The large vessel is certainly one of the most interesting stories in ship building. I grew up in Bremerhaven, Germany and witnessed many ships from around the world. The Germans have always been top ranked engineers. When a ship this size is built there are all sorts of problems. The video is wonderful. Thanks a million.
I really hate how these programs try to ramp up the drama every 3minutes by telling us over and over about critical deadlines that will cost millions if they don't get it done. I find myself hoping they don't make it.
It is the mv "Arctic" of Canarctic / Fednav, that was launched in 1978, that is shown at the beginning of this video. This vessel was built under a consortium of the Canadian Government, Canarctic & Fednav. It was designed as a prototype and test platform for a planned fleet of some six vessels, to haul minerals in bulk, out of the high Canadian Arctic. Her initial task was carrying zinc concentrate out of the Nanisivik mine, on northern Baffin Island to Antwerp, Belgium. Lloyd's ice class 1A Super; Canada ice class 3 (2.0 kts in 1.5m ice). Dwt 27700. She was built at Port Weller Dry Docks, in St. Catharines, Ontario. The mv "Arctic", was the trailblazer of merchant icebreakers.
This area in North eastern Germany has a long shipbuilding and Seafaring history. e.g. Wismar ( one of the places the ship is build) was (and still is) part of the so called "Deutsche Hanse" a coalition of merchants and Citys dominating the baltic Sea for a fairly long time.
Yes, and a retractable roof no less, to facilitate sectional moves. I suspect it gave Aker great gains in productivity - the weather in Baltic Germany is often poor. (Ignoring the loutish comment above)
It sounds like some people would rather work in the bitter cold when you can't feel your fingers and toes, than work in an enclosed dry dock, in construction we say, it's always sunny and 70 when you get to work on an inside job, I spent to many winters freezing my ass off, give me sunny and 70 any day.
hot rod daddy in northern Alaska I used a 20ft flat bottom jet boat to break 1/2” + of ice off of a float plane pond after an extremely early freeze while the planes were being defrosted. Used the weight of the bow to crush a channel and then made faster passes with a ton of trim to wake the ice, breaking it further and clearing a channel. You gotta swing with what you got!
It looks so funny seeing the people jumping in the water with a rope around them for safety. It looks like the guy is walking his pet human on a leash. LOL
it's because it's the same class and pretty much identical. but since this tripe is made for the usdm nobody notices the difference, nor do they give a shit. and imagine the vo trying to pronounce '50 let pobedy'...
One thing is screwing up 50 Years of Victory and Jamal, which in itself is a pretty impressive mistake, but my favorite was that they were showing "nuclear powered icebreakers" 33 minutes in and used a video of a Canadian diesel-powered icebreaker (CCGS John A. Macdonald?) and, of all things, what seems to be the Farley Mowat of Sea Shepherd.
Interesting documentary, and a phenomenal vessel, however I was extremely perplexed by some of the figures given. They said that it would "consume 4.5 million man hours", yet they repeatedly said that it was only €120m - that makes no sense whatsoever. Another figure that made no sense was that "there's enough paint to do 12 Golden Gate Bridges", yet later on they said that the paint would fill "600 bathtubs". They can't seriously be suggesting that it would only take 50 bathtubs of paint to do the Golden Gate Bridge. It seemed like they were just making up the figures as they went along, while hoping nobody noticed.
TheOtherSteel I think it’s because driving it forwards it has better shape for better speed and fuel when not breaking ice, and drives in reverse to break the ice because the shape in reverse is not so good for speed but it’s good for breaking ice... seems pretty self telling to me no????
It seems odd that they'd want the propeller pod to be the first thing that hits the ice. I'm sure theres a reason, but it just looks odd to have a rotating pod that is also the only propeller providing all the power and also slamming into giant blocks of ice. I don't get it. lol
Notice all the higly qualified "refugees" lately send to us clueless nordies.. Without them, strong Feminist & efficient Lefties this vessel would never have been build! Though in the end, Greta might be a bit furious ...
The math doesn’t add up to me. $120,000,000/4,500,000 man hours comes out to only $26.70 per man hour. I’m pretty sure ship builders make more money than that. Even if they only make $13.35 that only leaves $60 million for Materials. 11 months to build this thing if they work 7 days a week lets call that 335 days that’s 13,432 hours a day. They said there were 300 people working on it. That means that each worker would have to work 44.77 a day 7 days a week for 335 days straight in order for them to reach the 4.5 million man hours the said would be put into the boat.
If I'm not mistaken. The front prop sucks the water from under the ice pushing it aft. This leaves a void and, the weight of the ship pushing forward and down, breaks the ice.
REX here in australia we had just a 302 cleveland ,in america you guys had the boss 302 ,windsor block with cleveland style heads,but ours is just a cleveland with a 3 inch stroke crank and 6 inch rods,we still had the bigger 351 cleveland as well.
45:30 Imagine tying your car to gate and hitting the throttle for 6 hours, now multiply that by 100. I think that is grossly understated, even if you're driving a top fuel dragster.
