In this vlog we were just pulling anchor off the coast of Virginia Beach, Virginia and I show from that until we arrived at the terminal. Stay tuned for more videos in this series real soon....
This was cool We live in Virginia Beach and every time we go over the Lesnar bridge we like to look for the big ships.. I've never seen it from the ship's perspective.. really cool..
Thank you so much Stacey. I live in Virginia Beach as well. If you all are on Instagram connect there @jeffs_vlogs When I'm on the ship I post almost daily from the ship. VBSTRONG
Our son has been assigned a USMMA cadet on the Maersk Iowa in a couple of weeks (deck) doing the Houston to Europe run via Norfolk and Charleston. Your videos have given us a tremendous understanding of what he will experience. THANK YOU! Awesome!
Coming in all the way from Norfolk Va. I absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE this. I wish I had looked this up way sooner. Looking through your eyes is awesome. Can't wait to show my children on the big screen. Thank you, God speed, and God Bless!!!!
It's kinda funny (to me anyway); I watch your videos to vicariously live through you. I did 4 years in the Navy (around 20 years ago) and miss being at sea. This is about the 4th video of yours I watched and low-and-behold you film the ship I spent time on (CVN-72 Abraham Lincoln).
Born & raised in Norfolk. Rode in my Grandpa's charter fishing boat all around the Chesapeake Bsy every day in the summer. Got to go in the Ocean View Amusement Park for free when I was 13 because they were making a movie. Joined Navy & was stationed on an oiler on pier 4. Got out of Navy & worked with the Long Shoremsn a bit. Loaded & unloaded ships at NIT. Then drove Uber on Norfolk Naval Base for 4 years. Been living at the Oceanfront for 10 years. Know the whole area well, the water & land.
excellent video. I grew up in Richmond, VA and have been in/over/through those bridges/tunnels numerous times. Sweet view from your vessel. Thanks for taking the time to post these videos. Much better then cable tv!
Brings back old memories of meeting Pre Positioning Ship at pierside, at anchor and while underway at the mouth of the bay back in the mid 80's for IBM. I climbed a vertical rope ladder for one ship off the launch, fun carrying a bag of tools. Traveled to Diego Garcia as well to service same ships and stayed aboard for a week in the Port Captain's Cabin. Great food and good times and loved the engine room mechanical tours.
5:50 'one of the foreign flagged ones'. Yeah, that's a pretty US centric view of a Danish shipping company that has more than 700 ships, and thereof a dozen under US flag...
Tfs very interesting video. My brother lives in Virginia Beach, so I go there often. I take route 13 and travel on the Chesapeake Bay bridge and tunnel. That’s a very long bridge with the 2 tunnels. It was nice to see where the ships would cross over where the tunnels are. Driving in a car you don’t get to see this. Again tfs.
I'm at Virginia Beach, Virginia every day , by way of Williamsburg and I have often seen these cargo ships in amazement. Thanks for the inside information.
Grew up on the Elizabeth river, fished where nit is as a boy in the late 1950s to graduating and after moving back on Scott’s Creek near hospital point. Pulled containers from all ports as a trucker fo a few years. Always ran out into the bay stripper fishing, croaker, spade fish. Great video. I live in upper Bay Area on middle peninsular . Great video.
I know nothing about what you are showing us. I’m land locked, inland. It’s very fascinating what you are showing. I appreciate your ability to keep the audio strong as you are narrating. The video is very clean and nice also. Well done! Thanks.
Nice video. I was stationed in Norfolk for a brief period back in the late 70's on the Kalamazoo,an AOR replenishment oiler. This video brings back memories for me.
Thanks so much for this video. I live in Virginia Beach and this makes me have a different perspective of the bridge/tunnel. I can't believe that's how the pilot boards your ship! Scary!
