Why Ships Are Red Below the Waterline
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- Опубликовано: 5 ноя 2019
- When’s the last time you looked at a ship? Picture a cruise ship or container ship in the harbor. Did you happen to notice that the bottom of the hull is always painted red? It’s not like you can see that snazzy paint job under the waterline, so what gives?
In early times, ships were mostly made of wood. That's why sailors had to cover their hulls (the part that’s sitting in the water) with copper paint to protect the vessel from wood-eating worms, barnacles, and seaweed. It was the copper that added a red tint to the paint. But what about now?
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SUMMARY:
- Nowadays, you can add special ship-protecting ingredients to any kind or color of paint. But the hulls are still painted red to honor and maintain the old nautical tradition!
- You also might’ve noticed numbers painted vertically on the side of the hull, usually toward the bow. The red background helps those stand out more.
- It doesn't matter how well you protect the hull of your ship with special paint - it’ll never help you completely avoid the harmful growth of barnacles and whatnot.
- You might not realize it, but almost 95% of all the world's cargo is transported by ship.
- Right at this moment, at least 20 million containers are moving across the world.
- Within one year, the average container ship travels the same distance as going three-quarters of the way to the moon and back.
- The largest cargo ship can carry 18,000 containers with a whopping 745 million bananas inside!
- Maersk has been the biggest container ship operator in the world since 1996. If you stack up just their containers alone, it would equal 7,530 Eiffel Towers.
- One-third of all ship crews in the world don't have any kind of communication with the outside world when they're out at open sea.
- Cruise ships often perform rescue operations. So, don't be surprised if the one you're traveling on stops to save a few fishers in desperate need of help.
- Cruise ship cabins are built separately from the ship because, otherwise, there wouldn't be enough space for their construction.
- Cruise ship cabin walls are made of metal, and the main reason is fire safety.
- During a one-week cruise, a large ship uses 1,800 pounds of coffee, 9,000 pounds of lettuce, 45,000 eggs, and 20,000 ice cream cones!
- Although there are doctors and nurses on cruise ships, if you have a dental emergency, no-one will be able to help you out.
- Cruise ships consume a lot of fuel. For example, a large vessel needs about 121,000 gallons of fuel for every day it spends at sea.
- The largest cruise ships have more than 2,000 crew members. On top of that, such vessels are incredibly expensive to build: they may cost more than $1 billion.
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Hey BrightSiders!
If you took a cruise, how long would it last? 😉
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One year
A month
12hours
@Imogen Black its impossible u know that right ships are slow it takes me 12hours
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4:52 that's a very modern looking ship for 1915 🤔
Yeah
Normal in that time ships should be like olympic,titanic,britannic
Lol lol lol
@@Striking_Salmon well the titanic had sunk by that time. It would be the maruatania and aquatania and others
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@@mayaishizaki he already said the 3 white star liners. I was just sayin the titanic had sunk, also the lusitania while we're at it.
About 15 years ago, my father had a medical emergency, while sailing from Ft. Lauderdale to St. Thomas (U.S.V.I.). Before the U.S. Coast Guard could mount an effort & send aid, a massive Korean cargo ship bound for Africa intercepted the distress call & changed course over 100 miles to help. They were able to get him on board until a U.S. Coast Guard chopper arrived & transported him back to Florida & a hospital, where his life was saved just in time. Hats off to the cargo guys! There are good people out there & it's amazing how much sailors(wind or fuel operated) have each other's back. Thank you!
I thought it was so the ship could be spotted if it flipped over.
It'll be also a reason
@@sr3yu no, not a reason at all.
Me too
Me three
Travis Vaughan same
The fact that thousands of containers are lost at sea each year at this day and age actually blew my mind. My parents’ business is importing medical equipment and we once received a news from our shipping company that our shipment was lost. Oh we lost quite a lot of money that time.
so they didn't get their container insured? no liability?
Red makes it go faster. Just like my Civic!
Legend
Da red wunz always go fasta.
i thought red makes cars stop!😂
Uhh...actually what makes your civic fast is because of the VTEC JUST KICKED IN YO!
"at this moment there are at least 20 million containers moving around the world" not now
We're we talking about red paint or cruise ships
Yea exactly, seems like they lost the whole point itself.
