Screen shot via YouTube
Ever wondered what happened to the arctic drilling rig Kulluk that ended up on an Alaskan “beach” after she broke away from her tow in January 2013?
With assistance from Dutch Offshore Contractors (DOC) she was loaded on to COSCO Heavy Transport’s Xiang Rui Kou and transported across the Pacific to Keppel FELS in Singapore and then subsequently transported to Zhoushan, China to be scrapped.
Here’s some video just posted this week by DOC as they left Dutch Harbor in early 2013:
See Also: Kulluk Drilling Rig Gets Loaded for Asia [PHOTOS]
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