Ships that need to stop drop anchor, right? But when you get out in the middle of the ocean, that's just not possible. Here's why, and what they do instead.

A single shot contains 57 individual chain links, each weighing a whopping 350 lbs. This makes each shot weigh 20,500 lbs., or 10.25 tons.

Designed for extreme durability, giant anchor chains are forged with precision to withstand immense marine forces. Crafted using high-strength materials, each link undergoes a rigorous process to ...

While ships’ anchor chains vary in length, many ships carry about 12 shots of chain, and each shot is 90 feet long, Browne said, which equals about 1,080 feet of anchor chain.

In short: Researchers claim to have world-first footage of damage to sensitive and biodiverse Antarctic sea floor ecosystems caused by anchors and chains. The team behind the discovery has called ...