Ships on video's : youtube, metcafe.....

[pakarang]

Ships on video's : youtube, metcafe.....

Open the thread with this video which I would like to share with ya'all.... Look a propeller!

[ehp]

Not the kind of cruising I want to do..............

[reini]

That kind of cruising saves energy!!!!!!

They can switch off the wave-machine of their pool....

kind regards

reini

[Oistein]

Let us hope that they have secured the china and knifes in the gally.

[SaintsFCFan]

This kind of cruising has me more than sea sick.....eeek! panic!!!!!!



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BFux2AAMso

[Sterkoder]

For some years ago our national broadcasting corp. here in Norway made a program about a man who has been fishing herring for over 40 years.
The program in the link is only in norwegian, but I belive all foreigners will understand a bit more about how we catch the herring only by looking at the film.
In the start, in black and white, you can also see how Kristiansund harbour looked in the 50's when the fleet had a day off in the fishery.
And of course there are the low volume background music and beautiful pictures from our coast towards the end of the program.

Well, enough of my "talk"...., here's the link:

http://www1.nrk.no/nett-tv/klipp/33767

[pakarang]

I just got to share this one with all of you:

[pakarang]

Knock Nevis - The Largest Ship Ever - 565.000 DWT

[pakarang]

Bad weather - big waves:

[pakarang]

I love this advertisement for D-Juice in Norway:

[Remarc]

http://images.google.ca/imgres?imgur...3D440%26um%3D1

[Steve.B]

http://images.google.ca/imgres?imgur...3D440%26um%3D1

Love the video, and the photo underneath the video frame is just fantastic!

[Steve.B]

There goes the paintwork again!

[Steve.B]

But i don't think this was deliberate, and i really cannot understand how this happened. Not everyday you see a large bulker being chased up the river by a couple of tugs!

[Steve.B]

Knock Nevis - The Largest Ship Ever - 565.000 DWT

Here she is in happier days - I just want to know what buffoon let Clarkson aboard?


Name is spelt incorrectly though, should be 'Jahre Viking'.

Quote from 'Wisegeek'
"The largest ship ever built is the Knock Nevis, a supertanker 458 meters (1504 ft) in length and 69 m (226 ft) in width. Its dry weight is 564,763 tonnes, 647,955 tonnes when fully loaded with oil. Built between 1979 and 1981 in Oppama shipyard in Japan, this ship is larger and heavier than the Empire State Building on its side. For over a decade it has been the world's largest ship by a significant margin, although its current function is only as an FSO (floating storage and offloading unit).

When fully loaded, the Knock Nevis' structure reaches 24.6 m (81 feet) underwater, so deep that it cannot navigate the English channel, much less the Panama and Suez canals. This also prevents it from docking at many of the world's major ports.

The Knock Nevis is more than twice than tonnage of the 2nd largest ship in the world, which weighs in at only 170,974 tons. At one point there were seven other ships with a tonnage over 500,000, but they have since all been scrapped. Knock Nevis is more than twice the size of typical oil tankers, such as the ill-fated Exxon Valdez.

Prior names the ship has borne include the Happy Giant, Seawise Giant, and Jahre Viking. Although initially built for a Greek customer, the ship was rejected due to vibration problems stemming from faulty gear design. Thus the ship was sold to Chinese interests and had its length extended, at which point it became the largest ship ever built.

The ship's typical route was to deliver oil to the USA from the Middle East, although Knock Nevis was used as a floating storage and offloading unit during the Iran-Iraq war, when it was damaged by a fighter jet. The ship was repaired at great expense in Singapore, and sold to a Norweigan company. After going through a series of renamings, the ship was eventually stationed at the Qatar Al Shaheen oil field, located in the Persian Gulf, for good, as a storage platform.

Despite its massive size, when the Knock Nevis was in operation, it was maintained by a crew of just 40." Unquote.

[pakarang]

But i don't think this was deliberate, and i really cannot understand how this happened. Not everyday you see a large bulker being chased up the river by a couple of tugs!

I think this was in Guayaquil in Ecuador and if my memory serves me correct, I think she had a power failure, a so-called Black-Out.

[Remarc]

Live today (June 5) at 10 p.m.

The official opening of Costa Luminosa and Costa Pacifica.

http://www.fincantieri.it/

[Steve.B]

Now I bet that there are a few of our members that would enjoy being out on days like this!

And you know it's a little bit choppy when the corridors start to flex!

[pilotdane]

Isn't that amazing! I never get tired of looking at that video watching the ship flex.

I wonder if it is true about submariners tying a string tight across the width of the sub while on the surface and then watch the string sag as the hull gets squeezed while diving. If it is true, that would be a scary thing to see in person.

[Steve.B]

I wonder if it is true about submariners tying a string tight across the width of the sub while on the surface and then watch the string sag as the hull gets squeezed while diving. If it is true, that would be a scary thing to see in person.

I agree on that! And to be honest if I was aboard that container ship I think I would be rather concerned about the flexing going on, especially when it's accompanied with all the bangs and clangs! I know they are designed to do just that, but I cannot get away from the fact that I know if I keep bending a piece of metal backwards and forwards, then one day it breaks!:.............Now who mentioned the 'MSC NAPOLI'?