The Hypnotic Process of Installing Gigantic Anchor into US Aircraft Carrier

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Welcome back to the FLUCTUS channel for a feature on ship anchors, learning the complex and fascinating process of maintaining the anchors of US aircraft carriers. From conventional anchors to innovative solutions, we also explore various techniques to maintain stability in even the roughest seas.
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@The_Slippery_Slope_NZ 11 күн бұрын

None of the footage used in this was on screen long enough for me to become hypnotized.

@RJS1966USMC Жыл бұрын

STOP using artificial voices to read your narration for your videos. It's not "mili-watts": it's MEGA-Watts. WHY would a huge generator only be capable of generating "milli-watts" of power?

@horsepowerchef 10 ай бұрын

I came to say this…

@Legalmachinist 9 ай бұрын

Because all we need to do is charge up a D cell sized NiCad battery………. morons…does nobody with an education ever QC these videos?

@neilnewman3673 9 ай бұрын

I agree!

@donalfinn4205 8 ай бұрын

I’m so glad that perfect little you are around to correct the mistakes.

@robertmack7116 7 ай бұрын

@@donalfinn4205Getting things right is not unimportant.

@lyndababy 10 ай бұрын

The anchor cable (chain) plays the primary role in holding a ship at anchor. The mass of the cable and the catenary between the outer end of the cable and the ship offsets the mass of the ship and the dynamic forces acting on it. The anchor serves to hold the furthest outboard end of the cable in place. Direct pull on the anchor only normally occurs when the ship is weighing anchor, and immediately after the anchor is dropped and the ship backs away. At least that's how I learned it during my training in the Royal Navy.

@Shipspotting_Vietnam 9 ай бұрын

Wonderful!

@I_Am_Your_Problem 7 ай бұрын

Change your name to captain obvious.

@hemusbull Ай бұрын

Brilliant and understandable for all, engineering explanation!

@mikepalmer2219 10 күн бұрын

Thank you

@matthewbeesley5850 Жыл бұрын

That inner piece on each chain link is a British patent/invention from the early 1800s. It stops the chain link from getting caught inside another link, thus fouling the chain.

@MyBelch Жыл бұрын

Brittles and their penchant for supposedly inventing everything ... spare us.

@janvisser2223 Жыл бұрын

@@Argonikron Nothing.

@bigchrisrogers Жыл бұрын

That inner piece is the stud. Sometimes it is a separate forging that is inserted into the link whilst the link is hot, which then shrinks as it cools to grip the stud tightly. Sometime it is also then welded in for extra security. Some chain lengths have the stud forged into the parent material of the link. The chains made in Boston naval yard were usually like this, as were the chains made from Suel Taylors or Griffin Woodhouse in England, possibly other chain makers as well produced integral stud chain.

@raydunakin 11 ай бұрын

Thanks, I was wondering what those were for.

@DieFlabbergast 10 ай бұрын

@@MyBelch No, no: you're thinking of the Chinese! Seriously, though, almost every new invention in the early 19th century came from either Britain, France, or Germany. If you haven't read about the Industrial Revolution, which happened in the 17th/18th centuries, mainly in Britain, and which created the world we live in, then read some history books. The United States joined the game in mid-century and the Japanese in the late 19th century. All countries have had their periods of technological/cultural fertility at some point in time.

@mountainryder3056 Жыл бұрын

How about a video on how they ‘cast’ those large anchors. The ‘mold’ on that has to be interesting

@Almaco10578ft 11 ай бұрын

The Nimitz class are from previous classes of carriers. The new Ford Class use a new different design

@campkohler9131 11 ай бұрын

I second the motion.

@bruceringrose7539 Жыл бұрын

It’s not an anchor wind-lass, it’s a capstan. A windlass has a horizontal main shaft and cable drum (think of a boat trailer which), a capstan has a vertical main shaft and cable drum (as shown in the video). In the case of ship anchors, the drum is a wildcat with proper grooves to engage the anchor chain and draw it in.

@christophermarshall5765 Жыл бұрын

WRONG!! One of my friends operated a professional fishing boat until he recently retired. That had a VERTICAL anchor windlass to raise/lower the anchor, & it had written on the drum it was an anchor windlass.

@johnb9825 8 ай бұрын

@@christophermarshall5765 Then it was written WRONG!!!!! Capstans and Windlasses basically do the same job but they do have different names depending on whether they operate vertical or horizontally.. But the biggest difference between a capstan and a windlass is that a capstan has a smooth drum and is for moving rope only, while a windlass has a gypsy (teeth) that interlock with the anchor chain. Sometimes there is a drum next to the gypsy on the same shaft that handles rope. It's still a windlass.