No keel . . .? This "new" modular method of shipbuilding may be more economical and certainly faster, but it can't be as strong. But that's the direction that is guiding a lot of manufacturing. Ignore the laws of physics because you think they don't apply, or don't know the fundamentals anyway, doesn't make the effects go away.
"they keep their cool better under stress" No the reason they dont have Men running most of the Electric Cranes is the Men are more suited & Skilled and can do multiple function simultaneously, they have a policy of only one motion at a time and the Men were taking too much risk for the Co's comfort by not adhering to their strict policy.
It's always the case, a new project is started and already the timeframe in which it is to be completed is such a struggle it affects the whole thing. You want to know what you get when you put unreasonable timeframes, cutbacks on people and supplies while still trying to run the business, go to your local Walmart and see how it operates, this is the bottom feeder version of the larger scale scenario.
I've worked in the same fab shop for 18 years. We fab smokestacks for power companies, coded vessels, baghouses, furnaces etc. Every aspect of every job that comes through the shop has a cost code from engineering, unloading trucks with steel, cutting, forming fitting details, welding, all the way to loading finished product. If you don't make or beat labor, get ready for an ass chewing. You would think with lives at stake, there would be less worry about time and money and more concern with quality. I understand company owners want to make money and all. We just have to make our licks count as tradesmen and stay safe as possible.
The stern is the heaviest part of the ship; it's where the power is, and it avoids putting the heaviest stress in the middle of the ship, where it is weakest. Also this gives the Captain and crew an excellent view of the ice.
Its to help move the ice from the breaking surface to the sides and rear. So there us more room ti break ice. And these props are very large and very solid
If you did build it , I will come ! say one hundred a month; I currently live under a bridge in southern California, but I think a shed would be better- Just like gorge Jefferson I would be moving on up !
thanks for sharing advances in shipbuilding industry with on-line viewers related with indigenousity even some yards think all processing of internal secretive information as company super asset. alas~~~
@33:00 Stating 171 megawatts generated will power 400 homes, ridiculously mis-calculated. That would insinuate the average home consumes 427Kva, the actual meter on a home is more around 10Kva for the average home. Average actual consumption is closer to 164 homes per MW of power generated making the actual statistic 28,000 homes. Only off by a factor of 70 or so.
Not to mention @17:00 costing 120 million and taking 4.5 million man hours would leave a hourly cost of $26.66 assuming the company would like some profit that is closer to $20/Hr. What about material cost that is an lot of steel. Good luck getting electricians/ plumbers/ welders to work for anything less than $25/Hr.
Plus, 'will power 400 american homes.. FOR A MONTH'. Wow, whoever wrote that script clearly has no idea of the difference between power and capacity. Maybe they were on a factor of 30 and thought for the stupid american audience, just say it'll do it for a month, without saying 'powering it for a day and storing the energy in a huge battery could power 400 american homes for a month'..
Actually if you heard the ass hole said American homes. Like American homes are such a huge waist full bunch. My electric bill is like $25 a month so I'm way way under this Bullshits figure!!
120$ million seems like a bargain for a ship this size. I've seen some luxury yachts that are priced around 100$ million and they are less than 100m long... and don't even think about taking it through ice! Seems like the scale of production and the amount of construction hours for a ship this size would be considerably larger than for a luxury yacht only a fraction of the size.
Jesse Custer The finitions are simple, and it's a floating tank with no decorative thrills, and made in good old steel. Even if the azipods and propellers are not cheap the price per kilog is not very high. A luxury yacht spends a lot in luxury items, equipments, furniture, decoration with very expensive materials and a big bill of work hours plus designer's fees, far more than the hull and engines which are no more than 40% of the total price of such a yacht, even if made in aluminum.
Jesse Custer Yeah, seems odd to me. It works out to $3 per lb, assuming Im using the right "ton" unit. +Pablo Ricardo de Tarragon: I haven't got that far in the video yet, but I'm assuming its a diesel/electric. My memory may not be correct, but a ship that size would have probably more than a 10khp drive and those engines and generator/motors are excessively expensive. This isnt something I know a lot about, but for comparison, a new Boeing 737 costs about the same as this ship.
htomerif The weight empty is far less you accounted. The given weight is the displacement with full cargo charge. The diesel electric with azipods are not excessively expensive, as they became rather common on ferries, cruise boats, RORO ships etc...The technology is relatively well mastered (look at KAMEWA in Norway), it's almost series now. The most expensive and consumable part of the transmission must be the stainless steel propellers. Stainless Steel is harder to work than the aluminum bronze generally used on ordinary ships. The hull itself is made in rather common low carbon steel (E24, Corten or similar) as the first things wanted is ductility and weldability with self shielding wire plus carbonic gas MIG and submerged arc welding for the automatic part of the welding operation. You can weld one inch in one pass with such welders. There is no interest in high strength steels as it's plagued with brittleness and fragility of the welds. Bought by 10 thousand metric tons orders, these steels are cheap by kg even pre-painted. The structure is simple, and crude oil doesn't pose any peculiar engineering problem for its tanks, the plumbing is straightforward. Finishing is simple, mainly in a good painting system. You would be surprised if you were on the ship looking closely at the details, how crude it is. It's not complicated, it's big. The most complicated part of such a ship building, it's the design and the engineering. Yachts are expensive because of the finishing and planes are another matter.
