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item right here is a jet twenty six by
eighty geared head engine lace I
genuinely have no idea what it does but
it just so happens to be the heaviest
single object that Amazon will ship to
you for free it costs thirty five
thousand dollars and it literally weighs
more than two Toyota Corollas do but
that won't stop amazon from delivering
it right to your front door for free if
you really ever want one it's probably
the single stupidest thing that you
could drunk order off of Amazon after a
long day but it's unbelievably heavy as
it would be it's still not anywhere near
the heaviest object that has ever been
shipped in the mail for free because
back in 2005
UBS received a very strange request to
priority overnight ship a group of
whales and even more strangely if they
agreed to do it for free
eccentric billionaire possible Bond
villain in home depot co-founder Bernard
Marcus wanted to see some whales in
Atlanta which has the tiny problem of
being two hundred and sixty seven miles
away from the ocean so he donated two
hundred and fifty million dollars of his
own money towards the opening of the
Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta which was
set to become the largest aquarium
anywhere in the world at its opening and
as the centerpiece of the entire
facility the aquarium designed the
world's largest tank to house their
primary stars a group of giant whale
sharks which would make them the only
aquarium outside of Asia to have them
there were only a few minor problems
with this ambition though a whale sharks
are big like really big fee they're also
alive you know and probably won't enjoy
being picked up and put in a box like
they're an Alexa let alone be put on an
airplane and overnighted and see the
whale sharks that they bought were
located on basically the other side of
the planet in Taiwan over eight thousand
miles away from Atlanta
now the aquarium did have a certain
favour that they could call upon to help
them out while the home depot guy made
by far the most generous contribution to
the aquarium local atlanta-based ups
wanted to pitch in as well it offered
them free shipping for anything that
they might need to help get started but
by saying free shipping on anything
the
aquarium took that to mean literally
anything and so they called them ups to
help them out with their little project
of shipping live whales from one side of
the planet over to the other now I know
that whale sharks aren't technically
whales they're sharks that are as big as
whales hence the name but they're still
friggin huge the two whale sharks that
ups were tasked with shipping were kids
but they were still 16 feet long and
weighed up to 2,000 pounds each and when
they're fully grown they're more like 33
feet long and weighed 20,000 pounds way
heavier than an African elephant is
they're truly gigantic animals and
they're also harder to transport than an
elephant because if you transport them
without being in water they die water is
super super heavy and it's just an
additional component the ups had a
factor in with their calculations here
nobody had ever shipped a marine animal
this big before in an airplane so nobody
really had any idea of what they were
doing it all in the beginning the
aquarium had purchased the whale sharks
out of Taiwan's annual fishing kill
quota so yeah if the aquarium had an ax
bottom they would have been eaten the
whale sharks were being held in an ocean
pen on the coast near a small Regional
Airport in the south of Taiwan and when
the UPS logistics team showed up to
survey it they realized that the runway
nearby just wasn't gonna work it was too
weak to support the weight of a 747
loaded with a couple of big fish so
here's what they did instead they began
by using some cranes with a sling to
capture the two whale sharks out of
their pen and place them in to
individual custom-made shipping
containers the containers were 24 feet
long by 8 feet wide and filled with a
2,000 pound whale shark plus water and
life-support systems which made the
total weight of each container
approximately 25,000 pounds the two
tanks were then loaded onto a turboprop
Lockheed c-130 and flown up to the
International Airport at Taipei for the
transfer aboard the bigger 747 as the
c-130 pulled up to the gate adjacent to
the 747 the 747 was already fueled up
and ready for takeoff but they had to
figure out where to place the big tanks
inside of it after multiple calculations
the UPS logistics team decided upon a
method of bringing one tank into the
planes nose the second tank into the
back
and then simultaneously slowly moved the
two tanks together towards the plains
natural point of balance over the main
landing gear before bolting them both
down to the floor the crew were
instructed to take off and land slow and
shallow so as not to stress out their
special passengers too greatly but by
this point time was the biggest enemy of
the operation they couldn't afford any
delays with the whale sharks because
they were constantly pooping and pissing
inside of their small tanks and fouling
up their limited water its nulli you can
replace 20,000 plus pounds of water when
you're flying in a jet up in the air
even a short delay could have resulted
in one of their deaths and the journey
from Taipei to Atlanta was over 17 hours
long so ups brought aboard an entire
team of skilled veterinarians carpenters
and marine biologists to ensure that the
trip went smoothly
the 747 took off from Taipei and had to
land in Anchorage first for a fish and
wildlife inspection because you know you
can't just fly a whale from one side of
the world to the other without the
proper paperwork they had a crew change
and continued on from there to Atlanta
safely where the whale shark containers
were unloaded placed onto flatbed trucks
and driven from the airport to their new
home in the aquarium all alive and in
one piece
ups achieved something that nobody had
ever done before the madmen actually
shipped live gigantic whales in a plane
from one side of the world to the other
and all overnight and it only took six
weeks of planning and came with a
shipping cost of 1.4 million dollars not
all that bad of a price at all when you
consider the ups did all of it for the
aquarium for free of course if you want
to figure out a way to ship your own
gigantic marine animal to your house
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