hmm...that raises in an interesting point. I don't think it would be possible to have "hospital plane" like the U.S. Hospital Ships. I mean, how many trauma centers do you think could fit inside a cargo plaine. Instead, I think it would be better if these "hospital planes" were more like dedicated planes that transported medical supplies and field hospital equipment. Basically you would have two planes. One is carrying all the medical supplies, the next is carrying all the materials to build the field hospital. These include prebuilt walls, tents, beds, etc. They both land in and area they both get setup.
Since Sam has ALWAYS to mention AIRPLANES he did compared the size of the USS Nimitz (which carry AIRPLANES to battle) and other sister ships with the Hospital Ships.
As a member of the original crew on her Maiden Voyage in 1987.....I LOVED every single moment serving on her. She is an amazing ship and because of her, my life has never been the same again. I am blessed indeed to have sailed on her, met other amazing officer and enlisted people from THREE branches of the service, and to have traveled to such amazing places...Oh, how I wish I could serve on her again. We were also a small group in the whole world who were able to receive our Golden Shellback certification while crossing the Equator ON the International Date Line. Pretty cool if ya ask me.
I don't know what a "sentera" is (my google fu failed me on this), but any random US aircraft carrier probably has better healthcare standards than any city or town in the US. The USS Gerald R. Ford for example ships around a 41-bed ward, 2 ICU beds and fully operational operating room, lab and pharmacy - and that's before putting up any tents on their gigantic, unusued and flat deck...
@rgtrooper13 Sentara (Not Sentera) Healthcare is a not-for-profit health system serving Virginia and North Carolina, with 12 hospitals, outpatient care centers, imaging centers and more.
I can only imagine. I'd loose my shit if the SS Berlin (or as she was known then "Lazarettschiff A") would steam into Hamburg one of these days... But then again, "the last time this happend" is a bit longer gone than 2001, so...
"Panita", as of this writing both the Comfort (NYC) and the Mercy (LA) are assisting the hospitals in both larger cities, so victims of COVID-19 could use the ON LAND FACILITIES in those cities. That's THEIR LATEST MISSION... Before that, in 2017 the Confort was here, just off San Juan Bay after Hurricane María to alleviate our local hospitals in San Juan when they still operated on generators. They even got selected patients from across the Island and probably some from USVI as well.
"Hospitals should avoid elevators" Meanwhile the largest hospital in my country is a 19 stories, thin and narrow building, with the ORs in the 9th floor and only 2 patient elevators
I don't actually understand this problem There is a hospital in the UK which is very tall, and modern, but has many many elevators. Several for patients, several for staff, several for cleaning staff. But there is also a dedicated elevator taking patients from the roof (helipad) straight to the ground floor (ER), at a priority. So any patients with a priority will get served first, and it's actually much faster to go up a few floors and across than it is to traverse a large wide hospital.
@@tedgrant1865 Royal London Hospital in East London Granted the patient elevators suck ass, but the priority ones are so that critical patients can go down 15 floors with minimal delay It makes sense to have lots of elevators and have the hospital vertical as well, because the distance you have to travel can be in general an order of magnitude less, assuming there are sufficiently many elevators and they work (I never had any problems as a patient being wheeled around the hospital, there was never any delay)
l was stationed on the mercy in 2010, place is huge, great capability. We did humanitarian missions in south east asia. We had lots of surgeries for cleft pallate mostly kids 😢😢 a lot of volunteers on board as well. From doctors, to religious organizations that assist with anything and everything. Great times!
Sometime June 2006, the USNS Mercy was deployed to the Southern Philippines in Pacific Partnership. My ship the USS Momsen DDG-92 was operating in the same area when we received a message from CTF70 about 0200 saying they had intel that Muslim insurgents were going to sail a small boat along side the anchored Mercy and detonate the explosives it was carrying. We went to General Quarters, fired up all 4 main engines and headed toward the Mercy at our flank speed. (Well in excess of 30 knots!) The only way we could have gone faster was to enable battle override and run the engines till they self destructed! Luckily, nothing happened to the Mercy and she continued to provide medical support to the local people in desperate need of it.
