The water is down a ship, which is the largest ship on the planet - Pieter Scheltens. This windfall so enormous that brings water from the oil rigs and transports them to another source.
Record size of the vessel is 382 meters long and 127 meters wide. The gigantic catamaran design vessel built in South Korea, Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering shipyard.
It cost 1.7 billion. Dollars, and it turns the screws 11.2 megawatts engines. By the way, the screws produced a Rolls Royce, and the floating of titanium has a total of a dozen of the devil - '13.
"Pieter Scheltens' will be able to pull out of the water for up to 48 thousand. -ton oil rigs and 25 thousand. -ton of the platform supports. Then the ship was dismantled structures will be transported at the same time in other place of extraction.
Moreover, the huge ship and pays protrude from the water - even in the height of 25 meters. In case it should be a huge force oil platforms pick up.
The ship is owned by the Swiss company Allseas, and is believed to begin to fly in the next year.
"Pieter Scheltens' will be able to develop the 25.9 km / h. speed. It will be able to live and work in the 571 man crew.
True, it is the largest boat on the planet will spend only about six years, since 2020. Swiss company Allseas plans to buy even more similar vessel, which would shunt even higher oil rigs.
For the sake of accuracy it should be emphasized that the maximum (but not the largest) in the world the ship is now also the Daewoo Shipbuilding built for Maersk, owned 0.4 km long container "Triple-E".
