Pioneering Spirit: The Largest Construction Ship in the World

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Discover the untold story behind the colossal Pioneering Spirit, the largest vessel ever built. Delve into its groundbreaking design, jaw-dropping capabilities, and its pivotal role in reshaping the world's offshore industry.
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@donaldmacarthur 15 дней назад

I particularly enjoyed the smartass remark about real measures of measurement before comparing it to 326,000+ Shaqs. Well done!

@jimcappa6815 14 дней назад

On DtU, the standard unit of measure is Danny DeVito. This thing may be.too big for that!

@fatbody111 14 дней назад

I was expecting blue whales so shaq was a welcome surprise.

@willythemailboy2 14 дней назад

I was expecting a "your mother".

@aurorarookwood2093 14 дней назад

I prefer and was expecting the only true unit of measuring a units capacity to lift a unit... The metric Danny Divito. But I guess they keep that to Brain Blaze iirc.

@aurorarookwood2093 14 дней назад

I got a pen and a Napkin. Its about 539,326 Danny DiVito's

@paladinsas9078 15 дней назад

As an American, i appreciate units of measurement that i can understand. 200 statues of liberty is easily relatable

@mackenziemoore5088 15 дней назад

"Squatting itself down while stratling it's intended payload inside it's slot" had me giggling like an idiot XD

@DKing627 14 дней назад

Disappointed that there were no jokes about how much pipe it can handle.

@1337user 14 дней назад

I think I know what it'll do with 27,000 tons of pipe :^

@charlesdorval394 14 дней назад

@@1337user A pipeline? :P

@kingjellybean9795 12 дней назад

5:02 Laying under sea pipe😏

@mirzaahmed6589 6 дней назад

straddling

@kristofnys3212 15 дней назад

During the inauguration of the ship in 2015 I was lucky to be one of the video technicians working during the ceremony. We also got a tour of the ship. It’s hard to describe how incredibly big everything on that vessel is.

@mwolkove 15 дней назад

It's funny how well saying the size is hard to describe works as a description of its size. Basically, it's on scale that is so uncommon we've never needed a word for it.

@joelfoss7428 15 дней назад

I got to visit my uncle on an aircraft carrier when it was stationed at Port on a 3 day cruise, they called it a tiger cruise 3 days on a ship the size of a small town 5000 people but on the ocean with jet planes launching and what not. I bet that size and catamaran design and more than twice the size would be amazing... I'm thinking Dennis Hopper in Waterworld. You could totally create your own mobile country on such an edifice once the world 🌎 sea level changes.

@enisra_bowman 14 дней назад

@@mwolkove that somewhat works even with smaller things like a SpcaeShuttle, shure you know they about 37m long but you never see them in a good reference frame

@RemyMartinVSOP День назад

Cool story bro.

@rapidthrash1964 13 дней назад

I actually ran the numbers on Pioneering Spirit's lifting capacity; roughly 48000 tonnes (53000 tons for Americans). When it was fully loaded, the Titanic weighed 52000 tons. In other words, the PS has the strength to lift the Titanic (if wasn't at the bottom of the ocean, extremely fragile and not broken into several pieces)

@ColtonRMagby 15 дней назад

Forget massive, that ship is ENORMOUS!

@jcahill7560 12 дней назад

Humongous!

@randomname4726 14 дней назад

Engineers are amazing. They don't get enough respect and praise for safely building our worlds machinery, bridges, infrastructure etc the list goes on...

@TM10000 14 дней назад

It's a little ironic that a company based in a landlocked country builds the worlds heaviest ship.

@autobootpiloot 10 дней назад

Don’t worry, it’s a Dutch company trying to evade taxes. The ship is developed by the Dutch, technology is mostly installed by the Dutch and most of the important crew is Dutch. Mr, Heerema is Dutch, so is his brother that owns the biggest and heaviest floating cranes in the world. The only Swiss thing about allseas is the postal code.

@TM10000 10 дней назад

@@autobootpiloot Can't blame him for trying to save some money I guess. Thanks for clarifying.

@DannyPhilipsen 12 дней назад

It's amazing that mankind has the ability to build something this massive!

@ignitionfrn2223 14 дней назад

1:30 - Chapter 1 - Design & development 6:05 - Chapter 2 - Specs & capabilities 10:15 - Chapter 3 - Service life & succession

@sjorsirausquin7707 15 дней назад

The mastermilo video about this ship is also really good, it is a ship tour and really shows what it does!

