This May Be The Most Insane Piece Of Machinery Ever Made
RADAR042
Published
06/28/2014
The Blue Marlin is a semi-submerging vessel capable of lifting and transporting huge ships.
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A heavy-lift ship is a vessel designed to move very large loads that cannot be handled by normal ships. -
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This is the Blue Marlin, a semi-submerging vessels capable of lifting another ship out of the water and transporting it. -
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Like the USS Cole. -
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Or, say, a dozen other transport ships. -
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Or this Oil Rig -
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This is the SBX-1. The Sea-Based X-Band Radar, which is a floating, self-propelled, mobile active electronically scanned array radar station designed to operate in high winds and heavy seas. It is part of the U.S. Defense Department Ballistic Missile Defense System. -
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And its huge! -
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These are drilling rigs with a gridwork of iron below them creating a giant footprint to stabilize the weight. They jack up out of the water with those large legs. -
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And heres three of them.
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