How to cut a giant ship? With Chains!
Honestly when I first saw this news, I thought it was a hoax or a play on words.
Not quite.
As I read more into it, I realized this was a true story.
If you don’t know anything about the MV Golden Ray capsizing, just know that it was a mega cargo chip nearly 100 feet wide and 20,000 tons heavy.
It carried 4,000 Hyundai cars.
Yup, that is the Hyundai exactly on your mind.
The car we see and drive daily.
The ship capsized just minutes after leaving the port due to improper loading of the cargo.
Anyway, the ship cannot be saved and they decided to cut it in half.
How do you cut a ship 100 feet wide, made of steel and virtually immovable?
It required a a whole team to carry out the operation over months.
Engineers used a giant steel chain and moved it back and forth like how you would cut a watermelon with a knife.
“The impressive chain that cut through the hull of the MV Golden Ray is 400 feet long. Each 80-pound (36 kg) link stretches 1.5 feet (0.45 meters) from end to end and is three inches (7.6 cm) thick.”
It simply fascinates me to see humans coming together to solve complex problems like these.
From a layman point of view, the chain is invariably “blunt” and not sharp in anyway, so how could it cut through a steel ship that big?
You have to consider so many factors, stabilizing the ship as you cut through it, how to move the chains uniformly, what to do while the cutting is done, where to move the cut parts .etc
So the next time you sit there and think about how hard it is to run your startup, be creative!
Every problem is an opportunity to exercise your mind and do something amazing.
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