Yes
Were not we are
They covered the paint part of it first and *then* moved on to other stuff. So what’s the complaint for? If you paid attention you’d know when they stopped.
NON
The red bottom is to let the sharks know dinner is on the way.
Lol 😆
Yeah. Red and yellow is considered as color that raise the appetite.
That's why many restaurant brands choose red or yellow or both in their logo and mascot. McD, KFC, Pizza Hut, etc.
crazy indie hacks not blue its mostly yellow tbh
LOL
Lol
0:54
Bright side: "Or they might use more fuel"
me: "Is that not a sailboat???"
Yeah Sail boat use wind that you saw they use fuel
There's a such thing as sailboats with engines. Like the SS Atlantic.
Just got to that part and nvm it's a colonial ship lol
Most people don’t know that they also have a large sign painted on the bottom of the hull that says "If you can read this, please flip us over..."
@S Phung But if the barnacles were there, wouldn't they get covered with the numbers?
@Chandler xD
So the ice burg saw on titanic saying:sink me
And than the ice burg sunk it?
Wow!
4:50 The Eastland didn't capsize when crossing the Great Lakes, it capsized in the Chicago River while still tied to the dock.. 844 people lost their lives.
Thanks for correcting this guys comments
Ogponline battlefield 1 The boat had reached capacity of over 2,700 people but was so top heavy when the passengers overcrowded one side over the other the ship capsized. Also to make matters worse too many people were inside the ship so they drown because of little chance of escape.
Read John Babor,s comment above
4:58 No actually, she was docked in Chicago, and all the passengers shifted to the port side. She couldn't take the weight of so much stuff on board and capsized.
It's to let fish know that the propeller is nearby and to stay clear
Can't believe someone took this seriously
Sleeping on a cruise ship was strange at first. Especially during large swells. But once my subconscious mind and body stopped thinking it was gonna be tipped off the bed. I had some of the best sleep of my life.
How come ships can't work by hydroelectric, or steam by boiling sea water or both
Also another reason for them to be painted red is that if they capsized and overturned the red could be spotted from the air easier than another color like blue green black or any of those
When's the last time I looked at a ship? Right now. I'm in a cabin on the RMS Queen Mary ocean liner hotel in Long Beach, CA.
I just opened the porthole and looked 80 feet down to the water... the hull is white, black and then red just above the water.
Each of the rivets on the hull are about the size of half a lime!!
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@@brandonleclaire2008 562 / 90802
I thought it was to make sure they ran over stranded people without getting caught
Omg, I had a nightmare at a young age exactly like that. I'm terrified of large ships.
Red paint for ships was called Red lead. The lead would keep stuff from growing on the ships underside.
oh - the fuel consumption of sail-ships - it's just horrendous ...
Esben Maaløe, why are you named like that
@@deliattari SA Why u hide ur name?
@@deliattari durrrrrr like you and i he's most likely from a different country. Watching a few unloads from out of the usa and most of them think around the world is within the usa , if you are from the usa is this why you asked him about his name?
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me
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@@ashishaider done
In the old days Ships
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1:00 wind sails use more fuel? THE FUEL IS WIND! It’s FREE!
Moar wind
Real estate
...not counting farts...
Ok, I spoke too soon, the story is fascinating, I love this information! I have never cruised either! Pop eye? Lol I have no clue?
I thought the red was so it could be seen from the air if the boat capsized
The eastland wasn't a cruise ship, it was a passenger steamer, it wasn't as luxurious as a liner/cruise ship, it was just used to move people from port to port, whether it be for trade or people moving, and it didnt really sink, it just flipped over on its side in a port, the starboard side was still above water, it was soon raised for war service for the us army, and it didnt sink because of safety equipment, it sink because of the overloaded amount of people and had no ballast, making it very top heavy
Camera in the front of the ship: Oh this is going to be the best attraction YET! lol
Bright side: So when was the last time you looked at a ship?
Me: I’m working on a ship since 2003.
Bright side: so what’s the use of the red paint under the ship?
Me: it’s a water line from the keel up to the free board.
