It's a purpose built one of a kind sea based drill rig. Two 150X300 steel barges welded together with a cement cube glued to teh bottom and a big cement foot under that. It has big water jets that when it hits the mud, turn on and it burries it's self in place then pumps the water out of the middle. Now there is a dry home into which teh rig drills. Incase of a leak or blowout it is contained by the vessel already! It also has a HUGE water cannon for building ice dams. 3 Cat 399 1100HP enegines in series pumping a 36 inch diamater nozzel and will shoot water about 100 feet. The first time it made it to AK and was seated, the ice pack shifted before the dam could be built. Ice stacked up aganst the rig untill it was 30 feet over teh deck. The guys on board expeccted to die that night. In the AM the rig was found to have moved less than 1/2 inch and the water cannon was never used.
Greek Cruise Ship Sinks
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