Hang out with Adam on his very first themed cruise, taking place on the Discovery Princess! Learn more: www.princess.com/cruise-with-adam-savage This video is part of a sponsored series with Princess Cruises. You can sail on the Sun Princess in 2024! Visit: www.princess.com/ships-and-experience/ships/su-sun-princess/ This Object Is the First of Its Kind: ua-cam.com/video/M8dFvQ1XChE/v-deo.html This Ship Has a Big ... Nose? ua-cam.com/video/0IBJwcvjZIY/v-deo.html Engineering Inch by Inch: ua-cam.com/video/Q3T_Up8q_r4/v-deo.html This Theater Is AMAZING: ua-cam.com/video/4ckFAdQjCpM/v-deo.html Adam Savage Tours an EPIC Bridge: ua-cam.com/video/j3OjwsKSWoA/v-deo.html How Giant Ships Move From Land to Sea: ua-cam.com/video/oPc9u-UMIcA/v-deo.html Building a Cruise Ship in Just 10 Months EXPLAINED: ua-cam.com/video/uOaLGESFyZk/v-deo.html The difference between "ship" and "boat": ua-cam.com/video/61k3n_YDygk/v-deo.html
It would be interesting if Adam could visit the Hyundai Shipyard in Korea, which is the biggest shipyard in the world. There he could contrast the way that ships are built because at Hyundai they have a factory that builds ship sections, which are the size of a four-story building and an inventory of these sections stored in the yard that are transported to the dry-dock to build ships. Typically it takes about 3 months for them to build a ship.
This is exactly why whenever I’ve been on cruises I asked permission to get a tour of the working areas. The engines (as a gear head) as INSANE. A piston the size of a mini cooper is wild. And powering everything flawlessly is a feat of pure engineering heaven.
@@loganyoung2408 Not always, it honestly depends on your luck for the day. I have taken some multi day cruises and made some acquaintances with maintenance people. I also tend to talk about engineering type stuff with them to prove I am not a threat. It has worked twice now. lol
you know, I'd probably have more fun on a mostly built cruise ship then in one that's completely finished. all that beautiful engineering is going to be covered up.
having sections of clear wall around the place would be nice, that way it looks finished but you still get to see bits of the engineering, would also make inspections easier for those parts
I would be interested in cruise ships if they offered a behind the scenes tour of the ship while out and show all of the engineering and how the system work and the efforts behind it. So much in a city that floats on the ocean
I think most people would have fun getting to see both like you're proposing. It would be cool to do both! But I'd prefer to tour an unfinished ship than a finished one in myself.
Adam… is a renaissance man. I love his passion and interest, in design, mechanics, and engineering, science, pop culture. I’m slow thinking and forgetful at the best of times but I like how “on” he is, engaged. The lights are always on in his exploration and interest. I think if I was an angel I would never be bored shadowing him around. Watching him and people passionate and interested in how things work and were assembled. I wish I had half as much of the life experience. It’s too bad you can’t just show up, tour and see behind the scenes of whatever you want like he does. An all access pass would be nice.
Every time I watch one of these cruise ship making videos, it takes me back to when I worked for a ship building and repair company in Tampa, FL. We didn't build any cruise ships, but we did build some incredible working ships.
8:37 when he tells them that he has a ruler tattooed onto his arm, the sheer joy and pleasure and entertainment they get from that is so hilariously wonderful lol, the pat on the back and smiling has such strong camaraderie lol. ^_^
I would love a show consisting of Adam touring around different mega engineering projects. His awe and joy are wonderful, plus he asks intelligent questions of the engineers.
20 years ago we took a 7 day cruise on Princess Cruise ship. It was AMAZING!!! I still remember most of that cruise. I would do it again in a heart beat.
I know where you're coming from. I absolute terms these things are a blight and an abomination (IMO). But that doesn't stop me from being irresistibly fascinated by their engineering and construction.
@@markallison4794Well said. As interesting an achievement as it is, it would be like vacationing in a small shopping mall. With a lot of overweight drunk people :)
The ships Captain, seems to be an incredibly humble, but endearing man, and dealing with a crew of 50-60 nationalities with their Religions, and beliefs, is outstanding, and then there's the Punters, or Customer's in his words, i bet they will be the hardest to manage
Came to see this wondrous "Engine Room"........Still haven't seen the behemoth engines that propel this ship. Title should be "Everything Including the Bathroom Sink......Except for the Actual Engine" Come on Adam! lol Loved what you did show but come on man!
