World's Largest Crane Vessel Redefines Building & Lifting at Sea | Blueprint

The Heerema Sleipnir, named after a mythical, eight-legged stallion ridden by a Norse god, is a 140,000-tonne, heavy lifting crane megaship that’s redefining how we build at sea. Longer that 3 A380 passenger jets parked nose to tail it is wider than the statue of Liberty laid on its side. On the twelve thousand square meter reinforced deck, sit two record-breaking cranes, each capable of shifting the equivalent weight of the Eiffel tower.

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Impossible Engineering looks at the history of pioneering modern-day mega structures. Behind every seemingly impossible marvel of modern engineering is a cast of historic trailblazers who designed new building techniques, took risks on untested materials and revolutionized their field.

This film was first broadcast: 2021

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