Saipem 7000

The Saipem 7000 floating crane is back in our fjord, getting ready for a new job.  This thing has come and gone over the past year and every time it shows up, it is truly impressive.  It's so large, I find it difficult to wrap my head around the magnitude of it.
The deck is a good 30 meters out of the water and the cranes stand another 80 or so meters above that.  It can house a small village of 700 crew, has almost 50 miles of cables, a power plant capable of outputting 70,000 kilo watts and lift 12,000 tons.  It simply towers over the landscape, standing taller than almost any of the local topography.
Huge doesn't even begin to describe how massive this thing is.  The pipes to the right of the cranes are easily twice the hight of a person.  You could probably drive a small car through one of them.  From where I was standing when I took this shot, people on the deck are almost unidentifiably small.  They really do look like ants.
It looks as if it is getting ready to move a sub-sea structure of some kind into place in the near future.  There's a massive set of legs secured to a massive barge.  It would be impressive to see that lift go down.
Hit the link in the picture for a larger gallery of a really nice sunset and some more images of the floating town that is the Sapiem 7000.