Your comments on hospital design at 6:00 were spot on. I have seen so many healthcare projects that didn't understand the importance and knowledge base that influences hospital design
You likely didn't know this because you focus on trains and planes, but those bulkheads were left in place for something a bit more practical than laziness: If the ship floods, you kind of need those bulkheads in place, and cutting hospital-grade openings in them is not exactly wise, even if you were to put in emergency doors. While a hospital ship *does* need to perform as a hospital, making structural accommodations in the name of that goal has historically proven to be a terrible idea. Don't believe me? Look up the HMHS Britannic: An incomplete ocean liner, she was requisitioned as a Hospital Ship for the Gallipoli Campaign in 1915 during WWI. In November, 1916, she struck a mine in the Agean Sea during a shift change. Now, her internal bulkhead layout meant that, even with the forward compartments flooding due to the explosion jamming the forward watertight doors in place, she *could* have limped to shore, beached herself, and been salvaged by the Royal Navy... Except the doctors had all of the portholes opened in order to freshen up the air. They opened up. *ALL* of the windows. On a *ship*. *In a warzone.* Meaning that, instead of surviving, Britannic sank in 55 minutes. Fortunately, she was going TO the war zone, and not FROM the war zone, and thus had no patients on board. That meant the only people who died were the 30+ idiots that left without orders, and were chopped up by the propellers. TL;DR - Any kind of ship needs to be able to carry out its purpose as a SHIP before it can do anything else. While a land-based hospital can get away with having as little need for elevators as possible, the needs for the safety of ships at sea come first.
I was stationed on the USNS Mercy on her maiden voyage in 1987....what an honor and privilege it was to serve on her. The Mercy is an amazing ship with amazing crew. If they ever want an old Navy gal back in again so I can once again serve on her, let me know....I am ready to go at ANYTIME. I know of a few hundred of my fellow shipmates who would gladly serve again as well. Just ask us....we will go and do!
Speaking of the USSR and elevators: old Soviet building codes required any building 10 stories or higher to have an elevator. Elevators are expensive, so what did most architects do? They built 9-story buildings. The former USSR is covered in 9-story apartment buildings with no elevators.
@@tankpenguin175 yeah that's why we added it. before it was common courtesy if at all to not shoot at medic shit, at least for the west. (also they existed before, after WWI)
In addition to US personnel, both the USNS Comfort and USNS Mercy host hundreds of medical professionals and aid workers from allied countries, both military and civilian, during humanitarian deployments to the Caribbean and Southeast Asia (Operation Continuing Promise).
Yo, I'm literally crying over these ships, like their just ships, but their hospital ships too, and they're named "comfort" and "mercy", like that's so freaking wholesome.
Imagine if they actually upgraded them and built some from scratch instead of a new destroyer. Legit would have more use and help much more people but I guess people like their guns.
@@andezong9565 I mean when was the last time the US ships actually fired on anyone? Sure it's a show of force but it's not like they lack that now. I just mean imagine the difference three entirely new designed hospital ships could do in the world? The amount of soft power you would gain in poor countries would be nuts. I'm not saying destroyers are useless I'm just saying the gain versus cost is way in favour of hospital ships. Hospital ships also would help a lot more people.
Hospital Ships, amphibious assault groups, and ships in general has always fascinated me. They’re meant to be mostly autonomous floating buildings that might look the same sometimes but built to do specific purposes
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The UK has a primary casualty receiving ship called RFA(Royal Fleet Auxiliary) Argus. It differs from a hospital ship as it is armed with self defense weapons and ammunition. It is also not painted white with red crosses. It has 70 general ward beds, 20 high dependency beds and 10 intensive care beds. It also has a large landing pad for 3 medium sized helicopters and a hangar below decks that can hold 4 helicopters at once. The ship is also an aviation training ship so it use to carry BAE Sea harriers FA2s which can be used in a ground attack role or for Air superiority.
The Mexican Navy also has the hospital ship Zapoteco that is often deployed with humanitarian aid purposes to places in need, though it also acts as a cadet training ship
Actually those “movement issues” facing the mercy and comfort are issues in land hospitals as well, even ones that are very wide. The truth is there are fairly predictable traffic patterns in hospital and there really is limited need to be able to move a patient from one area of the hospital to every other area of the hospital as long as the high traffic areas are accessible. For example, most large hospitals have multiple radiology departments that each serve a specific area of the hospital and fulfill different needs. And in highly densely populated areas, there are actually a lot of hospitals that have high rise towers for patient rooms. Sometimes it’s easier to move a patient on an elevator ride between two places near the elevator than push a very heavy bed with many attached monitors the length of several city blocks in a big city hospital.
7:10 "Even in places with incredible density and high real-estate costs like New York, most hospitals are wider than they are tall" *shows an office building in Finland*
Not really a problem, as long as you don't try to mess with it. And let's hope that it's not connected to any network whatsoever. ("Sorry mister president, our hospital ship was put out of operation by a wannacry infection... No, no, nothing to do with corona. It's a computer virus.")
Fascinating video. I worked on the UK hospital ship breifly in early 2015 during the Ebola outbreak whilst it was at anchor off the coast of Freetown, Sierra Leone.
When I was flying into San Diego, I had the privilege to look out my window upon landing to see 1 of the 2 hospital ships in port. 🙌🏻👏🏻 I Googled it and I found out it was the U.S.N. Mercy. We need 3 more hospital ships: the U.S.N. Healing and the U. S. N. Succor, or the U.S.N. Hope.