Bright side: 😁✌🏻
While we're talking about ships, I was at Port Huron and a boat was passing by. I ran in a fast pace in a race against the ship. And guess what?
I WON THAT RACE!
Considering reason(s) ?
This should be a 30s vlog.
-- Observation of compatable water line.
-- IF static (no movement) waterline is above this,
the ship is sinking.
-- As such an important
waterline,
red is best to visually see.
this channel keeps popping up in my feed and the question posed by the title is always answered in less than 50 seconds. Making 9 minutes of lazy animation to summarize a Wikipedia paragraph XD
Just finished a cruise ship trip in Malacca strait covering Singapore Malaysia Thailand in Voyager of seas of royal Caribbean international's... really super awesome and fantastic.....my first cruise ship experience
I always thought it was to tell if the ship is sinking
Correct !
Static waterline above this line,
and ship IS sinking !
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Loading Ships in harbour !!
Lies it's so when the ship cuts up tons of seals and marine life and the occasional human it doesnt have to hide evidence
That's what the container ship thing was about
No just your ship lol
@@underby2483 oop I do that all the time hope nobody notices
These days ships use a variety of paints, from blue to black, red to green.
Very informative. Keep sharing informative stuff man!
Iv’e been on a cruise ship a few times, it was pretty fun. Although one time I di get pretty seasick, yikes
did you throw up? i almost did so i take motion sickness pill.
Anthony Ramos I actually did once on that cruise. Luckily no-one found out because I heard that the staff can quarantine you to your room if they know you threw up
@@isaacdillon630 Woah. Really! good thing to know.. Quarantine . Crying out loud is a motion sickness. Is not like your a zombie. lol That means every person that throwing up required for that procedure. Im sure lot of people get motion suckness. Tks. for the info. I will carry my pills more often on the cruise.
Anthony Ramos I know but I’m sure they take the safety of you and all the other guests pretty seriously. That cruise was actually extremely windy so that’s why I probably got sick. I’d say that on days that are really windy, it is definitely a good idea to keep your medicine on you
I've never heard of copper paint being red. I always thought it was greenish? Also. easy wooden vessels were sheathed in thin copper plate. I think there may be some confusion here. The red paint is primarily red (iron) oxide, at least in earlier times.
@Michael PacNW Thanks. As I thought. :-)
Woah my name is I 3:05 that because my dad use to work there when I was a child but now he work at Iris Skeye that's a cargo boat
It depends on the Cruise that you take. If you take a ferry across the river takes 20 to 30 minutes.If you take a cruise across the sea or ocean takes 5 to lots of days or months.
Great information 👍🏻. Thank you.
Bright side: what ship does everyone know
Me: -_-
Music: LA LA LAAAAAA LALALALALALAAAA every night in my dreams
Bright side: ok I get it know
Me: ITS TITANIC
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Massive and extensive factual inaccuracies and suppositions. Have the creators ever been anywhere near a ship?
What's the worst inaccuracy, and what is the least inaccurate?
elaboration?
Bright side: think of a ship that has red at the bottom
Me: *thinks about titanic*
Also me: WHY CANT I STOP THINKING ABOUT THE TITANIC
Copper paint? No, copper plating. Made it close to impossible for "worms" (really a clam) to get into the wood behind the plates. Growth was still possible and common as the copper was not that toxic. Thus it was nescessary to scrape the bottom of the hull. The ship was beached and pulled over, or handled in a dry dock or with "camels" (floats). The copper was greenish (as it got coated with copper-carbonate etc.). The paint later developed contained tin (stannum) which apart from being "not toxic" really can become toxic, a true gender changer for fish.
Copper nails were used to preserve wood in harbours, bulwarks and duc d'albe's.
Thank you bright side! I've been to cruise ship 10 times... now I know Y 😂
Love the videos from BRIGHT SIDE 👌
Im on an ad rn and I think it's bc Red is bright right? So a submarine would see the red and know its a ship and go below it or to the left/right.
Fact: Yes, the ship hulls were copper paint based and gave it that historic red tint. However... That color limitation is not something that is followed all the time or even commonly in some cases anymore. A great example is the Costa Concordia that sank in 2012. It was pure white all the way down the side and down the hull. (Edit: There was a red hull deep below the waterline.)There are also some blue hulled ships too. In fact, the Carnival Fleet seems to primarily be pure white hulls or blue hulls nowadays.
