Is the Chesapeake 1000 Sinking? 

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Was just about to go there.

so right....Project Azorian,

was NOT nuclear sub ,,,did have nuclear weapons

There were two. I think the other was called the Glomar Challenger. One is bigger than the other. One of the two was in Honolulu Harbor. We went down to see it. it was a strange ship that looked like it had an oil drilling rig in the center. We asked the crew what they were about, and they said they were an oceanographic research vessel, and they were exploring the ocean floor for manganese nodules. We bought their story hook line and sinker. I think we must have seen the smaller of the two ships. because it was not massively large. It was the larger of the two that actually hauled up the submarine. The Soviet diesel-electric submarine K-129 sank in the Pacific Ocean 1,560 miles (2,510 km) NW of Hawaii,[7] on 8 March 1968. The USS Halibut identified the wreck site and the CIA crafted an elaborate and highly secret plan to recover the submarine for intelligence purposes. As K-129 had sunk in very deep water, at a depth of 16,500 feet (3 miles or 5 kilometres), a large ship was required for the recovery operation. Such a vessel would be detected easily by Soviet vessels, which might then interfere with the operation, so an elaborate cover story was developed. The CIA contacted Hughes, who agreed to help.

Water counterweight.

@@mostlyinterested1016 It's a great solution, since land cranes must always carry the balast, whereas this sea crane can vary the ballast to the load lift.

Kind of like those thick steel plates on a tractor or forklift. Farmers also fill their traction tires with a water solution.

Samson looks the same when prepped for a lift

Same reason all the livestreamers that were down on the southern border have left. Views dropped after the initial wave of publicity. Now coverage is sporadic even though the invasion continues.

​@@rt3box6tx74Invasion lol please let me know what video to watch that shows the "Invasion"

@@rt3box6tx74 More like your pet issue has been wildly exaggerated in your own mind.

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In my prayers brother get better God bless you

Even then this site is complicated by debris being stuck in mud and underwater. Chessie's latest lift will have taken over two days since it's so big

Story that Popular Mechanics put out was it was harvesting Manganese Nodules from the Seabed.

When is a failure an option when it comes to cranes? Lol

Wonder why they didn't borrow it.

CIA released video of the burial

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That's the plan!

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Was that Thor? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-eT-ILCl-VDY.htmlsi=P3As4b2ax6xkPv8J

No, it was the McDermott Shear Leg Crane. There is a picture on line if you search the name and scroll. I tried posting a link but, it did not post.

​@@coastaldavhawthorne5891That appears to be a 4,400 ton crane. The Chesapeake is 1,000 tons. The largest appears to be sleapnir at 10,000 tons.

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Technology overload!

Back in the day when Computer Input was banging 2 rocks together...

It was built for some district in Florida that refused to take it. The Tuscaloosa office got stuck with it. The Columbus office has a 4100 crawler on their barge that Tuscaloosa borrows when possible.

​@@tomlong736 Our Feral government at work. 4100's are nice machines. I own 2 of them, still in the boxes. One is a ringer. Really enjoying this crane show!

We worked on a job in SC, three years with a 4100 on a large ringer and a 280’ boom. We used it off the charts almost daily.

Thanks for that!

I find the amazing part that it is pretty much level when it has a load on the cable.

Good morning!

Thanks Mike!

the CIA and Hughs were cooperating I think

The Glomar explorer was built by Hughes for the CIA to recover a Russian submarine that sank in very deep water. The cover that I saw at the time was that the Glomar explorer was going to do deep ocean mining for manganese modules. The true story was classified for decades.

So nice of you

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Morning!

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Water inside a tank in the hull. A barge is a different kind of creature. I imagine it has ballast compartments. They are probably filled and pumped out from deck plate hatches. Maybe Capt Andy will eventually give us more details on exactly how they manage the ballast.

Great Content Mr Andy Coming to you from Brunswick GA

If they didn't balast the stern, it would flip onto its bow during a heavy lift.

Will do!

Morning!

Tugs

This is in MD, not GA. But my bet is that the tug and the barge crane are a matched pair. I note that the paint on the tug wheelhouse matches the paint on the structures on the barge with the exception of the crane booms.

Last time we rode the ferry from Daulphine Island to Fort Morgan, there were several platforms in the Gulf that looked empty. Is that still the case, due to the nursing home resident in chief?

@@janetphillips2875 not sure, haven't been to that area since 2018..

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Thank you, I will

Recording rate. Frames per second.

@@MinorcanMullet Thank you for the reply

More importantly, it has no slewing ability. After each grab, you would need to move the crane barge, or bring a hopper barge in, to empty the bucket.

Check Donjon's website.

@brendakrivanek9036 About twenty years ago I had the opportunity to look at some of the rigging hardware used by the Chesapeake 1,000. The lifting slings were absolutely massive. Workers would have to have a crane,forklift, or front end loader to move those around.By the way, they were all wire rope slings, not synthetic material.I can recall that the eyes of the big slings were wrapped in what appeared to be polyester material. Basically flat, three inch wide polyester strapping to protect the eye section of the slings from abrasion while on the hook. So yes all the rigging gear for the Chesapeake 1,000 is extremely heavy duty. Take Care.

They are between lifts and not bothering to unbalast and rebalast is my guess.

Probably because they have another lift scheduled today.

Yes there is!

@@MinorcanMullet Thanks for the reply and for the wonderful coverage that you have given us during this catastrophe. Best of luck in the future.