Pablo Ricardo de Tarragon I wasn't really aware of how inaccurate the putting together of these things could be. When they welded together the two halves of the ship and said the accuracy had to be "centimeters" I was confused. In an aircraft, an error of centimeters would be catastrophic. When the two halves didn't line up by a handspan or more, I thought they would move on to a more refined alignment process, but nope, just weld it together like that. I didn't know about a lot of what you said, but I did actually know about the propeller. While I was doing research into variable pitch propellers for aircraft, I came across a lot of information by accident on variable pitch propellers for large ships. I didnt know what they were made from though. Aside from corrosion resistance stainless steel seems to me to be an all around unpleasant material to work with.
Really does annoy me when the executive pen pushes take all the credit for what the real core manual work force that has actually done the work and produced this precise mega engineering marvel!!!!
And how much did this ship cost !!!!!!!!! Narrative for 5 year olds. "The ships hull is made in pieces and then welded together", who would have thought of that. !!! Clever these Germans.
STEALTH1USA . A METHOD . The seam will have an internal overlap backing plate covering over the finished weld . The final weld is what is the external view of the hull . The hull is then a solid one piece without a weekness at the join . THE SHIP IS LATER SHOWN PERFECTLY ALIGNED . YOUR FOOLISH COMMENT DID NOT MAKE A FOOL OF THE MASTER SHIPBUILDERS .
@@langrichar as an experienced Smith, welding all sorts of demanding constructions. I've never been told to hide any welding. Are you a Carpenter? I know they are often eager hiding all their self-made crap ...
The carbon debt created by building these monsters and the global transprotation of crap from one nation to another ... must make the ice breaking a lot easier! Maybe not even necessary.
NUCLEAR POWER'S POLLUTION IS RADIATION , AND WILL BE POLLUTING MORE MANY YEARS EVEN AFTER BEING SCRAPPED . THE RUSSIANS ALREADY HAVE NUCLEAR POWERED ICE BREAKERS , AND INTERESTINGLY CHOSE THIS TYPE .
Both the hull and the propulsion system is designed in Finland. What they did not tell is that the breaker has a system to blow air bubbles under the hull they act as ball bearings between the ice and hull
The commentators language... marchialistic, imperialistic, oversized, theatralic... Example: "... the steel makes the ship strong enough to go ANYWHERE..." - hahaha... But besides this - a very interesting documentation with rare photos and documentation. Thank you for that!!
I wonder if the steel used at front and back is a higher quality to withstand the ice cutting, I know the saltwater ice is different than freshwater, I am of the understanding that arctic sea ice is softer and not as brittle as freshwater ice. just another engineering marvel .... and yes, I spend some 15 years in the High Arctic and have gone on the sea ice often for hunting...
RUSSIAN TANKER BECOMES 1ST MODERN DAY SHIP TO SAIL COMPLETELY THROUGH THE ARTIC OCEAN. The Russian tanker was carrying natural gas has become the first merchant ship to sail across the Arctic without the help of an icebreaker, finishing the journey in record time. The ship, the Christophe de Margerie, traveled from Norway to South Korea in 19 days, about 30% quicker than the regular route through the Suez Canal, its Russian owner, Sovcomflot, said this week. (This happened back in 2017, September.) The tanker managed to complete the northernmost part of the voyage between two remote Russian ports -- known as the Northern Sea Route -- in a record-breaking six-and-half days. Every year, arctic ice naturally shrinks in the spring and summer before growing again during winter. But as global temperatures have risen, the old sea ice that lasts year after year has shrunk to its smallest level in three decades. It's a huge concern. According to NASA, many global climate models predict that the Arctic will be ice-free for at least part of the year before the end of the 21st century. Some models predict an ice-free Arctic by midcentury. That would have a direct impact on weather patterns around the world. The thinning ice also opens new paths for global trade, saving companies hundreds of thousands of dollars they would spend on longer journeys via more southerly routes. "This is the paradox of climate change," said Ben Ayliffe, a campaigner for Greenpeace. "The fossil fuels we're burning are allowing access into areas that were previously protected by ice." He expressed concern that increasing sea traffic in the inhospitable environment will bring new risks, such as a fuel spill that would be virtually impossible to clean up. money.cnn.com/2017/08/25/news/arctic-ice-tanker-ship/index.html
32:35 25,000L of crude oil per hour works out to around 700 tonnes a day. That's like double what the largest container ships in the world consume at full speed. How accurate is this video?
There's an hour-long vid of this ship or one of its sisters on a summer tourist excursion run to the North Pole. Can't do it in the winter; as tough as these ships are, that's just TOO tough and of course the Arctic is in total darkness then. During winter the ship keeps shipping lanes open; in the summer it earns its keep catering to rich tourists.
The women crane operators "Handle stress better" because they have a vibrator stuffed up in their Koopatchie. Reaching Nirvana several times a day relieves the tension.
