@@Cactus_Hugger7 Revelation 3:20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. HEY THERE 🤗 JESUS IS CALLING YOU TODAY. Turn away from your sins, confess, forsake them and live the victorious life. God bless. Revelation 22:12-14 And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
@@kevinhaywood1268I’ve never slept on a ship of that magnitude… but I do work on a lobster boat, and used to sleep on the boat when we went seining. Yes, I would have to agree… sleeping on the boat is the BEST sleep I have ever gotten.
I cannot imagine my ancestors coming to America in the 1600's on wooden ships.a trip that took 2or 3 months or longer to do, and going through such monster waves and surviving. Doing my family's genealogy for the past 23 years i've read some incredible stories. So far i've only found two ancestors who died on the ship they were on that was traveling from England. 😢 They were buried at sea. I have much respect for Captain's and their crew these days who travel on the seas and in such harsh conditions at times. You are all incredibly brave. I could not imagine being on a ship and seeing waves that size. 😮
Seafarer here. As much as possible, we do not sail on really stormy seas. We alter course on a much calmer areas. Cruise ships have stabilizer technologies for passengers ergonomic purposes. I mean they didn't book for bouyant roller coasters, right? Merchant ships (cargoes) are engineered to stay upright even on large righting periods (ability to recover to an upright position during waving motions) but to venture on storms like that are risks and can create cracks on the hulls even with high tensile steel. They can survive the storm but maintenance will be horrific for the ship owners and shorten the lifespan of ship's seaworthy years. The ship's exploration era is over. It's just business and leisure nowadays. Time is money, no more Glory and Sea Shanties 😂
"Stormy seas" you have dedicated predefined list of routes/seas? Or its more like chekcing weather predictions online? U may not have network signals right?
@@harishassasin haha we don't use internet, we use satellites orbiting across the globe for intnl messagings and emergency broadcasts and signals. And we receive weather fax covering for the next 24 hours up to 7 days or we could ask updates in shorter intervals if there are storms within vicinity. Most of the time northern Atlantic has neverending stormy weather. Mediterranean occasional strong rainfall and wind. But Indian ocean is the best. Sometimes the whole area up to the Horizon in every direction is so calm as if glass no clouds, no wind, no waves. The sky and sea are of the same hue. It feels like you could run on the surface. As if you are on a water world.
I went to work on a Ro-Ro ship as part of my three months internship as a deck cadet (I was planning to become a navigational officer afterwards). It was not the rough weather that scared me. I realized that my life and my closed ones are way too important for me to be stuck at sea for a good 4-6 months at a time, every single time. It is not worth the sacrifice.
@veramartin6642 I wrote it above - I don't want to watch my life sail away right in front of my eyes, it is just not worth it. Think of it like the scenario of Interstellar, where the dad goes on a mission and completely misses out on his childrens' lives while he is away. It is good to realize that money is not everything, and family is way more important.
@Asigmatizam Just working from home, on the computer. Another thing that put me off was the fact that everybody, literally everybody on the ship where I worked, told me not to pursue this career. They spent their entire lives there, and they knew it was not worth it.
@@gablan1468Yes our Time Health and Family is worth more than a depreciating piece of green paper. Though we need the Green paper to survive, no disputing that. Major salute to the folks who told you not to walk that walk even though they are indeed walking it. God bless your journey!💯💯🏁
US Navy ... I have ridden a Typhoon or two! Batten down the hatches and close all water tight doors and strap yourselves into your chairs. Pretty Awesome experience.
Been there, done that, got the tattoo. It really does suck. Especially in the brig. Had to replace the brig guard, then the "super Nut". Sea Marines will know what I mean.
Nope. It's from the counterweights of huge balls of sailors sailing those seas. They move around the ship strategically to counterbalance and stabilize.
I can confirm this, when I'm on a cargo freighter with no masts whatsoever & waves are hitting sideways, instead of going into the trapez I literally just drag my b***s around to the other side to counterbalance the ship. :D
They made us go out to sea when hurricanes were coming at Pearl harbor! Those 3 days were incredible and the closest I've come to dying!!! Great times!!!!
I like how it shows the capsizing correction system for small rescue boats. Imagine being in a huge container ship that capsized, then suddenly flipped violently back up to its normal position 😂
That’s what they said about the Titanic… And even the mighty Edmund Fitzgerald, which is believed to have sunk from the combination almost exactly what was explained. She hit bottom at the “6 Fathom Shoal” and started taking on water, then the November Gale she was sailing thru cause waves that created tremendous stress in her body, all while the pumps where failing. She lost power and then at some point a wave too big to handle sent her under.
Have you watched Disasters at Sea - S3E1? A massive container ship split in half and sank, but fortunately, several of the crew survived. The NTSB found a flaw in ships' construction and materials that probably caused the sinking of close to 100 massive container ships that disappeared while traversing the Atlantic Ocean. It is a fascinating episode that disproves the theory that large ships don't sink.
