men with orange coats trying to take out the old boat sanked. I think it is a old boat because it has a lot dirt on it.
It's an wrecked boat that is loosing oil
it looks like the titanic and it is a remote control boat and they might be rebuilding it so it is better so it doesn't sinck like the real titanic and it looks like they dug it up from a grave yard because it has a lot of cobwebs on it well it looks like there are or that can be wires there is some kind of likwed like oil or water.
There seems to be two boat looking "things" in the middle of one real looking boat. The real boat looks like "something" spilled out of it. Maybe it could be oil by the colored water around it. But the real boat also looks abandon and old by all the brown spots on it. It looks rusty in my opinion. All the boats seem to be on water. and the two large boats have a banner on it but i can't seem to see what the banners say. I have a wonder about whats on the to large ships and if the smaller ship has anything really interesting story's. The banners seem to have blue writing on it and it might even have a logo. There is dirty colored water by the smaller ship and in my opinion dirty water could be bad for sea animals so maybe the larger ships are trying to help with the clean up. But the smaller boat seems to be tipped over.. I can see a yellow string going round the smaller boat that's hooked on to the larger boats. Could the larger boats be trying to take the smaller boat out of the water?
It looks like two boats tipped over and they were trying to stay together but something fell in the middle and it was something very heavy that maid them tip over and there is oil coming out.
There is a bite that has lots of pople
I see a ship that fell over and I also see two other boats that are next to the ship and I think that the two boats are there so if there are people still alive in the ship they can escape the ship and get on to the two boats.I also see people all ready on the two boats that have long strings to pull up the ship or maybe the two boats are not trying to help the people on the ship because it kind of looks like the people are trying to pull down the string and maybe the people are the ones that made the ship fall over.I also notice that the two boats are connected to each other.I also notice that there is a poster on each of the boats but I am not sure what they say.
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This photo looks like it takes place in shanghi. It looks like 2 carriers are pulling a boat out of the water, we can tell because the sign says shanghi and the boat looks rusty
Hello @Mullins 3rd Period. Thanks for sharing your observations. You’ve pointed out the sign at the top left of the composition indicates a Shanghai company. Can you find other visual clues that suggest this image was taken near the eastern coast of China? Could your class make a case that this image was taken elsewhere in the world?
In the picture it seems like a boat tipped over/side way's.But at the same time the boat looks pretty old so probably some other people found a old boat,and the other people try to take it out if the water.The reason I am thinking of the boat tipping over is because there is a boat in the middle of two things and by two things is that I don't know what the are in the side of the boat.The other reason that the boat could be a really old boat is because the boat looks pretty cracked and really dirty from the sides of it.I can also see the that the two things that I was talking about could be arguing of who would get the boat in there own thing because in the top of the things are signs that say different things but they are both printed in blue,and because they are both different color's one of them is green and the other one is like medal color:)
the boat is leaking oil in the middle
I think that that two boat are taring two fix a boat what is spilling oil because there is back spots in the water
what makes you think that]
this looked like a remodel but one i look at it i looks so real i'm pretty sure they found the boat that sinked a long time ago they probably found the boat by a machine that scan's thing were they are so after they new were it was random machine's pulled it from were it was
what did you mean by the machine that scans things?
it looks like a boat is sinking in the water that's why some people leave their family and that's why they leave sometimes it gets harder to move stuff.
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it looks like the house has fallen into the water because the deck split.its on of the houses that stay on water. either a person cut the bottom of the house witch they will have to go under water to do that or a earthquake destored the house
it appears to be a mini electronic town, with a bout.
it looks like a boat that tipped and started liking oil so there going to clean it up
That bout looks like its old because it has a lot of dirt on it. If it s old why would there be oil liking out.
in this picture it seems as if two tug boats are pulling out a cruise ship that is spilling out oil into the water. I think this because i can see a fallen sinking ship laying side ways in the water and oil is spilling out of it. I can also see that the tug boats have banners on them. They are trying to get the boat out by using chains and ropes.
it looks like a city or a little village in the water by the look of the background and the reflection on the water. it also looks like a city because there are cars on the side and tiny little houses. it does look more like a junk yard from all that stuff that there is. it also seems that there is a bout tipped over and spilling oil. i see that there is oil by the water if you see closer you can see black oil spills in the water going everywhere.
were do you see the houses and the people
A long time a boat sink why i think this because the boat look like it been dip in mud and oil.it been siting at the bottom of the sea
In this picture i think that is some sort of device broken into 3 pieces maybe a science project there is alot of wires and buttons
In this picture, there are two ships bringing in remnants of sunken ship. The ship might've carried oil because there is a trail of black substance, probably oil, coming from the ship. Or, the black substance could be oil from the ship's motor. The two ships carrying the remnants of the broken ship could also be placing it in the water; to make it an artificial coral reef for the wildlife in that body of water.
@Kayleigh B has offered two different possibilities for what’s going on here. One is that the ship in the middle is being removed from the water; another is that it is being added. What more can we find to support one or both ideas? Given the evidence provided, which of the two is a more likely hypothesis?
