{"id":90578,"date":"2019-05-10T13:42:57","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T20:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/ship-carrying-oysters-is-worlds-first-remote-controlled-cargo-trip"},"modified":"2019-05-10T13:42:57","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T20:42:57","slug":"ship-carrying-oysters-is-worlds-first-remote-controlled-cargo-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/ship-carrying-oysters-is-worlds-first-remote-controlled-cargo-trip","title":{"rendered":"Ship carrying oysters is world\u2019s first remote-controlled cargo trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><video width=\"636\" height=\"358\" controls><source src=\"https:\/\/videos.dailymail.co.uk\/video\/mol\/2019\/05\/10\/6761370881446856008\/1024x576_MP4_6761370881446856008.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\"><\/video><\/p>\n<p>A remote-controlled ship carrying British oysters to Belgium becomes the first cargo vessel in the world to traverse the seas without a crew\u2026<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A boat carrying a cargo of British oysters across the English Channel has become the world\u2019s first ever shipment completed using remote control.<\/p>\n<p>Mersea Island molluscs were on-board the 40-foot (12 m) long Sea-Kit vessel heading to Orstend in Belgium and there was not a single human being on-board.<\/p>\n<p>It successfully completed the delivery of the 11 pounds (5kg) of shellfish and then made a return journey with some Belgian beer on-board.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-7014225\/A-remote-controlled-cargo-ship-carried-British-oysters-Belgium-world-first.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A remote-controlled ship carrying British oysters to Belgium becomes the first cargo vessel in the world to traverse the seas without a crew\u2026 A boat carrying a cargo of British oysters across the English Channel has become the world\u2019s first ever shipment completed using remote control. Mersea Island molluscs were on-board the 40-foot (12 m) [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":409,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}