Four Propellers Invented a New Kind of Ship

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A drill pipe reaching kilometres down cannot tolerate the ship drifting away from its target. The CUSS I used steerable propellers and radar/sonar buoys to hold position manually.

It was crude, but it was the beginning of dynamic positioning.

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