You're videos are just the best. I've been to VA Beach many times and while sitting on the beach, looking at the ships passing by, I've often wondered what it would be like to be on one of those passing ships- you have answered that question !--- THANKS
I just got home December 26th. so I had Christmas then and good to be home. Good to see you always and I have lots more videos done and will post soon. Happy New Year to you and always good to hear from you
Well, sir I am well schooled now on the identification of the ships. I am obliged to mention that I had interacted with members of a medical team that came to Guyana on the USS Iwo Jima (LHD-7) back in 2010:Operation Continuing Promise(CP 10). This beauty of a vessel lay anchored off the coast of New Amsterdam some 25 nm. I saw for the first time the Chinooks in operation buzzing the once quiet skyline. The base was at my school where I teach; J.C.Chandisingh Secondary. The Chinooks would land in the adjacent cricket field surrounded by zinc fence. However,the fence couldn't withstand the powerful shaft of air from the Chinooks' rotors as they prepare to land; most zinc sheets were blown away! I couldn't believe my eyes: a sight to behold. And better yet aviation is my real passion. So they had to land at an alternative site; next to Central Corentyne High School approximately 6 miles away from my school . I understand they conducted 40 surgical operations onboard USS Iwo Jima in addition to some that was done at the local hospital and the hundreds of regular patients they would see at the school base. These Service men and women looked so unique in their uniforms. I particularly love the Navy uniform. I once again would like to thank the US Government and the men and women of the Joint Services for their hours of work done here: serve humanity. Jeff, thanks as usual for bringing me here. Regards from Guyana,South America.
Neat seeing this. Use to fish a Chesapeake light house that is shown in the beginning. My dad was co of sub I. The early 90's . I was able to do a tiger cruise and we stood on the sail as it came back into Norfolk. Was a neat experience to say the least
Maybe you could show the docking of your ship. Would love to see the the crew handling the lines on and off the ship. And show us what happens after the ship is docked. Thank You. Love the videos. Keep them coming.
ty and on the channel look in the ship videos playlist and there are videos where you see inside and videos from the engine room also...It is all there
I never knew about this bridge. This is so totally cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I went to Google Earth to take a look at this tunnel. Oh, my gosh,this is the coolest thing!
Right you are! There are two of these that are basically the same. I believe that they have two helicopter hangers and launch facilities at the stern. Gas powered turbines make these really fast ~ 55 knots. Scuttlebutt has it that the Navy is not entirely pleased with this design and no more are planned to be produced.
@@chromabotia "not entirely pleased" is putting it mildly. They're extremely unreliable, difficult to maintain, spend far more time dockside undergoing repairs than at sea. The "modular system" that would have allowed easy swapping between roles is turning out to be a nightmare in reality, with swapping taking way longer and being way more involved than anticipated. And on top of that, due to funding cuts the main sensor fit has never been installed, leaving them without a viable radar installation (a fate that's also plagueing the Zumwalt class destroyers).
Love when you are commenting on the other Maersk ship going in the other direction you are saying " a foreing flag one" . No it is the Maersk wessels under US flag which under foreing flag. Maersk is a danish company with a US subcompany and the Columbine Maersk was sayling under danish coulours. It is very interesting watching your Vlogs. Keep up the good work.
Very interesting. Wow watching how the pilot gets on the boat is something. That would be too nerve racking for me, very dangerous. I never knew that is how it was done.
Excellent video! I ship watch off of Ft. Monroe all of the time! I truly enjoy watching the container ships come in and watch them roll away again! Great views from the ship! Did you catch a good shot of Ft. Monroe on the way out?
@Abraham Philip I think I see where he's coming from, probably expects there to be an elevator or something. It is kind of interesting, the way new technology meshes with old, but if it works than it works so to speak
Hi this was very interesting indeed .my son danny works at the ports .he picks up containers at the differnt ports around here with his tractor trailer and delivers these containers to differnt warehouse around Virginia north Carolina. Very interesting good video .actually my son went there today in norfolk.port.we live in Newport news he works out of Chesapeake va.
That unusual (and cool!) ship you saw was a Navy Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) designed for coastal waters. A new class of ship that did not quite live up to its billing as well as being overpriced.
