So rad. It's like the ship equivalent of the Bagger 288 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagger_288).
Eric Raymond
Shared publicly -I'll take "Mind-bogglingly, awesomely huge", for $400, Alex.
What is the biggest heavy-transport ship in the world, capable of carrying an entire oil-drilling platform or the destroyer USS Cole or a stack of twelve cargo vessels on its cargo deck?
This is serious big-engineering porn. Don't miss the video of the ship semi-submerging in Rotterdam harbor so the palletload of a dozen ships can be tugged off it.
What is the biggest heavy-transport ship in the world, capable of carrying an entire oil-drilling platform or the destroyer USS Cole or a stack of twelve cargo vessels on its cargo deck?
This is serious big-engineering porn. Don't miss the video of the ship semi-submerging in Rotterdam harbor so the palletload of a dozen ships can be tugged off it.
When one needs to transport a large number of ships (perhaps they aren't ocean-ready), move a gigantic oil rig (like BP's Thunder Horse PDQ) or perhaps carry a damaged warship home (The USS Cole), ...
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Phil Stracchino
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That's not a ship. That's a mobile harbor.
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"We gonna do what they say can't be done..."
Eastbound and Down - Jerry Reed
Eastbound and Down - Jerry Reed
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Funny, I was discussing this with my wife over lunch today. It's a ship-shipping ship, shipping shipping ships.
Sir, you win Teh Internets for the day.
Eric Raymond
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+H. Peter Anvin
Actually, to be pedantically correct, it seems to have been designed for shipping oil rigs. But I like your version better.
Actually, to be pedantically correct, it seems to have been designed for shipping oil rigs. But I like your version better.
Well, it has certainly been used for shipping shipping ships (mostly river ships, that aren't built to cross the ocean under their own keel, I gather.)
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Very cool, but my favorite is still the Glomar Explorer..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSF_Explorer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSF_Explorer
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It no longer the largest. Dockwise has a new boat. The Dockwise Vanguard, the world’s largest semisubmersible Heavy Transport Vessel (HTV) to date.
http://mb50.wordpress.com/2013/02/15/heading-for-inglesidetx-largest-heavy-transport-vessel-for-largest-offshore-platform-hull/
http://mb50.wordpress.com/2013/02/15/heading-for-inglesidetx-largest-heavy-transport-vessel-for-largest-offshore-platform-hull/
It appears to be carrying the US Navy's X-band radar used to detect missile launches. I saw it once docked in Hawaii - http://www.panoramio.com/photo/60913375
+Lance Berc
Thank you! I thought that was a radome on top in the first picture, but couldn't figure out what one of those that size would be doing on a semi-submersible rig.
Thank you! I thought that was a radome on top in the first picture, but couldn't figure out what one of those that size would be doing on a semi-submersible rig.
I think that platform is now near South Korea the last time I checked.
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+Lance Berc, was it docked in Hawaii, or was Hawaii docked to it?
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