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On an Adventure....

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When I was a kid, I thought those pillars went down to the sea floor.

In reality, they usually go down to some large submerged floats.

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kasaron

I dislike this. 

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isensmith
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apas-95

Pillars and floats like that are pretty stable, compared to regular boats, so there’s even a research vessel, called FLIP, that purposefully capsizes itself to be more steady when conducting research.

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mossdealer

YEA IT FUCKIN IS (id embedded in image)

I just can’t help imagining someone forgetting to close a cabinet in that ship before capsizing. How do you even design a ship like that? Obviously it’s not made for long term stays but I’m assuming it has bathrooms, and you’d need to be able to use the controls in either position. I really want to see the inside of that ship

since @hyperactivehedgehog brought it up, here’s the only inside photo in the Scripps Institute of Oceanography’s FLIP Slideshow on flickr:

Imagine being unexpectedly teleported here

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thatkidsoill
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