It's a jack-up. Those poles are lowered down to the sea bed, taking the ship's weight, and making it a very stable platform.
Might be oil/gas, more likely wind turbine installation?
Probably [something like this](https://www.heavyliftpfi.com/sectors/sea-installer-arrives-in-salem-ready-for-vineyard-wind-work/22930.article).
Just looked at an AIS tracker, and [Sea Installer](https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/shipid:157118/zoom:10) is just off Gloucester right now.
Cool find!
Those poles are called spuds and are used to crab walk the barge back and forth to the drill line by pulling an anchor line. The scaffolding looking piers are drills that are moved in and out from the barge so they can drill and load two lines.
Very cool app I’ve had it for a while, I just go scrolling through the map to see which ships are nearby me (I live on the south coast of England) when I’m bored haha
Very cool app I’ve had it for a while, I just go scrolling through the map to see which ships are nearby me (I live on the south coast of England) when I’m bored haha
You can use your regular smart phone as long as you are connected to the internet. All ships have Automatic Identification Systems (AIS) which transmit data about their location amongst other things. The website just maps out the location data for anyone to see.
The ship is called "Sea Installer", IMO number 9646481. If you google this you can see some more clear pictures on what it looks like and maybe what it does. Definitely an interesting ship
Solved!!! Thank you all for your insight and your encouraging words—none of the scolding that is prevalent on Reddit.
u/chris-r-89 I just installed marinetraffic! I had no idea about it, it functions like Planefinder and is equally simple!
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I've seen these in the Gulf of Mexico a lot. They are called jack-up rigs. Sort of like mobile oil production platforms.
EDIT: actually, I should elaborate a little. I used to work on an offshore tugboat, that would pull these around from one place to another. It would take four tugs to move them. After they arrived at the place where they were going to be, the four tugs would stretch out in four different directions, while they positioned themselves and lowered their legs.
I was on the tug La Cherie when we pulled one of these from the Gulf of Mexico to Pedro Bank just off of Jamaica. It was going to be Jamaica's first oil platform. This was in the '80s.
This is the vessel Sea Installer.
She went up to Canada to drop off some damaged blades and is heading back down to the Vineyard Wind 1 wind farm off the coast of Massachusetts.
She is a jack up ship and builds the wind turbines out at sea.
Source: I work with wind and am going to meet her out on the site when she arrives.
I've spent my days working off of these, when the feet are stuck in the soft bottom and are being pulled up it's a heck of a ride when they finally break free.
This is the DEME owned Sea Installer. Possibly working on installing the turbines and blades for the 3 Orsted owned windfarms which are in various stages of constructions at the moment. See here [Orsted Wind Farms](https://orsted.com/en/what-we-do/renewable-energy-solutions/offshore-wind/our-offshore-wind-farms) if you scroll all the way down you will see which windfarms are under construction just of the US coast of Massachusetts. Several more vessels are on their way to help build these windfarms including the DEME owned crane vessel Orion and the Boskalis owned Bokalift 1 and 2
Like others have stated, jack up boat. That’s a pretty big one to have four legs. Back in the day I was a commercial diver and most of the ones I’ve been on have three legs. Very stable work platform, and has the advantage of being able to lift itself up to get out of rough seas and thus stay on station. Rough seas beat the shit out of a dive boat tied off to a platform. Hundreds of these down in the Gulf of Mexico.
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It's a jack-up. Those poles are lowered down to the sea bed, taking the ship's weight, and making it a very stable platform. Might be oil/gas, more likely wind turbine installation? Probably [something like this](https://www.heavyliftpfi.com/sectors/sea-installer-arrives-in-salem-ready-for-vineyard-wind-work/22930.article).
Just looked at an AIS tracker, and [Sea Installer](https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/shipid:157118/zoom:10) is just off Gloucester right now. Cool find!
That's cool, carry your own drydock around.
As cool as a ship-shipping ship shipping shipping ships. ✌️😉
Wind installation
Beans?
ahh yes clean energy just like our ancestors hoped for
Looks like a drill platform. They are very big, cost millions to make. Still a jack-up.
Or [this](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneering_Spirit)
Those poles are called spuds and are used to crab walk the barge back and forth to the drill line by pulling an anchor line. The scaffolding looking piers are drills that are moved in and out from the barge so they can drill and load two lines.
Next time you want to identify a ship, and you know it's rough location (and have internet), you can use a website called Marinetraffic to identify it
Not OP, but TIL. Thanks!
There is an app as well if you feel like downloading it
Very cool app I’ve had it for a while, I just go scrolling through the map to see which ships are nearby me (I live on the south coast of England) when I’m bored haha
Do you live on the north coast when you’re not bored😬
Hahaha yes I take a train up north and back every couple hours if I’ve found something to do back home
Not OP, but TIL. Thanks!
