What the Ship? (Ep105) | Red Sea & Houthi | Containerships | Cruise Ships | Shipbuilding | Big U
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- What The Ship? (Ep 105)| Recap of Past Stories | Red Sea and Houthi Attacks | Containership Sector Update | Cruise Ship Issues | Shipbuilding | SS United States Fate Unknown
What's Going on With Shipping?
June 17, 2024
In this episode, Sal Mercogliano - a maritime historian at Campbell University (@campbelledu) and former merchant mariner - discusses the Top 5 Maritime Stories as of June 16, 2024.
#supplychain #redsea #containerships #container #shipping #shipbuilding #unitedstates #cruise #cruiseship #maritime #logistics
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00:00 Introduction
00:38 Recap
Shipowners hit with lawsuit after vessel loses control in Charleston
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Tug accused of February’s massive Caribbean oil spill arrested on separate charges in Angola
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Fiji’s New Patrol Boat Evacuated After Grounding on First Patrol
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Massive Crack Discovered in Hull of Great Lakes Freighter After Flooding
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04:23 1. Red Sea and Houthi Attacks
US Naval Forces Rescue Crew From Bulk Carrier ‘Tutor’
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Ship Evacuated And Ablaze After Attack By Yemen’s Houthis
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Red Sea Diversions Are Causing Port Congestion in Singapore
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Seafarers bear brunt of ‘rising aggression’ from the Houthis
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Philippines to Review Seafarer Work Rules as Houthi Attacks Continue
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CMA CGM Phoenician Express (BEX2)
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French Frigate Captain Describes Frenetic Red Sea Combat
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U.S. Intelligence Report Reveals Effects of Houthi Attacks on International Trade
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Tracking Maritime Attacks in the Middle East Since 2019
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12:19 2. Container Sector
Container Spot Rates Set to Rise Further
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Spot rate rises slow, but Asia-Med rates look set to hit $20k, say analysts
theloadstar.com/spot-rate-ris...
Trade Slows at Southern California Ports in May
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Dockworkers seek wage increase ‘commensurate’ with corporate profits
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Indian exporters face new surcharges as capacity to Europe tightens
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16:41 3. Cruise Ship Sector
Greece To Cap Number Of Cruise Ships At Its Most Popular Islands
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First Mega Cruise Ship Built for Short Cruises Delivered to Royal Caribbean
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22:53 4. Shipbuilding
Samsung Says Russia’s Zvezda Illegally Terminated $4B Shipbuilding Deal
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Newbuilding Prices Reach Highest Level in 16 Years Driven by Strong Orders
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29:22 5. Iconic Ocean Liner SS United States Ordered to Leave Berth by September
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Crossing over that 300,000 subscribers. You’ve come along way, Sal!
Still 50 to go, but thanks for all your support and advice.
damn! congrats!
Heck yeah, Sal! Good job, dude! Way to hang in there!
Thank you for providing great content so consistently!
I think it's the shirts!
@@wgowshipping 300k now :D
Sal, I have been following you closely in the past year. I am a retired Navy Commander, from 1972 to 2000, including three years with the Coast Guard. I was deployed to the Red Sea onboard the USS Tarawa in 1996 and can relate to the current events in that region. In addition, I have worked as a contracted trucker with American President Lines, APL in Port Newark/Elizabeth. I like to keep up with current news, and information, and you are the best at providing that what's more, you provide valuable insight and speak directly to my heart as a seafaring man. Keep up the great work!
Yes. Sal is the best, isn't he? We are so lucky to have him. ⚓
I was on the Polar Star & we tied-up next to Tarawa when we arrived for Reftra (1984)
I don’t give two ships about shipping but Sal is one of the most effective communicators on TH-cam and I’m locked in on every upload!
Congratulations, Sal, for the meteoric success of your channel! Your credibility and passion are the keys to your success. Thank you, Sir.