Everyone of these videos has to be hella over dramatic about everything "even one mishap derails the entire project" "the plans allow no room for error" blah blah blah....
I hate to steal their thunder but the Americans successfully married an ice breaker bow onto a supertanker when oil was originally discovered on the north slope. 40 years ago.
your all welcome for the canadian hull design..ice in the sea does not form flat and consistent, temps vary,salinity of water varies ice bergs and sheet ice breaking up and refreezing creates thicker and thinner as well as different shapes at different angles and depth.
Fascinatng !.....These ships were only possible with modern radar and more geographic knowledge of polar shipping routes......These icebreakers won't break rock if they run aground or venture in undeep waters.. After all ,sailing where everything is white and there's hardly a distinction between land and sea, poses some extra unusual problems..... Unbelievable to contemplate these things actually float.........
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The large vessel is certainly one of the most interesting stories in ship building. I grew up in Bremerhaven, Germany and witnessed many ships from around the world. The Germans have always been top ranked engineers. When a ship this size is built there are all sorts of problems. The video is wonderful. Thanks a million.
I really hate how these programs try to ramp up the drama every 3minutes by telling us over and over about critical deadlines that will cost millions if they don't get it done. I find myself hoping they don't make it.
lol
It is the mv "Arctic" of Canarctic / Fednav, that was launched in 1978, that is shown at the beginning of this video. This vessel was built under a consortium of the Canadian Government, Canarctic & Fednav. It was designed as a prototype and test platform for a planned fleet of some six vessels, to haul minerals in bulk, out of the high Canadian Arctic. Her initial task was carrying zinc concentrate out of the Nanisivik mine, on northern Baffin Island to Antwerp, Belgium.
Lloyd's ice class 1A Super; Canada ice class 3 (2.0 kts in 1.5m ice). Dwt 27700. She was built at Port Weller Dry Docks, in St. Catharines, Ontario.
The mv "Arctic", was the trailblazer of merchant icebreakers.
Interesting tech, beautiful ship. Well done to all involved.
This area in North eastern Germany has a long shipbuilding and Seafaring history. e.g. Wismar ( one of the places the ship is build) was (and still is) part of the so called "Deutsche Hanse" a coalition of merchants and Citys dominating the baltic Sea for a fairly long time.
I need this for my date today..
Must be a heavy case to require an icebreaker!
cringe
I was amazed at the way they built this ship. In a covered dry dock where the weather would be no problem.
Them Feminist simply value personal comfort in this sector ...
Yes, and a retractable roof no less, to facilitate sectional moves. I suspect it gave Aker great gains in productivity - the weather in Baltic Germany is often poor. (Ignoring the loutish comment above)
It sounds like some people would rather work in the bitter cold when you can't feel your fingers and toes, than work in an enclosed dry dock, in construction we say, it's always sunny and 70 when you get to work on an inside job, I spent to many winters freezing my ass off, give me sunny and 70 any day.
I really hope you understand why they build it in covered dry dock and that your comment is sarcasm or a joke :D
@Ben A Are you actually getting triggered over women operating cranes?
almost limitless money is thrown into maritime industry and tugboats are still covered in old tires.
A very interesting video. Thanks for posting for us all to see. 👍
Everything is an icebreaker if you're brave enough.
or know exactly what to say, at an uncomfortably quiet party. Now that is a handy icebreaker.
That ship isn't an Icebreaking ship. Captain: "Hold my beer"
come to northern canada that thought process will kill you in a few days if not hours..
Especially if you don’t have to pay for repairs!
hot rod daddy in northern Alaska I used a 20ft flat bottom jet boat to break 1/2” + of ice off of a float plane pond after an extremely early freeze while the planes were being defrosted. Used the weight of the bow to crush a channel and then made faster passes with a ton of trim to wake the ice, breaking it further and clearing a channel. You gotta swing with what you got!
"We have to keep on shedule!" - I see many Überstunden
It looks so funny seeing the people jumping in the water with a rope around them for safety. It looks like the guy is walking his pet human on a leash. LOL
Full return.. better hold that receipt
I envy these Industrial Engineers in these advanced countries. I need myself some of that experience.
7 mate ??? Australia's 3rd Channel 7 , brings back memories of watching the NFL games LIVE . Thanks matey.
if you guys don't like this then why the fuck are you here??? god
You should not be vulgar. That is not an adult response.
Perhaps to see what is being presented. I move on, and end it if it is trash, then comment on what I think. Make sense?
That nuclear icebreaker wasn't the Yamal, it was the 50 Years of Victory.
Yamal is red and has shark jaws painted in the bow.
So many mentions of "Yamal" while showing the footage of "50 let Pobedy"
it's because it's the same class and pretty much identical. but since this tripe is made for the usdm nobody notices the difference, nor do they give a shit. and imagine the vo trying to pronounce '50 let pobedy'...
And both built in Finland by Wärtsilä.
