Bridge segment being lowered into place by two massive floating cranes

33 points asomek

This was incredibly unsatisfying.... No money shot

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8 points K2O3_Portugal

https://i.redd.it/hob00g5cd59g1.gif

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8 points ThisWillTakeAllDay

They have to wait for the tide to go out to lower them.

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1 points FrankFarter69420

How does ballasting work?

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2 points captaincootercock

I'm no expert but I bet they use water

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2 points FrankFarter69420

You're correct. After I commented, I looked it up. They use massive pumps to move water quickly from one side to another.

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2 points captaincootercock

Nifty! I bet it's quite the operation

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1 points Ziegelphilie

I'm guessing that crane is owned by Mammoet

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2 points No-Positive-3984

Being lowered incredibly slowly.

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0 points air_twee

They tried such a thing over here in the Netherlands a few years ago. It was a catastrophic failure

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2 points CPUsCantDoNothing

Any video?

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2 points air_twee

https://www.reddit.com/r/CatastrophicFailure/s/xDevI6t0Nw

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1 points Javelin46

Completely different scale

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1 points air_twee

Yeah I know that. Same kind of principle though, two boat mounted cranes trying to lift a bridge part in place.

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2 points ProfessorPetulant

Wow. That barge looks very undersized.

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2 points air_twee

Yeah it was not totally unexpected it failed (in hindsight)

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2 points Moloch_17

Skill issue

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2 points ProfessorPetulant

One at each end of the slab

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