Why large ships don’t sink in bad weather
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- Опубликовано: 14 янв 2021
- Why don’t boats sink? This is a simple question with a complicated answer that you might have asked yourself at one point. Even though you may have not experienced it in person, you have probably seen a giant ship breaking through the towering waves and going up and down during a fearsome storm.
Each time the ship goes down, it seems as if it will never go back up again; but the ship keeps afloat on the water. These heart-pumping moments are popular in movies and TV series and can be quite exciting to watch.
But in reality, it would be a catastrophe if big ships sank during these storms. Luckily, engineers and captains have a few tricks to avoid such conditions.
First and foremost, ships try to avoid storms for a safe journey, and communication plays an important role here. It may be true that “loose lips sink ships”, but in this case, the opposite is true. This communication becomes possible through satellites.
Weather reports can prevent a possible disaster long before it happens. Apart from modern solutions, ancient solutions like ballasts make the ship heavier and enable a more stable ship buoyancy. But, what happens when a ship encounters a storm in spite of all the safety measurements?
You will have to watch our video to find out. If you are also asking questions like “why don’t ships sink”, this video with its interesting highlights and thrilling visuals can help you satisfy your curiosity.
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Narrator trying to put emphasis on every single word
😂
I stopped the video after 3 minutes because of this (and because of the really minimal information in it)
Yeah. I was also asking myself why that guy cannot talk normally. I guess they told him he should make it interesting and he confused that with making it dramatic.
@Ordo you mean constipated due to the proccessing? That could explain why there are more videos on RUclips that sound like this.
He's not telling anything, he's trying to sound scientific with limited knowledge
How I successfully battle a tiger is by avoiding a tiger.
Good. Life time learning. 👍
Poor tiger 🙄
So you don't "battle".
@@suprememasteroftheuniverse he does by not doing it
Ah yes, people die if they are killed.
Ngl, this video would be a lot more interesting if my man narrated in a regular voice. This over emphasis of syllables is annoying af. Still enjoyed the information!
It is legitimately exhausting to listen to
I'm pretty sure it's computer generated.
True
Sounds like a creepy disney film narrator.
speed it up to 2x speed. Becomes a lot more bearable
My friend has always been telling me that heaviness is one of the reasons that ships are not sinking! Great video
Yes, because the center of gravity decreases and makes it more stable!
It was a autocorrect error! 😊
Edit: decreases
@@pronaymaitra7845 uhh rise in centre of gravity is less stable iirc.
@@pronaymaitra7845 makes it less stable...
How do boats float but rocks sink as soon they hit the water
@@chriswright8074 buoyant force, the water the ship displaces is heavier than what the ship weighs.
How ships avoid sinking? Avoid bad weather
Engineers: no need to thank me
Avoid using ship 😂
😂
Because they weigh the same as a duck?
don't choose your carrier in sea voyage
*WRONG* The real reason is the kraken doesn't hunger for big meals like cargo ships
im not sure about that, because cargo ship do contain food inside from worldwide
@@miteonmybed you say that as if they can smell out of water
Yet*
@@LuisRivera-rl9gl Yeet*
Pirates life
Damn. Why does listening to this make me feel like I'm having a stroke?
Its like wikipedia became sentient and started producing videos
😂
He is speaking from his arse, learn to respect talent 😂
Coz u r doge
This guy sounds like he's Morgan Freeman's and Optimus prime's illegitimate son
Lol
Oh hell no 🤣🤣🤣
This is exactly what titanic makers said before becoming a lesson of history.
May you find peace ❤🙏
well bad weather... not iceberg bruhhhh..
I don't think the whether causes a ship to hit a giant iceberg
🤣🤣
@@ZhuGeLiang6969 but there's _a lot_ of reports regarding icebergs
Considering these large ships are multiple times larger than the titanic. I'd say they're good.
Skip till 01:10 to avoid lengthy introduction....
Also watch at minimum 1.5x speed
The writing is so cheesy
Thank you
Thank you ma man
@@madhanianuj I followed your instructions and it's the only way to get through it.
Large ships never sinks
Titanic: Hold my iceberg
Exactly, what a bs....
