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11 years ago

Oil-Rig Lifter: This is a thing that exists.

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14 Responses:

  1. M.E. says:
    11 years ago at 11:57 am

    Project Azorean is even more mindblowing:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8h6rGrzD2VY
  2. candice says:
    11 years ago at 12:03 pm

    This is from an old Taylor Energy platform taken out by subsea mud-slides, on the continental shelf. They've been raising a bunch of these in their assorted parts. Very small platform by modern standards - if it actually has legs that can be cut off it's in shallow water and not very big. Still very cool.

    See http://www.vbar.com/videos/index.html for nifty engineering videos with bad music.
  3. David M.A. says:
    11 years ago at 12:50 pm

    Is there an oil-rig lifter lifter, in case this one sinks? What about an oil-rig lifter lifter lifter, just in case?
  4. badc0ffee says:
    11 years ago at 1:04 pm

    Not only does it exist, but it is a product with a model number, not a one-off project.
  5. Chad says:
    11 years ago at 2:32 pm

    Ah, neat. I sailed past one of these on the intracoastal waterway near Corpus Christi/Aransas Pass: http://g.co/maps/ahscu It's not there in the google maps pic, but if you wanted to know where these sorts of things live... that should give you a pretty good idea. The waters leading up to that parking spot are only 1-15 feet deep, but the channel that cuts through that "island" is about 63' deep, according to our depth finder.

    They are truly massive, especially from a 29' sailboat! Same color/construction.
  6. Jieves says:
    11 years ago at 2:32 pm

    There's been one of these in Pensacola for the last couple of weeks -- rough storms forced it to take refuge and repair in the local port. Quite an impressive sight on the morning commute, like an autobot curled up in a nap.
  7. Ben Brockert says:
    11 years ago at 5:26 pm

    I wish it was a Jansen walker.
  8. Lloyd says:
    11 years ago at 12:08 am

    If it exists, why am I getting 404 page not found, indicating that it doesn't exist?
    • David says:
      11 years ago at 8:58 pm

      Are you from, I don't know, Australia or something? I get automatically redirected to popscience.com.au from popscience.com, and the article doesn't exist on the Australian site.

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