Engine deck and supply departments staffed by civilaim Mariners. I was one of them. I sailed mostly on the fleet oilers but I did have some buddies who sailed on the Comfort.
I remember when my physician volunteered for service on the US Hope, which at the time was stationed near Vietnam. I wish you had included that hospital ship in your essay.
It's so bonkers that a man tried to ram a train into one of the ships because he was unsure of the ships intentions. So many questions. Thankfully when the train derailed, it was 500 yards from the boat. I still want to know what that looked like.
Wendover Productions:. Lets start TH-cam channel containing all information about aviation as this industry is very progressive... Coronavirus: Hold my breath.... WP: Lets talk about US Hospitals...
Guys, you entire section about hospital movement is wholly incorrect. Mercy and Comfort Have almost all primary patient care on the same deck, in line with what is needed for trauma care. The flow, all on the Main Deck, is Casualty Receiving (ER) > Radiology > Stat Lab/Blood Bank > OR > Recovery > ICU. NO elevators, ramps, etc required. When this is all over, I would love to give you guys a tour.
Wendover: "This corona pandemic is kinda ruining aviation, I don't know which else to cover tho" **random dude try to crash his train into USNS Mercy** Wendover: "Aha"
@@Erakius323 He was a crazy conspiracy theorist. He thought coronavirus was fake and that the ship was there for a governemtn takeover so he intentionally derailed his train to try and hit the ship. Spoiler Alert: He didnt make it .
SC Prepper Wow, guy sounds a bit crazy. Glad he did not succeed. At a time of a global pandemic, having two tanker hospital ships, with a states worth of medical capacity, is a great asset to the U.S.A. For its own use or for building international good will. People never forget those who saved them.
Lift constructors have a Hospital emergency operation mode that they can install. It givers absolute priority to whoever can activate it. The lift goes to the floor of activation, you kick everybody (all previous calls are ignored) and it goes straight to the floor you then request.
"As much as possible, the use of elevators should be avoided" Charité Hospital Berlin, which literally has a skyspraper full of hospital beds on 23 floors: "Am I a joke to you?"
The speed of a ship is expressed in knots, here: 17 kts. Transverse bulkheads are not so much against sloshing, that's more in the domain of longitudinal bulkheads or baffles. Any capsizing due to free surfaces usually happens along the longitudinal axis.
That was before they built the longest corridor at the time underwater tunnel and suspension bridge in context, and when the bridge came, the former tourist ships went out of business, before that, trains went into the ship's basement, and then you could get out and go up on deck, visit the playground and their restaurants, and I miss the sailing trips you had as a child with them, they were incredibly big for a little boy at the age of 10, but now we can ourselves. only be happy because they have been completely redone so that they can now be used as hospital ships instead!
Ah, but they CAN be used offensively. Take in all of the enemy's wounded, treat them, then the bills they'll get in the mail in a few weeks should bankrupt the country.
When the navy retires them and if they make another ship, they should convert a container ship as the hupe cargo holds would be easy to design a hospital more efficiently. Though there are areas of separation thia could be resolved by having critical areas on the upper decks and thus can more efficiently transport patients.
Aviation industry: We are ruined...
Sam: Lets shift to ship industry
Crown princess cruises: hold my beer
*maritime
Airplanes: How could you cheat on me, Sam!
Sam: You aren't there for me anymore, I've got to move on.
@@dl2839 cracked me up
NO, HE DIDN'T!!! Sam compared the size of the USS Nimitz, which CARRY AIRPLANES to battle. He has HIS AIRPLANES covered.
Wendover: "Hear me out: WHat if we had Hospital *Planes* "
Throw out wide hallways.
*Orbis has entered the chat*
gbr.orbis.org/en/what-we-do/flying-eye-hospital
@@Maxischarlie2 I was not aware of the flying eye hospital. that is pretty intereseting.
hmm...that raises in an interesting point. I don't think it would be possible to have "hospital plane" like the U.S. Hospital Ships. I mean, how many trauma centers do you think could fit inside a cargo plaine. Instead, I think it would be better if these "hospital planes" were more like dedicated planes that transported medical supplies and field hospital equipment. Basically you would have two planes. One is carrying all the medical supplies, the next is carrying all the materials to build the field hospital. These include prebuilt walls, tents, beds, etc. They both land in and area they both get setup.
@@MightyElo i thought it was a hospital blimp in the shape of a sphere/eye
From planes to ships, Sam has it covered.
uncle Sam*
+china?
And rockets!
What about trains and cars?