Titanic is smaller than modern battleships
Your average modern cargo ship can easily dwarf titanic in size. Also titanic hit an iceberg due to human error, it was actually pretty storm resistant.
Costa Concordia one probably capable and decent modern ship, stuck and semi-sunk, guess the modern GPS route tracking and all sensors didn't save it from an amazing captain *facepalm*.
@@deshpremikamranhasan7082 Given that there are no battleships in active service anywhere in the world, I struggle to understand your use of ‘modern’. Even the battleships built during WW2 were actually shorter, and not that much heavier considering all the armour and weapons.
I am a seafarer, and I agree with all that you have just said. Loaded ships are hard to toss around while ships in ballast are very dangerous in tumultuous sea. But if a ship properly secured and water-tight, everything is manageable.
Modern ships also have double Hull structure which makes them 4 times stronger than the single Hull design ship.
1. Better wheather detection
2. Heavy mass beats waves
3. New steel and ship design
4. Port shore and shelter hole
5. Out run a storm.
6. Go to the counter clock side of the storm.
7. Go fast, and cut the waves instead of letting it slam on your wide side.
Wise your to the point expleination showed in the comments first...that video narration was horrific drama voice I feel exhausted after that narration
@@sjurjans7137
Glad to be of help comrade!
But please do listen to the video in the background, since RUclips sometimes does not count views if the video is only open for a short while. It kinda hurts their ad revenue.
The ocean is the most terrifying place on earth without a doubt.
Exactly.. Imagine being 1000s of miles away from land in the middle of no where. You are the mercy of the ocean.. Waves can reach scary heights in deep ocean during storms. Its scary to think about
You never know whats beneath you. No thanks, but no.
What's up with the narration? It sounds like Optimus Prime is teaching me about ships.
Turn down the sound and read the text.simple
@@sean367
That doesn't answer my question.
@@sean367
Also why are you trying to defend this shitty narration
@@sean367 yeah wtf
this is a computer voice. i always see ads for these claiming they sound more natural compared to older computer generated voices
I stayed in dredging ship , amazed how it break through high tide , rain no matter Just keep sailing on the specified channel. It have bouyonce at both side of the deck . it is the reason to make it float all time . On the next day morning deck is filled with abundance of fishes , nice one go to Ice room remaining thrown to the sea
When I was a young man I worked for a marine company that had contracts with oil companies to provide services to oil rigs in the Gulf. On a trip from port in So Cal off the coast of Mexico on way to Panama canal we encountered a storm I thought was gonna kill us all. Captain was on the bridge drinking his coffee cracking jokes crew below in galley or berths as no one allowed on deck. Everyone calm as could be I'm shitting my pants. I decided if we ever made it back to port I was quitting. After that I enlisted in the Army and learned what real fear was. Made a man out of me.
Seeing the ships moving in the video itself causing me sea sickness!
All the sailors of old who survived horrible storms are legends even if we never get to hear their stories
It's not ships who refuse to sink, its physics, which keeps them afloat
Yea right physics can build a ship
yes!! Buoyancy
thanks physics
@@GH-uq7wr it turns out yes
Sherlock
Best advice to a mariner, avoid bad weather and you can do it thanks to modern technology, what a relief.
You can add
Ship design, that put heavy things below (engine, water desalination, etc),
Automatic sealed door & windows,
Double hull,
Automatic stabilising fin,
Rotatable 360deg propeller, automatic thruster, automatic water jet pump,
2 moveable plate steering fin or power reversing bowl,
Deployable catamaran stabilizer,
And even, ability to submerged temporarily.
There is a thing in American English where they use the past participle ( sunk) when they should use the past tense ( sank)- I hear it all the time. But here we get two past tenses within seconds of each other, where the narrator ( or rather, his script writer) uses sunk incorrectly, as usual: " ships of the past sunk quite easily..." ( at 0.20), then immediately uses the correct past participle at 0.23 " Wooden ships sank quite often..."