In the picture above, There two platform in the middle of the ocean am assuming. And i think there was an oil spill an these computer are trying to clean it up. Because it killing the fishes.
@Isaac A thinks that this picture is showing an oil spill clean-up effort because oil harms ecosystems, killing animals who live there. What do you see that makes you think they are trying to clean up the oil?
it looks like the boat is about too sink in the water.and they are seperateing and like going to sink with the boat sometimes when people move on sometimes they dont come back to their famliy.or never se them again.
Here in this picture is of two tug boats picking up salvage parts from a sunken boat. There seems to be Shanghai Salvage sign or banner going across the boat.
@JakobP is noticing two vessels sandwiching a capsized ship. What do you see that makes you say that the ship in the middle had been submerged?
One group of students identified themselves as, "Sherlockers," this morning. Thanks to all of you for using your detective skills to reason out what you think the picture is about. Many of you have responded to your peers, probing for further evidence, commenting on their thinking. Continue to uncover WGOITP and tune in Thursday to see the original caption.
Two boat are trying to pick up a sunken ship because I think it is spilling out oil
Yeah there is oil and a lot of it
I didn't notice that there was oil around the boat.
I didn't notice there was oil around the boat
In this image, there appears to be two ships trying to take out another sunken ferry or cruise ship out of the water. In the water, there also seems to be black and yellow strips; that may indicate there was an oil spill. Maybe the sunken ship contained a large about of oil that is polluting the water.
@Cecelia Connally can you share with us where in the image you notice ‘black and yellow strips’? What about those makes you think there has been an oil spill?
Their are two boat collecting salvage parts from a sunken ship.
There are two boats/ ferries with people on it. The white specs on the boats are goats. Obviously this is the annual Shanghai Salvage Goat Race.
It says Shanghai Salvage on the left sign in blue letters and the object in the middle looks like an old ship so they might be retrieving a ship in China. They are pulling the object up with the lines of strings.
In this picture, 2 boats are rescuing a sunken ship from a body of water near Shanghai. I think this because on the sign it says "Shanghai Salvage" and salvage means to rescue or save.
@Trey Carpenter points out the “Shanghai Salvage” sign. Is there additional visual evidence that indicates this mission is taking place near China? Could you or others make a case that this salvage effort is happening elsewhere in the world?
I see 2 boats "salvaging" a boat that has obviously sunk a long while ago. I don't know why they are salvaging the boat; it could be because the boat was contaminating the ocean with the corrosion or the oil that is still in the boat, or it could be for research to find out what caused the boat to sink.
In this picture i see an old boat that has been found, in the middle of two boat docks. I think it has been found because of how it is turned over, and it looks very dirty. I think the two big boat are trying to some how save whats left of the boat.
The boats on either side of the sunken ship are from the company "shanghai salvage", so the boats are trying lift up the ship and salvage parts from it.
I see that there is a company other than shanghai salvage that is helping it recover the ship.
I see that there is a company other than shanghai salvage that is helping it recover the ship.
In the middle is some type of ship, and judging by its discoloration and position it is old and had some type of damage. Because of the writing on the outer ships, the middle ship has probably resurfaced somewhere near Asia or belonged to an Asian country. The outer ships are trying to rescue and bring in this old, middle ship. This is quite an undertaking when you consider the size of the objects using people as a scale factor.
@Rachel has pointed out the enormity of the task at hand through her comparison of the size of the people and the ships. Can you describe where you see the people in this picture? For those unable to find figures, click on the ‘larger size’ hyperlink under the photo.
This looks like the recovery of a ship that's been missing underwater for years. The boat is very damaged and discolored, which makes me think it's been underwater for a long time. The two large blocks on either side of the boat, are there to help keep it afloat. Perhaps they are cement docks, to keep the boat up, by the ropes and lines crossing over and through the boat.
Very interesting observation. I like how you described the sunken ship as being old by noting that it is discolored, meaning that it has been underwater for a long time.
In this picture, two barges from the Shanghai Salvage company are removing an old, wrecked ship from the ocean, where it has been for a while based on its condition. I know that it is the Shanghai company because it is written on the banner on the barge to the left. I also noticed that the barges looked old and decrepit, which could mean that the company is not very prosperous,
I believe that two ships are trying to pull a ship that sunk out of the water and get needed supplies from the sunken ship. This is happening in China
I think it's a boat that is being brought back to the surface and is being taken into land by two other boats along side it.
There taking a boat out of the water I can also see there are 2 big boats and I know this because there's a boat in the middle with strings on it
Its two boats because they're on water, and it looks like they are transporting parts to different countries
Some kind of salvage operation
The two boats are tied to a run down ship that looks really old or they could be a cleanup crew
The two boats are tied to a run down ship that looks really old or they could be a cleanup crew
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In this picture two boats are bringing a sunk ship back to the surface. I think that's what there doing because there's 2 ships and an old damaged one in the middle of the 2 that looks severely damaged.the could be salvaging parts from the wrecked ship or just investigating what happens. -Dominic.A fhs
@D.A is suggesting two possible hypotheses for why a sunken ship might be brought back to the surface. What evidence can you and others find in the image to support these theories?
