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This Giant Ship Ships Ships

Posted May 22, 2012 1:06 PM

From Gizmodo:

When the USS Cole was disabled by an Al-Qaeda attack in 2000, the US Navy faced a serious dilemma: How do you sail a 500-foot warship from Yemen to Mississippi when it's got a 40-foot wide gash in its hull? You hire the world's biggest semi-submersible ship to piggy-back it home, that's how.

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05/22/2012 4:32 PM

That ship ships slippery ships in a slightly slanted slip...

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05/23/2012 5:18 AM

Oh, no. Not again....

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05/24/2012 6:34 AM

A shipping ship shipped by a ship shipping ship must certainly then become, since it's being shipped, a boat!!

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