Sea room and steering way were and still are some of the biggest risk factors when with sailing ships in storms. Without an engine they can find themselves blown towards the shore. Also if they suffer damage to sails or masts in a storm this can cause them to loose steering way. Of course even modern ships are not immune to loss of power, especially if bad weather causes flooding of engine rooms. Smaller vessels are most at risk since even if they are well sealed, air intakes are still needed for the engines and these can be swamped by large waves. That's why large ocean going ships tend to have air intakes on top of the superstructure if not the funnel, and smaller vessels designed to withstand rough seas have intakes designed to close off automatically if covered in water (hopefully only for short periods at a time).
I was on the USS Nimitz when I was in the USMC. We were going through a South Pacific typhoon and a huge wave hit the bow so hard, it practically stopped the vessel dead in the water. The XO looked at me and busted out laughing while I turned green 🤢and lost my chow🤮.
As per my knowledge it's all related to metacentic height, Metacentric height for pitching is lower than rolling so if you design a ship for pitching it is automatically safe for rolling..
As per my knowledge. Stay on the land and you dramatically reduce the chances of sinking.
Not sure what you mean by "metacentric height for pitching". But if you meant transversal metacentric height tour are correct. This is due to moment of inertia, and the fact that while considering a roll motion the ship is way more affected by incling moments
Once we had to drop anchor and wait at Typhoon shelter off Hong Kong while awaiting a severe typhoon to pass with eye 100nm from our position. Even at that distance, fron the storm centre, the anemometer read 85 knots at Closest approach of storm.
Our vessel was dragging anchor and making slighy Stern way at full ahead manoeuvering revolution. We had to go a few notches above on sea speed revolution to maintain a steady position for 3-4 hours. It was scary as hell.
One can hear the whistling of wind making way through the side sealings of the windscreen on the navigation bridge.
Love the "learn to read and pronounce English" format
Lmao
Лол 🤣
I’m wondering how many shipping containers are at the bottom of the ocean from falling off ships in rough seas
3,429
@@trje246 dam there’s an exact number lol that’s a lot of iPhones and laptops sitting thousands of feet at the bottom of the ocean imagine one day the contents of one that sank decades ago finally washed up on a shore and the items are still in good condition because they been sealed so well that when u put fresh batteries in it will work lol
@@jaredharris1970 😂 that'd be so awesome! haha
This guy talks in slow motion
I had to play it on 1.5x speed
Can you do an infographic of a ship construct? Explaining parts of the ships and current technologies in further details? Great vid!!
This literally looks like the ship Godzilla and Kong are gonna fight on
When you need to submit a 3000 word essay:
Why am I watching a video on ships in storms at 2am?
There are some misinformation here. Ships are not built with extremely thick steel, instead most vessels' hulls are built with 12mm thick steel. This would highly impact weight and efficiency of the vessel negatively. What makes them much more durable is the strength design of supplying elements. And those are perforated as well to reduce weight and keep the strength same. Also most vessels can admit sea water to their cargo holds or cargo tanks in tankers' case. If full ballast condition isn't enough, they can fill the tanks or holds all the way to fully loaded condition.
The heavier the lower parts the the stability
Quick answer: captains stay away from bad weather conditions their ships can’t handle, or they may just with one waive going over them that won’t bring them back up
Modern ships heard so much motivational videos that they only accept to sunk when they finally reach the shore!
That's dedication we're talking about!
Why large ships don't sink..
Titanic: am I joke to you.
(Modern) large ships don't sink... very often.
Titanic is tiny compared to ships today
Plus it hit an ice berg not a wave
Actually length of ships Also matters. Sometimes long swells might be encountered over the sea, and if the lengh of the ship is less than or equivalent to that of the swell, ship will also be in danger. Modern ships are normally big ones with long body, and that's why they can survive most swells and waves over the sea
No if the ship is longer than the swell period then the longitudinal strength is of critical importance...longer does not mean safer.
i know that navigating at right angles to the waves has long since been debunked. maybe this applies more to smaller boats but the safest angle of attack is surprisingly less than 45 degrees onto wave. can't find the exact reference at the moment.
