The Jahre Viking - LARGEST MAN-MADE MOVING MACHINE! | Jeremy Clarkson's Extreme Machines | Top Gear 

Five and a half mile braking distance.. Needs a set of carbon ceramics.

I imagine with 35 people, it'd be quite shocking to run into one of your colleagues. "Oh Dave, been a few weeks since I saw you. Where've you been?" "On this boat."

Only a 2 mile turning radius? That's about on par with most American busses and Harley Davidson Dyna Glide models...

Suez Canal: *(Chuckles) I’m in danger*

Now we need Stig to lap it !

Must take half hour to run to a life boat.

2 miles turning radius? So about the same as Jeremy’s giant Panda limousine.

"They fitted a hideous gargoyle... on the bow" *zooms in on clarkson* 🤣

That pipe organ music is perfect for this.

Back in the day when you needed 2 helicopters with million dollar camera equipment to shoot such footage. Now a $500 drone can do better in 4k

"And there's only 2 lifeboats." The lifeboats are smaller freighters.

This video has been around for 12 years and I am simply amazed that it continue to attract so many comments. I use to be Captain of large oil tankers in my sailing years and one of the operations we do at sea is oil transfer from ultra large tankers to large tankers. That is when I came across this monster in Gulf of Mexico in the 90s. My ship was a 100,000 ton tanker and next to her, felt like sitting in a lifeboat. We get amazed by human achievements, the Apollo, ISS, bullet trains, fastest jets and the list goes on, but for seafarers, a profession that gets attention all for the wrong reasons, she is indeed our proudest because she sits up there among the greatest ever.

It had many names across the years: Seawise Giant (1979-1989) Happy Giant (1989-1991) Jahre Viking (1991-2004) Knock Nevis (2004-2009) Mont (2009-2010) It's one and the same ship, don't get confused (like me) when searching on google images "which one is bigger". :-) It's one and the same. :-)

I wonder how fast it would go around the test track

Tonight, on Top Gear: I get the Jahre Viking stuck in the Suez Canal, Richard crashes a car, and James eats some cheese

It is curved a bit, to follow the earths curvature.

That little "oh crap it moved" at 1:26 makes me laugh every time.

I had the honour of lightering this vessel at Gulf of Mexico in 1998... I was on board Jahre Progress a very decent size vessel, which looked like a small boat infront of this giant.... our head and stern lines became its springs

Clarkson: "Watch as I pilot this barge THROUGH the Suez Canal at MAX POWER!" May: "CLARKSON YOU ABSOLUTE BUFFOON!!"

If it takes 5 miles to stop and 2 miles to turn around, why not turn around twice

Jeremy Clarkson knows how to make fantastic videos

Was scrapped 10 years ago now I believe :-(

Now imagine this being stuck in Suez Canal.

- *"Its the largest, moving, man made object.......on the planet."* That just doesnt have the same ring to it.

1,504ft long, 226ft wide, weighed 261,000 tonnes empty. Filled with oil, she weighed 646,600 tonnes and sat 81ft into the water. Her maximum speed was 16 knots (18mph). Her rudder weighed 209 tonnes and her propeller was 35ft across with a weight of 57 tonnes. It's roughly 1.8x the size of Titanic.

I'm glad the Captain is calm and collected.

I was on the USS Eisenhower, which at one time, was the largest warship in the world. It was about 1100 ft long and displaced 95,000 tons. This ship literally dwarfs it.

It's hard to even comprehend something so big. Humans truly are amazing when they put their minds to task.

Oh look, he has hair.

RIP Jahre Viking

even tho she´s "just" an oil tanker, I wish they had preserved her, she truely was a testimonoy to what we humans could achieve!

Who got this into their recommended after the Evergreen ship got stuck in Suez Canal ?

That ship is now a zillion+ razor blades.

I certainly hope a ship like this doesnt get stuck in the suez canal in 2021

This came in everybody's recommendations right after the Ever Given Ship got stuck lmao.

Sad to know that two of the greatest machines ever built by man no longer exist in this world. Something that once conquered the ocean and something that once conquered the sky. *Seawise Giant or (Mont) and *Antonov An-225 Mriya Truely the legends and thank you for your service!

That's what chief Brody had in mind probably when he said 'you're gonna need a bigger boat '

This ship alone is responsible for rising sea levels globally. If it ever “sank”, it would create an entire new continent. There must be inhabitants there that still never met in person before.

The Suez Canal: Why do i hear boss music?

I’ve seen it in the harbor as a kid. It’s absolutely obscene how big it is.

What's the turning circle of that beast? Halfway across the North Atlantic?!

Geez! That's amazing.You know you could fit 50.176 _billion_ matchboxes inside and still have room for an ice-cream?