Since Sam has ALWAYS to mention AIRPLANES he did compared the size of the USS Nimitz (which carry AIRPLANES to battle) and other sister ships with the Hospital Ships.
Luckily for the USN, I have a feeling a few dozen cruise ships will be up on auction shortly to be potential replacements.
Just a few?
That is if they even care enough to have more hospital ships. I’m all for it though but gotta be realistic
Airplanes: *shutdown*
Sam: I am never going to financially recover from this
Don't worry, Sam is SNARKY and RESOURCEFUL enough to find ANOTHER PASSION...
Huh, odd, my uncle is named Sam.
I think you know what I mean.
That's a Brooklyn 99 reference ladies and gentlemen
As a member of the original crew on her Maiden Voyage in 1987.....I LOVED every single moment serving on her. She is an amazing ship and because of her, my life has never been the same again. I am blessed indeed to have sailed on her, met other amazing officer and enlisted people from THREE branches of the service, and to have traveled to such amazing places...Oh, how I wish I could serve on her again. We were also a small group in the whole world who were able to receive our Golden Shellback certification while crossing the Equator ON the International Date Line. Pretty cool if ya ask me.
Hello Andrea
How are you doing today?
@@ThompsonSmith-xo5sd great..you?
@@AndreaCraneMathison I'm fine thank you for asking, where are you from if I may ask?
niceee!
Ships: nautical
Aviation: aeronautical
Wendover: *its free real estate*
Hotel: Trivago
Wendonautical.
Maybe one day on astronautical
Aethernautical
Clyde Arnold Good one!
Wendover productions: *Doesn’t make an airline video*
Me: *somethings wrong, I can feel it*
Because there is a virus in aircrafts
Dark times indeed
0:20 first plane in the video
@Khaffit MIGHTY WINGS INTENSIFIES
W-2
When a 50-year-old tanker ship has better healthcare standards than your local Sentera.
Gilbert McGlurk I have TWO local Senteras!
I don't know what a "sentera" is (my google fu failed me on this), but any random US aircraft carrier probably has better healthcare standards than any city or town in the US. The USS Gerald R. Ford for example ships around a 41-bed ward, 2 ICU beds and fully operational operating room, lab and pharmacy - and that's before putting up any tents on their gigantic, unusued and flat deck...
@@QemeH Carriers suck as hospitals. A good hospital would be a large trimaran design combining high speed and goood sea keeping :)
@@brazeiar9672 Seagoing, yes. In port, no.
All you need when moored is a big empty field to put up tents and plop down beds.
@rgtrooper13 Sentara (Not Sentera) Healthcare is a not-for-profit health system serving Virginia and North Carolina, with 12 hospitals, outpatient care centers, imaging centers and more.
It was surreal seeing the Comfort enter NY Harbor live on television, the last time that happened was around the time of 9/11
I can only imagine. I'd loose my shit if the SS Berlin (or as she was known then "Lazarettschiff A") would steam into Hamburg one of these days...
But then again, "the last time this happend" is a bit longer gone than 2001, so...
"Panita", as of this writing both the Comfort (NYC) and the Mercy (LA) are assisting the hospitals in both larger cities, so victims of COVID-19 could use the ON LAND FACILITIES in those cities. That's THEIR LATEST MISSION...
Before that, in 2017 the Confort was here, just off San Juan Bay after Hurricane María to alleviate our local hospitals in San Juan when they still operated on generators. They even got selected patients from across the Island and probably some from USVI as well.
What was not surreal was all the people crowded at the waterfront watching the ship
@@The-ct1xq - no wonder NYC has so many contagions....
"Hospitals should avoid elevators"
Meanwhile the largest hospital in my country is a 19 stories, thin and narrow building, with the ORs in the 9th floor and only 2 patient elevators
Big Brain Architect
@@Real_Eggman
"finished that hotel you asked for"
"hotel?"
"er, hospital"
"something tells me there may be something wrong with this design"
I don't actually understand this problem
There is a hospital in the UK which is very tall, and modern, but has many many elevators. Several for patients, several for staff, several for cleaning staff. But there is also a dedicated elevator taking patients from the roof (helipad) straight to the ground floor (ER), at a priority. So any patients with a priority will get served first, and it's actually much faster to go up a few floors and across than it is to traverse a large wide hospital.
Federico Olivares what hospital?
@@tedgrant1865 Royal London Hospital in East London
Granted the patient elevators suck ass, but the priority ones are so that critical patients can go down 15 floors with minimal delay
It makes sense to have lots of elevators and have the hospital vertical as well, because the distance you have to travel can be in general an order of magnitude less, assuming there are sufficiently many elevators and they work (I never had any problems as a patient being wheeled around the hospital, there was never any delay)
They look like they're made to mock Switzerland for not having any coastline 🇨🇭
alexxxth lulz
If global warming continues for a few more decades, pretty sure that Switzerland will be the only country left to have a coastline at all.