Витязь Никитич Both are sister ships
One thing is screwing up 50 Years of Victory and Jamal, which in itself is a pretty impressive mistake, but my favorite was that they were showing "nuclear powered icebreakers" 33 minutes in and used a video of a Canadian diesel-powered icebreaker (CCGS John A. Macdonald?) and, of all things, what seems to be the Farley Mowat of Sea Shepherd.
One of the most interesting engineering videos I have ever seen so Thanks.
Just to be fair they also hire gay crane operators.
Even muslims, if they happens to seek work... 🙈
I became emotional when the two halves were joined.
Very romantic indeed!
Interesting documentary, and a phenomenal vessel, however I was extremely perplexed by some of the figures given.
They said that it would "consume 4.5 million man hours", yet they repeatedly said that it was only €120m - that makes no sense whatsoever.
Another figure that made no sense was that "there's enough paint to do 12 Golden Gate Bridges", yet later on they said that the paint would fill "600 bathtubs".
They can't seriously be suggesting that it would only take 50 bathtubs of paint to do the Golden Gate Bridge.
It seemed like they were just making up the figures as they went along, while hoping nobody noticed.
Trump wrote the script🤣🤣🤣
Too much drama. Facts only, please!
22:55 uhhhh... DO THEY?!?! IM A WOMEN AND IM FREAKING OUT THINKING ABOUT THIS FACT RIGHT HERE!!
totally agree
No need these expensive ships, in few years ice wont be a problem anymore 😂
Simply fascinating
If the cable snaps things get damaged and people get dead
I need one of these ice breakers to talk to NYC women.
It mentions several times that the ship breaks ice by going backwards, but never discusses why.
TheOtherSteel I think it’s because driving it forwards it has better shape for better speed and fuel when not breaking ice, and drives in reverse to break the ice because the shape in reverse is not so good for speed but it’s good for breaking ice... seems pretty self telling to me no????
It seems odd that they'd want the propeller pod to be the first thing that hits the ice. I'm sure theres a reason, but it just looks odd to have a rotating pod that is also the only propeller providing all the power and also slamming into giant blocks of ice. I don't get it. lol
Notice all the higly qualified "refugees" lately send to us clueless nordies..
Without them, strong Feminist & efficient Lefties this vessel would never have been build!
Though in the end, Greta might be a bit furious ...
I was thinking that very same thing, who needs them.
The math doesn’t add up to me. $120,000,000/4,500,000 man hours comes out to only $26.70 per man hour. I’m pretty sure ship builders make more money than that. Even if they only make $13.35 that only leaves $60 million for Materials.
11 months to build this thing if they work 7 days a week lets call that 335 days that’s 13,432 hours a day. They said there were 300 people working on it. That means that each worker would have to work 44.77 a day 7 days a week for 335 days straight in order for them to reach the 4.5 million man hours the said would be put into the boat.
In Europe they make the process safe. In Australia they load you up with personal protective equipment.
Amazing engineering. Thanks to all for making such magnificent machines. Thanks for posting this video. Good on ya mate.
Phenomenal 👍👍👍
Wow a fantastic design , really enjoyed! The vid 🤷♂️
75,000 horsepower........ That is a freaking monster.
The Iowa class battleships had 210,000 horsepower
If I'm not mistaken. The front prop sucks the water from under the ice pushing it aft. This leaves a void and, the weight of the ship pushing forward and down, breaks the ice.
I doubt this ship can create a void underneath the ice...
@@notonlysunandbeach2567 "void" is probably the wrong word. I'm sure a scientist can explain it better.
REX here in australia we had just a 302 cleveland ,in america you guys had the boss 302 ,windsor block with cleveland style heads,but ours is just a cleveland with a 3 inch stroke crank and 6 inch rods,we still had the bigger 351 cleveland as well.
I'm filing a sexism claim for only hiring women to work the crane! Ridiculous that only women can keep there cool under pressure!
huh
45:30 Imagine tying your car to gate and hitting the throttle for 6 hours, now multiply that by 100. I think that is grossly understated, even if you're driving a top fuel dragster.
56000 kg engine passing overhead... I dont think that hardhat going to save him ahahaha
Maybe it's to give the family back a complete head after it has been detached from the body.
No keel . . .? This "new" modular method of shipbuilding may be more economical and certainly faster, but it can't be as strong. But that's the direction that is guiding a lot of manufacturing. Ignore the laws of physics because you think they don't apply, or don't know the fundamentals anyway, doesn't make the effects go away.
Its done this way for a very long time now, so you are saying you know better than the experts?
BEAUTIFUL WORK !!! QUALITY BUILT !!!! ✌👍!!!
"they keep their cool better under stress" No the reason they dont have Men running most of the Electric Cranes is the Men are more suited & Skilled and can do multiple function simultaneously, they have a policy of only one motion at a time and the Men were taking too much risk for the Co's comfort by not adhering to their strict policy.
Because of jackass culture among some male groups maybe…
Reminds me of a plane crash as well
Did anyone really need to know that fact?? They shoved it down our throat just like the beta male virtual signalling idiots they are.
Its amazing how many sexist little burger eating American piggies I can count here no less than 2 hands to make up for the incompetence!