@Daledavispratt 8 ай бұрын

We called it an anchor windlass on my destroyer, and it was my sea and anchor station more than once, you know, there in the "anchor windlass" room. 🙂

@rakaorion Жыл бұрын

13:26 Miliwatts? Should't that be megawatts?

@glennrishton5679 Жыл бұрын

LOL I was about to doze off when I heard miliwatts and suddenly awake again. Seems pretty expensive project for less than a watt.

@spvillano 11 ай бұрын

Just promoting energy efficiency. I'll see myself out...

@doriangray2020 2 ай бұрын

Thanks captain obvious.

@rakaorion 2 ай бұрын

@@doriangray2020 No problem citizen, consider yourself schooled.

@doriangray2020 2 ай бұрын

@@rakaorion what’s your next epiphany? You’re going to tell us that water is wet?

@MikeHudson-px2gc Жыл бұрын

At one point in the design of the Ford class the Navy considered eliminating the STBD anchor as a cost cutting measure. Cost cutting was a high priority in the final design of the Ford Class.

@dundonrl 11 ай бұрын

Never been around the 60K lb anchors (and 350 lb links) of a Nimitz class carrier, the biggest I've seen used was the 40K lb anchor and 155 lb links on the USS Essex LHD-2, they are still HUGE though!

@user-be3ir9if6s Ай бұрын

У нас кинжалы любят охотится, за этими шкафами, набитыми топливом и взрывчаткой, такой фейерверк выйдет, Красота.

@DeadEyeDave 11 ай бұрын

While showing painting of the anchors, you never mentioned why some anchors are painted gold, while others are gray. A gold anchor is awarded to a ship that has a high retention and re-enlistment rate.

@regenwurm5584 Жыл бұрын

I don't have any aircraft carrier, why do I watch this?😂😂

@TwoFingeredMamma 4 ай бұрын

You are about to be conscripted to fight Russia in the upcoming WW3. These videos are to subliminaly train you in your roles when you are eventually forced to enlist at gun point. Different training videos are send to differing people depending on their skill sets and are strategically placed in their recommended to view box with other videos that the algorithm knows you are not interested in ensuring that you will watch the subliminal training.

@repsfo Жыл бұрын

Mega watts not miliwatts

@bmacdoug 11 ай бұрын

Great video, especially the second half about floating wind turbines. There is a small error in the script however that mistakes Megawatts for milliwatts. It's a factor of a billion, but, who's counting...

@usaturnuranus Жыл бұрын

Hydraulics. It's really amazing the kind of things that such a basically simple system will allow in the most demanding of conditions.

@darktoadone5068 Жыл бұрын

I was a line handler once when I was just a nobody E-2 on the Midway, for some reason they didn't have enough people in Deck that day and the old man put out the word all departments send out people, so obviously E-3 and below gets the job. It wasn't to hard but once the rope hit the water, good lord that thing was heavy!

@danielhowell1640 11 ай бұрын

Did they ever send you on a wild goose chase for a can of military bearing grease or a can of steam for the turbines?

@WrightViewLLC 11 ай бұрын

'84-'86 here.

@RSTI191 8 ай бұрын

A moment of negligence can cost you your life. Utmost dedication to your job is a must. Hat's off to all involved...

@LUVUTV Жыл бұрын

very impressive. I love watching them do it all

@EnriqueOchoaMaldonado-uc8kl Жыл бұрын

Que interesante documental, me gustó como le dan mantenimiento a las anclas, todos esos trabajos son muy interesantes..!! Excelente vídeo..!! Saludos

@Bluelagoonstudios Жыл бұрын

There is a faulty explanation about the anchors, the anchor and the weight of the chains gives that stability. The anchor mostly doesn't engrave itself, it's just laying on the sea bottom. Depending on the sea bottom, if the anchor engrave itself, it would be very dangerous to bringing it back up, because it would pull the ship downwards.

@happychappy492 Жыл бұрын

exactly

@janvisser2223 Жыл бұрын

Depends on the type of anchor

@davidgraham2673 8 ай бұрын

The weight of the chain is what provides the holding power. It's not the anchor. The OP has it correct.

