The hidden depts of a new 100 000 ton cruise ship - the main engines that you have never seen before 

Wow, 12.6MW engines, each cylinder produces the same power as a Model S Plaid. I wish the engine room on my boat looked that nice haha

Reminds me of trying to figure out what a.woman wants.

I see some deprecating comments about the…cinematography…but I fully understand-and APPRECIATE-the effort you gave to try and show all you could in such a short amount of time! I’ve been around a lot of stationary engineering spaces (co-gen plants, huge natural gas compressor stations, nuclear power prototype units, coal-fired power plants). This would be a fascinating tour for me! 😀👍🏼👍🏼

I’m a 64 year old Mech Eng and nearly always request a look around the engine room of every ferry I’ve ever been on. More often than not the Chief is delighted to accommodate my request. It’s a brothers in Engineering thing I guess!

Extremely impressive and fascinating. And super clean. Not a speck of dust anywhere. Complex engineering at its best! I'm sure changing the crankcase oil on those behemoths is challenging!

So far down. Wow. Cool. Watching from Ontario Canada 😮

The engines themselves aren't that loud all things considered to be honest, which is surprizing to say the least.

Cleanest engine room I have ever seen.

👍 I’ve been a ships engineer for 8 years. Never been on a cruise but if I ever would, is it then possible to get a tour a tour trough the engine room and other technical spaces? For me it would be the main reason to book one. I can hardly believe I would enjoy the rest of the cruise experience, much to many people on board.

Dropping your keys there is going to suck.

Do you get your "10,000 steps" in each shift! Seriously, how many kilometres do you walk each shift do you know?

The military vessel that I served on weighted 2500 tons and had 45000 hp, it was a LOT faster than this ship that I think is seriously underpowered. The old SS United States had over 200,000 hp (well over) and a cargo ship of this size would have over 50,000 hp, large Panamax ships have about 60,000 hp and post panamax ships generally have about 80,000. Large tankers generally have a little over 100,000 hp. Most cargo ships and tankers have only one main engine, a large very slow turning (about 100 rpm) diesel that turns a large (20+ ft) single prop directly. Most are 2 cycle diesels that are direct reversing (reversing accomplished by stopping the engine and then restarting it in the reverse direction). Cruise ships generally don't go very fast but sometimes weather or schedule events make it necessary to speed up. going about 20 knts. Remember too that one of these engine generators is running all of the time to make electric for the ships hotel and A/C load. The way this vessel is engineered you would need all on line to reach full speed, no spares. Usually ships can operate with one genset down for routine maintenance not to speak of unscheduled repairs. Cargo vessels generally have separate gensets for vessel electric although many have a generator that can couple to the main engine while cruising.

I'm sure it's very interesting but the way your constantly moving that camera around is nauseating.

Lots of stuff down there...

Brunel's SS Great Britain was built in 1845, not so long ago really. Mankind’s ingenuity is truly marvellous.

Where the heck is everyone.

The camera moves as if I was there looking around, that is a very spiffy engine room. 👌😉

the complexity of this ship is amazing and to design and build so that it performs is even more so.

The noise down there must be incredible.

Amazing how much skill and knowledge the engineers have to maintain all that machinery.

A long way down there!

Impressive. I'll start as a 3rd AE. 1AE Motors in hand.

Impressive, the engine room is so clean you could eat off the floor! 😉

Thanks for posting this, fascinating. It looks like a massive factory or power station. Hard to believe all this is actually floating!

Thank you very much I always want to see a video with the MAK 43C series in operation very nicely done

these 12 cylinder 12v43c mak caterpillar engines are good nice recording up close of engine room.

Replacing a crankshaft in this type of engine room must be a nightmare! 😀

You would not want to drop a screw on the upper desks 🙂

Diesel electric. Powering the propulsion units.

Im pretty sure this is the Nieuw Statendam, those engine specs in video description are straight from the Nieuw Statendam Wikipedia page.

A narration would be nice

I noticed in the video before I read the description that this must a ship where large diesel powered generators generators generate electricity to supply electrical power to the ship and power to large motors that turn the screws to drive the ship. This is different from some other videos where a large diesel engine drives the screws and smaller diesel engines drive the electricity generators to supply electrical power to the ship.

