With this urgent warning, the atmosphere at the scene solidified instantly. Everyone was whispering and talking, not knowing what was going on.
Feng Chenyi also held a telescope at this time and carefully observed the movement in the sky. He didn't seem to find any problems. He looked carefully at the workers on the platform and found no action. They were checking various facilities there as always.
The lifting work was temporarily stopped, and the maintenance personnel of the Taihe immediately began a comprehensive inspection.
"Will something go wrong?" Lu Zhengtao asked Zhang Yujie in a low voice.
Zhang Yujie shook his head and said: "It shouldn't be a big problem. I led the team to check their work before. Everything is normal. However, there are too many machines on the Taihe. It is not ruled out that there are problems that we cannot detect. I have already
Inform the semi-submersible vessel to be on standby!"
Zhang Yujie still made corresponding plans and preparations.
As time passed, the discussion in the crowd became louder, and everyone was speculating.
Just when everyone was anxious, a voice came from the intercom again: "Reporting to the commander-in-chief, the cause of the alarm has been found. The temperature sensor of the winch caused a false alarm due to light exposure. The alarm has now been cancelled!"
After hearing this, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. This kind of sensor false alarm event still happens often, but I didn't expect it to happen on such an important task. Fortunately, it did not delay the normal operation of the crane.
The time lost cannot be recovered, and the lifting speed is still slow. In order to ensure the final safety and accuracy, everyone must tolerate this slowness. Some people in the bored crowd even sang "The Snail and the Oriole", which caused a lot of joy.
of laughter.
The upper platform of the Blue Whale has been firmly positioned at a height of more than ten meters, and everyone began to look up at the huge platform.
At this time, the lower hull waiting not far away also began to make preparations. The Taihe had strong strength to lift the upper platform, but if you want the two parts to be brought together accurately, you need the lower hull
It takes careful coordination.
The upper platform continues to move upward until it reaches a height of forty meters, waiting for the steel giant boots to greet it.
The staff of the lifting department carefully checked the working status of the Taihe, taking the alarm signal that had just appeared as a warning and not daring to let go of any hidden danger that might cause problems.
At this time, the upper hull of the Blue Whale is like a Sword of Damocles. If something goes wrong and the 10,000-ton weight falls, the damage will be immeasurable. No one dares to be careless in the slightest.
Several sirens sounded, and the tugboat began to emit bursts of thick smoke. It was either dragging, pushing, pulling, or tugging, pushing the lower hull of the Blue Whale, which was like a giant steel boot, to the bottom of the Taihe, waiting.
This reunion has been anticipated for several years.
When the positioning system showed that the lower hull had reached the predetermined position, engineers from the lifting department and construction technology department began to cooperate with each other.
"Our ship is in position and can be folded!" Following the construction commander's order, the upper hull in mid-air began to slowly move downward.
Seeing the huge upper hull slowly lowering like a mountain, everyone held their breath and watched nervously.
On the two platforms that were about to close, the engineers watched closely as the distance between the two sides got closer and closer, from the first few tens of meters to more than ten meters, and then to a height of only a few meters.
The Taihe paused all movements, waiting for another distance adjustment of the platform. With the assistance of the tugboat, the lower hull fine-tuned its position until the set scale reached the ideal scale. The Taihe then resumed operation.
Start and slowly move the upper hull downward.
Three meters, two meters, one meter, the distance between the two behemoths is only fifty centimeters. Everyone is staring at the bolts and bayonet at the connection. Whether the two can be combined into one properly depends on how high the accuracy can be.
As the commands were given one after another, the engineers and commanders on the scene gradually became nervous. At this time, they were already in the huge Blue Whale. The only ones who could judge whether it was closed or not were the platforms and the pillars.
Marked, as long as these marks can coincide, this means that nearly a year of construction and more than ten hours of closing work have been a complete success.
The upper hull is still slowly lowering, and engineers everywhere carefully check whether there are any protrusions blocking all the closing platforms. This is a prerequisite to ensure everything goes smoothly.
"Everything is normal when closing the platform, and there is no visual obstruction. You can continue!" The on-site engineer issued the final inspection command.
"Continue!" When the closing distance was only a dozen centimeters, the closing commander issued the final instruction.
What does it mean to be of great importance and what does it mean to be light-weighted? This is so well accomplished.
The upper hull of the nearly 20,000-ton Blue Whale landed steadily on the four pillars of the lower hull without any deviation.
When the sensor light showing that the closing was successful came on, the scene immediately burst into warm applause.
After fourteen hours of hard work in all aspects, the Taihe once again created a miracle. The Blue Whale, with a total weight of more than 40,000 tons, finally achieved a great rendezvous.
The excited crowd hugged each other to celebrate this hard-won result.
Even in front of the 100-meter-high Taihe, the majestic Blue Whale still couldn't conceal its majestic figure.
As night falls, the lights on the Blue Whale gradually turn on, and the bright light makes the Blue Whale even more spectacular, like a small city on the sea.
The closure is an important node for the Blue Whale. It means that the Blue Whale has entered a new stage, starting from the appearance construction to the most critical equipment installation and connection. This is the guarantee for the Blue Whale's final operation.
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During the construction of the Blue Whale, in order to reduce the intensity of follow-up work as much as possible, most of the equipment has been installed. The next thing to do is to connect the cables, pipes and equipment that need to be connected in the upper and lower parts.
When everything is connected, the amount of work is also very huge.
The Blue Whale has more than 27,000 pieces of equipment, more than 40,000 various pipelines, and more than 50,000 mcr inspection points. The length of cables laid out on the entire drilling platform exceeds more than 1,200 kilometers.
It can be spread from Beijing to Shanghai, and it can circle this platform the size of a football field three thousand times.
All cables and lines need to be checked one by one to make sure there are no mistakes.
Feng Chenyi is permanently stationed on the platform, following the inspection engineers up and down the entire platform, providing them with details in the design drawings, solving various unexpected problems, and even having to change the design plan again and again.