Years ago there was an accident from a t2tank, the negligence from the captain produced plenty of death since it broke in half due to bad weather and bad choices, leaving only the people on one side alive, only 22 people were saved
Bilge keels are not new, and they only dampen a roll slightly. Only ships that put an emphasis on not rolling have expensive fin stabilizers. If you put all the ships at sea now in that extreme weather in the video, then you would lose more ships and a crap load of sailors. It’s the Master’s job to avoid weather that would imperil his ship. Sometimes we take calculated risks when getting to a safe harbor is better than getting the shit kicked out of for days. Severe weather kills your speed of escape, so know where the storm is, where it’s going and how to stay on the navigable side.
I'm no experienced captain but it also seems to be important to prevent being hit from the sides. I think a ship can survive being hit at the bow by a huge wave but getting hit broadside can be deadly.
@@ScottCleve33 Parametric rolling is when a ship pitching in head on waves with the same period as her pitch period begins extreme harmonic rolling. See the APL China. The only escape is to put the rudder hard over and get out of the head on seas. Long container ships are particularly vulnerable due to the large flare of their bows and their pitch period. I once fell off a wave that I took beam on while turning to port. It was very scary as ship gently rolled to starboard as the wave crested - and then 56,000 tons of ship simply fell out of the sky as the wave passed. You hope the Naval Architect was good at predicting the worst case scenario, but you never want to push it - especially with a 20 year old ship where the steel got thinner than originally designed.
@@shajanjacob5849 Sure! The point of the video was to show a ship in extreme weather and then ask the question why big ships don’t sink. The answer is - they do, and regardless of the systems mentioned in the video. Take a small glass and put it in a tub of water. The glass floats. Add water and the glass floats deeper, but the glass still floats. Now add water until there is only a centimeter between the edge of the glass and the water line below the edge. We call that Reserve Buoyancy, meaning that we are still floating as long as we don’t add additional weight that would put us over the edge. Once over the edge it is a mathematical certainty that additional weight will make the glass sink to the bottom of the tub. Now take a plastic soda bottle with a cap. Add the same amount of water to the soda bottle and put the cap back on so it has the same amount of Reserve Buoyancy. Now push the soda bottle under water or shake the tub violently as if the soda bottle is in a horrific storm. The soda bottle won’t sink because its Reserve Buoyancy is preserved by the cap. Ships have a mark on their side near the middle called a Freeboard Line. That line is the rim of the glass and every opening into the ship that is above that line must have a cap to the soda bottle. These caps can be giant hatch covers that close the holds, or small hatches for the crew to enter the holds, or even ventilation ducts to the lower holds that must be closed and watertight at sea in case giant waves board the vessel. Each watertight fitting has a rubber seal to keep water out, even if the piece is underwater. Inspectors chalk test these seals to make sure they can keep water out. Ships sink when these watertight fittings are breached. It’s a mathematical certainty that a ship that loses all of her Reserve Buoyancy will sink. No bilge keel, or fin stabilizer or dynamic ballast tank will be able to address the loss of Reserve Buoyancy. That ship is - sadly - going down. Stability, by definition, is the ability to right oneself when knocked off an even keel. A bilge Keel slows the motion a little bit when a massive wave hits you, but the bilge keel does nothing to prevent a ship from sinking. Last thought. A little read document on every large vessel is the Trim & Stability Book for the Master. It details the mathematical calculations of what to avoid. Never did I read that Bilge Keels, or Flume Tanks or Fin Stabilizer would make a ship safer in more extreme conditions. Severe weather imperials the safety of the ship and the lives aboard her. Whether a hatch was left open or the seas ripped it open - those poor souls have to deal with it alone and in the darkness. It’s a terrible thought.
Despite the modern technologies that keep large ships afloat during extreme storms that produce massive waves, you'll still NEVER get me on a ship. 😱 🌊 🚢
I had just watched a documentary on Ernest Shackleton where he sails from Antarctica to South Georgia Island which takes like 3 weeks in a tiny sail boat over the Atlantic. This was to get help for his marooned sailors who were still stranded in the Antarctic. Imagine 3 weeks of never being warm or dry trying to cross the Atlantic in a barely seaworthy boat.
@@TurbulentJuice sorry for being a bit of a troll lmao, I really did read the book though and the story was definitely interesting but the 350+ pages of it was hard to get through, especially since it was for a high school project
That's totally fair and the notion of it being a school project sucks the enjoyment out of it. When it's condensed into about an hour and some viewing. It's pretty nuts. I think it was called Shackleton: The Greatest Story of Survival Would definitely recommend.
It's the buoyancy that makes it not to sink. check the under of a ship. it is built in a way that it can't sink. it's the buoyancy that makes it float.