The recognized government of yemen is not even in yemen. the president is currently living in Saudi Arabia. That tells something. This is one good youtube channel on shipping.
Good thing we cant be at war with a non state.
+1
Sounds like Ukraine.
Glad someone mentioned it. They're in a hotel in Riyadh. Google Hadi ballot. That was the election Hilary Clinton praised in Yemen but there was only one name on the ballot.
it tells me he wants to remain living.
What an interesting comment Sal... "I'd launch a life raft before I got into a life boat with the others" (paraphrased). I'll bet the logic behind that - could make an entire episode... Do Tell!
Second that. Inquiring minds want to know.
The grounding of Fiji's new patrol boat, gifted by Australia, reminds me of when the whalers we used as lifeguards doing boat patrols on Lake Ontario would get swamped; the maiden voyage? That's got to hurt. Australia must be palming their faces...
You can almost guarantee command of that boat was due to nepotisim.
The Michigan 7's "epic 15 knot run", said with just the right amount of enthusiasm made my day! That was an epic journey and masterful ship handling by the pilot and crew.
My uncle was a merchant seaman during WWII. After the war, he got his papers (Kings Point, I think) and shipped as a 3rd mate until his retirement. In those days, you had to put your card at the port office for the ship you wanted. So, if the ship docked on the east coast, he would drive to the west coast for his next ship. We lived in the Midwest, so he would stop every couple of years to see us kids and my dad. The stories he would tell us about the places he had visited kept us up past bedtime many times. Great memories.
Thanks for the follow up. Problem, frequently, with the mainstream media is there is no follow up to a story.
Sal- I’m a former US Navy Hospital Corpsman and medically retired Paramedic due to responding to the Pentagon on 9/11; working with the Marines during my Navy time, I never had the opportunity to serve on a ship. I’ve learned so much from you about shipping since watching your show that I wish I would have had that opportunity I mentioned above. 😄 Thank you and please keep up the great work! Doc Lykins, VA
Thanks for your service!
@@wgowshippingyou are quite welcome, Sir!!
Highly qualified Boeing 757 pilots took 16 attempts in flight simulators before being capable of recreating the flight paths used to hit WTC towers 1 & 2. None were capable of recreating the flight path used to hit the Pentagon.
The Truth is unthinkable….if you don’t think.
As a wee lad I saw both the SS United States and the SS France sailing out from NYC. Coming from a land locked state they burned deep into my memory. I’ll turn 70 this week, but the vision is as clear as the photos my dad snapped.
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“a ship load of ship stuff” 🤣. Also a locker full of Davey’s stuff.
The hull plating is often thicker on lakers, because they deal with ice in the early and later parts of the shipping season. This lends itself to a long life, as do shorter swells on the lakes.
Thanks for keeping us up to date on shipping, Sal!
Not a ship guy (unless you call a canoe a ship), but I love this channel. Great content.
Picking up on your comments about life rafts and boats, I was horrified to discover that many of the lifeboats on the huge cruise ships are double deckers with capacities of over 200 people. Could you do an episode/segment on life boats/rafts on modern cruise ships. With Pax/Crew capacities three times that of Titanic the loss of a mega cruise ship doesn’t bare thinking about.
Like the Costa Concordia
The Houthi saga is really benefiting your channel Sal. Glad to see your channel is growing. Wishing you more success!
Houthi are terrorist pirates. lol
o ho, yo ho, a pirate’s life for me.
We kindle and char and enflame and ignite.
Drink up me ‘earties, yo ho.
We burn up the city, we’re really a fright.
Drink up me ‘earties, yo ho.
Yo ho, you ho, a pirate’s life for me.
We’re beggars and blighters and ne’er do-well cads,
Drink up me ‘earties, yo ho.
Aye, but we’re loved by our mommies and dads,
Drink up me ‘earties, yo ho.
