The Ship That Stands on the Seabed
From Critical Machines · 8:38
Show by Emily Salazar
A jack-up vessel lowers steel legs to the ocean floor and lifts its hull clear of the water, becoming a building that can drive a ninety-metre monopile thirty metres into the seabed — while a curtain of bubbles shields porpoises from the hammer's noise.
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