Don't know why they used that title, but an engine room during build is not very photogenic. Lots of scaffolding and the engines are probably covered with lots of plywood for protection anyway. Besides, even in service you can never see the engine in its entirity, from the tween deck platform you can look on the cylinder head and see the blowers (turbos ) and from the tanktop platform (engine room floor) the crank case and pumps feeding oil, fuel and water and other gubbins. But never the whole thing in one shot.
As staggering as the scale of the construction effort is, I’m boggled thinking about the scale of the ongoing logistics it takes to operate a cruise ship too. 🤯
Indeed. The scale of serving the main purpose of housing, transporting, feeding and entertaining thousands of people every handful of days and doing that on time is a massive undertaking all by itself - and they do this for each ship they operate. And one doesn't simply order 10,000 bananas that all come the same way either. You have to understand when the next batch is coming so that you have ripe enough food to serve on day one as well having plenty of less ripe stock so that on day 3-4 just before the next load you still have ripe food to serve. ALL of this is managed and planned out so that food service is never interrupted. That's why it was such a massive shock when Carnival had to take the step of not serving bacon on the breakfast buffet anymore. The level of supplier breakdown necessary to force that must have created a massive amount of stress for the culinary team before they finally have to make the call on something like that. And in this case Carnival would lose it daily because they're going to give Princess priority as it is their luxury product. Fueling is slightly less daunting but still an undertaking - most of these ships actually can't run super long with the tankage they have available so you'll even see bunkering of fuel in locations that we think of as destinations and not only the main embarkation ports. THAT is the thing that really gets my brain going - thinking about how to keep EVERYTHING fed when doing a 60, 90 or even 120 day cruise in various vastly different locales.
I am an artist, and I had real fun today after finishing a large pencil drawing when I showed it to people who were blown away (yes, really). It is great to see that engineers and tradesmen like electricians and HVAC engineers can have the same kind of creative fun making things and then looking at and showing the partly finished or finished work to other people. It is a very different creative process to mine but it is certainly a creative process and I love the fact that people who do that very different work can enjoy it as much as I enjoy making art.
Wondering the same thing ... title saus Engine Room and we see everything but the engine room. Not saying the video wasn't great but why the clickbait BS when you have the chops and the content to just be honest?
The heating/cooling reminds me of jet airplanes. All the heat in a jet is bled off the engines, and all the cooling is gather in ram air inlets under the lower fairing. How these two sources are divided and mixed is where all the temp requirements occur.
When the Queen Mary was towed to her retirement berth in Long Beach in the late 1960s, my Pop was keen to go tour it and tour it, we did! The eerie sight of that ship’s huge propeller in a type of immense indoor swimming pool belowdecks, was something i can see in my minds’ eye like it was yesterday. The entire ship was beautiful, and delightfully empty of tourists before it became the property of the Disney company. Fast forward some 30 odd years to 2010 when my husband and i decided to take to the high seas to enjoy Lewis Blacks’ Comedy Cruise onboard one of Royal Caribbeans’ gorgeous floating cities. It was 7 days and nights of the best time of our lives. ❤
I am absolutely loving this series of videos and can't wait to see it all finished (please don't leave us hanging on seeing those finished spaces! haha). Seeing everyone Adam talks to (And Adam himself) absolutely beaming from ear to ear most of the time they spend talking about the ship and their experiences with helping to put it together, the systems, the design, everything is a pleasure to watch. There's a real passion there from everyone involved and it's infectious.
Ive never been on a cruiseship but have been in construction all my life and think a print of the ship blueprints would make an awesome piece to hang on the wall of my house
Fascinating! Thats an amazing inside look at vast construction. ( This beauty makes the RMS Titanic, seem like a dinghy! It boggles the mind when you contemplate what goes into the conception, planning, logistics and construction. They are an amazing team, so insync and intreractive. Thanks so much Adam and the Tested crew!
the fact that Adam has a ruler tattooed on his wrist is just *so* Adam, lol. it's not gonna be a precise tool, but it's fun and it works well for when you don't need a super precise measurement lol
Adam, I hope you realize that once the ship is completed, you'll have to redo all the footage in the now completed spaces, so that we can see a before and after.
