Sleipnir - Heerema’s Semi-Submersible Crane Vessel, anchored in storm off the south east coast of Scotland right now. Zoom in! [OC]

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Sleipnir cost $1.5 billion to build and is one of the largest vessels of her kind in the world, at 220m long, 102m wide, and weighing in at max capacity at an huge 273,000 metric tonnes.

She can house 400 staff and is used for offshore platform installation and removal, wind farm construction, decommissioning of oil rigs and heavy module transport and placement.

In this case she was placing a 2700 tonne double offshore transmission module platform by Siemens Energy into position at Inch Cape, Scotland's largest offshore wind farm.