@liameisenberg9711 Жыл бұрын

Amazing that Scotland approved a project that only produces 50 milliwatts /s 😂

@raptorsean1464 Жыл бұрын

They produce nine point five milliwatts each! 😂😂😂 13:15

@steveschulte8696 Жыл бұрын

The term used by the script reader mis-pronounced the 50 milliwatts instead of 50 Mega Watts. ( 50m(illi)W vs 50M(ega)watts)

@marcusbutzin8368 Жыл бұрын

Smaller is cheaper and flies under tighter regulations for larger plants and pollute less?

@65gtotrips Жыл бұрын

That’s actually all they produce 😂 @13:25

@afpwebworks Жыл бұрын

@@raptorsean1464 Save the owners of the wind turbine a boatload of money. They can get the same energy output from a couple of D cells from the supermarket.

@robinblackmoor8732 9 ай бұрын

My brother was in the U.S. Navy on the USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70). His duty station was the anchor room.

@javierrinconfernandez3566 9 ай бұрын

Ñp

@erickkurz3696 3 ай бұрын

we went out with her for primary sea trials

@iansmartel5473 Жыл бұрын

It is actually the weight of the chain that holds any ships in place.

@billhuckabee Жыл бұрын

You're saying just put the chain in the water, no need for the anchor.

@iansmartel5473 Жыл бұрын

@@billhuckabee The anchor will dig into the seabed, it is the total weight of anchor and chain that holds the vessel, how heavy is one of those links in the chain.

@rogerstlaurent8704 Жыл бұрын

@@iansmartel5473 a lot around 150 pounds per link times the length of the chain

@lynnkenney 10 ай бұрын

I believe it is the chain's slack weight that causes the force on the anchor to be horizontal which causes it to dig in. When the anchor is pulled in the force on the anchor becomes vertical as the required slack in the chain is removed.

@MauricioRicardez Жыл бұрын

Impressive. All your videos are beautiful.Thank you for your great work.

@railroad9000 Жыл бұрын

The minesweeper I was stationed on had (2) 500 pound bronze Danforth style anchors.

@ghostgarden8032 11 ай бұрын

I was stationed on the U.S.S . Orian AS18, submarine tender, we were coming back from a cruise from a port in Spain, they medmored the ship, tied the bow on to bouy's , and tied the stern, to the pier, when they were dropping the starboard anchor chain, they lost brackes on the winch system, and the anchor chain went in the ocean, it made a whole lot of niose when it dropped

@NBZW Жыл бұрын

Would slip over and watch the anchor chain for Forestall being forged at Charlestown navy yard in 1955, only a few were put on flatcars at a time due too weight and size.

@jeffwisemiller3590 Жыл бұрын

You might want to change the rating on that 1 wind farm. 950milliwatts isn't very efficient. I think you meant megawatts.

@Zerpersande 27 күн бұрын

And you need to reconsider the use of ‘efficient’.

@irober02 Жыл бұрын

Anchors anchor anchor chains. Anchor chains anchor ships.

@glennrishton5679 Жыл бұрын

Anchow watch, anchor lights.

@fasteddie7997 Ай бұрын

How many fathoms is it between the white links???

@stealthassasin1day291 Жыл бұрын

3:42 It look like they missed a few spots during the paint roller application...

@jordan38r 10 ай бұрын

on the ground.

@luapkirner5331 8 ай бұрын

Do anchors ever get stuck? And if they do, how do they unstuck them?

@mikepalmer2219 10 күн бұрын

Just jiggle the chain a bit. 😝😜🤪

@grimmvargo 11 ай бұрын

what music was used during the floating turbine portion of the video?

@erickkurz3696 3 ай бұрын

first. they dont cut the chain with a torch. there are detachable links at regular intervals second. they are painting it gold for a reason...retention award for the ship

@fredread9216 Жыл бұрын

Very interesting, thanks. I am surprised that ship anchors have not evolved with the rest of modern anchors. The old fashion “navy type” anchor or similar seem to still be the norm. Far superior anchors are now available and in use, but not on large ships?? Just slow and expensive to change?

@georgevcelar Жыл бұрын

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

@rogerstlaurent8704 Жыл бұрын

@@georgevcelar Words to live by or KISS - Keep it Simple Stupid

@d.jerrycook2994 Жыл бұрын

"milli-watts"???

@joemarchinski914 Жыл бұрын

9 milliwatts from an of shore wind turbine huh? good enough to charge 2 cell phones at a time.....well worth the hundreds of millions of dollars to build....

@integr8er66 Жыл бұрын

The chain is NOT made to hold the weight of the vessel, only the wind and current loads.

