Metal Workers. The Giant Semi-Submersible Ship Moving Huge Vessels. Posted: April 13, 2025 | Last updated: May 7, 2025. Step inside the world’s largest offshore fish farming ship, a remarkable ...

In 2008, the Blue Marlin safely carried BP's 60,000 tonne semi-submersible production rig, Thunder Horse, over 15,000 nautical miles from Okpo, Korea to Corpus Christi, Texas.

Study suggests semi-submersible design may make for more efficient ships By Ben Coxworth. January 04, 2023 ... "There are essentially two drag components of a ship, one is due to friction ...

You call a ship-carrying ship, or, to be more precise, a “semi-submersible heavy transport vessel,” such as the Boka Vanguard. Constructed in 2012, the 275-meter-long Boka Vanguard is the ...

April 3, 2013: The U.S. Navy recently received the first (USNS Montford Point) of three Mobile Landing Platform (T-MLP) ships. These 34,500 ton vessels are, in effect, seagoing piers for situations ...

A semi-submersible vessel carrying more than 7,000 pounds of suspected cocaine was intercepted in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Mexico, the country's navy announced Thursday, in a dramatic ...

Semi-submersible ships like Yinmahu serve as large maritime transport platforms that can deliver entire weapon platforms, which means that the ship has special strategic significance, CCTV said.

PULLMAN, Wash. — A Washington State University professor is trying to make a semi-submersible vehicle (SSV) the wave of the future for military, commercial, and research use. It is a prototype ...

A semi-submersible ship would act as a floating base to refuel and rearm the helicopters, allowing them to quickly return to action. In a maritime role in the SCS, ...

NEWPORT, R.I. (WJAR) — A crane ship bound for New York has made a pit stop in Newport. Thialf is a semi-submersible crane vessel, owned by a company in the Netherlands. It's the second-largest ...

It was a rare revelation about the PLA Navy’s semi-submersible heavy-lift ships, which could play an important role transporting equipment and ships, or rescuing damaged vessels during wartime.