@@yedidyah-jedshlomoh1533
Houthis are hero's standing against MURDEROUS YANKEE IMPERIALISM
FREE PALESTINE
that will backfire soon. gotta pick a side.. and live with the consequences.
Sal, it's not 'both sides'. Israel is the west's colonial garrison occupying Palestine. For a hundred years the Palestinians have been dispossessed, brutalised, massacred and now genocided by the west and it's proxy, Israel. Ansar Allah (the Houthis) are blockading in support of the Palestinian struggle of liberation from genocidal zionist terror and it's western backers.
SS United States was a sad,neglected, corroding hulk when I spent 6 weeks on a small containership laid up on the Intercontinental Grain Terminal in Norfolk Va opposite her in the 1980’s. She had lumps of structure falling off her then so I dread to think what sort of state she is in now 40 years later - almost dangerous to go aboard I would imagine.
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Learned this key fact listening to Sal, that 95% of all commercial ships built worldwide are built by 3 Asian nations, China, South Korea and Japan. America builds only 0.05% of the world’s ships and a good portion are ferries for the Puget Sound near Seattle. South Korea didn’t even have a significant steel industry until the 1980’s but today they produce 25 to 30% of all commercial ships worldwide.
Sal is a great communicator for all things commerce concerning maritime matters, he has a real gift for making “What’s Going on with Shipping”, a must watch even for this landlubber. All the best to you Sal and congratulations on topping 300,000 subscribers.
I worked for a Korean company, someone there told me that one reason the Koreans adopted metal chopsticks so universally was to support the local steel industry.
@@BobHannent I worked at a large bridge fabricator at Harris Structural Steel in South Plainfield NJ 1981 to 1987, left as head of Quality Control. The last major cantilever bridge we fabricated was and is the 5th largest cantilever bridge in the world over the Mississippi River in New Orleans. Harris Structural Bridge built the cantilever portion of the Crescent City Connection bridge for 50 million but the near 5 miles of connector bridges that also was bid out to be fabricated at 50 million that we won, we farmed out to South Korea.
Our production staff went to South Korea to assist on how best to fabricate these bridge members. What they told me they found were South Korean military guards everywhere and the whole effort was state sponsored by the government of South Korea. I was told they didn’t have much steel production until this project. They completed their 50 million portion of the connector bridges for less than 25 million. Also the South Korean government paid FOB to ship all the miles of bridge members from South Korea, through the Panama Canal and then to New Orleans.
Metal chopsticks in South Korea I bet were common after these New Orleans connector bridge members were fabricated and accompanying steel industry was created for this fabrication effort after 1988 in South Korea.
I read Wikipedia on this bridge they do mention Harris Structural Steel fabricated the bridge but no mention the nation state of South Korea built a steel industry to build all the miles of connector bridge members and shipped it all to New Orleans for under 25 million of the 50 million we bid to do it. The owners son told me it was the most money Harris Structural Steel ever made fabricating a bridge and his PE Civil Engineering dad retired soon after.
Best shirt ever; and I have loved them all. ❤
As always, interesting info even for someone not super-focused on merchant shipping. Also, you do a wonderful job of navigating how political considerations affect shipping without allowing the politics to overwhelm the discussion.
Thanks. My Dad graduated from Kings Point Merchant Marine Academy in the 40's. ❤
Well done on 300K Sal!
I so appreciate your Chanel keeping regular folks informed!
I started watching your channel with Dali incident, I have enjoyed watching your channel since. I am a ED nurse in Jacksonville, FL which has nothing to do with shipping but I enjoy learning about shipping. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Was the infrastructure damage in Charleston due to wake or crappy dilapidated infrastructure.