I came here to say the same thing. People that aren't from around here tend to think they're "just lakes", but the truth is that these lakes are no joke.
It’s been a while since I read up on the “Fitz”, as it was known, but my recollection is that the boat should never have been where it was, in the shape it was in, carrying all those rocks. The human error that sunk it happened before its final voyage. Headstones did a magnificent cover of the song, BTW.
They do sink from time to time, but most captains try to go around or along the edge of the storm. One ship I served on had a retractable center board to limit rolls.
@@DeshaunBouvier if even one sinks though, it completely ruins the title. Never means not once, and they definitely have sunk more than once. The title wasn't "Why large ships only occasionally sink."
@rickwilliams967 Good point! They do sink from time to time. It's a real beast to try and help in a storm. If they send a mayday, you are required to render aid if you are within a certain distance of them.
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Big ships do sink in such storms, all too frequently. The list is long, but it starts with two names that will bring a tear to almost any mariner’s eye: SS Edmund Fitzgerald and SS El Faro. Neither had a chance. Oh, and apologies to our UK cousins… the MV Derbyshire should also be on this short list.
Yes, the SS El Faro, was caught in Hurricane Joaquin, which was a [Category 4], in October, 2015, off of the coast of Jacksonville, Florida. All [34] passengers, and crew perished.🙏
Big ships actually have a worse chance of survival than 80-foot commercial fishing boats. Those can go up and fown one wave. Large ships cross many waves and can crack in unsupported sections between waves. They are also MUCH narrower compared to their length, like a goant canoe.
Even the supported sections will break. If not the first few storms, then in later storm swells. Better to try to avoid the worst of it, which they do.
Well, I know why I will not sink or almost not sink on a Big Boat ⛵...I loved being Land-Locked too much to even chance a Big Boat sink/no sink episode...Carry On 😊
The point of that is not to put the majority of liquid opposite of the side that tilts, but to prevent massive amount of liquid changing direction in a second and smashing into the side that tilts.
The waves of mother nature can be very large. What is annoying, however, is when people take footage and vertically stretch it to make it look even larger. (I'm not suggesting it was done in this video)
This is primarily true. However, on average, two merchant ships sink every week. I remember that one year, the entire industry celebrated the fact that only 78 ships had been lost that year. We all take many things for granted: the power we use, the food we eat, and the consumer goods we enjoy. Ninety percent of it comes by cargo vessels. Always remember the price in lives.
That was like 50 years ago brosky, ancient history, thats like saying cars are death traps I.E the Ford Pinto & believing we learned nothing as a species in the time it took like 2 generations to grow old
Which was more than half caused by human error. They didn’t properly close the hatches and carelessness caused hull damage from grounding the ship. The weather and visibility were uncontrollable factors.
the captain sailing full speed into an ice field in the middle of the night then going to bed for a nap was what doomed those poor souls not a giant set of waves
"Ever wondered why big ships never sink?" The MV Derbyshire: *guess I never existed then* The numerous other OBO Carriers and Tankers lost during the period: *same*
Big ships are also designed to flex so they don't hog, or break their back, or split in heavy seas. You can see this in this video if you pay close attention.
The main reason is dynamic stability, which by planned load distribution gives the vessel a righting lever. Ships are loaded in accordance with such stability criteria.
Anti rolling tanks are more present at fishing vessels. Good stability calculation and ballasting are the most important reasons why big ships do not sink.
True, it's always a human's fault if a ship sinks. But lots of these errors are made by the ship constructors, not by the crew. Even today, we still underestimate the forces of nature. 1 m³ of water weighs a ton and hits like a truck. A monster wave is thousands and thousands of tons of water.
How does the anti rolling tank work? Because it looks like the water goes to the lower side which would put further weight there leading to the ship sinking?
The destroyer I was on in the Navy took some wicked waves during a storm we went through going to the Mediterranean. We just tied ourselves down and tried to sleep but we were up for over three days.
First 🥇 " can i get pin ??" Btw thanks for the knowledge 😄
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Revelation 3:20
Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
HEY THERE 🤗 JESUS IS CALLING YOU TODAY. Turn away from your sins, confess, forsake them and live the victorious life. God bless.
Revelation 22:12-14
And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.
I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.
Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
@@Cactus_Hugger7 yes white people 😁 are fatherless 😂
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Wtf
I am ALWAYS impressed by big ship footage in high seas
Even vertically stretched & exaggerated video?
Me too
Thanks
@@smokeywiskreally 😮😲
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I cant even imagine how terrifying it must feel to be in those kind of waves at night.
And a giant hand comes out out of the sea and slaps the back of someone's neck XD 😅
It's the best nights sleep you'll ever get
I never want to find out
@@kevinhaywood1268I’ve never slept on a ship of that magnitude… but I do work on a lobster boat, and used to sleep on the boat when we went seining. Yes, I would have to agree… sleeping on the boat is the BEST sleep I have ever gotten.