@hughsmith7281 Жыл бұрын

Thank you.

@LuisAguilar-tp2iz Жыл бұрын

God bless america 💪🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲

@philgiglio7922 11 ай бұрын

13:33 believe you mean megawatts and Not milliwatts .

@AndrewGrey22 4 ай бұрын

I suppose people in deep trouble in the Navy are the 'lucky ones' who get to paint the anchor and chain?

@Giorgakiss 4 ай бұрын

What kind of iron are these anchors made of?

@donniecatalano 3 ай бұрын

I kept hearing "anger washing". Even thought that would be a good idea.

@JohnDoe-ny1wp 3 ай бұрын

"I'm a Proud US VET'. What did you do???? 2[50 1st class Anchor Painter.

@lesmith939 3 ай бұрын

Fascinating. Thank you.....

@Shipspotting_Vietnam 8 ай бұрын

Great engineering when they can create big things!

@christianweagle6253 Жыл бұрын

"I paint anchors, like my faddah did and his faddah before him. I come from a long line of anchor painters."

@brucemartini2288 4 ай бұрын

i want some of that massive chain! set in the top of a short concrete wall- for yard decor

@HobbyOrganist Ай бұрын

I own one link of a chain like the one on this ship, I bought it off a ship salvage outfit and they brought it over in a container full of salvage they sell from the ship breaking yards in India, UPS delivered it and at 149 pounds it was one pound under UPS's max weight limit per parcel LOL. One link= 149 pounds, imagine the weight of that full chain in the video!

@retirednavy8720 11 ай бұрын

I spent nearly 3 years on the USS Abraham Lincoln CVN-72. Each link of anchor chain weighs around 350 lbs. Everything on a carrier is huge.

@kansasross 11 ай бұрын

The navy could reduce the weight of the anchor and chain by making them out of plastic and cost less by ordering them from China. Donald Trump could order it from his Chinese Friend and make Mexico pay for it.

@ryanjoseph8694 Жыл бұрын

Still working on that ship in Newport ShipYard.

@antoniograncino3506 11 ай бұрын

So I assume the people who handle all this mooring gear are required to attend anchor-management classes ?

@BobBrandon 3 ай бұрын

Are anchors and chains still made in USA?

@ejohnfel Жыл бұрын

Wow, 50 whole milliwatts.

@louishall5048 Жыл бұрын

How do I turn down the speed of the vocal playback? The

@GungaLaGunga 3 ай бұрын

4:47 omg my back hurts just watching that

@Slikx666 Жыл бұрын

Wow, i never knew the an anchor could be hydraulic. I thought it would be the winch that was hydraulic, well they say we lean something new every day. 😐

@richardrios396 Жыл бұрын

You say they usually weigh between 30 and 50 tons each....then you say the largest one ever weighed 36 tons.....

@kurtwm2010 11 ай бұрын

Well, that's between 30 and 50 tons :) He could have said between 1 and 100 tons :)

@Roybwatchin 8 ай бұрын

I've always wondered how the anchors can reach the ocean floor and dig in when the water is super deep? Surely there's only a certain amount of chain they can carry, so I have to assume there's no way the anchor will reach the floor in mile deep water?

@johnb9825 8 ай бұрын

Right. A ship won't anchor it a mile of water... there is no reason to really.... plus, there are 5280 feet in a mile. An aircraft carrier only has about 1000 - 1500 feet of chain per anchor..

@markweiss7538 3 ай бұрын

So we know milliwatts in Scottish turbines, what about on installing an anchor on an aircraft carrier?

@Daledavispratt 8 ай бұрын

4:25 No, he should have had that pelican hook off in one swing of that hammer. Time to send him back to the mess decks...

@harveysmith100 Жыл бұрын

Between 30 and 50 tons? Not sure where he is getting his information from.

@c0ldc0ne 3 ай бұрын

What's the hypnotic part?

@threethrushes 10 ай бұрын

If the U.S. Navy goes anchor-shopping, do you think they ever take advantage of 2-for-1sales?

@tyronemarcucci8395 11 ай бұрын

A gold painted anchor represents a high re-enlistment rate for the ship.

@user-mu5mq1en5c Ай бұрын

Плавучая могила...

@enigmaticloremaster1700 3 ай бұрын

If the wind turbines only put out milliwatts you can charge a mobile phone , that's wonderful. But seems an awful lot of work for a few milliwatts of power.