Really. $23.5 million seems like an already made up total for a bunch of deferred maintenance.
yes
Man never learns, two things will happen in the next 20 years that will have everyone shocked, both predictable as you touch upon one of them Sal. There is no way these large Cruise ships can be evacuated quickly in an emergency, and we all know it, be prepared for Titanic 2 at some point. We have had an exemplary safety record from gas and chemical tankers, however with the obscure flags they are going under and their age, accompanied by possible poor crew training, we are now overdue a major catastrophe, this will occur at some point, that is a certainty. Sorry to be gloomy but accidents happen, even with the strictest safety regimes.
So important in all lines of work or commerce to prioritize safety standards and protocol. When we get complacent and start taking things for granted is when we let our guard down. The Key Bridge incident was 100 % preventable. Still waiting on conclusinary reports from all agencies (almost 3 months now) to find responsibility and factual answers. I'm certain I know why but will keep my mouth shut until official answers are released to many questions.
Thank you for your service and dedication. 👍
Phew!
Well done Sal, almost 35 minutes full of tongue twisting. Bab El Mandeb, have a drink you deserve it.
Cheers
Thank you once again Sal for important information from a trusted and very experienced professional.
Always love these roundup videos as they are both focused and reflective. This didn't diasppoint. Thanks!
great overview of the shipping news, as always, Sal! thanks.
Howdy Sal. Regarding the SS United States, I am concerned about hull corrosion even though she is sitting in "fresh" water, she hasn't been docked for hull inspection and preservation in something like 5 decades. A refit sufficient to make her habitable for paying customers, either passengers or "hotel guests" would cost hundreds of millions of dollars that very few have any more who would be willing to risk.
Your idea of the "Viking Funeral" is probably the best of two probable ends for her, the other being a final voyage to Brownsville Texas where ships go to die ... something that I would hate to see.
R3479..............Kirk Douglas would have approved !!!!
@@dannycalley7777 I've seen ships being scrapped, one of my old ships "died" that way. It ain't pretty.
Phew! That was a bit of a Marathon - great work, learnt a ton, and about a famous old trooper, preserving the funnels sounds like a great idea. Safe sailing!
When I was working on the refurbishment of the SS INDEPENDENCE at Newport News Shipbuilding, the ship was arrested over a payment dispute. The ships wheel was chained on the bridge and signs were posted “US Government property” on the gangway and bridge. Don’t ask how I knew what was on the bridge.
About Utopia of the Seas.... As far as I know she is a fairly conventional Oasis-class design, with no modifications to her food and beverage storage capacity. Converting that space into passenger cabins would likely be impossible since the storage rooms are on the deck below the lowest passenger deck, in a crew-only area, and along "I-95" (the nickname for the busy stem-to-stern corridor that also includes the supply and baggage loading gangways). The passenger capacity for Utopia isn't wildly higher than other ships of her class.
Also, cruise ships routinely carry food stocks for one week beyond the current sailing, in case of emergency. While they'll have more frequent "turnover days" at its homeport, the amount of supply storage won't really decrease.
Royal's decision to employ Utopia in the short, "booze-cruise" market IS unusual, though, since cruise lines normally assign their newest hardware to longer routes, instead of the "entry level" cruises that are handled by older, smaller vessels.
Chapeaux Captain Sal. Reportage par excellence. Surprising reasonable, rational, open minded and hearted ❤. Fair winds and following seas ☝️♥️✌️🌍🙏🇭🇲🇿🇦
Sal, Can you please explain why you would choose a "life raft" over a lifeboat on a cruise ship in case of an emergency? If there are both life rafts and lifeboats on a cruise ship, how can we identify where the life rafts are located?
The life rafts inflate when they hit the water. So if you need it you will find it on the water. On the ship they look like 55 gallon oil drums near the rails.
On shipbuilding: a potentially interesting topic would be the financial trouble of Meyer Werft at Papenburg, Germany (main location). Meyer specializes in cruise ships, the big ones.
As I understand it, their order book is full, at essentially good prices, but the problem is bridging the period from receiving 20% of the price as a down payment till receiving the remaining 80% at hand-over (or a similar moment). Financing 80% of the amount involved seems to have become the problem.