@@kevinhaywood1268. Exactly.
“Why big ships never sink”
…
“Sometimes they do sink.”
Human era.
*ERROR and ERA their not the same!@@DeshaunBouvier
I thought I was the only one knowing of a few big ships sinking
@@TheREALCUPCAKE03"their" and "they're". They're not the same.
@@Bannysadkosays2u haha caught that as well
I cannot imagine my ancestors coming to America in the 1600's on wooden ships.a trip that took 2or 3 months or longer to do, and going through such monster waves and surviving. Doing my family's genealogy for the past 23 years i've read some incredible stories. So far i've only found two ancestors who died on the ship they were on that was traveling from England. 😢 They were buried at sea.
I have much respect for Captain's and their crew these days who travel on the seas and in such harsh conditions at times.
You are all incredibly brave.
I could not imagine being on a ship and seeing waves that size. 😮
We definitely are living in easier times.. at least, most of us..
@bunnyheywood: My ancestors came to America in the 1600's from England also, in 1630. Maybe our ancestors met or knew each other? You never know.
I'm impressed everyday with human engineering WOW!!!🔥🔥🔥
The human male brain is amazing...😊
@@guyguyver7552 as is the female brain, seeing as there are literally thousands of female engineers
Did you see animal engineering?
Seafarer here. As much as possible, we do not sail on really stormy seas. We alter course on a much calmer areas.
Cruise ships have stabilizer technologies for passengers ergonomic purposes. I mean they didn't book for bouyant roller coasters, right?
Merchant ships (cargoes) are engineered to stay upright even on large righting periods (ability to recover to an upright position during waving motions) but to venture on storms like that are risks and can create cracks on the hulls even with high tensile steel. They can survive the storm but maintenance will be horrific for the ship owners and shorten the lifespan of ship's seaworthy years.
The ship's exploration era is over. It's just business and leisure nowadays. Time is money, no more Glory and Sea Shanties 😂
Thanks for the information I had often wondered about why these ships had to travel in these conditions.
"Stormy seas" you have dedicated predefined list of routes/seas? Or its more like chekcing weather predictions online? U may not have network signals right?
The only sea shanty I know is “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” a pretty big ship that sank in a storm. It does happen.
@@harishassasin ships have access to weather reports and can communicate at sea.
It just won’t be from your pocket cell phone.
@@harishassasin haha we don't use internet, we use satellites orbiting across the globe for intnl messagings and emergency broadcasts and signals.
And we receive weather fax covering for the next 24 hours up to 7 days or we could ask updates in shorter intervals if there are storms within vicinity.
Most of the time northern Atlantic has neverending stormy weather.
Mediterranean occasional strong rainfall and wind.
But Indian ocean is the best. Sometimes the whole area up to the Horizon in every direction is so calm as if glass no clouds, no wind, no waves. The sky and sea are of the same hue. It feels like you could run on the surface. As if you are on a water world.
Why big ships never sink except when they do...😂
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Lol my first thought. Ever wonder why big ships never sink
... No... Because they do sink....
@@JesusPlsSaveMefalse gospel.this is a bad news.
@@garenbot3599 Jesus Christ is not a false gospel.. God the father done something we just can not fathom..
Right! 😂
… but it’s not what you think.
I went on a cruise and met the captain . I asked : do ships like this sink very often ? He replied : usually just the once sir .
Did you meet Serio Carpens too?😍
😂
Captain Ron?
Do the passengers get a refund?
That one guy standing at the edge of the ship in such wave must be a daredevil
This one person with such a weirdly worded statement must be ai.
I went to work on a Ro-Ro ship as part of my three months internship as a deck cadet (I was planning to become a navigational officer afterwards). It was not the rough weather that scared me. I realized that my life and my closed ones are way too important for me to be stuck at sea for a good 4-6 months at a time, every single time.
It is not worth the sacrifice.
what was it that scared you, then?
@veramartin6642 I wrote it above - I don't want to watch my life sail away right in front of my eyes, it is just not worth it. Think of it like the scenario of Interstellar, where the dad goes on a mission and completely misses out on his childrens' lives while he is away.
It is good to realize that money is not everything, and family is way more important.
@@gablan1468 what do you do now for a living?
@Asigmatizam Just working from home, on the computer. Another thing that put me off was the fact that everybody, literally everybody on the ship where I worked, told me not to pursue this career. They spent their entire lives there, and they knew it was not worth it.
@@gablan1468Yes our Time Health and Family is worth more than a depreciating piece of green paper. Though we need the Green paper to survive, no disputing that.
