Your videos got me interested in how these big engines function. With your tours and some google searches, I was able to learn the basics. I find this stuff fascinating. Thanks for giving us a glimpse into this seldom-seen world. Edit: I love the little details you show us too.
What a cool video ! Engine room is much bigger and way cleaner than I expected. Would love to have a voice-over / commentary track to go along with brief explanation of what we are looking at. Somethings are easy to figure out, others not so much. Thanks so much for sharing !!! ✌🏻✌🏻
Have some good leave buddy, and thanks for (for me) the nostalgia trip around the engine room ... would have loved a quick control room visit too tho :) PS... brilliantly maintained and all ship-shape. Not a greasy rag in sight LOL.
Great vid Jeff, makes you feel you are actually in there ! Excellent camera work, your usual high standard . Keep them coming Jeff! 👍 Best wishes from Liverpool, England 🍺🍺🍺🇬🇧
Hey Jeff, keep it up man. I know we haven't been in contact for a while but I'm still very much planning on reaching out to you in a few years again once I go to SIU, these videos are still EXTREMELY beyond helpful, please don't stop any time soon man! Stay safe out there
Greetings. I just started watching your videos on 6-24-21 and I am enjoying them very much. I work on a production facility in Gulf of Mexico. I thought to look up this ship on Marine Tracker and what a coincidence. As I type this, the Maersk Idaho is in my view about 15 miles south. Very cool ! Peace be with you
Big 10 cylinder engine directly coupled to the prop shaft. It becomes easy to see why a different approach can work more efficiently. I am talking about azipods and electrical generators. Props on azipods that can rotate 360 degrees and be decoupled from a power device. Multiple generators can be used for propulsion, electrical generation etc. Much more efficient design. Good video Matt.
So very interesting. There is so much light down there that people don't realize you are in the guts of the ship. I was surprised to note the speed of the engine, looking at the spinning prop-shaft, which I make around 50 RPM. Maybe you were approaching port.
Must have a good Wiper on there .. my first time ever seen engine room this clean on a ship cuz all my other ships I been on with seafarers engine room was dirty
Hi Jeff, I enjoy all your videos. Thanks for sharing your career with us. Does your shipping company allow passenger bookings? I think it would be a great adventure. Cheers, Jim
Thank you for sharing; I love minutiae like this! I have a couple questions about propulsion: 1) How many screws? 2) What RPM are the screws and engines turning at? Thanks again!
Hello, where is the Engine Room Crew ? I didn't see anyone....I used to work on a Ship too, but I was in the Steward's Dept....from John in North Carolina.
It is called the Wiper.... Need to get all the documents such as Passport, TWIC, Merchant Mariner Credential (MMC) Basic Safety Class, STCW VPDSD class, physical and drug clearance, and start those things.
@@Neo-po2xw On a diesel ship main use of the boiler is to heat fuel oil (to make make less viscous), provide heating to water and oil for when the engine is stopped, and for 'domestic' purposes, as well as desalination and oil/water separator. A lot of diesel (engine) ships may also run turbine generators, although this vessel has diesel generators. If you see the section with the centrifugal separators(at 2:56) which refines the heavy oil, you will see all the pipes are insulated (lagged, silver finish at 3:11), this is to keep the normally treacle-like fuel oil nice and runny! Steam heats the fuel tanks.
@@Neo-po2xw The boiler is for when we are in port because obviously we are not running and have exhaust gas so we need to make steam to keep the engine warm import... Yes that would be a great video topic
Engine is super low rpm, so more turbos on the manifold will give a smoother pulse-less pressure feed to the cylinders. Most of the ships I sailed on had two, but this has more cylinders, so three makes sense to even out the charge in the scavenge buffer. Also I guess you have a bit more redundancy if a blower is underperforming.
Hello sir if it is not too much trouble, would you mind if I sent you an email sometime? I could use a little help regarding trying to enter the maritime industry. It is mainly a question of which avenue might be best to approach it from my particular situation. I also could use some help in knowing what to expect as far as the educational requirements and any resources I should be studying there. Whether or not you are able to help me I thank you for the videos, as they have produced a staggering amount of information and entertainment for me.
It’s amazing how clean the engine room is
Yeop
@@dindjarin5634 You took the words right out of my mouth.
Yep I thought the same. Our maintenance shop at work is filthy compared to that ship😂
It's better for the engine room to be clean as it is easier to detect any leaks.
