@@andreejorI hope UK ship officers knows that rescue boat and life boat are different classifications. Life boat is a survival craft, rescue boat is not.
RNLI is an amazing institution. Volunteers, publicans, shop workers, fishermen, posties etc crew these vessels at a moments notice. Funded by public donations. True heroes.
they just went from dover to 5 miles off calais to 'rescue' 500 african illegal immigrants and bring them to uk against solas regulations that state the rescued should be landed at the nearest safe harbour. i will never donate to them again
"Worried"....!? The point is that the power-pack and propulsion is efficient, durable, reliable, and the integrity of the engineering and the crafts components are integrated to be compatible with current technology.
@@corvidflight19 Brilliant comment! You are absolutely right, because a diesel tank never runs out, and batteries cannot be charged with a solar panel!
😂😂😂 I also reacted to the comment he made! A slightly different angle, with this solution and solar panels. Makes sense, doesn't it? Perhaps a little more important than the environment when it comes to these types of vessels!
The RNLI shows what can be done when the sole purpose of the organization is the provision of life saving services. My cousin is one of their full time fundraisers and I was a member when I lived in the UK. I joined after I called them out one filthy night when I saw a red flare over the Sound of Sleat in a major storm one January night. I watched them heading out from Mallaig and reaching the casualty. Next day I went into Mallaig and saw they had rescued a wooden fishing boat that had stove in some planks cutting too close to the Point of Sleat lighthouse. That was the old Arun class lifeboat, "Davina and Charles Matthew Hunter". And guess who paid for that one.
What the video doesn't cover and other commenters have touched on is that the RNLI is a (mostly) volunteer staffed charity that goes out into the seas around the British Isles as a search and rescue service. The north sea isn't a fun place to be when the weather is bad but they will still jump in a lifeboat and go looking for anyone in distress when the call comes in. Kind of like an unpaid coastguard really. One of the few "big name" charities that I'll give money to.
Most Rescue vessels of the severn-class are now equipped with the even more powerful MTU 10V2000 M94 with 1600 hp each. The narrative is very much focused on the british RNLI and the equipment they use, but there are others out there. The german DGzRS for example with its largest rescue cruiser, the Hermann Marwede or the very new 28m-class.
I've piloted the SPHL and they are great for emergency craft, we dropped 40 feet headfirst into the water from a gantry and as it emerged from underneath it zoomed off in a straight line away from the danger, (this wasn't an emergency it was my offshore OPITO certificate course) very easy to steer, and lifting out the water could not be easier, just hook it up and lift,
A friend in Norway who works for one of the bigger oil/gas companies got me interested in this subject after she described being trained for lifeboats like the SPHL you piloted. (She got to take 'the plunge' from crazy heights.) I've often wondered what the max range might be on a similar size lifeboat.
The Vanguard shown can be used for off shore oil rigs. A RU-vid channel featured one he purchased that was once on a rig. It had been stored over 20 years so needed some tlc!
@@iannuttall8649 Many life rafts/boats smell of fiberglass resin, rubber, vomit, or some combination. Not something you want to get into in rough seas.
@@xrismanessa3993 Life boats and rescue boats have different missions. They are not the same thing. Most of the boats shown on the video are rescue boats.
I would consider quite a few of these as rescue craft or patrol boats instead of life boats. To me, a life boat is something launched from a ship or boat to save lives of crew and passengers after said ship or boat is no loner sea worthy or there is a threat on board such as fire or some other hazzardous situation. I do like that all of them are motorized since escaping a sinking ship is useless if you are stuck drifting with the current possibly dying from dehydration, starvation or exposure long before being found.
No lifeboat is any good if the people onboard a watercraft/ship can't get to it and into it. Ask the crewmen on the RORO car carrier Fremantle Highway that caught fire a couple weeks ago. Crew Members had to jump off the side of the ship because they were forward, the lifeboat was on the stern and the fire between them and the lifeboat. Several were severely injured and one died.