It this picture there is a boat in the middle and they are trying to pick it up because I think it is dumping oil in the water. I think this because if u voom in you can see the boat and there like a lot of pullys that are trying to pic it up. That what I think the picture is.
The boat in the center of the photo looks like a sunken cruise ship of some kind. The two objects on either side of the ship look like two very large barges from a salvaging company out of Shanghai, China. Based on the origin of the company, this most likely is somewhere of the coast of China.
I think that there is two boats helping s boast that had sunk in the water return to the surface. When it comes up to the surface they can get parts from that boat. I say this because two boast are helping lift this boat up with chains and ropes.
I think that these two boats are bringing up a ship that sunk a while ago in South Korea
@Eleonora Newell, thank you for considering this morning's picture. What evidence can you find in the picture that supports your idea that this is a salvage operation in South Korea?
The barges are from the Shanghai salvage company and the sunken ship is very old.
In this picture there are 2 boats travling on the water. These 2 boats are getting salvaged parts froma another sunken boat. These boats are getting scrap metal and other salavageable things.
good thinking
@Frederick Cameron, thank you for considering WGOITP?. What evidence can you offer from the picture to support your assertion that scrap metal parts are being salvaged at the time of the photo?
I think this is a big boat that helps other boats come up from under the water and the ship in the middle is a ship that has sunk. In china somewhere.
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@ joseph, thanks for commenting. Let us know what you see in the picture that makes you say the location is China?
I completely agree!!!
This picture is an aerial view of a sunken ship being pulled out of the ocean. I say this because in the middle of the picture, there is an old-looking side of a ship. They could be wanting to pull the ship out of the ocean because there is oil or some other substance spilling out of it and it is damaging the ocean. In addition, on one of the big ships there is a sign that says "Shanghai Salvage" which could mean that this is an organization that is trying to salvage this ship, or is trying to salvage the ocean because the ship has toxins that are ruining the environment.
For this weeks picture, one could see a bunch of different things. First, I took notice of this rather large and old boat in the middle of the photo. The boat looks like it has been in the ocean for a while based off of the corrosion. Also, this photo has the back drop of the ocean, which helped me make the assumption about the boat. Anyway, on each side of the boat, there seems to be two rather large wooden docks; I believe that these docks are in some way trying to help salvage the boat, or they are helping to hold the boat up.
For my final analysis of this photo, I say that the two wooden docks are being used to hold up the missing boat. This boat has been lost for a few years now because of the coloring and corrosion on it. That is what I see.
For my final analysis of this photo, I say that the two wooden docks are being used to hold up the missing boat. This boat has been lost for a few years now because of the coloring and corrosion on it. That is what I see.
Based on the sign on the left barge, "Shanghai Salvage", we believe this to be a bird's eye of a ship retrieval in Korea. Both barges are containing what looks to be an oil spill from the ship, the yellow ropes are what indicate this to us. The ship (perhaps a cruise or ferry) may have capsized some time ago due to the condition of the ship. We think it is a cruise or ferry because of the many portholes on the side of the ship.
@HTSherlockers, yep, the games afoot this morning. Thanks for looking carefully and offering your ideas. Please elucidate us on your mental process between "Shanghai Salvage" and Korea. Thanks.
I agree because I can see dark plomos of oil in the wTer and it looks like there's something around the boat to cantain something.
I didn't notice that! Now that I see that I do agree with you. There is an oil spill probably from the boat that was sunken. The ship is in poor condition and has been under the water for some time.
It’s always interesting to consider the ideas of other people in the WGOITP? Community. @Maddie D suggests the picture shows two boats lifting another from the ocean bottom. @Andrew Krause thinks the picture shows a device that was taken apart to learn how it functions. @Chaaaarlie conjectures that this is a computer that may be rigged as a bomb. Think about different ideas. Think about specific details in the picture that can support your own interpretation.
This picture is a bird's eye view of what appears to be a ship on water. The ship looks old and it is turned on its side. On the sides next to the ship there are two docks, and it looks like there are ropes or lines of some sort that are attached to the boat. Maybe the ropes will be used to help pull the boat upright so it can be fixed and restored.
I didn't really think of it that way. I agree that it could be from a birds point of view. That is also a good point that it could be restored.
@Mason, notes that the picture shows a, “bird’s eye view.” Many of you have noticed this interesting perspective and have suggested the photographer was in a helicopter. @Juliana I has offered the possibility of a drone taking the picture. What evidence in the picture could support either of these views?
I'd like to encourage you all to consider the picture, look at the comments of other people, and then respond with your own comment. There is a "Reply" button for you to give feedback to other people. Your interaction with others creates a deeper discussion, and affords you a chance to encourage or challenge the thinking of your peers.