Altwin Intrig You should know that for most European countries, 34cm (13”) sea rise aint that big a problem.
We need millennia until Switzerland has a coast mate
@@keksitzee1094 I highly doubt that there is enough water for that on earth. Also, Switzerland isn't the country with the highest point on earth...
2:41 - How to intimidate other countries: Send them ships loaded with the *American* healthcare system
yeah the American Healthcare System is a force to be reconned with
Favourite comment right here
the american healthcare system could bankrupt any country (as do all for proffit healthcare
LOL!
Barnesrino Kripperino I don’t want the same people who run the dmv running my healthcare. I’d rather die than be forced to use government healthcare.
l was stationed on the mercy in 2010, place is huge, great capability. We did humanitarian missions in south east asia. We had lots of surgeries for cleft pallate mostly kids 😢😢 a lot of volunteers on board as well. From doctors, to religious organizations that assist with anything and everything. Great times!
Sometime June 2006, the USNS Mercy was deployed to the Southern Philippines in Pacific Partnership. My ship the USS Momsen DDG-92 was operating in the same area when we received a message from CTF70 about 0200 saying they had intel that Muslim insurgents were going to sail a small boat along side the anchored Mercy and detonate the explosives it was carrying. We went to General Quarters, fired up all 4 main engines and headed toward the Mercy at our flank speed. (Well in excess of 30 knots!) The only way we could have gone faster was to enable battle override and run the engines till they self destructed!
Luckily, nothing happened to the Mercy and she continued to provide medical support to the local people in desperate need of it.
So...thanks.I guess..?
Your comments on hospital design at 6:00 were spot on. I have seen so many healthcare projects that didn't understand the importance and knowledge base that influences hospital design
I was a patient on the Mercy during Desert Storm. It was an amazing ship & an amazing hospital.
You likely didn't know this because you focus on trains and planes, but those bulkheads were left in place for something a bit more practical than laziness: If the ship floods, you kind of need those bulkheads in place, and cutting hospital-grade openings in them is not exactly wise, even if you were to put in emergency doors. While a hospital ship *does* need to perform as a hospital, making structural accommodations in the name of that goal has historically proven to be a terrible idea.
Don't believe me? Look up the HMHS Britannic: An incomplete ocean liner, she was requisitioned as a Hospital Ship for the Gallipoli Campaign in 1915 during WWI. In November, 1916, she struck a mine in the Agean Sea during a shift change. Now, her internal bulkhead layout meant that, even with the forward compartments flooding due to the explosion jamming the forward watertight doors in place, she *could* have limped to shore, beached herself, and been salvaged by the Royal Navy...
Except the doctors had all of the portholes opened in order to freshen up the air.
They opened up. *ALL* of the windows. On a *ship*. *In a warzone.* Meaning that, instead of surviving, Britannic sank in 55 minutes.
Fortunately, she was going TO the war zone, and not FROM the war zone, and thus had no patients on board. That meant the only people who died were the 30+ idiots that left without orders, and were chopped up by the propellers.
TL;DR - Any kind of ship needs to be able to carry out its purpose as a SHIP before it can do anything else. While a land-based hospital can get away with having as little need for elevators as possible, the needs for the safety of ships at sea come first.
2019 Sam: Planes
2020 Sam: Ship
3000 Sam: Space ships
Helicarrier, the best of both worlds.
I was stationed on the USNS Mercy on her maiden voyage in 1987....what an honor and privilege it was to serve on her. The Mercy is an amazing ship with amazing crew. If they ever want an old Navy gal back in again so I can once again serve on her, let me know....I am ready to go at ANYTIME. I know of a few hundred of my fellow shipmates who would gladly serve again as well. Just ask us....we will go and do!
THANK YOU DOCTORS
Time Akle
Yes thank you doctors
Meanwhile in the port of Los Angeles:
"Man attempts to crash freight train into USNS Mercy"
I thought that was a joke until I found it in the news.
@@dannydaw59 Same here. What did he think the ship's "real" purpose is? Sounded like a nut to me.
Who’s somehow an engineer
Lol I heard about that.
When a 50-year-old tanker ship has better healthcare standards than your local Sentera.
Enjoy the video. My grandfather was actually an engineer for the Mercy and helped design the boiler room on the ship.
I thank him for his service.
"Elevators should be avoided".
USSR 15 story hospitals : "Hold my beer."
*Vodka.
Netherlands: nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erasmus_MC#/media/Bestand:Erasmus_MC.jpg
Should have said, "hold my bed pan"
@@athirkell Agreed
Speaking of the USSR and elevators: old Soviet building codes required any building 10 stories or higher to have an elevator. Elevators are expensive, so what did most architects do? They built 9-story buildings. The former USSR is covered in 9-story apartment buildings with no elevators.
