Icebreaker Floating

Australia’s new Antarctic icebreaker, RSV Nuyina, is now floating, after more than 50 Olympic swimming pools of water were pumped into the docks where the ship is being built.

It took two days to pump enough water from the nearby river into the dry and wet docks, raising the water level six metres and floating the 10,751 tonne ship about 30 centimetres above the dock floor.

Read more at http://www.antarctica.gov.au/news/2018/antarctic-icebreaker-afloat

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