@UncleMichaelable 6 ай бұрын

The anchor isn’t what keeps it stationary, the large weight of the chain is what does that.

@Keith-tz2jy 2 ай бұрын

I'm glad that I was and never will be apart of the us navy

@redwatch1100 4 ай бұрын

I would be total nervous wreck being on the anchor crew thinking it might snap any moment. It's even a bit difficult to watch here.

@tomcatt998 Жыл бұрын

What happens if you don't have nuff chain to reach the bottom ??

@tomrogers9467 Жыл бұрын

They just hang around for a while.

@user-Taffy Жыл бұрын

Cool

@bulkathos5207 Жыл бұрын

how do they anchor in in middle of the ocean where the water is way deeper than the anchor chain?

@macnorman Жыл бұрын

Short answer, they don't

@bulkathos5207 Жыл бұрын

@@macnorman what if the captain wanna go to bed?

@georgegoodwin9722 Жыл бұрын

Then the first mate is in charge

@ronalddavis Жыл бұрын

you dont

@johnmoore9862 2 ай бұрын

It’s Bill Watts, not his sister Mili.

@danfox1458 Жыл бұрын

Wrong it's a common belief that it's the anchor that holds a boat or ship but it's not the anchor is there to hold chain, it's the weight of the chain that hold's to boat or ship in place not the anchor

@billhuckabee Жыл бұрын

Then you don't need the anchor by your logic. Just drop a chain in the water. That would save a lot of money...

@danfox1458 Жыл бұрын

@@billhuckabee if you read my comment you'd see that i said the anchor is only there to hold the chain in place

@glennrishton5679 Жыл бұрын

@@billhuckabee If you look at how the chain rests on the bottom when a ship is at anchor you will note there is no strain on the anchor it is the chain holding the ship in place.

@drshin9893 Ай бұрын

That’s idiotic

@stupid7648 11 ай бұрын

Painting with a hard hat on don't forget to double mask also and stay succeed apart we want to be safe now

@LeoAlmeidaBRASIL 11 ай бұрын

incrível

@lukewarmwater5320 21 күн бұрын

Just the process is fine it's anything but hypnotic knobulus...

@johndennis3181 5 ай бұрын

wow, a wind turbine with a 9.5 milliwatt capacity. Amazing lol!

@jdaviqwerty Жыл бұрын

Megawatt not milliwatt

@bogey19018 2 ай бұрын

I can't believe they are polluting the oceans like that.

@waynescott-lp5pm 11 ай бұрын

Imagine being a little fish down in the ocean swimming around minding your own business, BAM that monster drops down on your head!

@cliveocnacuwenga4615 Жыл бұрын

IT MUST BE NOTED HOWEVER THAT THE ENERGY USED TO SMELT THE STEEL TO BUILD THE PLATFORMS DID NOT COME FROM RENEWABLE SOURCES: FOSSIL FUELS WERE USED to make the steel. Counterproductive??

@MyBelch Жыл бұрын

Shhhhhh. Facts don't matter.

@DaveSwart 7 ай бұрын

5:22 typically?

@patrickfurlong9169 11 ай бұрын

When I was on the Ogden LPD 5 we had to drop the anchor and the entire chain onto a barge for service. Grueling manual labor for those assigned .

@moi20003 11 ай бұрын

All the money is spent in the military, very little to make the lives of the citizens better.

@userbosco Жыл бұрын

You want to get in shape? Join the Navy.

@waynep343 Жыл бұрын

And you did not show the Captain of the Queen Mary 2 standing on the bulbus bow while at anchor.

@TranTuan68PQ 11 ай бұрын

Kênh này hay mà không có tiếng việt nam nhỉ

@MrPesht 9 ай бұрын

Imagine being a crab on the bottom of the ocean and that thing drops on your head out of no where

@everettnichols9062 11 ай бұрын

That['s a lot of steel for a few milliwatts of power!!!

@Cheka__ Жыл бұрын

They should make biodegradable anchors from balsa wood.

@stephenmuir5030 Жыл бұрын

You've found your next multi-billion dollar business. Go to it!

@threethrushes 10 ай бұрын

Can I buy one at Dollar General?

@johnb9825 8 ай бұрын

(1:30) Modern anchors are equipped with hydraulics and motors? Really?

@thatguy7085 Жыл бұрын

Called a Safe Anchor… I ordered a ‘safe’ once while on an Aircraft carrier… I was called out to the pier to receive the ‘safe’… it was a safe anchor like this… another guy ordered three sheets of plywood… we received three truck loads.