Taking your word, Sal, that US shipyards should resume building certain high-end types of ship, I could imagine them running into the same problem.
Me, I don't have "the" solution. However, this problem essentially matches that of building skyscrapers or purchasing (many) seeds before you can harvest (big) crops. Here in Europe, farmers founded their own banks that were tailored to those cycles. I bet that American farmers have found a similar solution.
Canadian ship lucky it’s not November!
Always a great update. Necessary for those of us interested. Definitely a great instructor!!❤
Congratulations Sal! 300K is impressive and well deserved.
I appreciate your coverage. Thanx Minica
Viking funeral --- yes better than storage in a naval museum due to space and upkeep costs.
I am using my Marine Corps chowhall grade coffee to drink when you speak of that area around the Red Sea
That does not sound like the pale brown water popular in much of USA.
Be careful! I used to fuel the trucks with that stuff!
Dunkin?
Love your channel, you have great information. And many sound common sense suggestions.
I wish the politicos and movers or shackers of the USA would hear and vslue your ideas.
Professor Sal, thanks for an interesting recap on the maritime sector!
Sam, you getting even more legendary with every episode 😂
Discovered your channel recently and is has helped me understand marine logistics which affects me a lot being in the navy.
A few days ago Sal - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - updated its data/advice on El Niño affecting the world - they downgraded it from severe to neutral - this should greatly help out the Panama Canal and low water problem becuse they end up getting more rain and balanced weather
It's go time!
I love your aloha shirt collection. Your content is great too.
Good Episode, Sal! Congrats on passing the 300k mark! It's a shame the Pentagon didn't have the foresight to pick up the SS United States, remove the asbestos, install bunk tiers, and put it in the ready reserve. Fire up the powerplant monthly, use it as a training vessel and maintain it. The cost would probably have been about what they spend on paperclips, copy paper and toner yearly.
Wow That chart.... reminds me of the black Pearl traversing the desert sand with the help of those pesky public crabs....😂
On a much smaller, and more local scale, there is also an effort to restrict cruise ships into Juneau. It doesn't seem to be so much infrastructure but the tolerance of the local people.
The US is following the UK when it comes to the Merchant Marine. People have quickly forgotten just how essential they are. During WW2 they kept the UK fed and the US forces, fed and fighting. Though my father and one of his brothers were in the army, seven of my uncles were Merchant Marine. They mostly operated convoys across the Atlantic and Artic Oceans to the USA and USSR but occasionally went east, far east. They all came home safely and would be deeply upset by the state of merchant shipping for western mariners and ship builders. My brother is a time served Pipe Marine, trained at Camel Laird Ship yard. They tried to get him to return when they re-opened the shipyard a few years. Considering that he was in the last cohort that spent seven years training and one of five who qualified, he said that his current job was more secure. He drives a bus for minimum wage. He told me that he prefers his warm bus to a freezing cold wet yard.
Funny you mentioned the names of Freedom & Liberty on the proposed closer to shore cruise ships. Perhaps they can repurpose the Navy’s littoral combat ships because apparently aren’t good for anything else. 🤣
I actually lolled, and got strange looks from the Frau, when you took the drink.
I loved the section on the SS United States. Her story shows how rapidly the 20th century past itself. What a great liner. She should have been in service 35 years prior. Gibbs story is one that should be known by anyone who loves transportation. I too would hate to see the ship scrapped. Please scuttle her in an appropriate place so people will remember that one time she lived. Thanks for a great video. Regards, RF
Thanks for the concision for all our benefit sir. Cheers
Very informative as usual, Sal!
Fiji’s navy is sinking …. The Red Sea remains closed to most shipping and the world adjusts ….
Hello Sal, greetings from the UK, loving your channel.
Sal, congratulations on reaching 300k subscribers.
