Building a giant, nuclear-powered submarine is no easy feat, but the hardest part of the process might be getting such a massive vehicle into the water. Yet on May 17, workers in Barrow-in-Furness, a seaport town in the northwest county of Cumbria, England, were able to accomplish this seemingly superhuman task when they successfully lowered Artful, the U.K. Royal Navy's newest aquatic behemoth, into its docking station. The submarine measures nearly 320 feet long (97 meters) and weighs more than 8,000 tons, according to the U.K.'s Ministry of Defense. Artful is the third Astute-class nuclear-powered submarine built for the Royal Navy by British defense contractor BAE Systems.
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