Port of Tacoma

[bradvo]

must be expanding, just took this a couple minutes ago fom the back deck with my little pocket cool pix.



http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e131/lyndsituition/worldslargestcrane002.jpg

[burrman]

Can you imagine that thing in any kind of seas. Holy cow the CG got to be higher off the deck than it is wide.

[SomeSailor]

I watched a Discovery Channel special about a Korean company that moves those across the Pacific. The timing is critical too. They get a VERY narrow windows to drive them off as the tide maxes out. The ship can ballast down and they start to roll them off, but it gives like only 4 hours for the entire offload as the tide starts to ebb.

[bradvo]

Last time I seen this I was sitting in the Cliff House resturant and a ship came by with cranes on the deck. I also heard they were welded in place. It just does not look like it would be possible to cross oceans, they are so much bigger close up.

[Randygh]

That ship looks more top heavy than a crabber iced up in the Bering Sea. I wonder if the cranes' "guts" are stowed low in the ship's holds for ballast?