1.   The team hired a massive floating platform which was craned in separate segments into the dock.

2.   It was in a metal pot in the middle of the floating platform.

3.   Arafat gave a signal to the foreign crew to light the flare atop the floating platform, and gas from the test well burned overhead.

4.   As part of a multinational team, Boeing is building in Norway a giant floating platform bigger than a football field that will be towed to the equatorial Pacific.

5.   Instead, massive floating platforms are anchored to the seabed.

6.   New cities have been built on floating platforms.

7.   The whole assembly will then be transferred to the floating platform for blastoff.

8.   With a floating platform, heavy equipment such as pumps and valves sit on a vessel instead of rigid steel platforms.

9.   Another company proposed building a floating platform that could be moved in time of crisis.

10.   Kikutake said the stability of floating platforms has already been proven, so the creation of artificial land is entirely possible.