It a crash of an ship, and now they are retrieving what´s left.
@ASNC, what do you see that makes you say it was a crash?
I do agree that it is some sort of sunken ship, but what gave you the idea that it was a crashed ship?
@Emmie Mason thinks that the barges may be sinking a ship to create an artificial coral reef, while @ Will Breland thinks the barges could be bringing up a ship. As you consider these two ideas, what do you think? What evidence could you find to support either hypothesis?
They are bringing a sunken ship up that has been sunken because there are two barges next to it.
Thanks for commenting Will Breland. @ Emmie Mayson thinks the two barges are lowering a ship to make an artificial reef. What do you see in the picture that could convince her of your idea that the barges are bringing up a ship?
The two barges are trying to move a sunken ship. The ship is spilling out oil and it's getting into the ocean. It is probably in China because of the Chinese writing on one of the barges, maybe in Shanghai. The ship looks old and possibly broken. They are trying to get it out of the water because they want to salvage the parts since it is a salvage company. They also might want to research what happened.
I didn't notice the Chinese writing what do you think it says?
They are pulling up a sunken ship from the ocean. It could be an older ship with artifacts in it or maybe humans are realizing they can't leave their stuff laying around. There are wires or ropes attached to it, but this could also mean they are sinking it. This could be to create a reef or pollute the ocean. Who knows these days right?
I really enjoyed your thoughts that are written down. I agree that humans should not leave their stuff lying around, but do you really believe that they would really sink this ship to pollute the ocean?
They are sinking a ship to make an artificial reef because that has become a somewhat common practice and reefs need to be rebuilt.
@Emmie Mayson, thanks for commenting. Many people interpret this picture as a salvage operation--bringing a ship up from the bottom. What do you see in the picture that could convince other people that your idea explains the picture more clearly?
That is very interesting idea, and I really enjoyed the thoughts behind it. How do you think this ship will effect the building of a reef? Do you believe it will help, or hurt?
@Julie AOSE, thanks for taking the time to respond to @Emmie Mayson.
There seem to be two prevailing interpretations of this picture so far this morning. @Aracely M suggests that this is a hard drive that has been opened so that you can see both halves, and @keith joseph considers it a representation of an electric circuit. @Clayton S. among others believes there are two platforms or barges being used to raise a ship. Be sure you’re including evidence for your assertions.
Because of the writing on the blue banners, I believe this is in China. The two ships appear to be towing in a sunken ship from where it had sunk.
I like your use of the posters and relating it to the language on it, but I do nt believe that it is Chinese on there; on the contrary, I think that it might be english because the poster on the right looks like it might read "goes". But, that is what I see.
I believe that 2 barges are pulling in a broken or destroyed ship from sea. The ship appears to have sunken. This is taking place in China due to the Chinese writing on the signs on the barges. The barges have come from two different companies, and each is represented by the sign on the barge. I can see the signs, which clearly indicated the Chinese writing. I can also see the ship in the middle of the two barges. The ship appears to be broken and dirty. It is faced sideways, which tells me that it cannot stand up straight. I can find a lot of different equipment on the different barges.
Did not notice the two different signs.. Maybe they are working together to bring the boat up?
This picture takes place in China and I think a wreck or something may have happened
@jilyssa coffee-jackson, thanks for responding to the picture. Can you be more specific about, "or something," happening. Also wondering what you see that makes you think this is happening in China.
I believe that this picture us of a sunken ship being pulled or rescued from the water. I, along with most comments, am saying that it takes place in China due to the Chinese writing on the barges.
@Marie Rose, thanks for looking at the comments of other respondents.
These look like two large barriers attached to a ship, out of the image, that are preventing a capsized boat from floating away. This is probably not in the U.S. or North America, because the letters on the barriers are in a different language. The capsized boat has also spilled oil, which is why there are yellow barriers surrounding the boat.
It is interesting that you noted the use of the yellow barriers to stop the oil from spreading. Is the oil a reason they are pulling the ship out?
In this picture I see an old, wrecked boat and two things on the side that look like they might be floating piers or another type of like aircraft carrier boat. The banner on the left says Shanghai on it so therefore we can tell that this takes place in China. There are people in orange which might be workers trying to get the boat out of the water.
Great observation! I did not notice the Chinese writing.
it looks like 2 boats probably used for cargo because of the wide space, and it loos like they are trying to help, or study the flipped over boat in the middle.
this picture looks like it was taken from a really high point of view, probably like a helicopter. it looks like the ship has had a terrible accident and it has flipped over to the other side. and these two docks are trying to help this boat flip over to the other side. and keep it from drowning.
