Viewfinder: Building the World’s Largest Ship

By CHRIS WRIGHT
This video sets the prestige of shipbuilding back at least a decade. “That’s not so bad!” says pretty much every viewer as the Maersk Line’s Triple-E Vessel is lego-blocked into existence in just over a minute. You’re right. It’s really not that hard. What’s 1,304 feet, anyways? Just 150 feet shy of the Empire State Building, you say? Oh. And it actually took three months? Maybe you won’t be enrolling in that online shipyard mastery class after all.