Benoit Stichelbaut / Honda 4-stroke outboard motor on rib, France, 2002.

Sue Flood / Engine room of worlds largest nuclear icebreaker, "NS 50 Let Pobedy" (50 Years of Victory) August 2008

Sue Flood / Engine room of world's largest nuclear icebreaker, "NS 50 Let Pobedy" (50 Years of Victory) August 2008

Sue Flood / Engine room of world's largest nuclear icebreaker, "NS 50 Let Pobedy" (50 Years of Victory) August 2008

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Boat in the harbour of the Inuit community of Qikiqtarjuaq (Broughton Island), Nunavut, Canada, 2002.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Selkup man and his son travelling by boat on the Puryakhar River near Bistrinka. Purovsky Region, Yamal, Western Siberia, Russia, August 2008. Editorial use only.

Juergen Freund / Researcher Guido Westhoff looking through a car dumpsite where snakes could be taking shelter under metal sheets or inside the car or engines. Queensland, Australia, February 2008

Toby Roxburgh / Part of the engine block of the Medway Queen, the last estuary pleasure paddle steamer in the UK, being refurbished for construction of the replica ship, David Abel's boatbuilders, Bristol, England, A...

Roberto Rinaldi / Electricity system in engine room of wrecked crude oil super-tanker "Amoco Milford Haven", which sank on April 14th, 1991 after three days of fire. Genoa, Italy, 2002.

Chadden Hunter / Film crew being dropped off by Ethiopian military helicopter beside the permanently bubbling Erta Ale lava lake, Erta Ale volcano, Danakil Desert, Ethiopia, November 2003. Filming for the Mountains e...

Juergen Freund / View from airplane window, with jet engines visible

John Cancalosi / Packrat damage to truck motor, Arizona, USA

DAVID TIPLING / Fire engines attending heath land fire, Westleton, Suffolk, U

Onne van der Wal / Small motor boats moored up in a line, with their outboard motors lifted out of the water, Dutch Harbor in Jamestown, Rhode Island, USA.

Onne van der Wal / A couple relaxing on an anchored Pursuit powerboat in Annapolis, Maryland, USA.

Onne van der Wal / A couple relaxing on a Pursuit powerboat in Annapolis, Maryland, USA.

Onne van der Wal / Couple relaxing on a Pursuit powerboat in Annapolis, Maryland, USA.

Onne van der Wal / Two men building a marine engine during the construction of a yacht.

Onne van der Wal / Two men building a marine engine during the construction of a yacht.

Barry Bland / T.S.S. "Earnslaw" steam boat, built in 1912 to service the sheep stations on Lake Wakatipu. It is powered by two coal fired steam engines and is now used to take tourists on cruises to Walter Peak She...

Onne van der Wal / Engine controls aboard a cruising yacht. Rhode Island, USA.

Barry Bland / A fireman stoking the boiler on the "T.S.S. Earnslaw" steam boat, built in 1912 to service the sheep stations on Lake Wakatipu. It is powered by two coal fired steam engines and is now used to take to...

Onne van der Wal / Two men building a marine engine during the construction of a yacht.

Barry Bland / T.S.S. "Earnslaw" steam boat, built in 1912 to service the sheep stations on Lake Wakatipu. It is powered by two coal fired steam engines and is now used to take tourists on cruises to Walter Peak She...

Rick Tomlinson / Engine room on luxury 180ft yacht Adele. ^^^The ketch is a 180-foot Andre Hoek designed yacht, built by Vitters Shipyard, Holland, and owned by Jan-Eric Osterlund. Non editorial uses must be cleared i...

Angelo Giampiccolo / The state-of-the-art engine room with MTU turbo diesel engines onboard the 35-metre motoryacht Gaia, created by Cantieri Maiora, Italy.

Barry Bland / Rastafarian man in a fishing boat, Caribbean.

Rick Tomlinson / Hayling Island, Hampshire inshore lifeboat heads into the surf. Based on the Atlantic 21. ^^^Even though her twin 70hp outboard engines make her one of the fastest lifeboats in the fleet, her hull des...

Onne van der Wal / Boy swimming from an inflatable tender with another in the boat, Belize.

Onne van der Wal / Two boys sitting in a yacht tender, Belize. Model released.

Onne van der Wal / Close up of transom on motorboat "Crazy Horse" and the wake behind.

Onne van der Wal / Two boys sitting in a yacht tender, Belize.

Onne van der Wal / A crew member checking the engine oil level aboard a cruising yacht.

Onne van der Wal / Outerlimits high speed powerboat showing out drives.

Barry Bland / T.S.S. "Earnslaw" steam boat, built in 1912 to service the sheep stations on Lake Wakatipu. It is powered by two coal fired steam engines and is now used to take tourists on cruises to Walter Peak She...

Erik Russell / Motoryacht "Gladius" engine room - 2 x MTU 12V series 4000 marine diesel M90 Blue Line rating 2040kW (2774 hp) plus 2 x Kohler 40 kW generators.