Thread: U.S. Navy’s Damaged Destroyers Rendezvous in Japan
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Default U.S. Navy’s Damaged Destroyers Rendezvous in Japan
On Friday, December 8, 2017 at 2:34:18 PM UTC-5, wrote:
Interesting sight:

http://gcaptain.com/us-navys-damaged-destroyers-rendezvous-in-japan/

Wow. I'm guessing the transport ships flood ballast tanks so they sink, the damaged ship float into the "dry dock" area, they build the structure to hold them underwater, they pump the ballast tanks to lift them?

Whatever the exact procedure, that's quite an engineering exercise. Very cool.
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