@@jefferyb.3406 I should have written more of it down on paper. Us deckhands used to come up with an evolving array of, "guidance" just to see if they were listening. Loading them into dugouts going up the Mogue River, we tried the stewardess preflight checklist on them. They were sitting in dugout canoes on rough planks ...and we're telling them, "in the event of a water landing..." they looked starboard, they looked port and took in every word! Our tribal guides got a laugh too!
That navy ship you was talking about that trimaran. It's a LCS (littoral combat ship) the navy uses them for high speed missions like anti piracy and things. It doesn't draw alot of water and it's really fast. Its all aluminum . They are built in my hometown Mobile,Al at Austal USA. I worked there for awhile.
That is awesome...Thank you for all the information and sharing for everyone. I used to sail into Mobile a few years back...I used to go eat at Logan's near a mall not far from downtown...
Hero Stratus ...I know they didn’t even slow down fro him....and I thought the real ladder would lower to get him...nope climb the rope ladder....good thing the pilots in shape
I believe CMA GCM is Belgian if I remember right. I see plenty of their containers on the doublestack trains across the United States. I really enjoyed seeing Virginia Beach from a different perspective and we used to vacation at a place called Chincoteague and Assateague Island not too far away from there up on the Delmarva Peninsula
That was really cool man, thanks. Those ships are amazing !! That could be a job for a guy like me. I might look into it further. Stay safe and keep posting. I'm subbing.
Yes Sir, I watched it when it came out. I'm really good at a lot of the mechanical and technical things you do, with a good bit of formal training in the past from both civilian work and US Army but I don't think I can devote as much of my life to it now as it requires. Trying to start my own thing now but it's really hard and expensive these days with all the rules, regulations, red tape and hoops to jump through. Thanks though.
@@Stucknarutt well hey I definitely wish you all the best with whatever you choose to do and hope to see you back on the channel again for sure. I go back to work in about another month so I will try to make a couple new videos when I get out there
Thanks much man. Yes, it's a little challenging switching fields/careers after you've held the same one for over 20 years but I'm getting closer to nailing it down. I'll surely be back on your channel, as I've stated before, those ships still marvel and amaze me as well as I like a lot of what you do and the way you present it. Peace and stay safe brother.
Comments below have correctly given names of carriers and identified the class of Littoral Combat Ship (shallow draft, high speed, trimaran). The "oiler" designated T-AO 188 is the Humphreys which can be ID'd easily by its black fuel transfer pipes hanging along its sides. By the way, numbers indicate the number of ships of that type built. So CVN-77 (H. W. Bush) is the 77th aircraft carrier built (Langley was number 1, and mine (Ranger) was 61). The "CV" designation indicates 'carrier, fixed wing aircraft' and the 'N' (obviously) designates nuclear. Over the decades other letters were added after "CV" such as 'A' (attack' or 'E' (escort).
Awsome video since I was little me and my fam would go to Virginia Beach every year. I would see the cargo ships and other ships in a distance so to see it through this video was pretty cool thanks man!!! Ima subscribe
Pretty cool channel. I just found it and decided to subscribe. This lifestyle facinates me and in another life I could have for sure gone this path. What may I ask is your job in the ship?
I enjoy your videos ,,, I wonder ; when your ship arrives, coming into port, it is under its own power ,, correct ? at what time in the dock process does your ship shut down the props and let the tugs push you in ? Or am I all wrong with this .. you didn't show the full docking .. I've always wondered how the ship gets to that final place , to tie up
The ship's power plants will stay online until the ship is secured pierside. When the ship is coming alongside a pier, the ship's engines and the tugs will coordinate with each other at the command of the pilot to get the ship along side.
Okay this video is actually awesome!! Can you explain more about pilot please? Does the pilot just come out to steer the ship into the dock? Also, why isn’t there just a pilot onboard for the whole voyage ? Does the ship just run on auto pilot GPS the whole way until the end?
The pilot comes up when the ship is entering and leaving port or when passing narrow channels. The pilot cannot be onboard the whole voyage because he doesn't know how to navigate on the next port since he only knows how to navigate in that certain port or area only. Sometimes, the Captain even perform self-pilotage. Yes, the steering wheel can be auto-pilot or manual but the second officer does the voyage planning.