@@skippyguy3 true from the angle of structure safety
@@carlosgaspar8447 safer riding the wave
Any ship regardless of technology level or size can easily sink in bad sea conditions. Yes, modern technology helps, but it takes just the right combination of conditions to take a ship down. Resonance, buckled steel plates, failures on loading hatches or even main structural failure is some of the most common reasons a ship can sink.
Never thought someone could talk about a ship and its stability in bad weather without mention the gyroscope.
The video is for hilly billy viewers not for a technically sound person. 😂
How about someone having sea sickness..
Even if ship survives..
ummmm that poor guy 🙇🏻
For seasickness there is a tablet in first aid room , had it feel fresh as you walking on land .
@@RUBYKINGSLY what's the name of the drug? I get motion sickness so easily I cannot play FPS games. Travelling to places is a nightmare, even when I'm driving I get motion sickness. 3x worse than a hangover 🤢🤮
@@earms2949 hi friend ,I don't know the exact name of the tablet . the ship crew saw my worst condition of keep vomiting, then they provide me the medicine . After 1 month of continuous staying in ship I feel nothing about sea sickness. I get normal condition as I feel on land .
@@earms2949 same case with me I can play fps forly 1 hour I get motion sickness so easily😭
I thought I am the only one have this problem 😅, now i realised there are many . If I watch under water videos made by divers for more than 15 minutes, I will get sick .
Was in a fully loaded tanker with 12m waves. Was fine. Occasionally the prop sped up when out of water and made a thump but all good.
Some ships still do sink .
Never think it will not happen .
Gotta respect Vikings and Europeans who conquered the sea before the the invention of these technologies
Why large ships don’t sink in bad weather
Titanic: *Sink in Normal weather
"One way ships overcome bad weather is by preventing it in the first place"
Me:
Applying excessive pressure over the object for the sake of sinking
I love watching videos of thunderstorms and then I listen to music I like like delta parole or metallica! Nothing better and more relaxing like that!
😆😆
boosts my confident on studying as a seaman...thanks from 🇵🇭
I thought feet were the oldest form of transportation.
No bro, its testicles
the subtitle is really hard to read! can you make it LARGER?
It is not weight that makes a ship more stable exactly. I had a captain tell me once (maybe twice he talked a lot) the more hull under water the better the stability. Conversely, a top heavy boat is affected by both wind and waves from the sides ...
If they break in half on high waves, they sink rather fast.
The Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior in the 1975.
Play it on x1.25 makes it a lot more bearable
Otherwise from storm it's just mind baffled how a ship can carry millions of tons and yet still stay afloat, while a spoon can't even stay afloat if you put it in the water.
I'd like to know how ships stay upright when their containers on deck far above the waterline are stacked so high. On cruise ships too, the cabins are stacked high like a sea-going apartment block. Surely there must be equal weight below the waterline to counterbalance the weight above deck, so how much ballast is there below the waterline and how does the ship stay afloat while carrying that ballast plus the heavy cargo or superstructure? Mr Croaky Voice states what we could have guessed but doesn't comment on the obvious height above water of the ships in the photos.
They balance by means of shape. The way the hull is shaped causes the center of buoyancy to move toward the side the ship is leaning to, so it starts to lean back the other way. It's similar to the way a car stays upright, but more of the hull is involved because it's not sitting on a solid surface.
Just recently a Cattle carrier carrying 5000 cattle fron new Zealand to Japan sunk in bad weather near Japan bringing down some 23 crewmen and officers
And the cattle swam to the shores safely I guess
@@deepaknahar7588 nope. The enclosures inside the large cattle carrier were secure and they all went to the bottom of the Sea of Japan.
Did Crew members survive?
@@SanPot123 only one found clinging to a liferaft. It was reported that tied his hand to the boat. Another sailor was found dead. They were 2 of 20 Filipinos, while 3 New Zealander officers were not also found.
look at the brighter side.... At least the sharks would have a feast.
Just saw a ship break because of waves and then this
Sinking is all about center of gravity and the metacentre ...... Fluid Mechanics
Stability has everything to do with the metacentric height and the centre of gravity (GM) from which you derive the righting moment. Sinking it to do with watertight integrity and longitudinal strength. Nothing to do with fluid mechanics....