@maryrowe3981 14 дней назад

😮

@NorwegianCrazyGuy 14 дней назад

I have had the pleassure to see this ship a couple of times. During my lunch break at Aker Stord, Norway many years ago, this thing came in the fjord, picked up the Johan Sverdrup Drilling Platform and left. It is so big it doesn't make sence to compare it to things.

@T_da_yung_goat 13 дней назад

I can’t wait for the day humanity can finally break the half-million Shaq barrier .

@CaptainOinkOink 15 дней назад

I saw this in Stord in western Norway when I had a summer job at the norwegian coastal administration almost 2 years ago

@TheCoffeeSquirel 15 дней назад

Pioneering Spirit is sometimes in my hometown, Kristiansand Norway, and looks to be larger than our downtown area I also did some work for Hereema in Taiwan (irrelevant to Pioneering Spirit)

@autobootpiloot 10 дней назад

The heerema company belongs to the brother of the owner of allseas. That’s a family that likes lifting heavy.

@toomanykatsu 14 дней назад

“27,000 pounds of pipe” sounds like your mom has been busy 😂😂😂

@THE-X-Force 13 дней назад

Just another Tuesday really .. hardly an inconvenience

@mwhitelaw8569 12 дней назад

@@THE-X-Force Didn't even break a sweat

@jafhu 14 дней назад

The pioneering spirit was in my city some months ago. It’s huge, like unimaginable huge The barge bumblebee sat in my city for like 2-3 years, just sat there and looked ugly as it was in one of the most trafficked route for small hobby boats At 12:50 is actually the clip of when they picked up bumblebee in my hometown

@eaphantom9214 15 дней назад

0:59 - WHOOOHOO that is BIG 😮

@Supernaut2000 14 дней назад

Allseas, a Swiss company...OMG from a landlocked country comes the world's largest ship? Something is amiss here....Simon, find out!

@paulroling1781 14 дней назад

It is Dutch in origin, where the main offices are. It is probably officially Swiss for political reasons.

@crazydutchbloke 11 дней назад

The ship is owned by Allseas Delft, in The Netherlands.

@amys500 9 дней назад

Ah that makes sense. Swiss for tax? 😆

@jl3039 14 дней назад

YES! The SHAQS are Back! ❤❤❤

@russellfitzpatrick503 15 дней назад

I saw the ship when it was moored at the Maasvlakte 2 , itself a megaproject, and it was remarkable as it was so much bigger than even the massive tankers in the Maasvlakte itself. Actually I thought that the Heerema group was Dutch

@Seraphus87 14 дней назад

Yeah, first time I saw that thing at Maasvlakte 2, I thought it was multiple ships moored next to each other, nope, just one *big* boy.

@qoyari 14 дней назад

Allseas Group is a Dutch offshore contractor. The company is headquartered in Châtel-Saint-Denis, Switzerland

@s3gv 15 дней назад

I've been waiting for a full video on this damned ship, it's massive on google maps!

@reahreic7698 15 дней назад

where??? it's difficult for me to wrap my brain around its size.

@s3gv 15 дней назад

@@reahreic7698 Currently docked in amsterdam. Check 03/2020 on Google Earth Pro, 51°57'57.99"N, 3°58'57.20"E. There is another ship near it that will show you the scale. It's absolutely massive.

@bryantsteury8910 14 дней назад

I, too, have a pipe-laying system

@bigrob966 14 дней назад

Hey, I suggested this like six months ago! I am stoked you made a video about this thing. It is an astonishing engineering accomplishment.

@SmileyMack 14 дней назад

That ship could achieve the world's greatest practical joke. Worker: "Boss, the oil rig isn't there any more." Boss:......!!!...

@outsider7658 15 дней назад

I worked as an officer on a ship, like the on at 2.16--. We transported material to the rigs in Forties Field, outside Scotland, with "home" in Dundee. Somewhere there, we met a giant like that, I just took a look at a picture of it. And, wow, that was big too. Big enough to lift heavy(!) loads up, to the deck of those rigs. About 70 meters up. Some crew members stand under the crane and they look like ants. Have`t given that a thought, since I quit, but now, it seemed as big as then. But this one, no comments, just watching with my jaw down. Wow! from A Finn in Diaspora

@aurorarookwood2093 14 дней назад

I get into Dundee now and then and as I've seen the rigs there when crossing the bridge ever since I was a kid ya kinda tune them out. But when I am along the waterfront near the Quay close to the docks and one is in the scale of that shit hits hard... And I feel like I'm as big as I was when I was a kid again!

