The Impressive Process of Moving Gigantic Ships into Dry Docks

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Күн бұрын

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@stevennewman8276 Жыл бұрын

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!

@pleasureincontempt3645 Жыл бұрын

Imagine displacement and wonder why you got to do the shitty work.

@larrymicheal2179 Жыл бұрын

hey stave can I have your mail please

@coppeis 18 күн бұрын

It's 2am time to learn about drydocks!

@jimsvideos7201 Жыл бұрын

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

@nameinvalid69 Жыл бұрын

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

@kafka8886 Жыл бұрын

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

@armoris66 Жыл бұрын

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

@jamesplymire5342 Жыл бұрын

😂

@mikerussell490 6 ай бұрын

No, I don’t have time or interest to read 5k plus comments.

@dome204 26 күн бұрын

This is so cool.

@yuripavlov8508 Жыл бұрын

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

@thegrinch8161 Жыл бұрын

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.👍⭐

@venkateshpatel60 Жыл бұрын

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?

@bobhailey1290 Жыл бұрын

Another KZfaq video said they position the blocks differently next time they paint it and they just don’t paint that area of the ship until next time they dock

@venkateshpatel60 Жыл бұрын

@@bobhailey1290 thanks for the answer, that makes sense.

@Oklahoman-in6ph Жыл бұрын

Great Question! I was wondering about that..

@oneshotme Жыл бұрын

Enjoyed your video so I gave it a Thumbs Up

@quedizzle7378 Жыл бұрын

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

@gulkhatab4417 Жыл бұрын

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

@Alfais16 Жыл бұрын

his work is very good

@bernieshort6311 Жыл бұрын

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.

@kennethgrindrod6438 Жыл бұрын

I have worked a naval dockyard in the U K as a painter we’re the shipwrights used to move blocks at certain times so we could blast and paint the areas before putting them back and the same went with the long support poles

@bernieshort6311 Жыл бұрын

@@kennethgrindrod6438 Thank you for this reply, it has answered my question. I have never seen this done but to be honest, as an engineer, I was always busy when in dock. Thanks, you for clearing this point up for me.

@DownhillAllTheWay Жыл бұрын

I spend a lot of time perusing KZfaq, and not very long ago, I came across an article about paint that said it could be applied, and would dry/harden "even under water". It may have been an epoxy paint, but I can't remember. It didn't say if this is ever used for maritime purposes, but for the relatively small areas along the keel blocks, mechanical scraping (I'm sure there are automatic gadgets that would do it), and underwater applicable paints would seem a solution of sorts. Have you ever come across that, Bernie?

@charlesgantz5865 Жыл бұрын

I had heard that when a ship is drydocked, the locations of the blocks relative to the ship are set very precisely using surveying equipment. Then the next time the ship is drydocked, the blocks are positioned so the parts that weren't painted last time now get painted.

@bernieshort6311 Жыл бұрын

@@charlesgantz5865 Thank you

@carvalhinhoZ777 Жыл бұрын

Outstanding video 👍👏

@cecilwilson5442 Жыл бұрын

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 ☘️☘️☘️☘️

@kirkwilliams5740 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing this video with us

@ahmetaltn9750 Жыл бұрын

Thanks

@bradolsen8629 Жыл бұрын

Awesome video thank you

@infopelayaran3917 11 ай бұрын

Kapal yang sangat canggih dan besar

@lubecavi 7 ай бұрын

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

@ensnipe2000 Жыл бұрын

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

@theobserver9131 Жыл бұрын

Is David Jones your given name? Or is it your chosen moniker? Heck of a name for a sailor!

@ensnipe2000 Жыл бұрын

@@theobserver9131 yes that is my name given at birth, Named for one of my uncles

@theobserver9131 Жыл бұрын

@@ensnipe2000 wow! You must be aware of the term "Davy Jones locker", right?

@ensnipe2000 Жыл бұрын

@@theobserver9131 yes I was in the Navy

@theobserver9131 Жыл бұрын

@@ensnipe2000 I got that, but I wasn't sure if that was a term in circulation today. :-)

@VSBChannel-ForU 2 ай бұрын

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

@larou14 Жыл бұрын

Wouahhh...Very very impressive !!! 😯👍

@Groveish Жыл бұрын

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

@jameslowmanjr6141 Жыл бұрын

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.

@gulkhatab4417 Жыл бұрын

I must say proudly I was responsible installation of hv,mv,Al lv equipment at wind energy power plant ,name is borwin beta 3,an folwin beta 2 at Dubai dry docks

@affleck80 Жыл бұрын

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

@brazillo19 Жыл бұрын

Each block is lowered and moved individually to paint the area, then placed back to the original position.