I literally watched this to see the surgical capabilities and open heart capabilities and he straight up came out and answered. Epical.
I read the title as "How the US' Hospital Ships [verb] Work [noun]"
"How the US' Hospital Exports Labor"
it's like that headline 'British Left Waffles on Falklands'
When you said "ships [verb]" I was thinking of when someone imagines two people as a couple and I got even more confused...
You either made this comment for likes or are a doofus.
Huh, never imagined that because I've seen the articles before and the thumbnail had a red cross but that's a fun interpretation
@@1224chrisng I would have been a lot nicer if they did. 😅
“Hospital cannot, under the Geneva convention be fired upon”
*Japan has entered the chat*
What are you talking uboat?
@@ProfessorTravis japan kind of ignored red crosses
@@huntcheerio9214 The convention was signed in 1949...
That was the Imperial Army, which is gone now. The nation most likely to fire upon doctors and such medical craft would be China
@@tankpenguin175 yeah that's why we added it. before it was common courtesy if at all to not shoot at medic shit, at least for the west. (also they existed before, after WWI)
In addition to US personnel, both the USNS Comfort and USNS Mercy host hundreds of medical professionals and aid workers from allied countries, both military and civilian, during humanitarian deployments to the Caribbean and Southeast Asia (Operation Continuing Promise).
Sam: Uploads a none plane centered video.
Me: This must be a late april fools joke. Right?
TH-cam: Some videos on the coronavirus are demonitised.
Sam: makes a video about the coronavirus without it being about the coronavirus.
Yo, I'm literally crying over these ships, like their just ships, but their hospital ships too, and they're named "comfort" and "mercy", like that's so freaking wholesome.
Imagine if they actually upgraded them and built some from scratch instead of a new destroyer. Legit would have more use and help much more people but I guess people like their guns.
Mercy sounds creepy in that context imo. Almost like USS Coup de Grace. Would be a name for a palliative care centre, not a ship to save lives.
Charmander so how is a destroyer not as useful as the hospital ships? This shit is like me saying “a rifle is useless compared to a shotgun”.
Charmander also, you don’t think that destroyers have been used on humanitarian missions before?
@@andezong9565 I mean when was the last time the US ships actually fired on anyone? Sure it's a show of force but it's not like they lack that now. I just mean imagine the difference three entirely new designed hospital ships could do in the world? The amount of soft power you would gain in poor countries would be nuts. I'm not saying destroyers are useless I'm just saying the gain versus cost is way in favour of hospital ships. Hospital ships also would help a lot more people.
Hospital Ships, amphibious assault groups, and ships in general has always fascinated me. They’re meant to be mostly autonomous floating buildings that might look the same sometimes but built to do specific purposes
"This epidemic will change society", you don't say even wendover is now not talking about planes but ships.
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I served 3 years on the USNS Comfort as a Navy Corpsman in CASREC
Didn’t expect this video, but it’s much appreciated. It’s fascinating how they can convert a large ship from one role to another
Didn't know hospital ships were still in existence . Nice to know they still are .
Happens to planes all of the time
The UK has a primary casualty receiving ship called RFA(Royal Fleet Auxiliary) Argus. It differs from a hospital ship as it is armed with self defense weapons and ammunition. It is also not painted white with red crosses. It has 70 general ward beds, 20 high dependency beds and 10 intensive care beds. It also has a large landing pad for 3 medium sized helicopters and a hangar below decks that can hold 4 helicopters at once. The ship is also an aviation training ship so it use to carry BAE Sea harriers FA2s which can be used in a ground attack role or for Air superiority.
Last time I was this early I was still laughing about corona
Sam Mossbeck hahahahaha it’s still in china hahahahah it came from bats 3 months ago
The Mexican Navy also has the hospital ship Zapoteco that is often deployed with humanitarian aid purposes to places in need, though it also acts as a cadet training ship
The last time I was this early to the comment section, Captain Crozier wasn't fired.
He is a hero
@@markhenley3097 Morally, yes. But as a military officer he should have known better.
@@张桓瑜 sadly, I have to say you're right
@@张桓瑜 he definitely knew the consequences and still did what he did to save his crew
It's like the general who goes into Chernobyl to measure the radiation.
He knows he needs to do it himself to be heard and believed.
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I wonder how planes will fit into this one.
Maybe aircraft carriers.
Watch the pandemic video.
Helicopters
They have a helipad so.....