I catch a glimpse of Great Lakes freighters in St. Lawrence Seaway, a bit West of the St. Lambert Locks in Lac St. Louis. I'm in Pointe Claire with its famous "Windmill Point" on West Island of Montreal.
Every time you talk about the legality of the Houthi attacks, I can’t help but think about the Barbary pirates of northern Africa 200 years ago.
I think about American warships enforcing unilateral American sanctions with no international body or court backing.
@@johnzach2057 that might accidentally be kinda my point, that’s what was happening then too, and we lost a lot of boats and learned some hard lessons about hard power
Legality. What is the legality of supplying weapons to a couple nations around there that are involved in war crimes & genocide? "Legal" seems to be in the eyes of the beholder, and that's half the problem right there. Who is going to respect "The Law" of anything, when there is one law for some people and something far more lenient for others?
@@wyldhowl2821”legality” in international terms is fuzzy at best. It is nothing more than a state or quality of compliance with established law or treaty. In 1801 pirates seized 6 ships and 300ish sailors, and congress signed a treaty with the Bashaw of Tripoli as ransom worth around $1.2 million in todays money. by 1807 pirates from Algiers started seizing American boats again to pull the same deal. This was legal within the established international law of the day, and is not all that different than what is being done today
@@wyldhowl2821 what do you think the chances are that the Houthi commanders are familiar with the specific details outlined in UN treaties pertaining to international maritime law? What is the legality of any of this if neither side is playing by the same rule book? All international law comes down to is a formal agreement between signatories.
Congratulations on 300k soon
Way cool! Be safe traveling!!
shit load references a load of organic fertilizer going to a field, luv the pun cheers. made my morning, never moved a small amount of poop on my mums farm: farming LOL
thanks for the update
Congrats on 300k from a fellow domer!
Great update
I remember the SS United States being docked in Norfolk for many years. I also remember they auctioned off many of her items in the early 80’s. I remember passing her on the dinner cruise boat there and it seemed like it was a ghost ship with no lights on it.
My first time having the right drink while watching!
Every time I hear you say 'Hit the bell' I imagine a ship bell sound
Great job Sal
I agree on the raft comment. No thanks on being in an enclosed space with a couple hundred of my closest friends. Can you imagine the restocking of that new monster for three and four day cruises with 5,600+ passengers? Wow. 2,500 is wild enough. the Big U needs to be a reef with funnels and plaques removed and taken where you mentioned. It's sad to keep her around just decaying.
Hey up sal nice video and congratulations on your 300k subs
Thanks Sal
Mega Cruise ships are ridiculous. The standard cruise ships offer and affordable means for travelers to see the world. What they are building today are absurdities with olympic swimming pools, surf pools, amusement parks etc. Essentially 10 lbs of crap in a 5 lb bag, not to mention the petri dishes for disease they normally are. It's a gigantic waste of fuel and great damage to infrastructure and sea life.
Imagine such money and efforts being put into land-based low-income housing. Ah...the world of excess.
As an ex crew on cruise ships in the 70s I left for that reason. Even then it was gross consumption and pollution and a kick in the face for the poorest people where the ships docked. glad i am out of it now
Virtual floating motel 6, a good place to up-chuck....RF
Mega cruise ships just want to keep all the money on board the ship.
@@onestartravellermarkeymark5329 appreciate your experience being input. I've never taken a cruise but considered for a time. They just seem like disasters waiting to happen. Even after the Titanic the madness continues. I definitely appreciate all the necessary vessels on the seas and hope they can even be reduced or made more efficiently.
@@rexfaucher9773 we'll leave the light on so you don't step in it.
Cheers Sal!
Great video
Sal, drinking a bit early eh (clock on the wall). No worries in Germany though where you can get a Big Mac and a beer! Great video.
Great episode
Another great video.
Over 40 knots and 20 knots reversing!? Holy !@#! that is fast in anybody's book. An ocean liner pretty much capable of keeping up with a modern fast carrier group. Damme !
