Only industrial coaters can truly realise what enormous task this is in six days. Temperature. Humidity. Inclement weather. Well done chaps!

I would imagine that was 6days×24hours. Great going. I worked in drydocking in Aust.in the '80's. and it was sheer hard-working,dangerous fun. Loved every minute. Wish I'd had a camera to record the insanity in the engine room fitting thermocouples and renewing sensors in the tanker modules. Insane fun.

I love watching ships getting transformed into looking new.👍👍👍👍👍

Looks really nice. Thanks for making this.

Beautiful and very serious about it.

Good gracious, seeing how big that ship actually is compared to the heavy equipment is so awesome. I never realized how big they are.

the sheer size of these ships is mind blowing.crazy huge floating machines.

Such an extraordinary feat in such a few short days. Amazing!!

A brilliant job done by the workers in shipyard you would think it was a different vessel all together Belfast Northern Ireland

“Hi, my name is Earl Scheib and I will paint any car for $29.95.”

Imagine how many tonnes of paint and anti foul that would need. What a massive job

Thank you for watching my video.

Amazing transformation

Great team work!

I can't even begin to imagine the costs for all the marine grade paint and the labor on a hull that size !

Human ants on a massive massive massive job. I’ve seen a few ships in dry docks and experienced them as quite massive. This, however, is on a complete different, massive, enormous, bizar scale. Mind blowing to the max.

Wow! ❤️👍🏻

What would have been good would be if you had shown the process for cleaning and painting the areas on the bottom of the ship that the support blocks covered up.

Great content

So glad to see the ship is tarped and all the lead paint dust from the blasting was contained so it didn't contaminate anything. Oh, wait, that was a different video. Oh well.

Wow, and takes me a month to do bottom job on my sailboat!!

Humungous ship

I didn’t realize that the sandblast on a ship is a half assed job .It’s not taken down to the bare steel,a”white blast”But it’s only to get rid of loose paint and hap hazardously a bit of surface rust.I assumed a ship in salt water would receive a more thorough paint job so it would last longer.But then I realized that the areas on which it sits on blocks aren’t getting touched unless they refloated it and moved the support blocks which would be time consuming and therefore more expensive.be interesting to know how much this compromised paint job costs though.

I wonder just how much it must cost just to put a ship in dry dock🤔

Only saw a couple guys working at any one time and all during day light hours. There's no way this got done with that small crew. What gives here? This would take a huge team working 24/7 in that short a time frame?

I always wonder what happens to the places underneath

How about the very bottom ? Did they paint that ? 😂🤣😅Massive job and ship !

Hmmm..............what about the very bottom of the keel and where the ship is resting on the supporting blocks

Wonder when they'll have a laser descaler big enough to do something this size? Pretty cool how it made those rusty scissors like new

What is the cost? Frequency? New propeller skaft seal,how often? Do the great lakes ships need new paint less often? Cool video, but I have questions.

Good!

This is an Average size Oil Tanker VLCC type, Double Hull type Common scenery in Middle East, Carrying Tones of Crude Oil to Countries like Singapore 🇸🇬 etc.

So they just paint over rust ?

Excellent video.

Great perspective, I wonder if the ship has ever visited it's port of registry, Majuro, in the Marshall Islands? Much doubt it, I have been to Majuro a few times in the 1980's. Presume Jin Hai Drydock is in China or Taiwan?

where the ship sits on the blocks does it get treated and painted as well?

This is done. What. Once a month?

Still using lead paint I assume?

Very nice! In which yard is this?! Hello from a sailor in Sweden 🤙🏻

Painted surface: Stay thirsty my friends.

Nice job. How often do you need to paint a ship

how many tons of paint

This was too short! Subbed. 👍☘️

How does the very bottom get painted? 🤔 under the chocks?

Work done where there are no pollution controls for workers or environment...workers are paid pennies... Done in China, Namibia, South America...

How do they get the water line so straight and the draught numbers so neat.

This is an EXTREMELY INEFFICIENT process. There is NO REASON why a robot could not blast and paint the ship 10x faster. A mobile, telescopic power boom with autonomous lidar control is low tech compared to the rest of the computers powering that ship. Unless, of course, it's politics and not economics driving this industry.

Hey, so do I, they are probably just a acceptable part of the process. I'm wondering if the final paint job is full of copper? Who's testing it? This is a huge money job, which has huge potential for corruption, which is endemic in the far east

make sure the brush marks go bow to stern, otherwise you will reduce her top speed!

they did not remove all paint by sand blasting, no sign of pure metal

They continued the anti fouling right up to the gunwhales. You don’t get barnacles up that high!!!! No topside paint.???

Besar sekali kapalnya?

They paint right over the rust???????????

*_When you compare the size of the hull to the size of workers in man-lifts, they look tiny..._* Cleaning, Prep, Hydro-Blasting, Sand-blasting a 1,000 foot x 200 foot ship hull and applying multiple coats of specialty paints normally takes much longer than 6 days. Crews must have been working around the clock. *_How would you like working 100 feet up in shaky man-lift at night..._*

It's amazing to see how quickly a job such as this can be completed when it isn't being hampered by regulations from government and trade unions. Six days here, and up to six months in other places. A water tower, in a village, in eastern Ontario (Canada) was de-scaled and repainted. The job took six months. First the complete tower needed to be covered by tarps, which had to be supported by scaffolds. Workers inside the tent had breathing equipment, and all the sand blasting (not actually sand) and painting was done to environmental regulations, so as to keep the entire process contained in its own atmosphere, and not pollute the outdoors with rust dust and paint fumes. The actual descaling and painting took about two weeks, but the environmental concerns made the job take six months. This is how it's done in Canada and that's why Canada is carbon neutral. Unlike the far east, where things are done in the open atmosphere. That is why Trudeau's carbon taxes do nothing towards climate change, especially when the industrialized nations ignore all environmental issues.

2007, 333 metre oil tanker registered in Marshall Islands

you cannot pressure wash the entire hull in a day nor can you sand blast the hull in a week!

A week. This would have taken 2months in a US yard.

Seven days from start to finish. I'm calling shenanigans on this one.

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Wonder what the final bill is

It looks like theyre painting it in patches, theyre missing a bunch of spots.

Painting with what ?? Names etc.

So fast. . Need details also

Location of dock please. Nice video mate.

Blastings

Humans look like tiny ants next to the hull.

that is Fucking massive

Its quite a small prop for the size of ship.

That is hardly the biggest ship in drydock

@3:39 Missed a spot.

Six days and six nights more like.

Hello...nice to see your video, can i ask what is your company/ agency from this ship?

Antifoul right up to gunwhales. You done get barnacles up that high!!! No topside paint??? Cheap job.

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You missed a spot

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This is not the biggest ship. Calm down.

Looks good, the bottom never gets painted but its not a really good job, cheap touch up in a Chinese yard.

Rename her “Trump Loyalty”.

i don't like the colour