This May Be The Most Insane Piece Of Machinery Ever Made

The Blue Marlin is a semi-submerging vessel capable of lifting and transporting huge ships.
1. A heavy-lift ship is a vessel designed to move very large loads that cannot be handled by normal ships.
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2. This is the Blue Marlin, a semi-submerging vessels capable of lifting another ship out of the water and transporting it.
3. Like the USS Cole.
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4. Or, say, a dozen other transport ships.
5. Or this Oil Rig
6. 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.
7. And its huge!
8. 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.
9. And heres three of them.
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