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The World's Largest Vessel leaves dry dock (timelapse)

submitted by Aard Vark

(oritteropo)
1 decade 6 months 2 weeks ago

YouTube Description:

Watch as the 488-metre-long hull of the Shell revolutionary Prelude floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facility is floated out of the dry dock at the Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) yard in Geoje, South Korea, where the facility is currently under construction. Once complete, Prelude FLNG will be the largest floating facility ever built. It will unlock new energy resources offshore and produce approximately 3.6 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas (LNG) per annum to meet growing demand. Shell is the operator of Prelude FLNG in joint venture with INPEX (17.5%), KOGAS (10%) and OPIC (5%).

(via LiveLeak, more info in this article at gcaptain.com)

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just as a comparison, the Titanic was 269 meters long. That's just a bit above half that size.

And for a modern comparison, the Allure of the Seas, the largest ocean liner in existence, is 362 meters long.

This is my way of saying... HOLY FUCK that ship's huge!

Half a kilometer, sweet jelly jubes. It's kinda hard to see the scale of it in the vid though.

There's a comparison graphic in this article - http://www.largestshipintheworld.com/largest_ships_in_the_world/shell-prelude-floating.php

@EMPIRE I couldn't find a direct comparison with the Titanic, but there is a comparison of the Titanic with the QM2, and the QM2 with the Prelude in the link above - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Comparison_of_some_of_the_longest_ships_RU.svg

Half a kilometer, sweet jelly jubes. It's kinda hard to see the scale of it in the vid though.

:29-:34 [I Brake For Nothing]

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