I think the boat is on its side because the other two boats are trying to get it out of the water. Also the boat doesn't seem to be destroyed like what an accident would do to it, it just seems old. What to you makes it seem like a terrible accident happened to it?
i think the boats are trying to pull out a boat that the boat sink because you can see the two other boat next to the boat that was sink, And you can see in the boat the was sink that have ropes tied to the other boat. And i think this photo takes or took place in Shanghai, China because firstly the boat of the left have a flag that have words in Chinese and in the bottom says: Shanghai salvage and Shanghai it a city or a place of China
In this picture there appears to be a large machine lifting a broken boat out of the water. The boat looks old and rusty. I think this boat was a sunken ship, and this machine is being used to retrieve it.
It looks like it's from China because of the flag on the left boat and the signs. It looks like there trying to take an old boat we can tell because of the wires and oil is coming out.
I think is is an old phone that someone is taking apart becuase it looks like a phone i know this becuase my dad let me break open his old phone
I disagree with that. Because phones can't be that big and they aren't even close to being that big.
It looks like this picture was taken from a helicopter. It looks like there is a boat in the middle of 2 platforms. The platforms look like it could be a dock, or like a generator of some sort. Or the boat could be getting pulled out of the water, and onto shore.
I think people could be trying to remove a shipwreck from the water to put in a museum or something like that. The ship looks like it had been underwater for a good amount of time, and, you can just barely see ropes connecting the ship to the two things to it's left and right which could be whats pulling it
This picture appears to be a picture of a machine trying to lift up a boat that has fallen over. Those lines could be trying to pull the boat right-side up.
or maybe pulling it upside down the world is crazy these days huh
I see two fairly large boats pulling another boat out of the water. I know that because the boat has wires or ropes attached on to it.
this looks very similar to the costa concordia, which was a passenger ship which similar to the titanic had its hull breached below the water line and it ended up going on its side, the ship was only recently raised, and the barges appear to be attached to the many hydraulic pulleys that where used to raise it off the small plateu under water and upright it
this seems to be the inside of a phone or computer. It seems to have suffered going through a fire because I see things that look like burns. I think it may be the insideof a computer that a terrorist used as a bomb. I think this because people going in and out of certain countries and either going or coming from the USA cannot bring computers or any larger electronics because it is possible to hide bombs in them
I thinnk it is a device that they are taking apart to examine it or see home the maker put it together. I can see a piece of metal in the middle of the 2 pieces. I know it is a device because i can see wires from and to different objects. So i think it is a device that somebody is looking at to see how it was made.
This looks like a bird's eye picture of an old boat getting pulled out of the water. I think this is true because I see two big boats with lots of ropes connected to the boats. This boat looks old because it is very brown and chipped up
It looks like the picture was taken by a helicopter or a drone. It looks like a boat had a bad accident. The boat has flipped on it's side into the water. It looks like the boat has been there for awhile based on the color of the side of the boat. Two platforms are trying to pull the ship so it's not on it's side.
I think that this boat sank long ago because of how the boat looks and that it is getting pulled out because either in the way or it's just an exploration.
I think that they are two platforms trying to pull up the wreckage of a ship. The ship must have sunk a long time ago, because it looks rusty and a bit beat up. The people may be trying to save it because it might have some important thing in it. The reason the two platforms are connected is because they don't want to float away from each other as they work together to lift up the boat.
And is like a mini boat of transportation, maybe an engineering boat because you can see people in the boat and they look like the are engineers or they're trying to get a old sunken ship out the water and they got the cables to stop the oil.
In this picture it looks like it was taken by a helicopter, There had to of been a accident with this ship because it is on it's side and it might sink soon. It looks like the ship is gonna get pulled out of the water from the two big docks.
This looks like two boats that are pulling an old boat that they discovered underwater.
@Azalea, thanks for presenting your idea. Please look back and give some supporting evidence for your ideas.
I think is might some sort of transportation dock because you can see the boat in the middle and it looks like the big docks are taking it somewhere because it looks like there is some sort of workers on there
I think this ship had some type of accident, and ended up underwater, I am not sure what the machines are on each side but considering the ship has to be extremely heavy they are probably using the machines to bring it back up to the surface. There is a lot of scratches all over the bottom of the water vessel, that could mean that it was at the bottom of the the ocean.
In the picture it looks like there was a ship crash or something. I see that there are two other boats that are helping the ship get out of the water. On the boats it looks like there are some sort of word on the boats. They are in a different language so I think that they are not from America.
William - It looks like a cruise ship that sank, is being pulled up by two other big ships.
DJ - Oil spill
Zane - It looks like a computer chip.
DJ - Oil spill
Zane - It looks like a computer chip.
@ Shumway's Class, thanks for responding. Please look back at the picture and provide evidence for your individual conjectures
It looks like they are trying to get something from out of the water like and old boat and there using both boats to help get it out. It looks like there over seas like not because there in the sea but because the boats and it looks kind of a like a cumputer chip
So, @Mia V.M. you see two interpretations for this picture--rescue of an old boat and a computer chip. Please let us know which interpretation you favor and what you see that makes you say that. Thanks for taking another look.
