Costa Concordia may be loaded onto a giant ship for transport
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[QUOTE=OvB;42482702][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojbOSWCeq3g[/media]
Building ships is like a big lego set.[/QUOTE]
This too, ty OVB.
[QUOTE=Terminutter;42479195]Music and camera effects are annoying, but here's the Dockwise Vanguard in action.
[video=youtube;sMSh5ZRjg2o]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMSh5ZRjg2o[/video]
Want a size comparison? Look at that guy at 1:18.
I'm sure there was a documentary about it a while back, but I can't find it.[/QUOTE]
Oh balls it goes underwater. I was wondering how they managed to get stuff onto the deck.
This is like Bagger 288 but in water.
Wow, I did not know there was a floating drydock out there that could carry that thing. I usually picture the ship that picked up the Cole when I think of mobile drydocks.
what happens if the vanguard sinks
[QUOTE=Big Dumb American;42482765]That is so effing cool. Holy frijole! I want to live on one for months at a time.[/QUOTE]
It would be like living in an Escher drawing.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/7SkiTlh.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i.imgur.com/JtV7xk9.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=OvB;42482992]It would be like living in an Escher drawing.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/7SkiTlh.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i.imgur.com/JtV7xk9.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
Woah... They actually live in them while they're being towed into position? I figured they'd just stay on the hauler. That's bananas, [I]mon frere.[/I]
[editline]10th October 2013[/editline]
[QUOTE=Zinayzen;42482967]what happens if the vanguard sinks[/QUOTE]
An even bigger boat comes out to pick them both up.
[QUOTE=Big Dumb American;42483182]An even bigger boat comes out to pick them both up.[/QUOTE]
What if that one sinks?
[QUOTE=yellowoboe;42483369]What if that one sinks?[/QUOTE]
Either send a bigger one or drain the ocean.
[QUOTE=yellowoboe;42483369]What if that one sinks?[/QUOTE]
It's bigger boats all the way down.
[QUOTE=OvB;42482702]Building ships is like a big lego set.[/QUOTE]
My dad used to work at a shipyard and from what I've been told they're built with around the same precision. :v:
Just a note, that sounds bad on paper, but ships are so massive that the tolerances for individual components are huge.
[QUOTE=Big Dumb American;42479070]Can we get a few hundred of these, build small cities on them, and sail them out to sea to establish a sovereign nation of ocean nomads?[/QUOTE]
What, like Sealand?
[QUOTE=woolio1;42483641]What, like Sealand?[/QUOTE]
Maybe like
[img]http://www.hwdyk.com/q/quizimage/ad_3_6.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=Cyanish;42483585]My dad used to work at a shipyard and from what I've been told they're built with around the same precision. :v:
Just a note, that sounds bad on paper, but ships are so massive that the tolerances for individual components are huge.[/QUOTE]
I remember watching a show about the construction of a new aircraft carrier. When they put the top bow piece on it was off by a few inches. So they got their strongest guys and some huge mallets and hammered away at the tip of the bow to make it fit. When that failed they got a huge hydraulic ram and forced it into place. That did the trick.
The most technologically advanced and top secret ship in the world. Built with sledge hammers and elbow grease.
[QUOTE=Fourm Shark;42478930]I didn't know [B]we[/B] made ships that big.[/QUOTE]
You didn't participate in this technological marvel.
[QUOTE=DrDevil;42484230]You didn't participate in this technological marvel.[/QUOTE]
It's funny because you deliberately misunderstood what he meant!
[QUOTE=DrDevil;42484230]You didn't participate in this technological marvel.[/QUOTE]
[B][I]We[/I][/B] are human beings, and collectively [B][I]we[/I][/B] have accomplished many things including making giant ships, you colossal ass.
It astonishes me how important semantics are to some people. I mean, [I]wow.[/I]
So...Vanguard sinks itself and resurfaces under whatever it's carrying? I dunno why but that really gives me the willies, same thing whenever I see an oil rig that has legs with those floaty things on the feet. Like, it's so massive, and so much of it is under water, and it is nowhere close to the bottom. That really messes with me.
As a cadet at the cal maritime academy, I find operations like these mindblowingly fascinating. One of my teachers has been going into incredible detail about the Costa Concordia salvage operation, it's fascinating to learn about how and with what these things are done.
Just imagine being part of the crew assigned to this.
[QUOTE=Big Dumb American;42479070]Can we get a few hundred of these, build small cities on them, and sail them out to sea to establish a sovereign nation of ocean nomads?[/QUOTE]
[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterworld"]Reminds me of a certain movie[/URL]
[QUOTE=gman003-main;42483467]It's bigger boats all the way down.[/QUOTE]
[img]http://i.imgur.com/JjJob3V.jpg[/img]
I can't wait until space ships are actually proper ships, right now if I were to make a boat analogy everything is like a fragile raft up there.
[QUOTE=OvB;42479395]Sorta relevant:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ5hvltzGEM[/media][/QUOTE]
This is cool, but it's unnerving to watch at the same time.
I kept thinking it would go straight down.
Goddamn that thing's less than 200 feet shy of being twice the length of the Titanic
[img]http://aibob.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/knocknevisshipcomparison.gif[/img]