OMG! It's sinking!

The pier across from my office normally has cruise ships tied up there, whisking people off to Alaska during the summer months. One of these days I'll find myself on board one of those heading to our 49th state.

But today, there is another ship there, an oil tanker. It is tied up there undergoing some major repairs. The repairs of a nature that requires the removal of the propeller. You would think that this kind of thing would need to be done in a drydock, and we don't exactly have a bunch of those along this section of the waterfront.

So instead, they are using the ballast tanks to sink the bow of the ship lower in the water, which is raising the stern completely out of the water so they can access the propeller area from the dock. Very strange looking.