I think these are two salvage ships from china because the ship on the left of the picture is one of China's rescue and salvage called Shanghai salvage. It's pretty obvious they are pulling up a ship for salvage, no writing on the sides so you don't know the name of the ship however it somewhat looks like the construction of the Titanic. There is also an oil spill and they have nets on both sides of the boats. Maybe to catch any floating debris?
@Olivia F, thanks for considering this image this morning. You've made observations, inferences, and asked yourself questions. Great! I'm wondering why you used the term, "obviously," to explain what is happening? @Emmie Mayson thinks the two barges may be sinking the middle ship to make an artificial coral reef. Can you look back and be more specific about what you see that makes your interpretation obvious.
In this picture it looks like a sunken ship is being pulled up and out of the water. This is because there are wires and strings connected to the boat and two other boats surrounding the sunken ship. This most likely takes place in China because of the Chinese words on a poster on one of the boats. It also looks like in the picture the wires are either taking electricity or providing electricity to the boat. This is what I believe is going on in this image.
The picture takes place in Shanghai, China. And is like a mini boat of transportation, maybe an engineering boat because you can see people in the boat and they look like the are engineers or they're trying to rescue a boat, and the boat is in the middle of the 2 boats and has a lot of cables on it.
What makes you say it was taken in Shanghai?
There's like 2 tugboats with alot of things on top of it and i think they are trying to pull up on an old boat
I see two big boats pulling another boat out of the water. I know that because the boat has wires or ropes attached to it. I also think it is in China because of the words on the left boat and under the letters it says shanghai salvage.
in the picture there is a boat being pulled out from the water by two platforms you can tell because there is tons of wires all over the sunken ship it looks like the picture was taken from above
It look like the picture was taken in a helicopter. There was a bad accident that just happened. It looks like the ship was landed and the dock fell apart and the ship fell into the water
@Kyra, thanks for responding this morning. I'm wondering what makes you think this accident just happened?
@TTH believes the two items on each side are piers. @Vanessa Lopez thinks the two objects represent something cut in half. @Jordan has suggested they might be barges. Lots of conjecture and supporting evidence. Keep looking. Remember to consider other people’s ideas and respond to their posts.
As a class we see a sign that says Shanghai Salvage, therefore we conclude that this is taking place somewhere in China. We also see two barges tugging the wreckage of a ship somewhere. We know the barges are transporting the ship somewhere because there are many ropes attaching the wreckage to the barges. There are also yellow barriers on either end of the barges connecting them. We believe this is to keep the wreckage from sinking or floating away. The ship is very rusty and missing its stern, suggesting it is very old or a disaster of some sort occurred. We see workers wearing red uniforms and white hard hats. They seem to be watching to make sure the wreckage is secure. We are not sure whether the wreckage is close to shore or the dark splotches are oil leaking from the wreckage. Finally, we see another sign that says COES. We looked up possible meanings for this and came up with the following:
1. College of Engineering and Science
2. Centres of Excellence - Ocean Science
If we look at number 2, then there is a possibility that the reason this wreckage is being moved is to protect the ocean oil leaking out of the shipwreck.
A lot of possibilities here. It will be interesting to read what other individuals came up with.
1. College of Engineering and Science
2. Centres of Excellence - Ocean Science
If we look at number 2, then there is a possibility that the reason this wreckage is being moved is to protect the ocean oil leaking out of the shipwreck.
A lot of possibilities here. It will be interesting to read what other individuals came up with.
@ND Life SKills, you've done an excellent job at careful observation, noting many details. You have used these details to justify your idea of a salvage operation. It makes it more interesting for all of us that you've dug deeper to find an interpretation for the logo/lettering. Thanks for your additions to today's discussion.
Good Morning, WGOITP? Community, so glad you could join us this morning. I look forward to reading your comments. Remember to look carefully at the picture and ask yourself for evidence to back up your assertions. It's compelling to comment on other people's posts--helps us all gain more insight into the picture.
it looks like they took something apart and you can see whats in between.
@Vanessa Lopez, thanks for looking at the picture this morning. Please let us know what you see that supports your conjecture.
they found a ship that probably broke down in the middle of the ocean or something .
@Areli, thanks for your comment. Please look back at the picture and let us know what you see that makes you say the ship broke down in the middle of the ocean?
It looks like oil coming out of a ship in China. We can tell this because the flag on the left ship says Shanghai Salvage and Shanghai is in China.
@Mr. Weeks' 7th Grade, thanks for commenting this morning. Can you look again and consider any other interpretations for what's going on here?
We are wondering why they are trying bring this ship up out of the ocean...
It looks like a ship that's being drained out ,so it can be removed easier and not cause damage to the environment.
@German Mar, can you explain what you see that suggests that water is being removed from the ship?
Our advisory thinks this is a picture of two tugboats trying to pull up an old historical boat in Shanghai. We also thought it could be two motherboards from computers but the spraying water and the waves and the people we noticed made us decide it was two boats.
@Ms Brabs Fabs Middle School Advisory, thanks for responding to the picture this morning and showing us your train of thought in figuring out this picture. Wondering what you see that makes you say this takes place in Shanghai?