Tankers on the other hand... Those still tend to be red, but brown is another color that pops up. (Sometimes due to the red fading, of course, but pure brown all the way down does happen.) I've also come across blue and gray hulls. (Not much real life experience sadly but lots of videos/research/etc.)
What's more, the draft markings aren't just red and white. Instead, it just requires contrasting colors/highly visible. (Red/White is an obvious one.) Blue/White is another.
I agree
I did learn somthing new, I learned bright side is sea sick
lol
How to increase running speed...
Not on track but on normal terrains
Red has not always been the color, worked several years at Detyens ship yard in Charleston SC, I've painted bottoms of Navy ships, cargo ships and they all weren't red, some were black. Employed at this location from 1999 to 2015.
2.30 - the parcels rarely fall in the water they get actually stolen in the shipyards, ports or marinas while moving containers from ship to trucks or ashore
Love to watch the bright side
Get your facts right, the SS Eastland capsized at the dockside.
It’s also sometimes painted red on the first few layers and then a different colour for the top layers such as blue because the paint slowly sloughs off over time so when you see the red paint you know you have to get it repainted soon
It actually depend from the paint. They are 2 type of paint soft which as you said slowly sloughs off over time, and therefore leave paint particle in the water. And hard which doesn't. do note thought that while hard paint doesn't release paint in the water it still release biocide.
I definitely haven’t seen a ship in a while because we can’t leave our houses
You know as an aspiring Mariner, this was very good insight despite the client being the focus of the video
I thought it is red cuz' other ships will see it cuz' red has the longest wavelength
Red has a short wavelength
Huang Wenqing see what? What are you talking about??
mark chryssanthou it has the longest in the visible spectrum
Huang Wenqing wavelength has nothing to do with distance in the visible spectrum.
I have a question: Why do some ships like cruise ships have sloped hills and other ships like tanker ships have vertical hulls?
hey Bright side ! I enjoy your video. this is an interesting topic: anti-corrosion on ships hull due to anodes
BRIGHT SIDE: When was the last time you looked at a ship?
Me: Well actually I just watched this video and-
BRIGHT SIDE: Not in a while huh?
Why the 80's music lol😂
Cadillac Deville why not
Cadillac Deville because 80's music was the best
@@parikshit793 I liked quite a bit of it....
parikshit dutta Spoken like someone with an incredibly restricted knowledge of music.
Why any music.
Trade in a couple of days before the start of the season to be done with a few more days of my work with a couple more weeks
Hi, which software do you use for your videos? They are awesome!
On the Titanic only use three smoke stacks the forth one was for ventilation
Except for ventilation
Who has ever gone on a ship before, not me! 🤪
Am often on ships/boats.
The maximum waterlevel,
is ALWAYS marked/indicated !
The larger' the boat/ship,,
the more "definite"
this mark Must be !!
You're probably the only person who hasn't lol
I would love to, but never have except my grandparents boat on a lake but that’s it
Uh yeah, was the mayflowers hull red?
May I add a small correction/comment to yr video ?
The largest container vessels is the MSC Isabella and can contain 23646 TEU ( meaning 23646 x 20ft containers). This is the cargo capacity used to describe the capacity of container ships . It is based on the volume of a 20-foot-long (6.1 m). This vessel has also entered the port of Antwerp last week. This is a vessel from MSC not Maerk :)
My cruise had blue under it. it’s called ovation of the seas search it up,
SPINO KILLER99 oh yea that ship is owned by Royal Caribbean I already been on 2 of their ships which you just listed one of them
royal Caribbean is nothing compared to Carnival.
Omg all the comments are WhO eLsE hAs BeEn A fAn Of BrIgHtSiDe BeForE 2019.
We’re all getting tired of it!
I've been a sub since before 2018
My aunt goes on alot of trips on ships every year so I was never able to ask her what is the most common type of food in a ship
The SS Eastland capsized in dock in July of 1915 on the Chicago river. Partly because of safety equipment, partly because the overfilled vessel passengers all rushed on side of the top deck, and partly because its ballast tanks weren’t filled. ~820 people from the western electric company drowned that morning in what would be known as the Eastland disaster. Google it, twas quite tragic and hardly anyone has ever heard of it.
