Visual feast

Stunning. From Digg.

​The world's oceans are incomprehensibly vast, a fact that's quite apparent in this spectacular time-lapse of a cargo ship's journey over the course of a month.

YouTuber JeffHK took 80,000 photos over a 30-day period, resulting in a 10-minute video:

If you don't have 10 minutes to watch the whole thing, JeffHK made a handy little viewer's guide for you, complete wth timestamps:

0:32 Milky Way

0:53 Sirius Star (I think) Correction: Jupiter the planet according to some viewers

1:17 Approaching Port of Colombo

1:45 Cargo Operation

2:08 Departure Colombo with Rainstorm

2:29 Beautiful Sunrise

3:13 Lightning Storm at Malacca Strait and Singapore Strait

3:29 Clear night sky Milky Way with lightning storm

4:01 Camera getting soaked

5:09 Arrival Singapore

5:56 Departure Singapore

6:20 Moon-lit night sky

6:48 Another Sunrise

8:30 Headed due north and you can see Ursa Major rotating neatly around Polaris.

8:36 Squid Boats

8:54 Chaotic Traffic

9:15 Arrival Hong Kong

The vastness of the ocean and skies, the choke points of harbors and straights, the miracle of the Milky Way, the wonder of our global logistics. It has it all.


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