IN this picture you can see a ship that has been sunk and i guess the other two things next to it are trying to get it out. In this picture you can see that there is a lot of wires or white lines going toward the boat.
Looks like 2 tug boats tailing out a boat that they probably ran into.The sunken ship looks old being brought up to shore from the sea its maybe worth something to them.
The ballast blasts indicate the two rusty barges, attached to the sunken ship, are moving away from the aerial photographer. We say this because the ballast blasts are always at the back of a moving vessel. The belly of the sunken water vessel is easily seen because of its bright blue color. The belly also shows signs of scratching that evidently took place on ledges or the bottom of the ocean.
A found ship in the ocean in china. looks to be a passage ship not a supplies ship. the boat doesn't look to be that old and not too big for a ship.
In this picture, I see two large platforms in the water. There is a net attached to both platforms, and it is raising what looks like a sunken boat. The boat is covered in dirt and algae, and the boat is rotting, so I can assume that the boat has been underwater for a long time. The platforms have posters on the front, with foreign words or an acronym written on them. The platforms have lots of machinery on them, as well as many workers. In conclusion, I see a sunken ship being rescued.
Nice observations about the boat rotting!
In this picture it looks like people are lifting a sunken boat out of the water. They have 2 barges to drag the boat to land. There are many people working to get this done.
In this picture it looks like a boat has capsized. It looks this way because it is tipped over. The other platforms look like docks, they couldve been put there to rescue the capsized boat. I also see some kind of signs on the docks.
There are two water platforms working to save a sunk ship. I say this because I can see what looks like cables connected to the ship, as if trying to pull it out of the ocean. I can also see two yellow "ropes" surrounding the ship, im guessing that their there to prevent any wildlife from getting in the way. I also see people working around it so it is active and not abandoned.
i think it is a ships electric circuit for a ship that the countries ocean floor
@keith joseph, can you let us know what you see that makes you say it's "electric circuit" that you see?
There isn't really much in this picture. But I would say this is a boat that has been sunken for quite a long time. There's a net and a few wires connected to this boat and the two platforms are the making the think they were going to push those together when the boat is lifted up. The color of the boat is detouring and also there's rust on the boat.
1.it looks like they are trying to pull a ship that sank out of the water.
2.i say this because the ship looks dirty like it had dirt on it for a long time and there are wires or ropes on the ship connecting it to the other two boats.
3. i also see that there are white banners on the two boats and yellow ropes connecting them on each end of the ship
2.i say this because the ship looks dirty like it had dirt on it for a long time and there are wires or ropes on the ship connecting it to the other two boats.
3. i also see that there are white banners on the two boats and yellow ropes connecting them on each end of the ship
There is a boat that is being brought up by some sort of cranes in the water. There is a capsized boat with two rectangular platforms that seem to be pulling and holding it up out of the water. There is ocean surrounding it and the picture is taken from the sky.
@Mac Rich, it's interesting that you've considered the point of view of the photographer.
It looks like a a machine(s) is picking up a boat from underwater, presumably old or abandoned.I see strings or ropes attached to the boat and it looks like an above or areal view because a camera is up that high showing it's significance.
In this picture I sea boat that was sunk and now is being brought up by some sort of machine. The picture was taken in the sky rather than down low.
@Bj, you and others have noticed the high perspective of this picture. Can you make a conjecture about how this picture was taken?
In this picture I see a boat that is sideways and looks like it is being lifted from the water. The boat looks kind of old with a lot of rust. It appears to have been under water for a long period of time.
What do you think the two large platforms are?
There seems to be a sunken boat being pulled out from the ocean. You can see ropes attached to the boat. This also seems to be from a foreign country because of the language on the signs. The boat seemed to have sunk a while ago because it is rusty and broken.
In this picture i see a hard drive that looks like it was open in half you can see all the lines and buttons and wires.There is also this tab on the top corner and the middle i really can't understand the writing that much but one i think say coes or cues i'm not really sure but the other one i have no idea.It looks like like its on top of water and theirs some type of ink oli looking thing around one of the hard drive.
In this picture, it looks like this is 2 ships in the water. One is old and probably have sunken, and the other is new helping the sunken ship back up. It looks like the old ship has been broken down for awhile due to the rust and flim on it. There is a side of a boat in between the two cargo ships. Or it could be a type of dock in the middle of the boats. There is some type of posters on the boats with different sayings but I can't really see what it says.
In this picture there are two barges with lots of equipment on them. In between the two boats there is a huge sunken ship that has been brought to the surface by the barges. They could be getting the boat to search it and find any treasure that may be on it. Or it could be a historically significant boat that they are trying to search for historical clues.
In this picture there seems to be a sunken ship and they are trying to bring it out of the water. I say this because there is a old boat that have metal cords holding the ship.