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I thought ships had red bottoms because they didn’t wanna choose 🤷🏽♂️
Hallo
I would like to know who was the uncle of the ship in the water and why you cannot sail the Suez Canal
Thanks
My wife and I have gone on a few cruise lines and I haven't felt nausea from the swaying of the ships, but my wife has. For those that get a little nausea from the sway of the ships, try and get a cabin that has a balcony, or at least a window that could open up. At night when my wife got the nausea feeling, we opened the door slightly to the balcony to allow the outside air to come into our cabin. This allowed her stomach to settle and sleep without any troubles.
also have a cabin near the center you only have the vertical movement which is the average of swell moving th boat
Have a good day/Night everyone! Coming from a small youtuber🌹
me small youtuber. thank you
I just subed to your channel
@@littelgranny5110 i subbed back
Again, you find something I do not find intriguing and make it so amazingly fascinating! How do you guys do it? Love you guys :-)
Hi, I enjoyed the clear images and information but I do feel that you missed a few key points about this paint. Like all the environment impacts theses paints have on nature. I understand that shipping is a key element to our economic system but educational videos such as they should paint (Pun intended) a clear picture of both the good and the bad of any topic no matter the controversy around it. Thank you for your hard work in trying to keeping us educated.
Hey some new ships are LNG(Liquidfied Natural Gas) powered so how much more efficient are they ?
I'm happy with staying on land lol
Same XD
Same 😌
No need to go on a ship XD
Who else is looking forward to Christmas 👺
me. hope before this Christmas i get more audience to encourage my channel
Hey your channel doesn't look bad tho
The hull is red because still today we paint part of hull and keel with special anti-fouling paints to reduce drag and the color is different because it's too expensive to paint the whole hull also because of this during Dry Dock hull painting is easy
A REQUEST FOR BRIGHT SIDE 💡can you explain about "PSEUDOSCIENCE AND THEIR SOME EXAMPLES AND PRACTICES FOLLOWING STILL " in next vedio..
10% of Sailors has internet??? We need to fix this, how else you'll get more viewers? :P
(Get your facts straight!)
Your information about the S.S. Eastland is totally faults! My great uncle was on that ship when it capsized in the Chicago River in 1915 not from sailing on the Lake Michigan. The Eastlast being a tall steamship was docked in the Chicago River, one of many rented by Western Electric Co. to take their employees to the Warren Dunes in Michigan City, Indiana for the Company picnic.
The reason for the capsized was that there was some commotion going on in the river opposite of the side they are boarding ship on and everybody on board rush to the far side of the ship and being tall with a short beam, the weight all on one side of the ship caused it to capsized!
My uncle hung from the handrailing as many people above him stepped on his hands to keep from falling into the river as the boat capsized.
And you're absolutely right.
What makes the ship float after all those weight from the ship and cargo?
So the largest container ship can carry 18,000 containers? Man are you ever wrong, maybe 18,000 in a year but not at once. So many inaccuracies it's unreal.
20 million ships at this moment not in these times
Imagine going scuba diving and finding a container full of gucci
Why did the Titanic what did the Titanic go when it hits the iceberg and why does the Titanic has red
under it
All ships from its keel upto waterline are painted with anti rust paint called Admar chocolate. Painting is done primarily for anti rust. The paint is either red or chocolate.
Bcz blue paints will be finished. Thats y they are painting red in bottom 🙄🙄
what???
that's wrong so why the 🙄🙄s???
Hello I'm lonely
Aww dont be sad :(
We call that anti fouling paint...to protect the ships submerged areas as well as also to protect the marine environment😍
Red paint is what let us know which iceberg took out the Titanic
They : container
Me : georgopol or novo
(Pubg lover can understand)
Why can't u keep your videos small? Like 2-3 mins?? I just unsubscribed, I'm losing patience everyday
He also makes a lot of mistakes in his videos..
I always wondered. why is outer space a big vacuum? what is making it that way?
Awesome information 👍