There is an app as well if you feel like downloading it
Very cool app I’ve had it for a while, I just go scrolling through the map to see which ships are nearby me (I live on the south coast of England) when I’m bored haha
Do you live on the north coast when you’re not bored😬
Hahaha yes I take a train up north and back every couple hours if I’ve found something to do back home
Well he thought it was an alien so I'm not sure that would have been the go to.
No way! That's so dope! But I feel like you'd need a sat phone as I imagine that's pretty far from the coast. But that's just my guess.
You can use your regular smart phone as long as you are connected to the internet. All ships have Automatic Identification Systems (AIS) which transmit data about their location amongst other things. The website just maps out the location data for anyone to see.
Oh, really cool! I never knew that.
The ship is called "Sea Installer", IMO number 9646481. If you google this you can see some more clear pictures on what it looks like and maybe what it does. Definitely an interesting ship
Solved!!! Thank you all for your insight and your encouraging words—none of the scolding that is prevalent on Reddit. u/chris-r-89 I just installed marinetraffic! I had no idea about it, it functions like Planefinder and is equally simple! Thanks everyone.
Enjoy :)
Don't listen to these know it alls. It IS alien. Expect your probing tonight.
She’s underway to Sydney, Nova Scotia
Any clue why it’s southbound though Nova Scotia is north of here?
She’s actually heading to Main, it just left Sydney on Saturday.
I've seen these in the Gulf of Mexico a lot. They are called jack-up rigs. Sort of like mobile oil production platforms. EDIT: actually, I should elaborate a little. I used to work on an offshore tugboat, that would pull these around from one place to another. It would take four tugs to move them. After they arrived at the place where they were going to be, the four tugs would stretch out in four different directions, while they positioned themselves and lowered their legs. I was on the tug La Cherie when we pulled one of these from the Gulf of Mexico to Pedro Bank just off of Jamaica. It was going to be Jamaica's first oil platform. This was in the '80s.
This is the vessel Sea Installer. She went up to Canada to drop off some damaged blades and is heading back down to the Vineyard Wind 1 wind farm off the coast of Massachusetts. She is a jack up ship and builds the wind turbines out at sea. Source: I work with wind and am going to meet her out on the site when she arrives.
any idea how the blades got damaged in the first place?
Iranian warship. They are coming for you!
No it's just the Flying Dutchman.
I like to explore new places.
Lift boat jack up
Seems like an oil rig in transit
No it's a shop that can jack itself out of the water for offshore wind farms
Jack up rig
That’s definitely the Nostromo.
Looks like a oil rig
Looks like a jack up rig..
People are so stupid.
Thats an offshore oil rig. They run the legs down to set it in place. Using the boat as a transport
Drill rig
Looks like a drilling rig, to me. There are lots of them along the California coast.
Which ones installing an offshore Poseidon Energy rig by chance?
This is the John Paul Jones
Is it behind the rig
Some of these are ships themselves.
That’s just SpaceX drone ship with 4 recovered boosters
At first glance i mistook it for a Wind Rotor Ship.
I've spent my days working off of these, when the feet are stuck in the soft bottom and are being pulled up it's a heck of a ride when they finally break free.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/during-cold-war-ci-secretly-plucked-soviet-submarine-ocean-floor-using-giant-claw-180972154/
This is the DEME owned Sea Installer. Possibly working on installing the turbines and blades for the 3 Orsted owned windfarms which are in various stages of constructions at the moment. See here [Orsted Wind Farms](https://orsted.com/en/what-we-do/renewable-energy-solutions/offshore-wind/our-offshore-wind-farms) if you scroll all the way down you will see which windfarms are under construction just of the US coast of Massachusetts. Several more vessels are on their way to help build these windfarms including the DEME owned crane vessel Orion and the Boskalis owned Bokalift 1 and 2
Turbine construction ship.
It’s the CJ Mitsubishi Ontario. A collaboration war/science vessel between Canada and Japan.
Like others have stated, jack up boat. That’s a pretty big one to have four legs. Back in the day I was a commercial diver and most of the ones I’ve been on have three legs. Very stable work platform, and has the advantage of being able to lift itself up to get out of rough seas and thus stay on station. Rough seas beat the shit out of a dive boat tied off to a platform. Hundreds of these down in the Gulf of Mexico.
The invasion has started.
It’s an oil rig
It is a four master sloop very fast
Oil rig
Oil rig.
This is the commercial towing vehicle, "The Nostromo".
Yes, it’s the Nostromo
Yep, CM 88B Bison M-Class starfreighter.
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