Heavy-lift ship lifts entire cruise liner out of the water [video]

Re:Heavy-lift ship lifts entire cruise liner out of the wate... by remarkEon on Monday November 11, 2019 @11:49PM (#21511606)

Interesting! Thanks. The stability problem does seem extreme, which is what I assumed all the tugs are around for. One of the other thoughts I had was ... what possesses someone to build something like this? It obviously has more uses than dealing with disabled cruise ships, but not many more right? What’s the ROI on something like this?

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Re:Heavy-lift ship lifts entire cruise liner out of the wate... by mdorazio on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @12:04AM (#21511667)

These are also often used to reposition or completely move entire oil rigs, which I think is probably their biggest use case.

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Re:Heavy-lift ship lifts entire cruise liner out of the wate... by dt5702 on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @01:49AM (#21512056)

Oil and gas.

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