Major salute to the folks who told you not to walk that walk even though they are indeed walking it. God bless your journey!💯💯🏁
US Navy ... I have ridden a Typhoon or two! Batten down the hatches and close all water tight doors and strap yourselves into your chairs. Pretty Awesome experience.
My husband was in the Navy and that's pretty much how he described going thru typhoons
I don't have sea legs so I would be sick as a dog.
@@Derek8487 The main thing is to through it as far as you can to show everyone you have a stronger stomach than them..
Been there, done that, got the tattoo. It really does suck. Especially in the brig. Had to replace the brig guard, then the "super Nut". Sea Marines will know what I mean.
God bless you 🙏 I'm scared to even go on a cruise 🛳
As a submarine sailor, I don't see the problem.
I suppose you only have Surfacing problem. Not to be taken seriously.
Thanks.
Submariner
I imagine “sailing” in a submarine could be quite challenging.
Up there with space shuttle door gunner. 😂
@@FornicateCircumEtReveles I don't get it. Yes we are still called sailors.
@@Al-Rudigor Exactly! It may take quite sometime for some words to Sink in, Oh! Should it be Sink out...
Nope. It's from the counterweights of huge balls of sailors sailing those seas. They move around the ship strategically to counterbalance and stabilize.
😂that’s funny and so true
I read your comment with "Hoist The Colors" as musical score.
I can confirm this, when I'm on a cargo freighter with no masts whatsoever & waves are hitting sideways, instead of going into the trapez I literally just drag my b***s around to the other side to counterbalance the ship. :D
🤣🤣🤣
As a Navy Sailor, I can proudly confirm this. 😂
They made us go out to sea when hurricanes were coming at Pearl harbor! Those 3 days were incredible and the closest I've come to dying!!!
Great times!!!!
😂. Sounds like a slam bash time.
I like how it shows the capsizing correction system for small rescue boats. Imagine being in a huge container ship that capsized, then suddenly flipped violently back up to its normal position 😂
The Cuistot (Chef), will be pissed off. Imagine how the pantry would look like.🤸♂️
That’s just top notch engineering.
Except they do sink.
That’s what they said about the Titanic…
And even the mighty Edmund Fitzgerald, which is believed to have sunk from the combination almost exactly what was explained.
She hit bottom at the “6 Fathom Shoal” and started taking on water, then the November Gale she was sailing thru cause waves that created tremendous stress in her body, all while the pumps where failing. She lost power and then at some point a wave too big to handle sent her under.
You bet !!
@@dylanhealy8126 Titanic was meant to sink.
Have you watched Disasters at Sea - S3E1? A massive container ship split in half and sank, but fortunately, several of the crew survived. The NTSB found a flaw in ships' construction and materials that probably caused the sinking of close to 100 massive container ships that disappeared while traversing the Atlantic Ocean. It is a fascinating episode that disproves the theory that large ships don't sink.
Years ago there was an accident from a t2tank, the negligence from the captain produced plenty of death since it broke in half due to bad weather and bad choices, leaving only the people on one side alive, only 22 people were saved
Bilge keels are not new, and they only dampen a roll slightly. Only ships that put an emphasis on not rolling have expensive fin stabilizers. If you put all the ships at sea now in that extreme weather in the video, then you would lose more ships and a crap load of sailors. It’s the Master’s job to avoid weather that would imperil his ship. Sometimes we take calculated risks when getting to a safe harbor is better than getting the shit kicked out of for days. Severe weather kills your speed of escape, so know where the storm is, where it’s going and how to stay on the navigable side.
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I'm no experienced captain but it also seems to be important to prevent being hit from the sides. I think a ship can survive being hit at the bow by a huge wave but getting hit broadside can be deadly.
@@ScottCleve33 Parametric rolling is when a ship pitching in head on waves with the same period as her pitch period begins extreme harmonic rolling. See the APL China. The only escape is to put the rudder hard over and get out of the head on seas. Long container ships are particularly vulnerable due to the large flare of their bows and their pitch period. I once fell off a wave that I took beam on while turning to port. It was very scary as ship gently rolled to starboard as the wave crested - and then 56,000 tons of ship simply fell out of the sky as the wave passed. You hope the Naval Architect was good at predicting the worst case scenario, but you never want to push it - especially with a 20 year old ship where the steel got thinner than originally designed.
@@chrisholmgren1595can you please explain once more in non sailor jargon?
@@shajanjacob5849 Sure! The point of the video was to show a ship in extreme weather and then ask the question why big ships don’t sink. The answer is - they do, and regardless of the systems mentioned in the video.
