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America's Biggest Claw Game Plucks Oil Rigs from the Briny Deep

Posted May 31, 2012 8:07 AM

From Gizmodo:

Though they weigh as much as 60,000 tons, the massive semi-submersible oil rigs dotting the Gulf of Mexico can still sink when faced with a hurricane's onslaught. And there's only one way to pull the rigs' 7,500 ton decks off the seafloor after such a catastrophe-with America's heaviest-lifting ship, the VB 10,000.

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