Very informative! I used to work for the cruise industry and I was always amazed at how they got the ship to park so perfectly on those cement blocks or the old wooden pallets.
Despite the hi tech multi billion dollar ship, ancient folding wedge technology cant be bettered for supporting it in dry dock. One of the most ancient and most useful devices known to man.
I think this ship has a DPS (Dynamic Positioning System) that automatically keeps the ship in position using the ship's thrusters. The anchors are more for emergency.
How do you paint under all of those blocks when your in dry dock?There are over 200 and the ship can't just be listed to remove a few at a time for painting under them.
There are multiple positions for the blocks. The next time the ship goes into dry dock, the keel blocks are in a new position, allowing for painting in the areas that were previously on blocks
This is not a sail ship.. its a motorship...so need to check with Chief Engineer ( Captains counterpart on the Engineering side)...for info on the Tech aspects of the vessel. Captains knowledge on Tech matters is often inadequate by comparison as not qualified enough as the Chief Engineer or Tech Supdt .of the vessel.
A ship of her size will have an anchor with a weight of around 30 Us Ton or so not 9000 ton... hell's teeth that is about the displacement of the whole damn ship hahaha.
No, he said the ship weight was 90,000 tons, which is about right for a cruiseship, they generally weight around 100,000 tons, except for the really big ones like the Symphony of the Seas owned by Royal Carribean, that class of ships weighs 200,000 tons.
+Dark Star Given that a 100,000t vessel has anchors weighing 20tons each, a 200,000 would need ones weighing 40ton (90,000lb). That looks about right. To weigh 90,000t the anchor would need a cube with a MINIMUM dimension of 11meters per side! BTW, At 40t, that IS a bad ass anchor!
Haha - I was caught by that too. Anchors that weigh in at 18 million pounds ... by weight that's roughly equivalent to a cube of iron that is 10m per side. :-)
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Scottish NS Rail Fan yep the guy made a mistake, I wrote it in description, this is just a channel where I show my commercial shootings I'm already suprised that some people subscribed :P
9,000 ton anchors, what!?!?! I think he got his tons and pounds or kilos mixed up. Those anchors probably weigh 9,000 lbs or kilos, or maybe 20 tons at the most. Those chain links are maybe 300-400lbs each. Maybe if you added up the 2-3 anchors and all the chain, it would add up to 1,000 tons, but I doubt it would even be that high a figure. The biggest ship anchor ever made - that I know of - comes from the biggest ship ever made, the Seawise Giant. She was a supertanker of some 500,000 dwt, or about 5+ times the weight of this cruiseship. The Seawise Giant's anchors weighed 36 tons each.
What is company drydock this.because im looking a job helper outside machinist...special skilled: Valve technician,i know to use micrometer and dial indicator...
Once upon a time captains wore magnificent uniforms and carried themselves with steely decorum. Now they just stand with their hands in their pockets, looking like rent-a-bus drivers. I suppose the days of mighty sea captains is long over. Look at the rats who were supposed to take care of thousands of souls on the Ocreanos and Costa Concordia.
Isn't really how they look that define how good and responsible they are, Captain Schettino instead was somebody that care much more about appareance then his crew and passengers, a big shame for Costa that wasn't able to select wisely their officers, I'm italian (luckily I haven't cruised with him, but I can tell you that I remember quite a lot of asshole actitude with some others male Italian captain in Costa Cruise). I travelled with captain Carol around 3 months, no complaint, frendly and sweet with her crew and one of the smoothest cruises I had around the mediterranean which is not always an easy sea in winter.
@@Videorebels Well, had no idea when it came out. I just saw it and had some inner ear damage in the first few seconds. Am to infer that you think it is OK for you to publish this type of video with this kind and level of mind destroying noise attached? ???????? Do you somehow thing you might become a another Cecil B. DeMille by using overly loud and trashy MUZAK for special effect?????
@@josephkane825 I understand it after searching what the hell was muzak, it was a music collection I had from the broadcast job in the cruise ship, at the time was the only option available with the crappy internet onboard and no budget, thanks god I didn't work there so long to remind it, I get how painful may sound after many edits ;)
@@Videorebels I do not know whether you are being sarcastic or you are apologizing for the "Aural Assault". Just so there is no doubt as to where I stand, please read on. My use of the term MUZAK goes back to the mid 1950's when the term was actually applied to elevator music or airline terminal music. It was determined by properly qualified scientists to be calming and generally pleasant. The talentless generation of so called musicians reacted with scorn and the generations of mind destroying noise followed. There was no death penalty for the miss application of the word "music" to their overly loud and three second cycle repetitive trash, so they got away with calling it "music". I am in open rebellion to those talentless hacks, and, in revenge, call any form of their mind destroying noise - "MUZAK". Now, the talentless entertainment producers of every ilk chose to think it is necessary to include some degree of muzak in every advertisement or even every entertainment or information video that their damaged minds can produce. I guess they think it will make then the next Cecil B. DeMIlle?!?!? (Oh Well - They are talentless and mentally deficient after all!) I see this continuing trend of talentlessnes as a disease of the gene pool. Genetic cleansing is clearly required! So, I usually call a curse of God down on all responsible for such productions, so that they and their children catch bone cancer. It in currently incurable, it is extremely painful, and it has no palliative.
@Joseph Kane ok man, I´m lost. I thought you was talking about the bad quality of music that companies buy for corporate videos (this one was just a corporate video with some music purchased by the company), and I was empathising thinking you was a videomaker tired of editing with this stuff. ..but now I can't tell if you are sarcasting, trolling, serious, crazy or sane and I don't get you ..can be. Anyway I who care, I'm not looking for your approval and I understand you don't enjoy to listen to this track ..so is better for everybody to close the conversation, no sarcasm, if you hate it don't listen.
1 sentence *HUGE ASTHMATIC INHALE* 1 sentence *HUGE ASTHMATIC INHALE* 1 sentence *HUGE ASTHMATIC INHALE* 1 sentence *HUGE ASTHMATIC INHALE* Did this guy go for a run before trying to narrate this or something? Slow down talking so you can breath normally and not have to punctuate every sentence with a huge inhale, gets very distracting for an audience.