Prins van Oranje beat me to it😂
God Bless them. They are a great sight to see during these times. Glad we have them
Actually those “movement issues” facing the mercy and comfort are issues in land hospitals as well, even ones that are very wide. The truth is there are fairly predictable traffic patterns in hospital and there really is limited need to be able to move a patient from one area of the hospital to every other area of the hospital as long as the high traffic areas are accessible. For example, most large hospitals have multiple radiology departments that each serve a specific area of the hospital and fulfill different needs. And in highly densely populated areas, there are actually a lot of hospitals that have high rise towers for patient rooms. Sometimes it’s easier to move a patient on an elevator ride between two places near the elevator than push a very heavy bed with many attached monitors the length of several city blocks in a big city hospital.
7:10 "Even in places with incredible density and high real-estate costs like New York, most hospitals are wider than they are tall"
*shows an office building in Finland*
6:42 - That moment your life is put in the hands of Window XP.
(And you feel safe, because it isn't Vista, 7, or 8...)
lol, good catch...a BSOD might have actually killed someone.
What do you have against Windows 7?
Scott S This idiot thinks XP and 7 are worse than 10 lmaooooooo
Not really a problem, as long as you don't try to mess with it. And let's hope that it's not connected to any network whatsoever.
("Sorry mister president, our hospital ship was put out of operation by a wannacry infection... No, no, nothing to do with corona. It's a computer virus.")
Lol XP
You can't imagine how great these mini documentaries are for me. Waaay better that TV shit. Great job man! Keep it up!
Imagine not knowing how US Hospital ships work or even existed before the COVID outbreak.
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If I didn’t live in San Diego, I probably wouldn’t know about them
My state doesn’t even have a coast on an ocean and I knew how they worked lol
@@thiccchungo1041 Welcome to the gang lol.
Fascinating video. I worked on the UK hospital ship breifly in early 2015 during the Ebola outbreak whilst it was at anchor off the coast of Freetown, Sierra Leone.
Last time i was this early, Sam’s jokes were still relevant
ThatWoodCD same
lol
When I was flying into San Diego, I had the privilege to look out my window upon landing to see 1 of the 2 hospital ships in port. 🙌🏻👏🏻 I Googled it and I found out it was the U.S.N. Mercy. We need 3 more hospital ships: the U.S.N. Healing and the U. S. N. Succor, or the U.S.N. Hope.
soniyu ziuy Uhhhh, what???
Geneva Convention: Hospital ships cannot be fired upon or attacked.
Nutty Conductor: Hold my train.
Engine deck and supply departments staffed by civilaim Mariners. I was one of them. I sailed mostly on the fleet oilers but I did have some buddies who sailed on the Comfort.
Cool video idea:
Logistics of testing kits/how testing kits work
That would be boring af. They just swab way up your nose. 2 minutes video.
We need more of these around the world
7:10 stock footage from Kalasatama, Helsinki, Finland.
I love finding stock footage of places I know too. Hahaha
When sam said hope at the end it really made me happy for humanity and myself!
1:20 Hospital-ships, things that saves human lives are on the page 42, a number that is definition of life. I like that coincidence very much.
thank you so much for the 2 months free, wendover. i really appreciate it
Me who isn't from the US:
The US has what?!
a hospital ship
Big dong navy 💪
@@coreytaylor447 two, actually
We have Burgers!
We have Eagles!
We have Donuts!
We have guns!
We have freedom!
Murica!
@@jameskivenko we have more than two...
I remember when my physician volunteered for service on the US Hope, which at the time was stationed near Vietnam. I wish you had included that hospital ship in your essay.
It's so bonkers that a man tried to ram a train into one of the ships because he was unsure of the ships intentions. So many questions. Thankfully when the train derailed, it was 500 yards from the boat. I still want to know what that looked like.
I heard that one was sent to the Philippines after a disaster, and the Filipinos really appreciated it.
2:18 that was a surprise these ship are mega city
Now this is very interesting. Thanks very much.
Wendover Productions:. Lets start TH-cam channel containing all information about aviation as this industry is very progressive...
Coronavirus: Hold my breath....
WP: Lets talk about US Hospitals...
Guys, you entire section about hospital movement is wholly incorrect. Mercy and Comfort Have almost all primary patient care on the same deck, in line with what is needed for trauma care. The flow, all on the Main Deck, is Casualty Receiving (ER) > Radiology > Stat Lab/Blood Bank > OR > Recovery > ICU. NO elevators, ramps, etc required. When this is all over, I would love to give you guys a tour.
People: Hospital ships are useless
Hospital Ships: ''Hold my beds''
Hospital ship: Hold the 20 patients I treated so far.
People: Yes, you are useless.
I'm glad we have them.
Be safe; be well.
Anybody else tear up a little at "they're a symbol of hope in tough times"? Or am I just exhausted?
I would say it was just you but youve got 9 likes... So not me then
No tears this way , but I know NYC covid-19 sufferers are glad to the USS Comfort dock into port . . . Hope hasn't died
Very informative. Thank you.
