Supertanker rounding the cape
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- Опубліковано 11 сер 2008
- Rounding the Cape Of Good Hope on a supertanker.
300,000 tonne supertanker. Length 330mtrs, breadth 62mtrs. Service speed 17 knots. As big as 3 aircraft carriers. Main deck can contain approx 3 football (soccer) pitches. - Авто та транспорт
It is more than a miracle that these monster ULCC ships don't collapse from their own weight and the strain placed on the super structure by enormous waves. As large as they are each ship is a tiny speck in the oceans of the world. Very brave men crew these ships in these conditions. They are never far from a tragic end.
Very cool! Thanks for posting this.
The sounds alone were good for a thumbs-up click, not to mention the beautiful view of the sea. Thans for the video.
The rough sea doesn't almost affect the movement of this giant. Wonderful. Thanks for the video.
Imagine trying to do that in a sailboat, or a wooden ship 500 years ago. lol
The traffic separation scheme requires tankers to be either 20 or 25nm away from the coast right? How far out were you guys? I understand the rogue waves usually occur just off the continental shelve. We just rounded the cape (early April '15). Blessed with great conditions, we saw maybe 10-12ft seas at the worst of it.
Now i can imagine why the first navigator Diaz called it Cabo das Tormentas .
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What's the vessels name? :)
@BelgianEvo In 2003 when this video was made it was called "Sylt" but it is now either scrapped or trading under a different name
How magnificent! Do you avoid certain routes if weather is bad?
@RShack12 What would you say is a fair comparison?
Which windshields do you refer to ??
Great footage!! Is it possible for me to use and share this footage on my youtube page? I share footage from all kind of activities on our ocean. Cargo ships in the 1960s till now, oil rigs, fishing vessels, etc. Of course full credit will be given to the owner of the footage. Looking forward to your reply. Kind regards. Cheers.
@n2motocross what are you getting at? They are still sitting on a warm bridge, the vessel is motordriven and there are watches onboard. Try comparing to a sailingvessel in a storm, not necessarily round the Cape. It can be good weather there also.
What vessel is this?
ya looks like i ve been thr
i had same exp whn i was on vlcc ti guardian
but its nice to b in bad weather
u cn feel d nature around u
ths video i thnk its vlcc
What about the depth and volume ??
Putting a lifeboat in a sea like this must be challenging to say the least!
@DenisKomment No, it's very firm ocean ship. The waves just shake it which causes some noise.
What about hull shape ??
File, which VLCC is 62m wide?
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I was on VLCC too....
what is the name of this ship?
Name of the ship? :-)
Poor baby, she's having fun with mother nature.
Cape Wrath!
The metal up front must be taking some pounding.
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If you are referring to the Bridge windows you are quite right they are centrifugal wipers.
It is not a clearvue spinning screen
At 2:33 i heard Greek speaking!The ship had Greek flag?
We caleed them "clearview Screens"
You cann see 10% of an iceberg over the water, the over 90% of an iceberg are under the waterline..and this is was makes icebergs so dangerous.
Wishes from Germany
Seventeen Knots? That's not hanging about.
@RShack12 Displacement/Volume
I wonder why most oil tankers floats almost close to the sea level...
somewhat related to the oil that it carries..?
Yes, and the massive weight of the crude oil. It’s very heavy!
When they are full
Bringin' home the oil, me boys....
in wath month was it that you rounded the cape?
was it in the austral summer?
The cape that is to be rounded is Cape Point, not Cape of Good Hope which is a little way to the West. That is the landfall for ships traveling from the NW, ie Europe.
@Gerrit22041992 the probotions are more like 30% to 70% because of the saltwater.
You are using units we brought over a couple of hundred years ago.
what the hell is crackling? the ship breaking apart?
@asphalion123 Wow 2003...
Is this a VLCC or an ULCC?!.
She looks very wide :)
@n2motocross And "cape" doesn't necessarily means Cape horn. A cape is per definition "a point or body of land extending into a body of water"
I fished in this area for many years, mostly in calm conditions. Actually rounding Cape Point can be exciting due to wind and currents swirling about. The shelf drops away at about 5 miles at 600 ft depth and the shipping lanes start at 12 miles. There have been swells measured at heights of 60ft but I have managed to avoid such monsters.
This vlcc like knock nevis
Now try it in a mine hunter made of wood that is less than 400 tons.
you could hear the report from the phillipino helmsman for course - 273, hahahah
Damn windscreen wipers are always breaking! Opps, they do work! (... at 6:06 mins)
I always wondered that this is really don't look that bad I don't see too many Whitecaps but how high do you think the top of the deck is to the bottom of the exposed water and how much fuel is on board to get across the ocean it must take a hell of a lot of fuel to power that ship
@pROTPANDA yep enjoying life driving big gas guzzling SUV's, giving it heaps. hahaha.
Once upon a time from Ras Tanura to Rotterdam Europoort with oeconomic speed.
VLCC💪⚓
Interesting statistics - you say as big as 3 aircraft carriers. It is shorter and narrower than the Nimitz Class.
Guess it may be 3 times heavier - but weight is not size!!
The size of an iceberg is determined by what you see above water level. true or false ??
False!
How fun wouldn't it be to ram this ship fully loaded and in full speed inwards to a port or a beach full of people, just to see how far it'd get before it got proper stuck ^^ hahahaha! It would punch quite a hole ^^
Errr not in my book your dimensions are wrong. More like 1082 ft X 200ft. Displacement of this ship is 300,000 deadweight tonnes whereas the largest aircraft has a displacement of 100,000 deadweight tonnes.
That's gotta be the most scariest thing ever seen in the skies; a 100.000 dwt flying crude oil carrier aircraft, slowly homing into LAX runway
totally gripping. that said the ships is a big beast isn't it
WOW For a ship thats over 3000 ft long and 600 ft wide that is cool. ( three aircraft carriers would be that big)
+4fuzzybear You need to learn to count. About 1075 Ft long by 200 Ft beam.
Its not even a suezmax.Its a aframax
This is pretty cool, however, with the ship being so insanely huge, and a virtually immovable object, it's not fun or exciting at all to watch this. Now a three, four, or five hundred foot ship in the same seas would be quite thrilling to watch! Just saying!!
Also, why is there never, ever ANYTHING shown on screen, or in the commentary that would give the viewer.....even an estimate of wave height??
Not a US aircraft carrier
да Наутилус согласен,бывали!!!на костерах, аху...вали в гидрокостюмах спали на Ливерпуль шли...
Not a super tanker
You yanks still using feet and inches. How sad is that.
Yeah, but we get to drive real cars and don't have to pay eight bucks a gallon for gas.
Who cares. The rest of the world still kisses our ass.
real cars??
well here in Brazil we pay a tons of money to buy shit cars... how I wish live in US or England despite they using imperial measures
All navigation is executed in miles. 6080 ft or 1/60th of a degree of latitude
Hey, stop play as the a f..g hero! Just stop doing this job! All of us are going there for money. Why are you working on board of a VLCC? For better salary or for glory?