Heavy-lift ship transporting USS Fitzgerald - video and photo
The USS Fitzgerald is a US Navy destroyer that was damaged in a 2017 collision with a container ship, about 10 miles off the coast of Japan. The Fitzgerald had to be transported back to Mississippi for costly repair in a shipyard. This transport is done with a heavy-lift ship, in this case the semi-submersible heavy-lift ship TransShelf. The ship takes on water to slightly sink itself below the waterline so that the damaged vessel can be loaded on.
https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/h..._lift_ship.jpg
2:57 video of the loading process:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWvL8sWb998
More:
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais...sel:TRANSSHELF
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Fi...stal_collision
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy-lift_ship
Previously:
Salvaging a 50,000 ton ship by cutting it into slices
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...107#post103313
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...079#post103189
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...601#post104718
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...ip-photo-63703
