But holy cow! What an amazing feat of engineering.
Below is a time lapsed video of what's happened today.
For now, go to live.reuters.com (no www. in front) and check out the videos of today's activities. It's as slow as watching grass grow but over the course of 10 hours, it's pretty amazing progress. Parbuckling works!
Once the sponsons (those are the boxes [tanks] on the side of the ship) are able to be filled with water, gravity will take over. Once the ship is upright, they will build another set of sponsons on the other side....which will help stabilize the ship and eventually help it float and be moved.
Pretty amazing!
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