Your videos got me interested in how these big engines function. With your tours and some google searches, I was able to learn the basics. I find this stuff fascinating. Thanks for giving us a glimpse into this seldom-seen world. Edit: I love the little details you show us too.
Lovely and clean love the videos have a great short break thank u I enjoy them
Thanks so much
What a cool video !
Engine room is much bigger and way cleaner than I expected. Would love to have a voice-over / commentary track to go along with brief explanation of what we are looking at. Somethings are easy to figure out, others not so much.
Thanks so much for sharing !!! ✌🏻✌🏻
This is very cool and fascinating, thank you for sharing!
Ty for watching!!!
Nice to see, and rembembers me how i miss work on those engines, love the "atmosfere" on a vessel.
Thanks for your comment and I am glad you enjoyed it
Have some good leave buddy, and thanks for (for me) the nostalgia trip around the engine room ... would have loved a quick control room visit too tho :) PS... brilliantly maintained and all ship-shape. Not a greasy rag in sight LOL.
Hey Steve, good seeing you...thanks
Love it, Love it!
Ty, ty, lol
Reminds of my days as a Kings Point Engine Cadet on multiple diesel ships. Good times.
Really enjoy your videos as it gives me insight to a world that I otherwise would be unable to see.
Nice to see a clean engine cheers jeff
Whats up Pe Ter...thanks
That's a good looking engine room. Anxious to see your next assignment.
Great vid Jeff, makes you feel you are actually in there ! Excellent camera work, your usual high standard . Keep them coming Jeff! 👍 Best wishes from Liverpool, England 🍺🍺🍺🇬🇧
Hey it's always great to see you. how are you? I will just stay home for a short bit than go back to work...thanks always my friend, cheers
Take a good rest, mate! Happy homecoming!
Would have loved a voice over telling me what I'm looking at. "Liked" the video anyway. Keep up the postings.
I debated that but a lot of people just like to hear the natural sounds maybe I can do another video and do a voice over
For a 21 year old ship, y'all keep her absolutely immaculate.
Amazing.
Great video sir
Great videos thank you 🙏
Ty always Juan
Very nice. Being a gear head, these are the places I'd want to see first :)
Hey Jeff, keep it up man. I know we haven't been in contact for a while but I'm still very much planning on reaching out to you in a few years again once I go to SIU, these videos are still EXTREMELY beyond helpful, please don't stop any time soon man! Stay safe out there
You too my friend
Entertaining and informative video. I have little idea what any of the parts do though. Still great to see.
Greetings. I just started watching your videos on 6-24-21 and I am enjoying them very much. I work on a production facility in Gulf of Mexico. I thought to look up this ship on Marine Tracker and what a coincidence. As I type this, the Maersk Idaho is in my view about 15 miles south. Very cool ! Peace be with you
Big 10 cylinder engine directly coupled to the prop shaft. It becomes easy to see why a different approach can work more efficiently. I am talking about azipods and electrical generators. Props on azipods that can rotate 360 degrees and be decoupled from a power device. Multiple generators can be used for propulsion, electrical generation etc. Much more efficient design. Good video Matt.
Fantastic channel...
thank you my friend
Impressive!
Wow engine room is spotless! How much HP is the Main engine? And how much hp in those Main Generators? 👍
58,600 BHP MAX
can't remember gens...
10 BHP.
So very interesting. There is so much light down there that people don't realize you are in the guts of the ship. I was surprised to note the speed of the engine, looking at the spinning prop-shaft, which I make around 50 RPM. Maybe you were approaching port.
Must have a good Wiper on there .. my first time ever seen engine room this clean on a ship cuz all my other ships I been on with seafarers engine room was dirty
Hi Jeff, I enjoy all your videos. Thanks for sharing your career with us. Does your shipping company allow passenger bookings? I think it would be a great adventure. Cheers, Jim
None of the ships offer it that I work on...it would be nice
Hey Jeff am learning alot. Please name the parts as you go along next time
Some time I will make a video with voice over doing that but i did once before if you look on the channel....in another video I did that
Hello Jeff, very impressive and interesting. Damn, that engine is a big as a house! By the way how big is the propeller on that ship? Thanks again!
