Heavy Lift Ship

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A heavy-lift ship is a vessel designed to move very large loads that cannot be handled by normal ships.

Heavy-Lift Ship [X-Post with /r/pics]

This is the Blue Marlin, a semi-submerging vessels capable of lifting another ship out of the water and transporting it.

Like the USS Cole.

Just a 500 foot long US Destroyer sitting on another ship...

I found something with a better turning circle than Soviet fighters.

Or, say, a dozen other transport ships.

This is a Heavy-Lift ship. It is designed to transport heavy thing - like this oil rig! (more in comments)

Or this Oil Rig

Or this one.

/u/skiattle has pointed out this is actually the SBX-1 - The Sea-Based X-Band Radar, which is a floating, self-propelled, mobile active electronically scanned array radar station designed to operate in high winds and heavy seas. It is part of the U.S. Defense Department Ballistic Missile Defense System.

And it's fucking huge.

/u/PoodlesFitInBlenders has pointed out these are drilling rigs with a gridwork of iron below them creating a giant footprint to stabilize the weight. They jack up out of the water with those large legs.

And here are three of them.