No it isnt. Density is what matters
04:39 i absolutely love how enthousiastic you are about 14 knots i mean it's not bad for the ships size tho
The US cargo ship 'El Faro"She was lost at sea with all hands on October 1, 2015, after steaming into the center of Hurricane Joaquin.
Derbyshire was lost on 9 September 1980 during Typhoon Orchid.
El Faro sank because there is no technology to remedy the stupidity.
It just clicked me that why charge for delivering is called shipping charges
Yes sellers are fraud, they send item through air but charge it as shipping charge. 😭
All ships can sink. Its the combination of naval architecture, engineering, high quality ship construction and good practices of seamanship, including keeping your ship away from bad weather, that keeps a ship afloat.
I was on a aircraft carrier that took a 24 degree roll to the port side many years ago, they even have a patch out about it now.
Literally just watched a video of a ship literally snapping in half
me: comes to comments for more info
youtube commentators: *spams humor button*
It’s all good until you see Dracula Mihawk approaching your “unsinkable ship”
Edmund Fitzgerald " Hold my beer"
The fitz eventually subbcomed to weakening of its hull over time. It’s was built in 1959, sank in 1975
amazing ship technology
If this guy narrates my life it might finally become interesting & adventurous...
Howard Cosell is back! I love it.
Every ship is a gansta until it hits an ice berg
Ships today are very strong
no shit 😂
Edmund fitzgerald, titanic, emperor, Sea fox. Need I say more?
Those ships didn't directly sink because of bad weather. For God's sake the water on the day the titanic sank was still as a rock.
@@aerofiles5044 Fitzgerald is debatable, Titanic a fat no, Emperor I've never heard of, but SV Sea Fox capsized and sank from a rogue wave
Informative and the musical score was tight.
Dude sounds like Optimus Prime having a stroke
When he talked about weather reports, I was expecting for something way cooler and advanced 😂😂 then he says weather reports and yea that makes sense too😂😂
Yeah, it actually is. Reports are just tools we use in all kinds of conditions, but the real knowledge has to come from a salior.
In order to avoid death, i simple would try not to die
L O G I C
Modern ships are like "Flying Dutchman", unsinkable.
Have heard of tankers breaking up in heavy swells.
Black pearl - haa, that's cute, but can you fit inside a bottle of wine.
Learnt something today 😎
please cover El Faro Story. Its an excellent example of a ship trying to avoid and move faster than storm. And very very unfortunately it lead to loss of lives.
titanic:
*withstands heavy weather
*withstands big waves
some random iceberg:
"let me introduce myself"
Actually , if you told this to experienced old sailors in that wooden ships era, you would get slapped out for sure, they COULD predict weather .. literally, they watch the sea animals,wind,guessing water depth in coastline or river, navigation through stars was also necessary part in being a good sailor during those old days. The problem was they didn't have engine so even if they knew storm is coming in three or five hours ahead, they couldn't sail out of the storm range ,that's the point here.. All in all, I only wanna say "wasted".
I was hoping for more then just common knowledge and 5 minutes of googling.
ruclips.net/video/p8lQBysVJbQ/видео.html
The key is in the design. They have to displace all that energy away from the ship so it does not absorb it directly. Have seen over 1" thick steel rolled like it was tin from one wave.
Ok
More Info, modern ships today have a double hull so if the exterior Hull is damaged and breached by water there is a 2nd hull for the sea water can't flood the inside of the ship.
Dude you music is at like a 11 out of 10
Music name plz
Title : why large ships don't sink in bad weather?
Me who just saw a video of a large ship breaking in 2 pieces in bad weather :🙄
Ocean : would u like to sink into me
Ship : *NO*
Question guys: so far, I've only known 3100t ship having sea state 9 rating, & a 2600t ship sea state 7. Are there ships ~2500t or below designed as sea state 9? If possible, please provide a link. Thanks
I love this narrator
6:05
Only ship that never sinks is the true friendship
When u dont know the actual ans but can write a whole essay on it...
So, you made a video about iron & welding better than wood & a nail.
You are really smart.