Nice video man where actually u singing off where in the world wood that be now bro
Virginia Beach, April 22 back to Brazil for relaxation
Thank you for sharing; I love minutiae like this! I have a couple questions about propulsion: 1) How many screws? 2) What RPM are the screws and engines turning at? Thanks again!
We only have one shaft and screw and the speeds are always different there is no set speed it depends on distance and times of arrival
@@jefferyb.3406 Thank you! Keep the excellent VLOGs coming!
Nice clean ship. I'm on the MSC Shaula as a contractor repairing the boiler. It's ugly, smelly ship. They should call it the "dirty ship".
lol....stay safe my friend
Great tour! Many thanks ! Please tell me the brand of the main engine?
Love it Jeff. Engines and ships are my kind of interest. What make of gearbox is connected here?
Cool ! Is there 3 phase electric on board too ? Looks like some of those electric motors could be.
Yes, 3ph, 440V
Is the engine directly coupled to the propeller or is there any kind of a clutch or transmission between them? Great video!
Direct
a very big engine
Is some of the containers ships are all waiting to unload and are they stuck
god I miss that sound
Thanks for watching...glad you enjoyed....I have one of my last ship as well on the channel
@@jefferyb.3406 I was the engineering manager of a diesel power station for 34 years so well used to turbo wine - really miss it.
Have you ever been on a container ship that hit a container that had fallen off a ship? What would happen?
Hello, where is the Engine Room Crew ? I didn't see anyone....I used to work on a Ship too, but I was in the Steward's Dept....from John in North Carolina.
I made video on lunch break. Lol
Does the ship have a variable-pitch propeller?
I can imagine that it’s deafening in there.
YES, we always wear good hearing protection and every year in our exams we take hearing tests.
Hi Jeff out of curiosity what refrigeration gas does the HVAC system run on? Do you have chiller systems on the ship or ventilated air con systems?
134-a
Are you regularly on the same ship or does it change? If it changes are you ever on the same ship again or rarely.
what would an entry level position be in the engine department or requirements for applying for such a position?
It is called the Wiper....
Need to get all the documents such as Passport, TWIC, Merchant Mariner Credential (MMC) Basic Safety Class, STCW VPDSD class, physical and drug clearance, and start those things.
5:06 Is that Economiser?
Can you point out Boiler in the video.
Nice tour BTW.👍
2:22
5:06 is Lube Oil Cooler
@@jefferyb.3406 Dang I thought so,
What is main use of boiler. And If you got more boiler videos, pls do share.
Thanks 😊
@@Neo-po2xw On a diesel ship main use of the boiler is to heat fuel oil (to make make less viscous), provide heating to water and oil for when the engine is stopped, and for 'domestic' purposes, as well as desalination and oil/water separator. A lot of diesel (engine) ships may also run turbine generators, although this vessel has diesel generators. If you see the section with the centrifugal separators(at 2:56) which refines the heavy oil, you will see all the pipes are insulated (lagged, silver finish at 3:11), this is to keep the normally treacle-like fuel oil nice and runny! Steam heats the fuel tanks.
@@Neo-po2xw The boiler is for when we are in port because obviously we are not running and have exhaust gas so we need to make steam to keep the engine warm import... Yes that would be a great video topic
I bet all that machinery didn’t take much work to put together😨
Three turbos??
Yes
Engine is super low rpm, so more turbos on the manifold will give a smoother pulse-less pressure feed to the cylinders. Most of the ships I sailed on had two, but this has more cylinders, so three makes sense to even out the charge in the scavenge buffer. Also I guess you have a bit more redundancy if a blower is underperforming.
Is it a wartsila flex ? I dont see the common rail
No, not the flex model....
@@jefferyb.3406 ahh the RTA model?
10K90MC-C Man B&W
@@jefferyb.3406 oki dokie. thanks
@@jefferyb.3406 With encoders A&B
i guess this ship is over 15
years old.
Hello sir if it is not too much trouble, would you mind if I sent you an email sometime? I could use a little help regarding trying to enter the maritime industry. It is mainly a question of which avenue might be best to approach it from my particular situation. I also could use some help in knowing what to expect as far as the educational requirements and any resources I should be studying there.
Whether or not you are able to help me I thank you for the videos, as they have produced a staggering amount of information and entertainment for me.
Sure
Next engine room walkthrough carry some cue cards to identify equipment.
the MV CAPE TEXAS has the worst engine room
I have never seen it do you have any photos of it? I would love to see .