@ThekiBoran Жыл бұрын

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

@fat_boy647 7 ай бұрын

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

@amosgona5250 Жыл бұрын

Nice

@ArturoGarzaID Ай бұрын

Unreal

@erbenton07 Жыл бұрын

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

@overdoneone Жыл бұрын

I was wondering the same thing. Anybody??

@myblueshades Жыл бұрын

If you notice at 1:42 there's wooden chocks loosely pinned to the main blocks. So it's a fair assumption that they are removed & repositioned in rotation until they all have new paint.

@overdoneone Жыл бұрын

@@myblueshades Thanks for your answer.

@davidbross6942 Жыл бұрын

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

@nmccw3245 Жыл бұрын

Blocks are redundant enough to remove a few at a time, paint the exposed hull, then replace the blocks before repeating the process. You can also use different blocking plans during each drydock period so the same locations are not covered every time.

@ABEYMUS76 Жыл бұрын

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

@johna.4334 Жыл бұрын

???

@kirkwilliams5740 Жыл бұрын

Marvelous engineering

@byronpink9061 Жыл бұрын

Very informative! Thanks for sharing!

@chippyjohn1 Жыл бұрын

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

@umarkhan5419 Жыл бұрын

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

@jameshollen9723 Жыл бұрын

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

@user-lv4ib6kf4o Жыл бұрын

good

@Alpha-Alpha Жыл бұрын

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

@dmitripogosian5084 Жыл бұрын

I know how it is done on sailboats. When she is lifted to be put in the water, I stand with a can of paint to quickly paint the parts she was sitting in while on shore :)

@Kebekwoodcraft7375 Жыл бұрын

Did they have dry docks for floating dry dock ?

@josephastier7421 Жыл бұрын

6:52 Three floating drydocks nested like Russian dolls.

@dillonbrown8582 Жыл бұрын

Nice and educational!!

@52robbo Жыл бұрын

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

@sergeyman8152 Жыл бұрын

👍

@ChadWilson Жыл бұрын

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.

@francisschweitzer8431 Жыл бұрын

Actually there is a complete ship that can sink under a vessel… and lift it .. it looks like a big Flatbed boat

@theothertroll Жыл бұрын

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

@adrianholroyd4533 Жыл бұрын

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

@EVAUnit4A Жыл бұрын

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...

@panderichthys_rhombolepis Жыл бұрын

Wow!! What a story! And such great good coincidence.. I too have a story to tell -- see the comments above. ☺☺

@EVAUnit4A Жыл бұрын

@@panderichthys_rhombolepis So, what's the story?

@stevennewman8276 Жыл бұрын

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

@stevennewman8276 Жыл бұрын

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

@umarkhan5419 Жыл бұрын

I wanna work in ship as a crew mechanical

@natehill8069 Жыл бұрын

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

@borneoinfo487 Жыл бұрын

Then how to dry dock the dry dock?

@xana6696 Жыл бұрын

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

@mramankumar0 Жыл бұрын

How much cost of this beast

@flioink Жыл бұрын

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.

@dzello Жыл бұрын

Ships are generally built to fit the canals. The size of the canals is a soft limitation of ship building: it's not super worth it to build a massive ship that can't go through the canals because it ends up very limited.

@theobserver9131 Жыл бұрын

They need to be smaller than the Ocean. ;)

@rburn6677 Жыл бұрын

Ships can't be too long because when they go through the swells and the stern is on one swell and the bow is on another the midships need to still rest in the water between the swells for support. A real long ship risks the midships section being out of the water and losing support of the ocean and frequently will break the ships back and snap it in two.

@stevennewman8276 Жыл бұрын

@@rburn6677 Broke Back Boat?

@rustteze Жыл бұрын

@@dzello not all ships need to go into canals... Many don't even need to go to shore for cargo operations

@InsaneBimmer Жыл бұрын

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.

@Moop747 11 ай бұрын

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

@TeKn0_410 Жыл бұрын

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)

@CCPrimeCC Жыл бұрын

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

@c123bthunderpig Жыл бұрын

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

@marcbautista00 Жыл бұрын

Stealthy ad

@rupy1977 Жыл бұрын

Can Titanic be raised with floating dock?

@gulkhatab4417 Жыл бұрын

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

@gnanaraj5621 Жыл бұрын

அ💙

@toddclean547 8 ай бұрын

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

@richarddefour5220 Жыл бұрын

Pourquoi un titre en français sur un documentaire en anglais?

@jpmtlhead39 Жыл бұрын

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.