Battleship USS IOWA Museum Hull Preservation 2021: Cofferdams and Dry Docking

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Continuing to address our plans for preserving Battleship IOWA's hull, COO and Chief Engineer Mike Getscher answers questions we've received about cofferdams, which allow us to work on the ship's wind and waterline, and dry docking.
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9 июл 2024

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Комментарии : 23

@MrTexasDan 3 года назад

Hey Mike, interesting scenes with the cofferdam, I hadn't seen that before. It's really great that you all in our Museum Battleship Fleet talk and work with each other. Keep the videos coming! Oh, that first scene in this one, looking at the bow, how amazing!

@robertkrusin9856 3 года назад

Shame they tore the drydocks out in Long Beach when it turned into a container port

@jtaylorb88 6 месяцев назад

Yep even worse we don't know how to build one since everyone who built them is no longer living and the US acknowledged it's a serious problem if they need to build additional drydocks.

@nogoodnameleft 2 месяца назад

A perfect example of this is USS Texas' drydock in Galveston. Texas no longer has a large drydock that can handle more than 10,000 tons. So the state of Texas had to pay Gulf Copper of Galveston to refloat and break in half a huge 81,000 ton capacity drydock from the Bahamas (which was cracked in half by a cruise ship inside it because it was a 42 year old ancient drydock), repair it in the Bahamas, and tow it to Galveston for USS Texas as its first customer. That old drydock was in Portland, OR from 1978 to 2001 and then Portland got rid of almost all of their drydocks like most of CA did.

@dnedlew 8 месяцев назад

There’s a dry dock about a mile or so just south of you. at Terminal Island. Dry dock One, oh, I’m sorry, they filled that in so the port could have a little more room for containers. I know of it because I’ve worked in it. It’s dimensions were, 1,093 feet long, 155 feet wide, depth 44’ 3”. More than enough for the Iowa.

@nogoodnameleft 2 месяца назад

Absolutely scary that America no longer has the ability to build drydocks for and to drydock non-military ships. Like the Saturn V rocket nobody will soon be alive to even know how to build an American drydock anymore. If someone wanted to create a blueprint on how to collapse America this would be one of the steps to do so.

@Konabish 3 года назад

Always more to learn! This was excellent.

@michaeldea6599 3 года назад

very interesting that dry docking is so expensive. Didn't realize that before.....seems like an obvious way to work on a big ship but the cofferdam solution was very clearly explained. Thanks!

@nogoodnameleft 2 месяца назад

America stupidly abolished their capacity to build drydocks and actually drydock ships in America within the past 20 years. They replaced their former ports filled with drydocks with container ports for foreign vessels and expect China and other Asian countries to handle all the shipbuilding, drydock building, and drydocking. It is like the steel industry collapsing but add to that shipbuilding, drydock building, and drydocking. Scary stuff really when you stand back and realize we no longer have the capacity to build drydocks and to operate drydocks for non-military ships anymore.