It's so big I wouldn't be surprised if there's still half of it left to scrap after all this time

I like how this host just insults the captain like it’s nothing. “I’ve been to your land and your people can’t drive, and you’re the captain of this vessel?”

something about the indian accent when speaking calmly is really soothing, and makes you feel calm (more so than most variants of the accents)

RU-vid recommending this just as a shipping barge is freed from blocking the Suez canal.

Excellent reply given by the Captain to the reporter 😀😀👍

It’s crazy seeing Jeremy so young!

Long gone - Was beached in 2009 at Alang, Gujarat ship breaking yard..

That takes me back, fifty years in fact...the largest Tanker ships then were in the 200,000 ton range then. My first time walking along the main deck was amazing, the size of the ship was staggering...when in port we were using walkie- talkie radios and Molton bicycles to get about the deck.

Only OG fans will remember the days when Top Gear was actually a show about ships... XD

Awesome. thanks 👍

The greatest soundtrack ever. :D

legends claim the Jahre Viking is still braking.

Very nice video. Was amazing ship!

RU-vid recommendations are just, perfect

Imagine that weaponized...

She had a good life; survived her damage in the Iran/Iraq war and soldiered on to 2010. Built in 1976; 34 years is a bloody good life for a ship this size considering the costs of running/degredation from the ocean etc. RIP!!

Fantastic....👏👏👏

0:59 Every single time I hear that I get goosebumps thinking "Back on the Rocks" is about to play. For a mighty machine like this, strangely fitting.

Sad that this thing was scrapped. Truly incredible piece of engineering.

I was lucky enough to see this at sea years ago somewhere in the gulf with about a metre swell at ss5 the thing had the rigidity of a piece of a4 paper

I’m pretty sure this was the first bit of Top Gear I have ever watched. Quite a good video ngl.

Spectacular piece of machinery

Why is this recommended right after the Evergreen incident?

I was hoping that the Stig would be at the wheel! that would be funny.

Just incredible and beautiful 👍

0:32 "And to ward off the bad weather, they've fitted a hideous gargoyle on the bow" *camera zooms into Clarkson*

Imagine making a ship twice as big in every metric of having both double the width, double the length, double the height... that would be a massive ship I'd love to see

I wonder if Captain Mohan is still sailing ships now? He seems a bit like a Pai Mei version of a captain (Trained for many decades & new captains are just amateur) 😀

Clarkson walking around with a hard hat on, and touching things around the ship, reminds me of when my dad would to take me to work with him lol

I love that the video ends with "positively sprightly!" How up-beat a closing! lol

It wasn't on Top Gear, it was a programme that Clarkson made about 10 - 15 years ago on Massive machinery. Awesome ship and would love to see this thing in a dry dock to view it's massive scale

"We can hear it's engine roaring, while it awaits start signal aaaaand....0:00:00!! That's the fastest ever has our track gone around anyone!"

This is on a 2020 reccommened list

If anyone is interested, the music for most of it is Mars, from Gustav Holst’s; The Planets

RU-vid: let's recommend to this guy after 12 years

My hubby Melvin Michael worked on this beauty

I like your opening of Mars from Holst's the Panets. And then Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor.

Now THIS is elite TV production

THE SUEZ ALGORITHM BROUGHT ME HERE

glad this one didnt end up anywhere near the Suez Canal.

Gr8 video, this should have been much longer. No pun intended 🙂

Was really expecting an "In the worlddd" on the opening forgeting these were different times lol

Now all we need is to try & make it cross the Suez Canal.

But Can it fit through the Suez canal though

James Jeremy and richard are the best presenters with jeremy being number 1!!!!!

That captain looks like Terry Thomas . Those magnificent men and their flying...... floating machines ..

Hammond driving this: "If this is the future, I'm so ready for it!!!" Crashes into Madagascar and destroys it.

She also holds the title for the largest ship sunk ever - having been sunk at her moorings by the Iraqi Air Force while loading oil in Iran during the Iran-Iraq war. She was later raised and repaired.

TT Seawise Giant-earlier Oppama; later Happy Giant, Jahre Viking, Knock Nevis, and Mont-was a ULCC supertanker that was the longest self-propelled ship in history, built by Sumitomo Heavy Industries in Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan. It possessed the greatest deadweight tonnage ever recorded. Fully laden, its displacement was 657,019 tonnes.

Now this is what I watch RU-vid for

Imagine if this got stuck in the Suez Canal lmao

Would be cool to have the captain of the ship do a talk show, about how it was to be the captain of such a ship

Love them clips when she`s fully laden.

Boy that editing is right out of the 60's

They should take this to the Suez Canal. Also, why is this in my feed now?

Some say he ran off with Jack Sparrow hat once. And rumors have it that he threw Jonah off the boat in the Old Testament. All we know is he’s not the stig, he’s the stig’s pirate brother.

Quite ironic receiving this in the recommendations now

I could not stop thinking about the Suez Canal