Dry Dock

In July the Africa Mercy was put in to dry dock for some much needed maintenance here are some pictures of the ship and a small video of how you move 16000 tons around a dry dock.

 How do you get a ship in to the yard?

 Using small rugs

 Yes these little tugs really pulled the ship in to the lift

 It only took about 1 hour to move the ship in to place, but where did the tugs go?

 The ship on the lift table

 The little yellow front loader was not going move us???

No, That took 4 of them to move us it was very loud :) 

We had to move when we in the yard for another ship, watch the video it's really cool

 They washed the ship

 Cut a hole for the new air conditioning units to go into (that hole is below the water line)

 I think the ship needs a doctor, strange spots have shown up

 A new shiny red coat of paint

 The hole being welded back up

 Yes we are balanced on some wood (these are the bow thruster's)

Clean propeller's and new anodes