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For some interesting weight comparisons:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_machines

The ships look like they're over an order of magnitude heavier than anything on land.



That is an interesting comparison.

By my calculation, "The Captain" is just under 5 tons per square meter. Contrast that to the neopanamax, almost 6.5 tons per square meter (some uncertainty here -- I'm going by DWT which apparently doesn't contain the ship itself). So yeah, it's certainly heavier, but the areal density isn't an order of magnitude greater.




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