Take a small glass and put it in a tub of water. The glass floats. Add water and the glass floats deeper, but the glass still floats. Now add water until there is only a centimeter between the edge of the glass and the water line below the edge. We call that Reserve Buoyancy, meaning that we are still floating as long as we don’t add additional weight that would put us over the edge. Once over the edge it is a mathematical certainty that additional weight will make the glass sink to the bottom of the tub. Now take a plastic soda bottle with a cap. Add the same amount of water to the soda bottle and put the cap back on so it has the same amount of Reserve Buoyancy. Now push the soda bottle under water or shake the tub violently as if the soda bottle is in a horrific storm. The soda bottle won’t sink because its Reserve Buoyancy is preserved by the cap.
Ships have a mark on their side near the middle called a Freeboard Line. That line is the rim of the glass and every opening into the ship that is above that line must have a cap to the soda bottle. These caps can be giant hatch covers that close the holds, or small hatches for the crew to enter the holds, or even ventilation ducts to the lower holds that must be closed and watertight at sea in case giant waves board the vessel. Each watertight fitting has a rubber seal to keep water out, even if the piece is underwater. Inspectors chalk test these seals to make sure they can keep water out.
Ships sink when these watertight fittings are breached. It’s a mathematical certainty that a ship that loses all of her Reserve Buoyancy will sink. No bilge keel, or fin stabilizer or dynamic ballast tank will be able to address the loss of Reserve Buoyancy. That ship is - sadly - going down.
Stability, by definition, is the ability to right oneself when knocked off an even keel. A bilge Keel slows the motion a little bit when a massive wave hits you, but the bilge keel does nothing to prevent a ship from sinking.
Last thought. A little read document on every large vessel is the Trim & Stability Book for the Master. It details the mathematical calculations of what to avoid. Never did I read that Bilge Keels, or Flume Tanks or Fin Stabilizer would make a ship safer in more extreme conditions.
Severe weather imperials the safety of the ship and the lives aboard her. Whether a hatch was left open or the seas ripped it open - those poor souls have to deal with it alone and in the darkness. It’s a terrible thought.
Watching those huge waves violently while you're sailing on that ship is like another world
the green cargo ship at the start is bending due to the waves if you pay attention
Despite the modern technologies that keep large ships afloat during extreme storms that produce massive waves, you'll still NEVER get me on a ship. 😱 🌊 🚢
I had just watched a documentary on Ernest Shackleton where he sails from Antarctica to South Georgia Island which takes like 3 weeks in a tiny sail boat over the Atlantic. This was to get help for his marooned sailors who were still stranded in the Antarctic. Imagine 3 weeks of never being warm or dry trying to cross the Atlantic in a barely seaworthy boat.
omg i read the book!!!!
it was so boring
@@OMaMaRMY I watched a sweet documentary. That was not boring. Sorry for your loss.
@@TurbulentJuice sorry for being a bit of a troll lmao, I really did read the book though and the story was definitely interesting but the 350+ pages of it was hard to get through, especially since it was for a high school project
That's totally fair and the notion of it being a school project sucks the enjoyment out of it. When it's condensed into about an hour and some viewing. It's pretty nuts.
I think it was called Shackleton: The Greatest Story of Survival
Would definitely recommend.
@@TurbulentJuice thanks for the recommendation! i'll check it out
I'm still in awe at the technology and craftsmanship that takes iron and steel and makes them float...and carry tonnage. Just amazing. 🌹⚓
It's the buoyancy that makes it not to sink. check the under of a ship. it is built in a way that it can't sink. it's the buoyancy that makes it float.
@@davidfosu4819papa david fosu the physics teacher. 😅
@@BO4T3N9 lol. 😂.
@davidfosu4819 am guessing you are using same explanations during lessons😀
Archimedes wrote the textbook. Poseidon grades your exam.
The scenes of the workers getting hit by the waves is insane!
The men that make this ,think in everything,and the other that work in this type of job have all My respect👏👏thanks from Puerto Rico ❤❤❤
Just think, the Vikings managed to cross the North Sea in huge woodern ships! Now thats impressive
They used a more southern route but still in rough water just not the roughest route.
Ummm...check out ships that have sunk in the Great Lakes, specifically the Edmund Fitgerald.
A true tragedy but Gordon Lightfoot did a wonderful job memorializing those brave men.
I came here to say the same thing. People that aren't from around here tend to think they're "just lakes", but the truth is that these lakes are no joke.
@@thatjacksondude858Yes, but that was in 1975. Almost half a century ago. And there hasn’t been a large freighter sink on the Great Lakes since then.
It’s been a while since I read up on the “Fitz”, as it was known, but my recollection is that the boat should never have been where it was, in the shape it was in, carrying all those rocks. The human error that sunk it happened before its final voyage. Headstones did a magnificent cover of the song, BTW.
That's the very vessel I was thinking of during this video. 😄
Never say never; they sink all the time!
They don’t sink all the time. They rarely sink.
They do sink from time to time, but most captains try to go around or along the edge of the storm. One ship I served on had a retractable center board to limit rolls.
