The ocean is a complicated beast. Respect and care must be owed to her. But even here, in the domain of the sea, ships and boats built for war, commercial, or scientific purposes are not immune from the unchecked madness of science. Let the tampering of nature commence!

00:00 - Intro
00:53 - Glomar Explorer
04:50 - Baron of Renfrew
07:44 - HMS Zubian
11:07 - R/P FLIP
13:58 - Ramform Titan

"GSF Explorer, formerly USNS Hughes Glomar Explorer (T-AG-193), was a deep-sea drillship platform built for Project Azorian, the secret 1974 effort by the United States Central Intelligence Agency's Special Activities Division to recover the Soviet submarine K-129."

"Baron of Renfrew was a four-masted barque of 5,294 gross register tonnage (GRT), built of wood in 1825 by Charles Wood in Quebec, Canada. She was one of the largest wooden ships ever built, although she was a disposable ship built for a one-way voyage to transport timber to England and did not complete a single voyage before breaking up."

"HMS Zubian was a First World War Royal Navy Tribal-class destroyer constructed from the forward end of HMS Zulu and the rear and mid sections of HMS Nubian. These two destroyers had been badly damaged in late 1916, and rather than scrapping both hulls at the height of World War I, the Admiralty ordered that they be rebuilt as the composite Zubian and put back into service. She was commissioned into the fleet in June 1917. The name Zubian is a portmanteau of the names of the original ships."

"The Antonov A-40 Krylya Tanka (Russian: крылья танка, meaning "tank wings") was a Soviet attempt to allow a tank to glide onto a battlefield after being towed aloft by an airplane, to support airborne forces or partisans. A prototype was built and tested in 1942, but was found to be unworkable. This vehicle is sometimes called the A-40T or KT."

"R/P FLIP (floating instrument platform) is an open ocean research platform owned by the U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR) and operated by Scripps Institution of Oceanography.[6] The platform is 108 meters (355 ft) long and is designed to partially flood and pitch backward 90°, resulting in only the front 17 meters (55 ft) of the platform pointing up out of the water, with bulkheads becoming decks. When flipped, most of the ballast for the platform is provided by water at depths below the influence of surface waves, hence FLIP is stable and mostly immune to wave action similar to a spar buoy. At the end of a mission, compressed air is pumped into the ballast tanks in the flooded section and the platform, which has no propulsion, returns to its horizontal position so it can be towed to a new location. The platform is frequently mistaken for a capsized ocean transport ship."

"Ramform Titan is a marine seismic acquisition vessel built by the MHI shipyard in Nagasaki in 2013. Its width at the stern is 70 m (230 ft), "the widest ship in the world at the waterline". It is operated by Norwegian company Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) and is used for 3D seismic data acquisition. It was called "the world's ugliest ship". PGS built four such Titan-class vessels: the second ship was called Ramform Atlas, the third called Ramform Hyperion, and the fourth Ramform Tethys."

✈️Further Reading✈️
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glomar_Explorer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_of_Renfrew_(ship)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Zubian
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RP_FLIP
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramform_Titan

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