I assume they have better hand eye coordination. Some welders I've met and worked with, women naturally have better results.
It's always the case, a new project is started and already the timeframe in which it is to be completed is such a struggle it affects the whole thing. You want to know what you get when you put unreasonable timeframes, cutbacks on people and supplies while still trying to run the business, go to your local Walmart and see how it operates, this is the bottom feeder version of the larger scale scenario.
truth
I've worked in the same fab shop for 18 years. We fab smokestacks for power companies, coded vessels, baghouses, furnaces etc. Every aspect of every job that comes through the shop has a cost code from engineering, unloading trucks with steel, cutting, forming fitting details, welding, all the way to loading finished product. If you don't make or beat labor, get ready for an ass chewing. You would think with lives at stake, there would be less worry about time and money and more concern with quality. I understand company owners want to make money and all. We just have to make our licks count as tradesmen and stay safe as possible.
Love it. Men on steel engine
I'm no naval architect (but I DO know my way around my belly button!), but going screw first against the ice seems like a TERRIBLE idea
I don't get it. Utterly counterintuitive.
Kurt nozzles probably....lol I'm reading comments as I watch.I spent a dozen yrs on icebreakers in the oil industry
you need the power right where you're breaking the ice!!
The stern is the heaviest part of the ship; it's where the power is, and it avoids putting the heaviest stress in the middle of the ship, where it is weakest.
Also this gives the Captain and crew an excellent view of the ice.
Its to help move the ice from the breaking surface to the sides and rear. So there us more room ti break ice. And these props are very large and very solid
11 months to build? I couldn't build a shed in 11 months...
If you did build it , I will come ! say one hundred a month; I currently live under a bridge in southern California, but I think a shed would be better- Just like gorge Jefferson I would be moving on up !
thanks for sharing advances in shipbuilding industry with on-line viewers related with indigenousity even some yards think all processing of internal secretive information as company super asset. alas~~~
Ice bergs dead ahead sir! Hold your course, full speed ahead.
@33:00 Stating 171 megawatts generated will power 400 homes, ridiculously mis-calculated. That would insinuate the average home consumes 427Kva, the actual meter on a home is more around 10Kva for the average home. Average actual consumption is closer to 164 homes per MW of power generated making the actual statistic 28,000 homes. Only off by a factor of 70 or so.
Not to mention @17:00 costing 120 million and taking 4.5 million man hours would leave a hourly cost of $26.66 assuming the company would like some profit that is closer to $20/Hr. What about material cost that is an lot of steel. Good luck getting electricians/ plumbers/ welders to work for anything less than $25/Hr.
Egg head likes his booky books
Plus, 'will power 400 american homes.. FOR A MONTH'. Wow, whoever wrote that script clearly has no idea of the difference between power and capacity. Maybe they were on a factor of 30 and thought for the stupid american audience, just say it'll do it for a month, without saying 'powering it for a day and storing the energy in a huge battery could power 400 american homes for a month'..
warning: overblown, dumbed down, sensationallised nonsense made for usdm. not to be taken seriously.
Actually if you heard the ass hole said American homes. Like American homes are such a huge waist full bunch. My electric bill is like $25 a month so I'm way way under this Bullshits figure!!
120$ million seems like a bargain for a ship this size.
I've seen some luxury yachts that are priced around 100$ million and they are less than 100m long... and don't even think about taking it through ice!
Seems like the scale of production and the amount of construction hours for a ship this size would be considerably larger than for a luxury yacht only a fraction of the size.
Jesse Custer The finitions are simple, and it's a floating tank with no decorative thrills, and made in good old steel. Even if the azipods and propellers are not cheap the price per kilog is not very high.
A luxury yacht spends a lot in luxury items, equipments, furniture, decoration with very expensive materials and a big bill of work hours plus designer's fees, far more than the hull and engines which are no more than 40% of the total price of such a yacht, even if made in aluminum.
Jesse Custer Yeah, seems odd to me. It works out to $3 per lb, assuming Im using the right "ton" unit.
+Pablo Ricardo de Tarragon: I haven't got that far in the video yet, but I'm assuming its a diesel/electric. My memory may not be correct, but a ship that size would have probably more than a 10khp drive and those engines and generator/motors are excessively expensive.
This isnt something I know a lot about, but for comparison, a new Boeing 737 costs about the same as this ship.
htomerif
The weight empty is far less you accounted. The given weight is the displacement with full cargo charge.
The diesel electric with azipods are not excessively expensive, as they became rather common on ferries, cruise boats, RORO ships etc...The technology is relatively well mastered (look at KAMEWA in Norway), it's almost series now. The most expensive and consumable part of the transmission must be the stainless steel propellers. Stainless Steel is harder to work than the aluminum bronze generally used on ordinary ships.
The hull itself is made in rather common low carbon steel (E24, Corten or similar) as the first things wanted is ductility and weldability with self shielding wire plus carbonic gas MIG and submerged arc welding for the automatic part of the welding operation. You can weld one inch in one pass with such welders. There is no interest in high strength steels as it's plagued with brittleness and fragility of the welds.