@@DeshaunBouvier if even one sinks though, it completely ruins the title. Never means not once, and they definitely have sunk more than once. The title wasn't "Why large ships only occasionally sink."
@rickwilliams967 The point is that it rarely happens genius.
@rickwilliams967 Good point! They do sink from time to time. It's a real beast to try and help in a storm. If they send a mayday, you are required to render aid if you are within a certain distance of them.
Double hulls are probably the best invention ever made to save ships from sinking. 😊
...and bulkheads that go from the bottom of the hull to the bottom of the deck above creating separate watertight compartments holding air.
Those wings are awesome and the fact that there's water inside that shifts. So cool.
Floating over the deepest oceans is terrifying😂😂 those waves are underrated
They never sink? 🤣 Except when they sink.
More plan crashes happen than ships sinking.
Titanic 🙄
Captain said God himself cannot sink the Titanic ...Where is the Titanic now ? ..I thought so 🇵🇷💃🏽
@@Almah-oh3mtThey tempted God and found out.
@@Almah-oh3mt😂😂😂😂😂
So many sunken ships are there
Very cool explaining the engineering.
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The Edmond Fitzgerald was a huge ship that weighed 26 tons and snapped in two; were these systems not available in the late 50's? It had bilge pumps.
Amazing how they can make ships that right themselves when they capsize. That must ɓe a ùnique experience for the crew
Did you know that if your ship flipped upside down, it can fit on your head?
Because it is capsized.
You made me laugh, thanks.
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Slow clap 👏🏾
Let me guess, the person who invented those ships is a genius?
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Sure, and they shocked the entire industry!
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As a Navy veteran, thank you. Very interesting.
Ten years in the navy, eight years in Portsmouth you know very little
Agreed
Before an ocean-going ship sets sail, lt is important to balance the water pressure on both sides to ensure safety is paramount .✔️💯👍
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Thats when big ships usually do sink, in heavy weather.
They generally handle calm waters just fine.
"Ever wondered why big ships never sink in storms except for when they do sink?"
Big ships do sink in such storms, all too frequently. The list is long, but it starts with two names that will bring a tear to almost any mariner’s eye: SS Edmund Fitzgerald and SS El Faro. Neither had a chance.
Oh, and apologies to our UK cousins… the MV Derbyshire should also be on this short list.
Yes, the SS El Faro, was caught in Hurricane Joaquin, which was a [Category 4], in October, 2015, off of the coast of Jacksonville, Florida. All [34] passengers, and crew perished.🙏
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The bigger they are the harder they fall!😂
like in the movie the good the bad and the ugly
In the case of the MV Derbyshire and the German ship Muchen, definitely 😅
big ships DO sink. It just takes a rogue wave...ships are not built for waves as high and powerful as they are.
Guz it's made by Dat ocean god guy with da 🔱
Big ships actually have a worse chance of survival than 80-foot commercial fishing boats. Those can go up and fown one wave. Large ships cross many waves and can crack in unsupported sections between waves. They are also MUCH narrower compared to their length, like a goant canoe.
Even the supported sections will break. If not the first few storms, then in later storm swells. Better to try to avoid the worst of it, which they do.
small ship, ship, large ship, huge ship, I saw none of the last here.
Fascinating. And terrifying. Just seeing those waves on the screen makes me feel faint!
Well, I know why I will not sink or almost not sink on a Big Boat ⛵...I loved being Land-Locked too much to even chance a Big Boat sink/no sink episode...Carry On 😊
Yeah except I think you need to revisit the animation about the roll tanks. As shown it would *cause* the ship to sink, not help prevent sinking.
The point of that is not to put the majority of liquid opposite of the side that tilts, but to prevent massive amount of liquid changing direction in a second and smashing into the side that tilts.
So that means, those compartments are always filled with water
Right, putting more water on the low side will just help the ship roll further. Good point. I guess they don't want us to know how they really work.
@@evernight. Both sides tilt equally in the same direction at the same time. Otherwise, the ship would rip apart. Duh! 😂😂
@@lewis2553 ok, Lewis
That’s great. Would those systems systems work if the ship loose power.
The waves of mother nature can be very large. What is annoying, however, is when people take footage and vertically stretch it to make it look even larger. (I'm not suggesting it was done in this video)
@@David-ng2qg What part is unclear?
Thankful and Grateful.
This is primarily true. However, on average, two merchant ships sink every week. I remember that one year, the entire industry celebrated the fact that only 78 ships had been lost that year. We all take many things for granted: the power we use, the food we eat, and the consumer goods we enjoy. Ninety percent of it comes by cargo vessels. Always remember the price in lives.
Almost all of the "monster wave" clips change the aspect ratio of the clip in order to exaggerate how tall the waves really are for dramatic effect
You forgot to say "Incredible."