@gamehacker5692 14 дней назад

Can we get a video on the Newport News Shipping dry dock that makes the us navy’s carriers and submarines?

@williamjacob885 14 дней назад

This thing is an absolute BEAST!

@markblanch2905 10 дней назад

I've worked on Allseas vessels for years. Every pipelayer they had other than this one.

@fsj197811 14 дней назад

That was cool, thanks for sharing.

@jeffjeffnorway 11 дней назад

Amazing video My uncle worked as a project planner for this ship. 😀

@larswint1719 7 дней назад

Nice video, Two corrections: 1. It's no real catamaran. The bows are splitted, but the aft is one piece. 2. Is has 12 thrusters, not 13

@benb3756 14 дней назад

12:50 Sitting in the port? More like blocking it off entirely 😂

@jaybruce593 14 дней назад

This ship was actually built for decommissioning, not construction. oil platforms "top sides"were built in shipyards, and floated out on heavy barges, and lifted onto their "jackets" (legs) by heavy lift cranes such as the saipem 7000. The beauty of the pioneering spirit was it was a one stop ship, allowing it to cut, lift, transport and deliver to the decommissioning ship yard, the entire topside,, rather than have to involve multiple vessels to lift the topside off the jacket, a another to transport it to ship yard for decommissioning, another heavy lift crane to lift it to quayside, free spirit does it all.

@THE-X-Force 13 дней назад

It does installations as well, no?

@kurtdnelson9653 12 дней назад

You just copied what Simon said and still got it wrong buy never saying it delivers newly built oil rigs 🤬😁

@jaybruce593 12 дней назад

Actually Simon said it was built for delivering new rigs rather than building them offshore, whereas the rigs were already built onshore and delivered with different means, this was specifically built for removing rigs. I was involved with the decommissioning of the Brent Alpha, and knew of this ship long ago.

@jaybruce593 12 дней назад

@@THE-X-Force Yes it CAN deliver, but it was built for removal, hence it being constructed in the twilight years of mort north sea assets, not in the booming construction early days.

@kurtdnelson9653 12 дней назад

@@jaybruce593 hay jaybruce I committed on the fact that you repeated what Simon said and why is it necessary for you to repeat it I think we the people who watched the video didn't need your comment it was totally unnecessary and you forgot to mention it can and did haul new rigs

@christopherdobinson710 14 дней назад

Name: All Seas Me hearing Ausies thanks to the splendid English accent. lol 😂 Love your videos Simon 😎

@rayne21x 11 дней назад

Gives me slight Millennium Falcon vibes with the offset bridge and the two pronged hull at the front.

@mohammedsaysrashid3587 15 дней назад

Nice introduction....maybe similar to artificial islands..except mobility of that Gained ship 🚢

@nafjon1 11 дней назад

No banana for scale? 🍌🤷🏻‍♂️ Awesome stuff guys! Thank you!!!

@conquerthafuture7209 14 дней назад

That thing a huge catamaran basically. Super cool

@jaredkennedy6576 14 дней назад

I had a job offer for offshore rig work straight out of school, and I should have taken it. It took me almost ten years to approach their starting pay.

@cossierob6143 12 дней назад

Pretty sure this has been near me during Brent de-commissioning. Able Offshore, Seaton, England.

@claytonreeves8955 14 дней назад

Awesome 👌

@Hhhdgegej 11 дней назад

And some float with propellars on each leg for Current adjustments

@captaintoyota3171 11 дней назад

Yeah i do barge work on bridges, lift 200k lbs stuff etc. Would love to work on a ship like this

@ryand2529 14 дней назад

That’s a big damn boat!!

@lmt-nw7zs 11 дней назад

Love the video, BUTT Allseas is a dutch company. The owner is Edward heerema.

@markblanch2905 10 дней назад

A Dutch company "based" out of Switzerland

@lmt-nw7zs 10 дней назад

@@markblanch2905 the head office is in Delft the Netherlands,

@Dene181 14 дней назад

Crazy and interesting!

@RoryHanna 9 дней назад

It's mental the fact we can build these things and know they will float is mental. The size of that ship and rigs in general is not like anything else. When you think too that these oceans are often very unpredictable and that less then 10% of the actual ocean is fully known It makes it even more impressive. Really do wonder what the limit to building these things and much more if countries decided to work together and remove costs. Especially for space projects but this will never happen.