Bought by 10 thousand metric tons orders, these steels are cheap by kg even pre-painted. The structure is simple, and crude oil doesn't pose any peculiar engineering problem for its tanks, the plumbing is straightforward. Finishing is simple, mainly in a good painting system. You would be surprised if you were on the ship looking closely at the details, how crude it is.
It's not complicated, it's big. The most complicated part of such a ship building, it's the design and the engineering.
Yachts are expensive because of the finishing and planes are another matter.
Pablo Ricardo de Tarragon I wasn't really aware of how inaccurate the putting together of these things could be. When they welded together the two halves of the ship and said the accuracy had to be "centimeters" I was confused. In an aircraft, an error of centimeters would be catastrophic. When the two halves didn't line up by a handspan or more, I thought they would move on to a more refined alignment process, but nope, just weld it together like that.
I didn't know about a lot of what you said, but I did actually know about the propeller. While I was doing research into variable pitch propellers for aircraft, I came across a lot of information by accident on variable pitch propellers for large ships. I didnt know what they were made from though. Aside from corrosion resistance stainless steel seems to me to be an all around unpleasant material to work with.
Yeah, that does seem cheep considering the Coast Guard wants to build a new icebreaker and are trying to keep it under 1billion
15:00 aaaah them German measurement tools :-)
that part about women being better under stress is going to bring a whole barrel of mysogynists out of their dank, rotting holes.
you haven't met my wife
Of course. Personal life experience only counts by hate driven MEETOO fanatics.
Logic ??
Oh noo, sexism & PC rocks!
Have fun in your excluded reality
32:24 - Technically the azipod is electric. They just use the diesel engines to generate the electricity.
22:52 women keeping their cool under stress is hilarious!! cant agree with that 100% lol
Imagine if it was said the other way. Would be an uproar.
45:15 hot grill built the ship
Remind me to bring one of these next time I try and talk to girls. 😏
what piece of engineering and hard work Amazing work
Really does annoy me when the executive pen pushes take all the credit for what the real core manual work force that has actually done the work and produced this precise mega engineering marvel!!!!
The comments are very good to read and understand more about universal knowledge. The video is superb, I believe.
And how much did this ship cost !!!!!!!!! Narrative for 5 year olds. "The ships hull is made in pieces and then welded together", who would have thought of that. !!! Clever these Germans.
“ sea ice forms from frozen sea water”
Lmao. Duuuuuh.
41:40 doesn't look aligned at all lol. The front of the ship is about a meter higher than the back.. but whatever, they started welding anyway haha
It looks perfectly aligned
Good eye buddy, good eye!! I applaud you
STEALTH1USA .
A METHOD . The seam will have an internal overlap backing plate covering over the finished weld . The final weld is what is the external view of the hull . The hull is then a solid one piece without a weekness at the join .
THE SHIP IS LATER SHOWN PERFECTLY ALIGNED . YOUR FOOLISH COMMENT DID NOT MAKE A FOOL OF THE MASTER SHIPBUILDERS .
@@langrichar ever heard of sarcasm dumbass?
@@langrichar as an experienced Smith, welding all sorts of demanding constructions.
I've never been told to hide any welding.
Are you a Carpenter?
I know they are often eager hiding all their self-made crap ...
great...amazing project
wow what a groundbreaking invention
This is an amazing engineering.
Indus Valley Civilization wait till you see the biggest ice braker with two nuclear plants built in Russia
Women are calmer under pressure than men? Any married guy will tell you otherwise.
Ya but only if the wife gives him permission to speak
awesome video !!!
When you tell your friends your research facility is bleeding edge but your computers actually run Windows XP.
Men are more remarkable than most women think
*THAT'S WHY THE EARTH'S GETTING MORE HOTTER THE OCEANS LEVEL TIRES ARE RAISED*
Very educational. Master builders.
I like the program it's good cmc.
Seems like like a waste not putting in a nuclear power plant into this ship would save immensely on gas costs and wouldn’t pollute the air.
The carbon debt created by building these monsters and the global transprotation of crap from one nation to another ... must make the ice breaking a lot easier! Maybe not even necessary.
NUCLEAR POWER'S POLLUTION IS RADIATION , AND WILL BE POLLUTING MORE MANY YEARS EVEN AFTER BEING SCRAPPED . THE RUSSIANS ALREADY HAVE NUCLEAR POWERED ICE BREAKERS , AND INTERESTINGLY CHOSE THIS TYPE .
Iceberg, right ahead!
Both the hull and the propulsion system is designed in Finland. What they did not tell is that the breaker has a system to blow air bubbles under the hull they act as ball bearings between the ice and hull
I downloaded this Thank you
Great video.
Great
So the whole ship is welded at an evenly seamed joint instead of staggering the joint?
Hearing about the costs of running a ship and the amount of power, makes me go wow.
Nuclear powered icebreakers is the way to go.
Ya because if it sinks it will only be in the ocean... Right?
@@gymhourfee because there is no gas station way up north..