This tour reminds me of walking through a nuclear power plant, without the concrete walls and stairwells. The Azipods were invented in Finland.

And not one person to be seen...

I remember. My room was on the other side of the engine room......

who cleans all this pretty good job

I got seasick just watching the guy walking down the stairs

thenk you so very Much something most of us will not if never experience. cheers

Wow! Look @ all that equipment and wonder how and where it's all made! And to think someday that ship will be run aground in a ship breaking yard as scrap. Shame.

Impressive, leaves you speechless!

No other crew members??

I feel sorry for the service engineer who tries to do service job for the turbochargers... Not seeing any platforms there 🤔

The ancient aliens don't have anything on us today.

The engineering is a marvel the minds behind it

GRE piping seen - that's maybe for exhaust gas cleaning scrubbers?

Over 10 decks of mechanical.

Just two of those four MAK's running?

Do the main engines turn clockwise or counterclockwise?

This is an awesome video. The whole thing is very relaxing. The sound and sights.

3:17 “DANGER KEEP HANDS CLEAR” But there is no sink.

For the first minute, the part he's walking through is called the casing core

I thought plant rooms in big commercial buildings were complex but this is another level.

Does it all run itself? Where are the maintenance crew?

That is massive! WOW!

Ok, how did u get that pallet down there, or did you build the ship around it ???

How many decks did you descend in that engine room?

How to not get lost, in a vessel like that? Pufff

Amazes me how its more efficient now to create electricity and then use Electric motors to run the props now...

Marvel of Engineering par excellence.

I thought you were supposed to glide down the staircases in an engine room..?

A few things, where would the air intake be? I didn't see a Crew running these engines. You're going down all these steps and I'm thinking....you have to climb them all back up!

What no elevator?

At least the purifiers are small ufff

We need facts and figures about monumental engines. Not just a tour down a lot of steel stairs!

Is that a ship built by Fincantieri?

I love ships engine rooms fascinating places.

Not a lot of room to work on it just like a new vehicle. Basically a throw away ship.

Hi Would it not be more efficient and save space to use 1 low speed engine as in a container ship rather than multiple medium speed engines or is it just a case of redundancy Great vid keep up the good work

What is the noise level down there?

Give me the Titanic anyday

What RPM are those engines running at?

depths. Great vid!

All that machinery just to turn propeller?

Marvel of engineering 👌

Very cool. And Royal Caribbean Oasis class is 230,000 tons. All are amazing machines!

Aren't you supposed to go down the steps backwards " on a ship 🤔

Amazing video, too bad about the audio. Not sure what the problem was, but recorded well, it would also be an amazing soundscape.

Brilliant! I think the amount of motion is perfect too.

This is only the 2 engine compartmens or a quater of the entire engine room.

Which Pinnacle-class cruise ship was this? Koningsdam, Nieuw Statendam, or Rotterdam?

Just like the engine room of the MS QM2,with 4 Wartzela engine,the propulsion driven by electric motors,3.3kilovolts supply.

Should have provided a lift in the E/R ,

Put a flight deck on top of that thing and the Navy could have a luxury a/c carrier

this is the rotterdam ship holland america lines

Why are all watertight Doors open?

“Hidden debts”. I think you mean “depths”. It pays to get an English speaker to edit your text.

I have dreams like this going down down down

Say your prayers now! Cuz if she sinks or capsized you ain't comming home what a maze

I'm gonna bet these engines are louder in person

What ship is this?

If something happend how the engineer go out of this 😖😖😖😖😖😖😖😵😵😵😱

Scary, when you think there are 200,000+ ton ships out there.....

When the ship sinks does this mean you have to climb back up all those stairs to get out, or do they have an Escape Hatch down there like in "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea?"

So clean, I love it

I like

That can’t be real!

clean and squared away

From few information I had have gotten, there was a new method of generating electricity by the waves. The scientist n engineers are working closely together to develop an alternative way of producing electricity by the waves. Perhaps we could see the transformation being made by the industries where the things would probably being attached at the back of the ship so it would reduces the fuel consumption which was used to heat the water in produces the steam. Whatever it is, let's race towards decarbonization for better future.

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