@tsbulmer 14 дней назад

"326,496 Shaquille O'Niels"? C'mon, Whistler, don't be ridiculous - that'd be over 326 kiloshaqs! Unpossible.

@joseybryant7577 15 дней назад

After the fallout from a much larger channel switching to a subscription system; I am grateful Simon decided to just make multiple channels instead of opting for a subscription model.

@Shinzon23 15 дней назад

Which channel was that?

@randomname4726 14 дней назад

I just saw the Atozy video on that.

@wstavis3135 14 дней назад

I always hate comments like this that vaguely reference something, mostly in an attempt to make the poster seem more knowledgeable and in touch.

@joseybryant7577 14 дней назад

It was Watcher. There ya go.@@wstavis3135

@THE-X-Force 13 дней назад

What are you talking about? Throw people a bone. Not everyone is clinically online ..

@J.A.Smith2397 14 дней назад

Back to your roots here mate!

@megandonahue6832 14 дней назад

How the hell do u talk about this thing, without getting into it's mind blowing heavy compensation system and quick lift capabilities. It's what sets this beast apart from a heavy lift crane

@scabthecat 14 дней назад

It's his grift. Makes nothing but rehashing for clicks. Doesn't really care.

@THE-X-Force 13 дней назад

@@scabthecat Why are you here?

@scabthecat 13 дней назад

@@THE-X-Force Algorithm

@THE-X-Force 13 дней назад

@@scabthecat Why would you try to help the algorithm of a channel you think is grifitng? Or do you not realize that commenting and / or disliking actually helps the algorithm for it?

@scabthecat 13 дней назад

@@THE-X-Force You asked why I was here

@BMW7series251 14 дней назад

My mind is now boggled with these stats!!!!.....

@loribroadbent8573 15 дней назад

Ok Simon, this is the fifth video of yours that I've watched today, all of which are new. Did you release a video on every channel you do?

@svenlima 15 дней назад

When it will be decommissioned I will buy it and use it as a houseboat on our lake.

@frankhaugen 9 дней назад

It has anchored up outside of my home city so much, I don't see it as special 😂

@guitarheromartijn 7 дней назад

We did/do work for allseas including pioneering spirit. If i am correct it is build to deconstruct old oil platforms not build them.

@Jonasastrophotos 14 дней назад

Damn thats a cool ship

@igitaq 14 дней назад

You really should be using the most universal form of measurement, that of Danny Devitos.

@jdavidaiken 13 дней назад

Great video - but the terminology makes me twitch like reading your/you're mistakes. "Oil Rig" is the industry term for a drilling rig, which is the machinery that drills the hole and sets the well casing. This ship deals with platforms, not rigs. It's a small detail, and I'm sure most people won't care - but people with experience in the oil and gas industry won't be able to unhear that mistake which might take away from the message. Phenomenal episode, keep up the good work!

@JJ-si4qh 14 дней назад

Please make a video on oil rigs

@CtRAlTtAb 14 дней назад

can you make a video about the F-20 tigershark

@alexisjuillard4816 14 дней назад

"barges" 200X57m were talking hectars here lol

@twilightgryphon 12 дней назад

You gave us a real unit of measurement in how much it weighs in Shaquille O'Neils, but not its height in Danny DeVitos, come on Simon!

@admdubya2107 12 дней назад

“If anybody can figure out what to do with 27,000lbs of pipe.” Somebody’s mom somewhere: ☺️

@jack00scarecrow 15 дней назад

she's a beast

@psychosis7325 14 дней назад

$2.4B sounds cheap AF for that capability. Where do I order?

@pauleohl 13 дней назад

Are removed oil platforms reused or repaired or scrapped?

@andymouse 14 дней назад

I wish you could have put the Starship Enterprise next to it for proper scale, I don't know about netball players....cheers.

@user-ch9pj3zb3c 14 дней назад

I love how we live in a time where we can watch the construction of Rasputin 2.0 every few days...

@OrdinaryDude 15 дней назад

Simon. I thought the standard of measurement for your channels is in Danny DeVitos, not Shaquille O'Neals...

@garyclark3843 13 дней назад

I wonder if it could help in Baltimore?

@leodelachambre9499 2 дня назад

It is a Dutch company in origin It is a sister/brother company of heerema and blue water

@Hhhdgegej 11 дней назад

Arent windmills in shallow water areas?