This photo is taken at an areal view of a ship on its side and two big "boats" on the side of the ship. There seems to be oil coming out from the back part of the ship but the ship also looks very old and abandoned. I don't think there are people on any of the items pictured but there is a possibility that there could be some people scuba-diving. There are also signs on each of the "boats" that are on the side of the sunken one; the signs are in Chinese.
What I see in the picture is a boat that is getting lifted out of the water. And the boat was capsized and the people are lifting the boat out of the water and they will put it on the barge.
In this picture there is two floating platforms side by side with what looks like is a sunken ship between them. This picture was taken from above by a helicopter perhaps. The platforms both have different signs with what looks like two different languages. The two sides seem to be working together to get the ship but they might be arguing as to which country or side gets the ship. There is a dark liquid in the water surrounding them.
In the photo there seems to be a damaged sunken ship. The boat is lifted sideways and beside the ship there is two plat forms that are helping the ship rise out of the water. On both of the platforms, it is tied with the sunken ship and their are people in uniform and are working to lift the ship out of the water.
In this photo it looks as if there are two planks holding the ship up from sinking. I looks like the help is getting the people and the cargo off the ship. The ships looks like its been under water for a while and there just now getting it from the ocean.
In this picture it looks like there was a sinking boat, and is now being brought up. The boat is a medium sized boat, and looks like an old boat. I think this because its dirty, and the back of the boat is missing half of its pieces. This could be somewhere in Japan because the words on the flag is in Japanese.
whats seems to be going on in this picture is some sort o boats are helping recover a sunken boat. both ships are flats and very big. they have many colors on the and two banners that say something i cant see. the ships are also sraying water from the corners.
I see two docks and a boat between them with strings on the boat. The right dock has a banner that says coes and thats some military group I think . the picture was taking by water and the left and right boat at the end of the boat has water flowing out
In this picture, it looks like there are two barges, that carry cargo, but in this picture these to barges are moving what seems to be a sunken ship and the are moving it to its destination. What I see that makes me say that is the things attaching the sideways boat to the barges. What I can also find is what looks like banners in the back of the barges, I can't tell what they say but they might have some purpose towards the barges.
In this picture, it looks like something was taken apart. I see cords and electrical stuff that makes me say that.
Thanks for responding, Appie P. You and many others think this is some kind of electrical/computer device that is taken apart. Many other people think it has something to do with a boat being salvaged. Look again and see what you think of their idea. What other evidence can you offer for your interpretation?
1. I barely have a clue what is going on in this picture.
2. They'res two big boat things in the ocean and
3. It looks like a ship is going down in the middlle, between the two.
2. They'res two big boat things in the ocean and
3. It looks like a ship is going down in the middlle, between the two.
@Ashley, even though this picture is confusing to you, it's good that you made an observation and a conjecture. What do you see that makes you think the ship is sinking?
in this photo it seems like a boat was hidden and the other two boats pulled it out from where ever it was stuck they are going to do a research and also go through it and see what can they find.
@Luis, thanks for looking and commenting. What do you see that makes you think this is a salvage operation?
It looks like there are two barges that are holding up a sunken ship. I say this because an old ship is being brought up and held up from sinking back down in to the sea. The ship also looks pretty old.
In this photo there is a boat that seems to have been sunk. This capsized boat seems to have been the way it is for quite a while due to the grim and rust that has built up on the side of the boat. There are also docks that I believe have been put in next to this boat. These may have been put there to help the rescue mission of those that were on this sinking boat, or they may have been put there more recently. I am unable to tell when they were put in, but if they were put in recently, they may be there to help stabilize the boat to keep it from drifting off into the sea. This ship must have capsized in a foreign country due to the foreign language on the signs.
Why do you think that they are recovering the boat?
I see a bird's eye view of a boat being lifted from the water. This boat looks old, as the paint on it is fading. Maybe it has been underwater for a long time. The boat is suspended on the water by wires connected to two piers. Wires are connected to a lot of machinery, so the boat must be unusually heavy. The sign on the left pier says "Shanghai Salvage", so obviously this must take place in Shanghai. They are probably salvaging the boat in order to conduct research on it. I don't think that they are conducting a rescue, because the boat looks too worn and damaged for anyone to have survived.
In this photo I see an old boat suspended on top of the water by some sort of netting in between two platforms. The platforms are also connected to the net and are build with a lot of machinery. Since the boat is deteriorating, losing color, and on its side, I believe that the the two platforms are some sort of recovery device and lifted the boat from the bottom of the sea. This could be for scienctific purposes, like to study how fast organisms will inhabit a nonliving article, or to understand why this boat sank, or it could be for a museum if this was a famous boat.
Good observations. I did not think about the scientific experiments that they will do with the ship, but that sounds pretty accurate.
Good morning, @Esther Joy, I appreciate your careful looking and willingness to propose a few ideas to explain why the boat is being recovered. Can you offer an idea about which conjecture you favor the most and why?
I think that they are most likely to be recovering this boat to find out why it sank because if they were using it to find organisms they could have used a smaller object and if they wanted this boat in a museum the could had a replica made.