They should name it... "Not The Titanic"
oof
The commentators language... marchialistic, imperialistic, oversized, theatralic... Example: "... the steel makes the ship strong enough to go ANYWHERE..." - hahaha...
But besides this - a very interesting documentation with rare photos and documentation. Thank you for that!!
"these russian clients dont want to wait a minute over delivery date" - hahaha - a MINUTE over delivery DATE :-D
I wonder if the steel used at front and back is a higher quality to withstand the ice cutting, I know the saltwater ice is different than freshwater, I am of the understanding that arctic sea ice is softer and not as brittle as freshwater ice. just another engineering marvel .... and yes, I spend some 15 years in the High Arctic and have gone on the sea ice often for hunting...
RUSSIAN TANKER BECOMES 1ST MODERN DAY SHIP TO SAIL COMPLETELY THROUGH THE ARTIC OCEAN.
The Russian tanker was carrying natural gas has become the first merchant ship to sail across the Arctic without the help of an icebreaker, finishing the journey in record time.
The ship, the Christophe de Margerie, traveled from Norway to South Korea in 19 days, about 30% quicker than the regular route through the Suez Canal, its Russian owner, Sovcomflot, said this week.
(This happened back in 2017, September.)
The tanker managed to complete the northernmost part of the voyage between two remote Russian ports -- known as the Northern Sea Route -- in a record-breaking six-and-half days.
Every year, arctic ice naturally shrinks in the spring and summer before growing again during winter. But as global temperatures have risen, the old sea ice that lasts year after year has shrunk to its smallest level in three decades.
It's a huge concern. According to NASA, many global climate models predict that the Arctic will be ice-free for at least part of the year before the end of the 21st century. Some models predict an ice-free Arctic by midcentury. That would have a direct impact on weather patterns around the world.
The thinning ice also opens new paths for global trade, saving companies hundreds of thousands of dollars they would spend on longer journeys via more southerly routes.
"This is the paradox of climate change," said Ben Ayliffe, a campaigner for Greenpeace. "The fossil fuels we're burning are allowing access into areas that were previously protected by ice."
He expressed concern that increasing sea traffic in the inhospitable environment will bring new risks, such as a fuel spill that would be virtually impossible to clean up.
money.cnn.com/2017/08/25/news/arctic-ice-tanker-ship/index.html
32:35 25,000L of crude oil per hour works out to around 700 tonnes a day. That's like double what the largest container ships in the world consume at full speed. How accurate is this video?
Maybe because it's very heavy for it's armored hull, a normal petrol ship would already have sunk if it had to pass through that ice.
Probably it would consume this amount of fuel if it would break throu heavy ice all day everyday. But idk.
It was supposed to be nuclear powered like other russian ice breaker
One of my best documentaries!
Call 1800 Germany for all your engineering needs ! 👏🏼
Damn me I thought this would teach me a "mega" pick up line
Took 11 months to build? That was fast!
There's an hour-long vid of this ship or one of its sisters on a summer tourist excursion run to the North Pole. Can't do it in the winter; as tough as these ships are, that's just TOO tough and of course the Arctic is in total darkness then. During winter the ship keeps shipping lanes open; in the summer it earns its keep catering to rich tourists.
That one solitary azipod better not fail
36:15 this is how they fish for orca in the Arctic.
Imagine if the bottle of wine sinks the ship at the end
The women crane operators "Handle stress better" because they have a vibrator stuffed up in their Koopatchie. Reaching Nirvana several times a day relieves the tension.
Charlie Abbot 6
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Bob why what did you out of this causing me unserrier stress what to kill me faster you done that for sure
I hope cam live few weeeks longer thanks to you does your friends know you do to people who are sick with cansor may need to thex again on Windsor
The thing is you did it on purpose and l had to laugh at me this is so true and inmorulorie
Everyone of these videos has to be hella over dramatic about everything "even one mishap derails the entire project" "the plans allow no room for error" blah blah blah....
You wouldn't want any error in the middle of the ocean in a bigass storm
I like it so fuk off.
I hate to steal their thunder but the Americans successfully married an ice breaker bow onto a supertanker when oil was originally discovered on the north slope. 40 years ago.
at around 20:00, those are plasma cutters, not lasers.
John Pekithinktheyusehighpressurewatercutters.
Its a high temperature oxygen-carbon anode with a gas flame.
You've done a lot of underwater plasma cutting?
@@tomcherry6168 they generally cut thick plate with plasma cutters under water!
Is the Lifeboat at the rear designed to break ice when it is launched from its position high up behind the stern?
your all welcome for the canadian hull design..ice in the sea does not form flat and consistent, temps vary,salinity of water varies ice bergs and sheet ice breaking up and refreezing creates thicker and thinner as well as different shapes at different angles and depth.
Fascinatng !.....These ships were only possible with modern radar and more geographic knowledge of polar shipping routes......These icebreakers won't break rock if they run aground or venture in undeep waters.. After all ,sailing where everything is white and there's hardly a distinction between land and sea, poses some extra unusual problems.....
Unbelievable to contemplate these things actually float.........