When I was a kid, I thought those pillars went down to the sea floor.
In reality, they usually go down to some large submerged floats.
I dislike this.
Pillars and floats like that are pretty stable, compared to regular boats, so there’s even a research vessel, called FLIP, that purposefully capsizes itself to be more steady when conducting research.
YEA IT FUCKIN IS (id embedded in image)
I just can’t help imagining someone forgetting to close a cabinet in that ship before capsizing. How do you even design a ship like that? Obviously it’s not made for long term stays but I’m assuming it has bathrooms, and you’d need to be able to use the controls in either position. I really want to see the inside of that ship
since @hyperactivehedgehog brought it up, here’s the only inside photo in the Scripps Institute of Oceanography’s FLIP Slideshow on flickr:
Imagine being unexpectedly teleported here
Lots of footage of the interiors, including the bathroom at 1:30.















