Largest saw blade

The largest saw had a blade 70 m (230 ft) long and was used to cut the wrecked car carrier Tricolor into pieces at the bottom of the English Channel in 2004. The saw consisted of a high-tech armoured cutting cable suspended between two platforms. As the cable was pulled backwards and forwards between the platforms it sliced through the ship and its cargo of nearly 3,000 luxury cars. Tricolor sank on 14 December 2002 after a collision with the container ship Kariba. The shallow depth of the channel at the wreck site meant that the hull of the sunken ship presented a serious hazard to shipping in one of the world's busiest seaways (within three weeks two large ships had struck the hull). The size of Tricolor meant that the ship could not be raised in one piece.