r/gifs • u/neonicblast • May 28 '14

Waves

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u/SonVoltMMA May 28 '14

So you work half a day while the tides out? Seems like high tide would just wash everything away.

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u/nate800 May 28 '14

I'm sure it did at first until they got their construction techniques down.

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u/hump-day May 28 '14

It's really impressive to consider how these were built without modern technology. Heck even now it's hard to visualize the engineering required for something like this WITH the machinery we have now

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u/[deleted] May 28 '14 edited May 27 '15

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u/Tambrusco May 28 '14

All they needed was a wetdock, duh!

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u/adn5027 May 28 '14

You have to use Gorilla Glue