Heavy-lift ship transporting USS Fitzgerald - video and photo

[Jon]

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.



2:57 video of the loading process:

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

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[Frank S]

Ther is a huge demand for the semi- submerssible barges especially for transport of Offshore drilling platforms