Look, I dont want to take anything away from what is undoubtedly a fabulous machine, but catching my own reflection in the kitchen door whilst watching a robot cleaning an oil-tanker at 11.00 pm can only mean one thing... I have GOT TO get a girlfriend!
Needed one of these when I was in the Navy... rather than a punt and a pry-bar. And, no, that's not an exaggeration or a joke, they put us over the side wearing a bulky Kapoc with a basic pry-bar you can purchase at Lowes, it was sometimes bound to a broom handle, we were in a punt being pulled along by deck-hands above; my ship was 887 feet long.
I was in the merchant navy . We went into Singapore bay once , stayed there a week while the hull bottom was scraped, and yes I do mean scraped. Divers in scuba gear went down in shifts with a long handled scraper and did the whole job
@@gonnagetya1433 Probably would work with some crazy strong magnets and hooked to a rope at the bow of the ship. But in reality it's not necessary to work while moving. Ships still need to dock to refuel and unload the cargo, replentish food, shore leave. All that time on shore is enough for mega rumba to do its job.
@@gonnagetya1433 They can. Some ships are outfitted with a cathode (electrostatic) that in combination with the salt in the water forms a protective ion layer over the hull that prevents anything from bonding to it by having the cathode ions sacrifice themselves. Something like that. In any case, it exists. But it only works in salt water, not in sweet water.-edit- after looking it up, the system is called MGPS.
that is fantastic, I wish I had this equipment many yeas ago. I use to do it then using hydraulic powered brushes manually operated under-water, it was hard and dirty and always at risk of shark and other nasty critters, the good thing about that work was it kept me very fit
This is amazing... To bad we didnt have this in 03 when my ship was in dry dock, we did this by hand with a pressure gun. Should try to market this to military branches, coast guard and the Navy could really use this machine.
I think we use this for drydocked subs. Cover the area with a large canopy to keep everything somewhat contained and keeps barnacles from flying all over.
It's funny, while watching someone do some manual (water jet) hull cleaning I thought of something similar to this. Just now I had an idea of a system that reaches from just above the water line (marking) to the keel and moves from stem to stern (obstructions?). ;-)
there a system fr cleaning crg holds.. as well as the frames... actually climbs up and down.... however cost is extraordinary.... service is on exchange bss and so on.... look fr it... it is a danish company (or norwegian?? dont remember..) hv seen their presentation a couple of years ago..
@@ravipeter9280 well, done the job numerous times as a trainee as well. we dont let our crews to work with high sea/ swell... weather permitting only...
I always thought something exactly like this would work for tanker ship oil spills. If instead of water it shot some kind of resin that would stick to the outside of the hull and slowly make the hole smaller. Also I wonder if this could be deployed while sailing which would be pretty badass..?
I don't think the resin could stick to anything while the oil is actively gushing out from the hole. Instead you can check out the "Self-Sealing Fuel Tanks" used on aircraft. However I dont think the tankers would swap out their original tanks due to cost reasons.
@@cabbagecabbage5047 That would be interesting to test. I guess just take a can of spray foam below the surface of some old oil. That stuff is amazingly sticky.
Theat would be great for armed forces vessels, use on top of a flight deck and submurged area. Easy to operate, inspect, clean and savings on manpower.
Hi Thomas, exactly. Waterjet is preferred for this application over grit blasting so there is no risk of grit getting jammed in the cavities and then blocking the weaponry when you need them firing!
ARTIC DIVING AND MARNE SERVICES BASED IN UAE, IS LOOKING FOR SUCH A MAHINE FOR ABOVE WATER CLEANING OF THE VESSELS CALLING IN UAE. WE WOULD LIKE TO KNOW THE DEALER IN UAE AND COST OF THIS UNIT.
I don't wish to sound anti-tech, but why not just have a boat with a high pressure sprayer do the same thing? Seems to me you could get the job done quicker with a larger sprayer mounted to a boat that would be able to hose the entire ships side down instead of needing to make several passes as such a slow speed with the mag crawler?
@@Alan.livingston Agreed. Also it looks allot safer with less operator error causing bodily harm, HP/UHP injuries can be really bad. It looks a great tool to have 👍🏼
Probably not in the USA, but pressure washing a hull over open water is illegal in a lot of countries because the anti-fouling contains heavy metals and pesticides.
@Xi Jinping says Sinis irrumabo I've only been to the ocean once in my life when I was very young and I've never seen an ocean size ship ( I'm not a big fan of water that has animals that can fit my house in its mouth) but the ships themselves are neat and is like to get on one and see how they work.
How much, ball park figure, does it cost to laser beam a whole boat? And can I do half now and the other half of the ship in 8 months? And what kind of guarantee can you give me. I don’t want be somewhere in the North lake Shasta and look down and see a crustacean or a tabernacle looking up at me smiling when I just had my ship lasered.
Yup... in the maritime journals I've been reading lately there is a lot of focus on ballast water as a vector of invasive aquatic species transfer, but the biofouling can do that, too. And we're probably talking about an accretion from many different ports. Good point!
One way or another with the amount of shipping it's going to happen. Its been going on since the planet was invented, echoes float or get blown across vast distances , just the way the planet works
You're right... we should put up fences in the ocean at 100 meters square to prevent ocean aquatic species transfer. Maybe we can do the same with the clouds to prevent cloud species transfer with moving weather systems and heat transfer of global warming. We should raise taxes for the middle class to pay for all of this too.
Great machine but...depending on where the ship came from letting loose that much live marine growth in your waters will undoubtedly release some invasive species. Not saying every time but there are probably ecological impacts, how big, I don’t know.