Strange how people just slap ships together without any thought of safety and common sense. I suppose because them and their families will never be on the ship so who cares about safety, right.👺
An airbag doesn't help when your car catches fire as well. Still in most common accidents it will help... The lifeboats on the fremantle highway where not located on the aft, but on the centre satarboard and Portside... Also liferafts where there, but hence the complete ship was on fire in a very (too)short period of time causing the crew not having enough time to disembark...all because people THINK electric cars are better...
You will never find an Electric car in my driveway. People do not think about where the electricity comes from or the environmental impact to just get eh car produced whish is far more than a gas powered car. Daughter worked for SOCAL gas before transferring to NW Natural. Their biggest customer was the electric generation plants.@@Snakebestofbest
that's why generally it is considered far better to have many small lifeboats all over the ship then a couple of big ones, most passenger ships actually carry more lifeboat space then they have passengers to always allow for some boats to be unusable or inaccessible. the incident of the Fremantle highway was very different though being a chemical fire didn't allow enough time for an orderly evacuation to take place and as the ship stayed afloat while burning the reserve rafts didn't auto deploy like they would have in a sinking.
To avoid confusion it’s the RNLI Severn not seven. RNLI craft are named after U.K. rivers in this case the River Severn on the west coast of England which leads to the city of Bristol
being american, I would guess this guy is as fat as the river Severn is wide and as shallow as the water on the beach at Weston-Super-Mare when the tide is out - sincerely, non-american guy@@sdriza
A “lifeboat” is any vessel designed and used expressly to save people in distress at sea. In the UK, shore based lifeboats (RNLI) predate those carried aboard ships. These boats are not “patrol boats” because they only respond to actual emergencies, being crewed by volunteers who have regular jobs. In fact the L in RNLI stands for “lifeboat” and all their craft are land based. So, while the USCG Cutters are not specifically lifeboats because they perform other functions, too, the RNLI vessels were called lifeboats before that name was used for boats carried aboard ships.
I don't think #1,#5, #7, #9 are lifeboats, they could be patrol or rescue or all weather transportation boats. What's your definition of a lifeboat? Lifeboats are those used to sustain life for a relatively short period of time until they can be rescued.
@@baronamru5893 He’s right. There were specialist, land-based pulling boats (rowing boats), known as lifeboats, crewed by volunteers, that were only launched when there were people in distress. At this time, ships boats were all general purpose vessels and didn’t have the interior space needed for the buoyancy that made the land based boats the original “life boats”, able to survive conditions that would swamp and sink a ship’s boat.
@@q.e.d.9112 OK, I used to live on oil production platform. I was, by requirements, must familiarize myself with SOLAS. To me Life boats are those used only in emergency situations, they must be stationed at particular area of the platform or the ship, regularly inspected for readiness and may not be used for another purpose (except safety drill), it is a dedicated vessel to the platform or a ship. Along with lifeboats there are also liferafts (no engines). The content of the channel shows some (not all) patrol boats, Rescue boats, pilot boat and other multi purpose vessels that can be used for other purposes and are not dedicated to one platform or particular mother ship. I believe, the technical requirements for lifeboats and liferafts are clearly stated in SOLAS manual. But you know, it's been a while since I visit a platform, now I am retired, there could be changes that I am not aware of.
@@baronamru5893 RNLI lifeboats were lifeboats before the type of lifeboats you consider lifeboats. They are actually where the name came from, Royal National LIFEBOAT Institution. Look up the history.
The United States Coast Guard had two of the boats that could do a 360 roll and right it's self i was told the dishes didn't stay on the table - They were stationed at Depoe Oregon - Good group of guys they are there when you need them
There's no doubt that all the braches of our military are incredible fit and extremely well trained !!! But in my mind , its the coast guard are hands down the craziest !!!!! What they do and in the conditions they do it in are just without words!!!!! The coast guard pass up the word skilled as soon as they sign the paper to inlist !!!!
