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Behold, the Blue Marlin, a “semi-submersible heavy lift ship” that is capable of hoisting and transplanting other, full-sized ships (that is ships as big or bigger than a US Destroyer-class vessel) all around the oceans.

The photos of this thing are amazing, like something off the cover of an old Modern Mechanix, the scale nearly incomprehensible – as though a careless child had mixed up two different toy-sets, each at a radically different scale.

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