drydock

When they pumped out the water, it poured down on a shipyard worker who was standing on the floor of the drydock.

Just too big to fabricate on board, and not really replaceable without a drydock.

I notice that there is a very large Car Carrier in Norfolk Drydock getting painted white to grey.

But once you leave drydock, it will start accruing all over again.

Container ships are huge when they're in the water, but they're absolutely mind bogglingly immense in drydock, where individual sections dwarf most apartment buildings.

Naval hulls themselves can't hide at sea forever, eventually they need to be brought into drydock for maintainence, but the second the do, can get hit.

This stuff is still in beta and not generally useful, but we have Harbormaster (Build/CI), Drydock (software resource management) and Releeph (release management) in the pipeline.

CI tooling via Drydock & Harbourmaster has been in progress for at least 2 years now, Nuance has been in the wiki ahead of proper project creation for quite some time now too.

Since then I've been mulling writing my own standalone 'drydock' utility that would just start a single container and then get out of the way (as opposed to the Docker daemon that insists on being the parent of everything).

Personally, I think Russian nukes and their missiles are likely to be a Potempkin force, but I have no special intelligence to back that up, it's just based on what I see of Russian corruption and them accidentally sinking one of their own subs and separately setting their only aircraft carrier on fire about one year after their largest drydock sank and dropped a crane onto the deck.

That way it includes going to buy the paint and sandpaper, putting the boat in a drydock or otherwise on land, finding and dragging out the tools and getting power to them, drying the boat, cleaning it, eating, toilet breaks, taping off the edges etc, letting the paint dry, cleaning up everything afterwards, putting the boat back into the water and probably tons more that I missed.

Are there clever mitigations this "drydock" undertakes?

Suggestions in science fiction include foaming the metal in space and landing it into the ocean, then hualing the "metalberg" back to a drydock where it can be cut apart and hauled off for refining.