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Ship-shipping ship, shipping shipping ships.

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Yikes - in what part of the world was that photo taken?
 
Yikes - in what part of the world was that photo taken?

I don't know where that particular picture was taken, but the Blue Marlin is out of Norway. It's the same vessel that moved the Sea-Based X-Band radar from Texas to Hawaii in 2006 (SBX is part of the Ground-Based Mid-Course Defense (Missile defense) system.

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PS: At the time the SBX was moved, I was a lead operational test analyst for the GMD system and involved in testing SBX.

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