The 29 souls lost on the Edmund Fitzgerald might have a differing opinion on this.
That was like 50 years ago brosky, ancient history, thats like saying cars are death traps I.E the Ford Pinto & believing we learned nothing as a species in the time it took like 2 generations to grow old
Which was more than half caused by human error. They didn’t properly close the hatches and carelessness caused hull damage from grounding the ship. The weather and visibility were uncontrollable factors.
Caused George Costanza his apartment too!! Shame
@@JoseGonzalez-im9hb Yes, the Andrea Doria was quite a fire!
Great 👍 thanks for new technology and research development 😮
to all those MEN out there, i give y'all props 👍
I don't think the crew of the Edmund Fitzgerald would agree that big ships never sink.
The Edmund Fitzgerald crew would beg to differ that large ships don't sink
Remember when the Titanic was sinked because of a giant iceberg. Lol 😂
The Titanic was sunk by hubris of the ship's owners/designers/captain. Icebergs were a known issue which they confirmed.
@@alanploetz7100 yo wha haz a wha now??
We are not talking icebergs here
the captain sailing full speed into an ice field in the middle of the night then going to bed for a nap was what doomed those poor souls not a giant set of waves
I would shit my pants to death if I was on one of these. Those workers are very brave and adventurous.
It's mad to go in there, look at those huge waves.🌊😲
"Ever wondered why big ships never sink?"
The MV Derbyshire: *guess I never existed then*
The numerous other OBO Carriers and Tankers lost during the period: *same*
And the Derbyshire wasn't sunk by humar error either IIRC
@@FreyFox87 Exactly. It was theorised to be human error for a time, but wrecksite examination proved otherwise.
1976, man my mom hadnt even had her first period yet i bet nothing has changed, that’s exactly why we still have led paint on walls & dishes right?
The reason we never see huge ships sink is because the cameraman never dies.
Good video, but this AI voice is overused. Are there any other voice readers?
I tried to give my voice but nobody wants a mix of Indian American accent 🥹😭
There is a female AI voice but rarely used.
Maybe just use your own voice.. makes it so much better and welcoming..
RUclips is overused
@@sky9k-unlimited, facts
It’s scary just looking at it. I can’t imagine being on a ship way out in the heavy sea like that. Thank you to those whose job it is to do so.
Engineering to maintain these ships is amazing!
Knowing that somewhere out there exists a such mass of water with waves that make a gigantic steel ship look like a rubber duck causes me great unease
Big ships are also designed to flex so they don't hog, or break their back, or split in heavy seas. You can see this in this video if you pay close attention.
I think a crafty solution would be to use a gyroscope.
I just can't imagine the comedic size of one used for a barge lol
If you are not a fish, stay out of the freaking water. My rule. ✌️❤️🇹🇿
R.I.P To the Titanic🚢
“Usually due to human error” If you think about it, 100% of ship wrecks are due to human error in some way 🤔
👍 They’re very careful now… because what she takes, she keeps.
Heck I’m getting seasick just watching this!
The main reason is dynamic stability, which by planned load distribution gives the vessel a righting lever. Ships are loaded in accordance with such stability criteria.
How the heck are they made, and how are they put together?? Astonishing!!👍🏻💚🏴
There are lifeboats for only 75% of the crew.
"Captain, what's about the other 25%?"
"F*** 'em!"
The first three seconds of this video are an epic nightmare. Mother nature is undefeated.
Anti rolling tanks are more present at fishing vessels. Good stability calculation and ballasting are the most important reasons why big ships do not sink.
That's so cool this sort of technology can save so many lives ❤
Learn from nature its the best teacher
True, it's always a human's fault if a ship sinks. But lots of these errors are made by the ship constructors, not by the crew. Even today, we still underestimate the forces of nature.
1 m³ of water weighs a ton and hits like a truck. A monster wave is thousands and thousands of tons of water.
Those gigantic waves are really scary.
How does the anti rolling tank work? Because it looks like the water goes to the lower side which would put further weight there leading to the ship sinking?
Will never need to find out in real life. Happy land lover.
The destroyer I was on in the Navy took some wicked waves during a storm we went through going to the Mediterranean. We just tied ourselves down and tried to sleep but we were up for over three days.
Amazing! Great technology, thanks for sharing!
You forgot to mention Buoyancy
Most don’t sink, but a few definitely have sunk!
Hanging over the sidewalk 50 ft waves roll. Sounds like next Disney ride
Watching this it makes me wonder how ships from back in the 1700s could survive waters like that...they were definitely at the mercy of the sea...
That 2nd footage is out of this world horrendous. I cannot imagine how ships actually survive something like that.
My ship had the fins and you can definitely tell when they are working and when they are not working!!!
Salute to my seafarer brothers 💙 ⚓
Frightening stuff! 😮
Modern technology is brilliant 👍😊