As someone who lives in Indiana, is fascinated with the great lake freighters, use to work for a CAT dealer as a power systems tech, and now works for a Cogeneration (CHP) landfill gas generator facility, this is right up my ally.
Interesting that a ship of this size has controllable pitch props. Also interesting that ballasting is done from the engine room and not the bridge or deck office.
As someone who lives in Indiana, is fascinated with the great lake freighters, use to work for a CAT dealer as a power systems tech, and now works for a Cogeneration (CHP) landfill gas generator facility, this is right up my ally.
What a great series of videos. Thank you so much for doing this. The Chief Engineer is wonderful! What a guy.
Yea he seems cool as hell!
There's a lot to these big ships. Love how it works!
All the people have to be very technical and knowledgeable. These are not simple toys. They are mechanical monsters.
Great tour. Thank you.
I like how the dude is wearing his ear protection around his neck will definitely have hearing loss later in life like I have
Interesting that a ship of this size has controllable pitch props. Also interesting that ballasting is done from the engine room and not the bridge or deck office.
Really cool stuff. That is the second loudest room in the world.
I love the PRT.
A lot different than the engine room on my old destroyer escort , spacious compared to my ship
thats what keeps the ship running and moving
Wonder how they measure turbo RPM on the mains? I'm sure an algorithm can calculate it, but I guess they could have a water cooled hall effect.
Or an optical encoder.
Once the season begins back up how long does it take to start that mammoth up again.
How did you get to stay on the ship and do the tours???
What are they saying ??
Very interesting does anyone know how big the screws or propellers are on a ship this size?
17-foot, 6-inches or 5.33 meters.
@@corystansbury Huge.
Sorry, but the dialog is useless to me. I can't understand anything said because of the noise.
2xV16 engine?
No, that's the Roger Blough.
Paul R. Tregurtha's main engines are 2 4-stroke inline 6's, each producing 8100 HP at 514 RPM.
wow you don't have to wear hard hats?
*5
That was disappointing. I expected to see the engine. All I saw was some itsy bitsy generators and control panels.
..almost useless, as one can't hear the conversation very well above the noise of the machinery..
Not a problem for me. Put some headphones on.