The Impressive Process of Moving Gigantic Ships into Dry Docks 

Iv worked for 2 drydocks,worked on a dredge for yrs,worked on jack-up oil rigs all over the globe & it still amazes me how so much iron can float!

It's 2am time to learn about drydocks!

It's a quirk but in the context of pressure measurement "bar" is always singular.

the size of the floating drydock... mind blowing.

'You can't paint the rudders while they're underwater.' Dayam - the things you learn on RU-vid!

Does anyone read the existing comments before posting the question "How do they paint the areas supported by the keel blocks"........😂

This is so cool.

Many thanks for this video. Brief and and quite informative!

Thank you for making this video but it wasn't as easy when I stripped and painting,hand painting that is so it's great to see progress and cost saving working very well together.👍⭐

Great video! Since the solid cube blocks directly contact with ship. How is the contact area cleaned and repainted? Do they need to clean and paint, then flood the dock, use tug boat to move ship a little, then pump water from dock and then clean and paint the previous contact areas?

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I ALWAYS learn something with these videos! Keep up the good work

Yeh it's realy excellent video,I have very well 16 years ship yard experience with Dubai dry docks ,as marine electrical supervisor

his work is very good

I have been in many drydocks both working and observing. I learnt my apprenticeship in a Royal Navy dockyard and continued to use drydocks as a merchant navy engineer when the ships I served on were drydocked. One thing has always puzzled me and that is: When a vessel is placed on the keel blocks, these blocks are place so as the entire weight of the ship can be taken by them. These blocks are placed according to the structure of the vessels hull so will be placed in similar positions every time a vessel is docked. This means that throughout the entire life of the vessel these areas of the hull are never blasted or painted, these being the areas where the vessel sits on the blocks. I have always wondered, but never asked the question. Why don’t they re-float the vessel once its painted, move it so as the blocks are now sat on painted areas of the hull and then blast and paint these final areas. But this is never done therefor as previously mentioned, there is a massive underwater area of a ship that never gets treated. One would not accept any other vehicle that was only partially treated underneath, so why are ship accepted like this? I guess it all comes down to cost, but I don’t really know and wished I had asked the question when I was in the position to get a proper reply.

Outstanding video 👍👏

I work doing ship repair in Belfast ,, northern Ireland ,, for the Harland and wolf ship yard ,, good work but hard ,, heavy ,,I do pipe work fabrication ,, various other work ☘️☘️☘️☘️

Thanks for sharing this video with us

Thanks

Awesome video thank you

Kapal yang sangat canggih dan besar

Good day. The re are dry and floating docks. There is a sistem called sincro lift.

I have been both sides of this while I was in the Navy.....onboard ship and on 2 floating drydocks, 1 did submarines and 1 did surface ships, very labor intensive for the Engineers

I've worked with dry docks it is very hard blasting and maintenance inside the tank but you are watching out side maintenance here

Wouahhh...Very very impressive !!! 😯👍

It's not a bulk carrier as you imply in 0:46, it's a container ship

Thanks. You hear about it maybe once or twice in your life when you’re not really around water. You know I live in Pennsylvania so when you’re up at Erie lake. Maybe once man look at that big ship wonder how they do repairs on that. Well thank you I got to see how it’s done. One problem those mobile dry docks. What happens when they break down with the ship in dry dock. Do they have a dry dock that can handle them and does it go to them.

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On the keel supports, how are they moved in order to paint the hull ?

How do they clean and paint the areas where there are support blocks?

Dry dock...? Compare how heavy steel ship can float. What does it float...?

Nice

Unreal

So how do they clean & paint the parts of the ship that is sitting on the blocks?

How do they paint the parts of the hull resting on the support blocks?

Informasi menarik yang tidak pernah saya ketinggalan.. Salam ukhwah dari Malaysia 🙋‍♂️🇲🇾

Marvelous engineering

Very informative! Thanks for sharing!

What dock do you use for the floating dock to be docked?

It's my dream but until I didn't get any platform for this job

I wonder if a huge ship ever slipped off of the supports? that would be one hell of a loud crash !

good

What happens to the bits that are sitting on the blocks? You can’t paint or clean those parts

Did they have dry docks for floating dry dock ?

6:52 Three floating drydocks nested like Russian dolls.

Nice and educational!!

How do they paint the bit of the hull that sits on the blocks?

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Is there a free-floating dry dock for free-floating docks when they need maintenance? They look to be too big for a land-based dry dock.

How do they work on the areas covered by the hull supports? 😳

Ah!! The door connects to a water body! That's where I went wrong with my one.

2:10 3:40 I was a passenger on her out of Seattle, WA in 2004 for a 7-day Alaska cruise, when she was operated by Celebrity Cruises and known as the _M/V Mercury_ ! It's so creepy to see her again like this after all this time...

2:05-iv never seen a boat docked by using a pontoon or whatever that is.

At exactly 7:06 look at the star board stern crane & tell me that dont look like the Kool-Aide man!

I wanna work in ship as a crew mechanical

Is (well, I guess was) there really a ship called "Mein Schiff 1"? (German for "My Ship")

Then how to dry dock the dry dock?

What kind education i need for work at Dock? A job like ship painter or painter remover? 🤔🤔

How much cost of this beast

I wonder if there's any limitation to how big a ship can be? They're growing so much that I wouldn't be surprised if we see a ship nearing a kilometer in length in the next 20 years.

It's painful to listen to her narrate from a script. It just gives a "we have no idea about any of this I just read what's in front of me" impression.

"Military grade meshed rope" wtf does that even mean lol

As someone with blasting experience that’s not the appropriate pressure range and the also you and abrasive. The amount of pressure you had said was used would be unsustainable for any person to hold. 33gpm at 20kpsi is getting close to the limit. I do t know anyone that could hold the gun at 40k (2.8k bar)

It would be great if there is a Turkish subtitle option, thank you, take it easy

Ouch, the cost of being in the big ship business.

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Can Titanic be raised with floating dock?

I was responsible for power generation system on fpso vessels an I'm certified till 36 kV equipment installation cable termination an cable jointing ,I'm certified from ABB Sweden in 2007,an I'm certified till 36 kV ,from Nexon euromold from france

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Why don't you just skip the "bars" and give us the pressure?

Pourquoi un titre en français sur un documentaire en anglais?

I had the privileged of working ( since 1977/1988) in the biggest dry dock in the world ( at the time,and i dont know if there is a bigger one today), located on the Lisnave shipyard,in Lisbon Portugal,and at the time the largest shipyard on the world. The dry dock that iam talking abaut ,dock n13, has 520 Meters of lenght and could support ships until 1 million tons. It still exist being part of National Heritage. After the shipyard close down,almost 1500 men,from Engineers to welders and scaffolding experts,etc were invited by the UAE to Start the construction of theirs shipyards,all with Portuguese expertise. And the rest its history. I miss working under those 350,400 meter supertankers...was a world apart.

warum wird hier Englisch komentiert wenn der Titel Deutsch ist?..

DUH

J b crane operator oma dry dock

“military grade”

Could of been better very boring chat

She does not understand what she is narrating, things like saying ships have "four" engineers, and talks about the dry dock doors.

Who came up with the name flucked us? You guys really need to work on branding