Here is ships being shipped by a .. ship called blue Marlin.Blue Marlin is a semi-submersible heavy lift ship designed
to transport very large semi-submersible drilling rigs above the
transport ship's deck. It is equipped with 38 cabins to accommodate 60
people, a workout room, sauna and swimming facilities.
History
The U.S. Navy hired the Blue Marlin from Offshore Heavy Transport to move the destroyer USS Cole back to the United States after the warship was damaged by an Al-Qaeda suicide bomber attack while anchored in the port of Aden, Yemen. During the latter part of 2003, work done on the Blue Marlin boosted its capacity and added two retractable propulsors to improve maneuverability.The ship re-entered service in January 2004. Following these improvements, the Blue Marlin delivered the oil platform Thunder Horse PDQ, weighing 60,000 tons, to Corpus Christi, Texas, for completion.
The U.S. Navy hired the Blue Marlin from Offshore Heavy Transport to move the destroyer USS Cole back to the United States after the warship was damaged by an Al-Qaeda suicide bomber attack while anchored in the port of Aden, Yemen. During the latter part of 2003, work done on the Blue Marlin boosted its capacity and added two retractable propulsors to improve maneuverability.The ship re-entered service in January 2004. Following these improvements, the Blue Marlin delivered the oil platform Thunder Horse PDQ, weighing 60,000 tons, to Corpus Christi, Texas, for completion.
In July 2005
Blue Marlin moved the gas refinery Snohvit from its construction site in
Cadiz to Hammerfest, an 11 day trip. This transport was filmed for the
TV show Extreme Engineering on the Discovery Channel, and also the TV
show Mega Movers on the History Channel.In November 2005, Blue Marlin
left Corpus Christi, Texas, to move the massive Sea-based X-band Radar
to Adak, Alaska, via the southern tip of South America and Pearl Harbor,
Hawaii. It arrived at Pearl Harbor on 9 January 2006, having travelled
15,000 miles. In January 2007, the Blue Marlin was employed to move two
jack-up rigs, the Rowan Gorilla VI and the GlobalSantaFe Galaxy II, from
Halifax Harbour to the North Sea. [Source: Wikipedia]
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