Sheee-yoot, now this one humdinger of a crane. If you look at the tiny silhouettes of the people in rafts around the warship (well, half of the warship), you really get a sense of just how big this thing must be.
The warship, of course, is the Cheonan of the Republic of Korea Navy (or ROKN). The 1,200-ton vessel split in two after being struck by a torpedo fired by a North Korean miniature submarine and sank into the Yellow Sea. Unfortunately, 46 members of the 104-man crew didn’t make it.
The rear section of the ship was recovered on April 15th, with the bow, pictured above, being lifted out of the water on April 24th.
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