Lots of content in todays episode. A whole lot. The event that sticks with me is the pending eviction of the SS United States from its berth. I suspect we are witnessing the approaching final disposition of the ship. Will it be towed of to South Asia or will it head to Texas. I don’t think it will be used for a target or reef ship simply because of what she represents and her size. She is a big ship. A really big ship.
If she is dismantled, I would like to see her front section along with her funnels saved and incorporated in some architectural structure. The long sweeping bow of the ship is the signature feature of the ship along with her funnels.
What are the structural issues if any? Is it seaworthy?
Part of the problem with the Queen Mary floating hotel/tourist attraction is that it’s located in Long Beach, California. Long Beach isn’t a tourist destination. (The City of Long Beach purchased the ship in an attempt to change itself into a destination city, but it hasn’t worked.)
The Queen Mary is also expensive to maintain and operate. I’m just guessing but I doubt it’s making any great profits even in a good year. She’s also permanently moored. She’s not going anywhere.
I think for the SS United States to be profitable, it would need to operate as a floating casino. It would need to operate out of a port in a popular destination city, and head out to international waters for gambling.
Love you SAL!! YOU ROCK.!!
Great content as always!! Thanks for sharing!
Mate your shirts are absolutely next level 🔥
Liens in anticipation of fines and damage costs in Charleston are exactly the right choice, guaranteeing a remedy will be swift and thorough
As an australian, very appropriate timing for the sip and 'sigh' .....
Safe journey to and fromEuropa Sal!
We'll be on Utopia in October. I never thought about the amount of storage space they can swap out for passenger use by specifically designing for short duration trips. Utopia is the second RC ship, after Icon, to run on liquefied natural gas.
I'd love to get your take on cruise ship safety. We go twice a year. In February we do Start Trek: The Cruise. That's a 7 night charter. The three I've been on were Voyager-class ships. Then we do another after summer. Last year we were on Radiance for Thanksgiving. Wasn't happy about the small cabin. Even though it was the same class as on Mariner and Navigator it was much smaller.
Almost 300k Sal!
Hello from Canada and a plug for the Algorithm.
After seeing the videos on the SS United States by the curator of BB-62 New Jersey, I don't think that the ship is that far beyond saving. Considering the amount of technology shared between the SS United States and the Iowa-class (especially the powerplant), I think that it'd be a very important macro-artefact to preserve. We'd just need to get it into drydock, stat.
Currently I'm working on an article about the SS United States for Hackaday. I'd love to see a serious attempt to save her being undertaken, because it's a piece of US marine history that'll be lost forever otherwise.
Someone should divert a few million from Musk or Bezos or Zuckerberg and fix her up. Far better a goal than any of their trophy projects
I watch for the awesome shirts
Michi is one of my favorite lakers! Anxious to see if they crop and renew and send her back out.
Very Well Done ! ( EX B.P ) From a Windy U,K ! 😊
Hey SAL,GREAT episode as always. I really felt your passion of significance towards the SS UNITED STATES! Curiosity was piqued about the demand to move her from. PHILLY. What's your professional thoughts on something going to happen at the yards at PHILLY, i.e. expansion or maybe a 'secret' project in rhe works they need the room! Just thoughts; to me your insights ALWAYS get this old brain ramped up: your a very stimulating in all your presentations. Thanks again for GREAT work in videos! Mike from Delaware
Safe travels! I see the SS United States every time I cross the bridge (a lot) or shop in the area where it is docked. Makes me sad and a little angry and I always hope it is not a metaphor for the country. They never should have let it get to this point. The govt should have acquired it or some wealthy patriot.
Not trying to be critical here, the ore boats name is generally pronounced in the Great Lakes Region as the Michey-pee-cotton. Not that anyone could tell by the way its spelled. We have an island out in Lake Superior off the Canadian shore with the same name, Michipicoten Island. Thanks for all your informative information, you have a fantastic channel.