The Al Kuwait salvage in 1964.
A large freighter ship carrying 5,000 sheep sank in the harbor of Kuwait City. The poor sheep's rotting carcasses could contaminate the city's drinking water, so they had to find a much faster way to get the ship up.
A Danish inventor named Karl Kroyer had seen a Donald Duck comic where Donald raised a sunken yacht by filling it with ping pong balls. Actual ping pong balls probably wouldn't work, but they DID order 27 million tiny, air-filled, polystyrene balls, which were pumped into the ship and displaced the water. It was a success!
A large freighter ship carrying 5,000 sheep sank in the harbor of Kuwait City. The poor sheep's rotting carcasses could contaminate the city's drinking water, so they had to find a much faster way to get the ship up.
A Danish inventor named Karl Kroyer had seen a Donald Duck comic where Donald raised a sunken yacht by filling it with ping pong balls. Actual ping pong balls probably wouldn't work, but they DID order 27 million tiny, air-filled, polystyrene balls, which were pumped into the ship and displaced the water. It was a success!