@JohnMears-je4ed 13 дней назад

A Simon video, 1 day old and only 60k views???? Is the internet broken ?

@amaccama3267 9 дней назад

What to do with all that pipe? I've got a suggestion. It's going to make your eyes water though.

@THE-X-Force 13 дней назад

(4:52) 48,000 metric tons = 52910.94 U.S. tons .. or 105,821,886 pounds!! And 25,000 metric tons = 27557.78 U.S. tons .. or 55,115,566 pounds!! 🤯

@HikuroMishiro 14 дней назад

I couldn't understand any of the metrics in this video, where is the standard Danny DeVito unit?

@hatersgonnarate3973 15 дней назад

Make a vid about the A6 Intruder

@tomekkaminski2677 14 дней назад

Audi?

@hatersgonnarate3973 14 дней назад

What?

@tomholroyd7519 15 дней назад

"Nobody needs a Mercedes-Benz. Nobody needs a Porsche. The 'reasons' to buy those things are emotional." -- Lexus 400

@kingjellybean9795 12 дней назад

5:02 lol should.call the ship aqua man if its doin that 😏

@echomande4395 15 дней назад

I find myself wondering if anyone has ever seriously proposed a ship of this size and configuration, but built as a floating selfpropelled city.

@someonebald2022 15 дней назад

Is there any reason this ship can't be used to help clean up the Pacific garbage zone?

@enisra_bowman 14 дней назад

yes, mostly because it's build to lift one large thing and not many tiny ones

@someonebald2022 14 дней назад

@@enisra_bowman Big things are made of small things.

@jeremymontgomery9354 14 дней назад

"pipe laying operations" 😂😂😂

@kickinghorse2405 14 дней назад

Does anyone else find it slightly hysterical that "AllSeas" is a Swiss company? (Kinda reminds me of Swiss Navy products :)

@harmrozema3330 12 дней назад

In essence it is a dutch company, but due to economic and political factors it became swiss is my understanding.

@user-oe6gg5rw7o 14 дней назад

“Straddling its intended payload inside its slot, n offloading that ballast” well if thats the ways she wants it, she gets it! Hold on? What were talking about? Lol

@keithwalmsley1830 15 дней назад

I'd like to see pirates try and hijack this babe!!! 🤣

@joelfoss7428 15 дней назад

Actually, it would not be that hard if they had the right equipment and strategies. Helicopters and such. I hope there are cameras and armed defense and what not. This thing is quite a nice target as it is the only one of its kind. But even if you stole it, it's not like it would be easy to hide the damn thing...

@enisra_bowman 14 дней назад

@@joelfoss7428 as if modern piracy does work different than the on classical one in the caribbean sea as in: they aren't psychos, they don't want to get hurt or work, they are lowlife criminals, if they would want to put afford in it they would build a bank. And ye, even IF they would caputure it, they would put a veeery large mark on their heads

@bunyipdragon9499 11 дней назад

Damn, this thing is so big it's got to be measured in Shaq's rather than DeVito's😂😂

@TheCronan 14 дней назад

Operating costs?

@THE-X-Force 13 дней назад

Cheaper than building at sea.

@UpperDarbyDetailing 5 дней назад

For the *Amazing Grace*, did actually intend to give it’s estimated coat at three billion *dollars*, or is it actually three billion *pounds*?

@theterroraap 14 дней назад

The TLS has recently been upgraded from 48,000t lift capacity fo 60,000t of lifting capacity. Fun thing to mention is that when the two super tankers were finally connected it was decided to also make it a pipe-lay vessel. Therefore they had to cut them apart and add 7m extra width. The Koreans were not amused...

@anonymous5405 14 дней назад

We’re gonna need a bigger boat..?

@FinaISpartan 14 дней назад

Isn't the SHELL FLNG larger?

@rubensandstrom6824 14 дней назад

It’s longer and taller but “only” 60% of the pioneering sprits maximum displacement which firmly places it in a second place for heaviest floating structure and also it’s not a ship it’s a production platform for LNG

@davidanalyst671 14 дней назад

There is only one problem with this ship. While oil platforms are drilling and super popular for oil infrastructure, drilling SHIPS are becoming more of a thing. THey are building boats with a hole in the middle, and they drill through the hole in the boat for oil. Oil ships can move out if a hurricane comes through, but oil rigs may be cheaper in shallow water still