🚀 Each upload feels like a tech adventure I don't want to end. Kudos for keeping us hooked, and know that we're eagerly awaiting more tech goodness! 🌐📹
Greetings from southern Ontario Canada I really enjoyed the video but are any of these lifeboats used on a cruise ship something most traveller's dont think of?
That RNLY7 would beat my Orka 535 boat for fishing at sea !! Wishing that it would be my next fishing boat for going to sea. Simply a beauty. My Orka has two outside engines. A 60 Hp and a 6 Hp for emergency to get me home. But that takes foreever i have experienced. So that extra speed would also be very welcome. Now to catch some fish. That has been worthless for almost 20 years. 😪 But it is much fun to be at sea.
On the large life rafts with so many on board. Hope they are spotted & recovered quickly. Rations would be sparse normally but in such large rafts? Plus, what goes in also goes out. Coordination of large numbers? If all maritime trained - some issues but can be managed. If not maritime trained or even to an "awareness level"? That could be a real challenge. If in strong weather too? Need to have some clever, adaptable, coaches for crew assigned to each "soft vessel" (raft). The people skills could be almost more important if not equally important to maritime.
You cant compare emergency life boats with coastguard life boats, the "Emergency Life Boats" are strictly there for emergencies and safety of life at sea and getting away from the hazard providing the most life support as possible. the Coastguard "Life Boats" are rescue boats, boats to save lives. This is like comparing average people with zero medical background and a basic first aid kit at home, and an Emergency Room Doctor. The two are very different "things". Also, Pilot boats are similar aspects in design for Coastguard "Life Boats" but also used in extremely different jobs/roles. They are literally used to transport "pilots" (A senior harbour master/qualified and heavily experienced person to board incoming/outgoing commercial/government vessels. As well... again, you cannot compare Emergency Lifeboats and Emergency Life Rafts in the same video. Yes, same purpose but very different backgrounds and purpose of issuance.
-- Need to read up on how these systems self right (flip over when capsized). Unless someone would like to give me the quick version here. Building a plane now, looking to build a boat from scratch when the aircraft is shaken down.
@@stupitdog9686 And a lighter, air tight, air filled crew compartment on top makes use of the low slung engines and such. Plus they have pendulum actuated systems to cut the engine while inverted and make sure everything stays air tight.
That Coast Guard boat might right itself when capsized ,but I'll bet the crew won't be on it when it rights itself, all the tests were done without crews aboard. Another milestone for the safety of an empty boat.
As a mariner with ferry experience I would 100 percent disagree with you. It's extremely quick to load people and the large ones like this are very hard to capsize. It's ideal for shipsv with passengers
# 2 looks like an over complicated mess. I don’t think it would go smoothly in an actual emergency. Everyone hold on while we inflate this massive raft and get 200 people on one boat. Especially in rough seas.
3:53 "a payload capacity of 600kg" "can accomodate 6 passengers and 4 crew". They would need to be pretty skinny people. 60kg each is already way under average weight for an adult and when they have all the gear on the crew plus usually soaked passengers they are going to be a lot more than 60kg each.
@@dallasarnold8615 - I did, in fact, read what you wrote. And I happen to disagree with you, in case you hadn't noticed. It is clear that your definition is not universal as the RNLI terminology demonstrates. An astute person might take that as a clue that no single person is the arbiter of the English language. Now, may I suggest you unwind your panties and pull them out of your asscrack, take a deep breath and go have a beer.
@@dallasarnold8615 As I replied above to someone else, working in the offshore oil and gas industry the emergency escape craft were officially termed "Totally Enclosed Survival Craft", although we generally just referred to them as lifeboats.
As ships get larger, larger LBs will be needed. If they can't be loaded extremely fast and get away from the ship, they'll become part of the tragedy. So, speed of loading vs size / capacity, is an important factor. Get people in-and-away, asap. Also I noticed a max speed of these design is about 25knts. So, 300 off shore will mean 12 hours to rescue. How about a free-fall airplane launched LB?
Good movie sand any of those in real storm and we will see. Survive 10-100 big vaves it’s 1 story survive 5 hours storm is different story, best way to survive in storm never get in the
