The shot at 4:37 cracks me up, it's a home handyman buzzbox 110V welder being used, with a handheld, two dollar shop welding shield! To weld up that vessel with that equipment would take approximately as long as it took for the continents to separate and drift via plate tectonics to their current locations.
@@marineinsight Ah, I'm sure my ford explorer would handle it, no prob....It's finding a 406 foot wide Wide Load Banner, that's the problem! :)...Is there a dry dock for that monster? THAT would be amazing to see up on blocks!
Although the Pioneering Spirit was renamed, I’m surprised that originally it was named after Nazi SS officer Pieter Schelte. They might as well have named it the Adolf Hitler if they were honoring the Nazis. Very strange decision on the original name for sure.
IIRC the officer in question was an engineer, so there was a tenuous connection. Plus he's part of the owner's family. I don't think no one advertised the SS aspect, from what I heard is a group of people unrelated to the industry that noticed the name and raised the issue. Good thing they did, and good thing the name was changed.
@@TheNefastor Almost right, it was the Irish who banned the vessel into Irish ports because of the links to Pieter Schelte, who was in the Nazi SS, during WW2. This in turn forced Allseas to change the name to the Pioneering Spirit. No matter what you think, it is an amazing vessel.
The shot at 4:37 cracks me up, it's a home handyman buzzbox 110V welder being used, with a handheld, two dollar shop welding shield!
To weld up that vessel with that equipment would take approximately as long as it took for the continents to separate and drift via plate tectonics to their current locations.
Makes me feel old. Worked on the Tyra pipelines in 82,Brent FLAGS pipeline in 76 and Mcdermotts Laybarge 27 for Marathon , off Kinsale 77-78.
I just saw him today on harbor in Norway. It's huge.
That ship is five times bigger than a US supercarrier by displacement and topside volume
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10 times bigger it is displacement 1 million tonnes
@marineinsight, 1,90,000 Tonnes of steel is that a typo?
Man oh man, I would need a Wide Load banner if I was towing that behind my Pickup! :)
😂 good luck with the tow
@@marineinsight Ah, I'm sure my ford explorer would handle it, no prob....It's finding a 406 foot wide Wide Load Banner, that's the problem! :)...Is there a dry dock for that monster? THAT would be amazing to see up on blocks!
@@godbluffvdgg NatGeo/Discovery would probably be releasing the making of this incredible machine sometime in future
@@kookie175 I hope so...I could watch many hours of that! :)
You are going to need a 50 lane road to tow it down
Yeh you would need a tow truck with attitude to tow it definitely 😂☺️☺️😂
No cruise ship is bigger than this
Although the Pioneering Spirit was renamed, I’m surprised that originally it was named after Nazi SS officer Pieter Schelte. They might as well have named it the Adolf Hitler if they were honoring the Nazis. Very strange decision on the original name for sure.
It's family of the owner and founder of allseas.
And now he named it after his qualities.
IIRC the officer in question was an engineer, so there was a tenuous connection. Plus he's part of the owner's family. I don't think no one advertised the SS aspect, from what I heard is a group of people unrelated to the industry that noticed the name and raised the issue. Good thing they did, and good thing the name was changed.
@@TheNefastor Almost right, it was the Irish who banned the vessel into Irish ports because of the links to Pieter Schelte, who was in the Nazi SS, during WW2. This in turn forced Allseas to change the name to the Pioneering Spirit. No matter what you think, it is an amazing vessel.