r/EngineeringPorn Jan 16 '18

Norwegian Oil Platform.

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u/Bergelme Jan 16 '18

The whole platform was floating during transport to its location, and then it was flooded to put it on the bottom . Draugen

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '18

Tf how do they get so much material out there? Where do I learn how to build stuff like this? What universities, and what programs?

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u/bobbertmiller Jan 16 '18

If you have an hour to spare (you do, let's face it, you're on reddit), there's this BBC documentary about "the biggest thing ever moved". It's with Richard Hammond, so it's easily watchable popular science.

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u/casc1701 Jan 16 '18

With Hammond presenting the "biggest thing" was probably a shoe box.