Giant Cargo You May Never See

Heavy Lift vessel carrying the worlds largest IKEA table
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Nuclear submarine transported by ship
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Ship carrying 11,000 ton oil platform

In the early morning of February 16, 2006, the semi-submersible vessel M.V. Kang Sheng Kou of COSCO Shipping, taking advantage of its advanced dynamic positioning system, accomplished a float-over positioning installation of the topside weighing more than 11000 tons in the PM3-CAA oilfield off Thailand Bay.
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Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) Sea based X band radar platform arrives in Pearl Harbor aboard Heavy lift vessel Blue Marlin in January, 2006.
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On December 12, USS Cole (DDG-67), once a powerful symbol of U.S. military might, limped home aboard the Norwegian transport ship M/V Blue Marlin for repairs to a gaping hole left by a bomb attack in Yemen that killed 17 U.S. sailors. The destroyer, unable to sail under its own steam, was carried into a cold & choppy Pascagoula Bay by the heavy-lift vessel Blue Marlin after a 6 week voyage from Yemen.
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Ship carrying the PDQ oil platform
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18000 ton heavy lift carrier
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A 522 ft dry dock which is to contain ships

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Oil Production Platform being loaded onto ship
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Bizarre Submersible Heavy Lift Vessel
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