r/BeAmazed • u/freudian_nipps • Aug 27 '26

Technology The Hyundai-10000, the world's largest shear-leg floating crane, built by Hyundai Heavy Industries. It has a lifting capacity of 10,000 tons (11,000 short tons)

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u/GoblinWrangl3r Aug 27 '26

How does it not tip over? Is it weighted? Dug 500000 ft into earth?

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u/RolloDumbassi Aug 27 '26

I was on the Saipem 7000 once, it was semi-submersible so it sank lower in the water to be more stable.