Forecast for the day was choppy conditions in Mobile Bay. Sometimes wrong forecasts are good.
As always, dredging Mobile River to keep it deep enough for ships is a never ending process.
Mobile Skyline.
Mobile Convention Center.
Nor Goliath, an offshore servicing rig for the oil industry capable of lifting about 2000 Tons. That would be about 4 million pounds.
BW Pioneer is a FPSO ship. FPSO stands for: Floating Production, Storage, Offloading vessel. This ship, capable of processing 80,000 barrels of oil per day, had been working off Lousiana at a depth of about 2600 meters (1.6 miles) making it the deepest water operation of any FPSO in the world.
http://www.tparkerhost.com/not-average-vessel-bw-pioneer-fpso/
Memorial Day Weekend and the USS Alabama go well together. The historic battleship had a lot of visitors this weekend.
Interstate I-10.
Wow, the skies were grand! Love seeing downtown Mobile from a kayak perspective. Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteI like the pic of Mobile Skyline -- it looks like it's floating on a glassy sea!
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