Beijing has unveiled an all-new dredger specialized to quickly create new islands in the disputed South China Sea. The monstrous machine is capable of dredging massive quantities of rock from the ocean floor, allowing it to create new islands like “magic” as China pursues land reclamation initiatives in the disputed waterway.
The Tian Kun Hao undertook its first water tests on#Friday. Named after#a massive fish in#Chinese mythology, the ship is 460 feet long and can mine 212,000 cubic feet of#sediment from#the ocean floor every hour#— enough to#fill three olympic swimming pools.
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