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A crane with a CIA history helps with the Baltimore bridge cleanup
- themark 3y agoI wonder how many super yachts are actually destroyers.
- nickff 3y agoNone; modern super yachts are usually on the order of hundreds of tons, while destroyers displace nearly ten thousand tons.
- ianburrell 3y agoSome super yachts are bigger than destroyers. The longest is 590 ft long and 13,136 tons. The biggest is 20,000 tons. The top ten are all bigger than 10,000 tons. Warships and yachts are totally different vessels, there is no place on the latter for sensors or weapons.
- martinky24 3y agoThere are plenty of sensors on yachts. Hell, my father’s dingy has a sensor on it.
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- sparrish 3y agoSo 'big crane does big jobs for anyone willing to pay for it, including government' is news?
- dboreham 3y agoIt was originally built for a black project. Useful for other things subsequently, obviously.
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- anigbrowl 3y agoWhere's the trouble here? This is just a 'did you know' story. If they wanted to stir up trouble they would be better off pointing out that the US industrial maritime capacity is actually terrible, and that China and Europe have far more capable equipment than the US does. Thanks to expensive and largely futile wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, there has been a chronic under-investment in naval capacity, neglect of the merchant marine and so on.
- thrill 3y agoNah, they stir up trouble by not talking about that.
- samwillis 3y agoThe story of "Project Azorian" and the Hughes Glomar Explorer (the ship this crane was first used to construct) is a Wikipedia hole perfectly sized for a Saturday and some coffee. Well worth reading if you haven't before: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Azorian https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Azorian https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glomar_Explorer https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glomar_Explorer
- mobilio 3y agoAlso don't forget Howard Hughes
- pavel_lishin 3y agoThis featured in one of Charles Stross's novels, too - The Jennifer Morgue.
- mojomark 3y agoFun anecdote that Gen-X Baltimoreans may recall from youth - "chessy" was also the name of a myth about yet another prehistoric-esque aquatic beast that swam in the Chesapeake Bay waters (1). Silly Baltimore:) 1.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chessie_(sea_monster) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chessie_(sea_monster)