MV Blue Marlin semi-submersible heavy lift ship - photos

**Jon** · Dec 20, 2018, 10:48 PM

MV Blue Marlin semi-submersible heavy lift ship.

Shipping ships:

Carrying an oil platform:

Carrying the USS Cole:

More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Blue_Marlin

Previously:

Motion compensating ship personnel transfer gangway - GIF
Boarding a moving cargo vessel - GIF
Launching an oil tanker ship with airbags - GIF, videos, and photo
Heavy-lift ship transporting USS Fitzgerald - video and photo
Salvaging a 50,000 ton ship by cutting it into slices

**Jon** · Dec 25, 2018, 03:02 PM

Blue Marlin submerges to release cargo. This is the legendary internet famous "ship-shipping ship, shipping shipping-ships." And of course, as is mandatory on the internet these days, this is presented as a "world record" (transport of 18 barges).

2:26 video:

Despite all that dramatic music, I still don't know how they unstack those ships. Anyone?

**Frank S** · Dec 25, 2018, 08:32 PM

take it out in rough seas and they will unstack themselves.

**sossol** · Dec 25, 2018, 10:26 PM

Originally Posted by Jon

Despite all that dramatic music, I still don't know how they unstack those ships. Anyone?

"
With massive Mammoet cranes, one by one.
We were not allowed to film this process.
"

**Jon** · Dec 26, 2018, 02:35 PM

Originally Posted by sossol

"
With massive Mammoet cranes, one by one.
We were not allowed to film this process.
"

And then it submerges to float the final ships on the bottom of the stack? I guess I never thought about how a semi-submersible offloads stacked cargo.

**sossol** · Dec 26, 2018, 06:32 PM

Originally Posted by Jon

And then it submerges to float the final ships on the bottom of the stack? I guess I never thought about how a semi-submersible offloads stacked cargo.

Beats me. That's the reply that the person who published the video gave after someone asked how they're removed.

I'd think that they couldn't submerge the stack without flooding all but the topmost boat.

**PJs** · Dec 27, 2018, 01:42 PM

A quick trick boat stack...as Geoffrey Rush said. "It's a mystery!" What I'm trying to understand is why they put the smaller ones on the bottom. @¿@

**ranald** · Dec 29, 2018, 11:35 PM

Probably with great difficulty. Tugged them off?

OK, seriously what about the "stickers" separating the levels & supporting the weight.I have no idea, however I'm not like the UK meterologist who until his mid 30's didn't know that lambs were actually small/young sheep!

The answer may be under a patent application or copyright so the Chinese dont copy.LOL. Wait for the next episode.

**Jon** · Apr 27, 2019, 06:44 PM

Log barge unloads cargo.

**Frank S** · Apr 27, 2019, 08:43 PM

Originally Posted by Jon

Log barge unloads cargo.

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This must have been an intentional maneuver since after the logs were unloaded the barge still retained its list which either the ballast tanks had been flooded to cause the list by order accidently. I don't buy accidently since valves must be opened and pumps operated to shift the ballast from one side to the other