I love the hospital ships. Glad to know we're using them.
Same . I didn't even know the US still had them . I learned something too .
"We have to show that we won't surrender!"
"Send out those two white floating bricks."
Wendover: makes video about hospital ships.
Also Wendover: sneaks reference to hospital planes at 0:55
Wendover: "This corona pandemic is kinda ruining aviation, I don't know which else to cover tho"
**random dude try to crash his train into USNS Mercy**
Wendover: "Aha"
Wait, what did someone do? Whats the point in attacking a hospital ship?
@@Erakius323 He was a crazy conspiracy theorist. He thought coronavirus was fake and that the ship was there for a governemtn takeover so he intentionally derailed his train to try and hit the ship. Spoiler Alert: He didnt make it .
@@scprepper2672 what the heck?
@@TheAftermathz some people be that crazy
SC Prepper Wow, guy sounds a bit crazy. Glad he did not succeed. At a time of a global pandemic, having two tanker hospital ships, with a states worth of medical capacity, is a great asset to the U.S.A. For its own use or for building international good will. People never forget those who saved them.
Lift constructors have a Hospital emergency operation mode that they can install. It givers absolute priority to whoever can activate it. The lift goes to the floor of activation, you kick everybody (all previous calls are ignored) and it goes straight to the floor you then request.
The whole elevator thing is super interesting, seems like if they do this again theyd be better off using an old cruise ship.
Old cruise ships may be going on sale shortly.
Trendy Brown possibly new ones too 😉
It would require extensive internal modification. The hallways on most cruise liners are simply too narrow
Patch Moulton Fair point.
Love the history
"As much as possible, the use of elevators should be avoided"
Charité Hospital Berlin, which literally has a skyspraper full of hospital beds on 23 floors: "Am I a joke to you?"
*Looks at texas children's hospital in houston.*
I live nearby
Mercy and Comfort? How sweet.
They should convert Oasis of the Seas into a hospital ship
Reece Haire rather than a plague ship? Lol
the Oasis class ships run into huge problems with there split in the middle they are huge ships but most of the hallways are narrow
The speed of a ship is expressed in knots, here: 17 kts. Transverse bulkheads are not so much against sloshing, that's more in the domain of longitudinal bulkheads or baffles. Any capsizing due to free surfaces usually happens along the longitudinal axis.
imagine, trying to crash your train into a Hospital ship....
Big brain
That guy had a good job.
All gone
@@michaelmccarthy4615 Had to look it up, they make $50K to 120K a year. And being in LA, it will be on the high end.
@@xraymind I bet that train engineer has some coworkers with a few stories about him.....
@@michaelmccarthy4615 And purposely derailing a train is like a 20 year federal prison sentence
Super interesting as usual! Little glitch nimitz is barely 25% to 40% bigger, not double the size of the comfort. 70000 vs 100000 ton, 270m vs 330m.
To all the people that say that he didn't make a plane video, his mention the aircraft carrier in the beginning
6:22 I live in a super small town and that’s our hospital! I feel represented!
"Tough times", I'm glad they are in service now..
Literally the cleanest interior I have ever seen. I never understood "in ship shape" until I stepped in one of these bad bois
“Oil carriers are slow”
And yet still bit faster than me running:(
Faster then an American Ambulance driving overseas
That was before they built the longest corridor at the time
underwater tunnel and suspension bridge in context,
and when the bridge came, the former tourist ships went out of business,
before that, trains went into the ship's basement, and then you could get out and go up on deck, visit the playground and their restaurants, and I miss the sailing trips you had as a child with them, they were incredibly big for a little boy at the age of 10,
but now we can ourselves. only be happy because they have been completely redone so that they can now be used as hospital ships instead!
Ah, but they CAN be used offensively. Take in all of the enemy's wounded, treat them, then the bills they'll get in the mail in a few weeks should bankrupt the country.
Thank you for such an interesting article. I imagine Mercy and Comfort are vital in dealing with this epidemic. Godspeed.
2:32 - Me looking for masks to steal.
PLEASE do a full video on hospital design!
I have never been in one I could navigate.
Seeing ships speed in mph or km/h instead of knots is so weird
When the navy retires them and if they make another ship, they should convert a container ship as the hupe cargo holds would be easy to design a hospital more efficiently. Though there are areas of separation thia could be resolved by having critical areas on the upper decks and thus can more efficiently transport patients.
3:04 The capabilities of the US' health system?
Yes free for everyone but us 😂😂
Excellent video! I knew these kind of ships existed for a long time, but I never knew the full history of these two ships.
Same
HMS Britannic: Let me introduce myself.
Very interesting and worthwhile video.