From the Archives: August 16, 1984

A 1984 cover featured the world's first full-scale tension leg platform, marking a significant engineering milestone in offshore construction technology. Tension leg platforms use moored, vertically-tensioned legs to stabilize floating structures in deep water, enabling new possibilities for marine-based construction and operations.

This 1984 cover depicts the world’s first full-scale tension leg platform.

This story was originally published by Engineering News-Record.