That big red cargo ship off Alki is the 735-foot Navios Hyperion.

"That's a standard anchor position we have for ships that come in," said Peter McGraw, Seaport/Real Estate Media Officer, Port of Seattle. "It may drift a little, but it's got to stick pretty close to where the position is. That is a bulk carrier, used to taking non-container cargo. In this case it is waiting for a grain shipment, or waiting for a birth at Pier 86. BNSF (Railway) carries the grain from as far away from Iowa or Nebraska and it will be either soy beans or corn and off it goes to either Japan or China where it typically goes to feed livestock."

In Spanish, "Navios" means "ships". "Hyperion" was the Greek Titan god of light and means "watcher from above" or "he who goes above".