I'm a retired master pipefitter. I worked building the compressors that liquefy air. I loved doing this work. My ex wife explained to friends that I was an aerospace "plumber"... 😆
Great video as kind of a summation of the time you spent there! I am sharing this one for the sheer scope of topics you covered. It was the galley discussion and table covers that blew my mind in a personal way....just...WOW. (AND ROOM SERVICE....lol)
As curious, enthusiastic, and appreciative as Adam is about this whole project and industry, it warms my heart so much that he gets to be shown around and be part of it. He deserves it ❤
You talking about food and being in a bad place to be doing it reminded me when I first became a pipefitter my first job was at a nuclear power plant. I took my breaks and ate lunch only a few feet away from where the core of the reactor was. Not a place you would even want to stand for even a min now. Did get back in there once while the plant was coming back up after a refuel because I worked security and they had to secure a door while RP did a survey. Only time I was there and in a short time you got a reading you could see on your dosimeter
This is interesting to come from watching a wooden sailing vessel to this to see the similarities and the difference in the challenges and design choices...
Just thinking of him saying the whole ship was 3d modelled makes my head explode thinking of just how big the file size must be. That'd be a dream job for me working on one Massive puzzle.
Not just that, every volumein that model represents a piece ov steel, a pipe, a piece of equipment for which there are properties logged (weight, strength, fluid systems they belong to, etc). On board they then attach maintenance schedules, spare parts remaining in storage, links to logistics software etc. I used to think we would never get rid of paper and hardcopies for all this, but actually we can.
At the beginning Adam is so Amazed at how big the LNG tanks are. Where as I am looking at them and going "That's It?" For as efficient as the cruise ship is supposed to be. Those tanks really don't seem that large for powering everything. I wonder what range they actually have on them.
LNG will probably be the primary fuel source, then taken to diesels to make the electric power to drive the hotel load and propulsion (on a vessel like this about 50-50 load spread). Big ships like that would do a week's rotation or possibly two. But I would not be surprised if the range of maximum time on LNG is only one week. For larger cruises there surely will be marine diesel tanks as well that can augnent the endurance should that be necessary.
@@davidtomasetti8520 Hank would be honored to tell you that LP gas is a crude oil product made from but a combination of gases including butane propane and isobutane…. So the LP gas is propane with other gases or it can be the same
I hope this is a secret pilot for a new Adam savage engineering show. Yeah your doing your tested thing, but this was great, and would love to see a show where you look deep into mega engineering projects like this
At least partly CGI. I am tempted to guess that it is a composite where only the ship and possibly it's shadow is CGI, but all the telltale signs I know to look for have been made ambiguous by UA-cam's data compression. I say "possibly it's shadow" because the shadow is distorted enough it could belong to quite a few different modern cruise ships to my eye.
About the LNG, I don't know when they filmed this, but we already have that on some ships in Norway and there are more being build/modified for it. Had it for quite a while. So I would be careful with calling something: "the first". Although it's a first of that size
problem with these complex infrastructure features is maintaining them, and vendor support, after a few years, like the LED walls that may work for a time, but when they inevitably fail, they end up as dead weight on the ship not being used
After watching this, what amazes me the most is that theres enough people who still choose to go on a cruise to justify the cost of building a new ship.
I wonder if this something where the initial design was one person or a team? Mind boggling the amount of knowledge and talents to actually make this happen.
Usually there is a designer that works with the cruise company to develop the concept. The whole ship revolves around a huge accommodation, restaurants, retail and entertainment. That is what makes the money come in so those are the most important features. Then the shipyard comes in to design a vessel under that to support all those spaces and check hydrostatics (how much the whole thing will weigh and how much displacement it needs), how much power it needs and where to store the energy for that, and provide a cost estimate. Then if all goes well, basic engineering will start, with subsequent detail engineering leading to production and build.
Would be a massive team, starting with finance and marketing, then risk management, hr, legal etal before even getting to engineering to create a business plan and proposal...
@@PRH123 Think you need to reorganise your priorities. It starts with ideas, customer feedback, a good architect, then a concept and outline spec. Only then is there enough for the suits to come in.
@@d.j.vanderschoot3717 well, ideas and customer feedback are marketing... and ideally it is they that should know the market potential, what customers want and what they are willing to pay... from that starting point the project would be initiated... That's the ideal of course, though the history of various manufacturers is littered with companies that went bankrupt because they developed and tried to sell products and systems that weren't quite what the market wanted... if you take airliner development as an example, they deeply drill down for years with their customers what their needs are before launching a project....
Hang out with Adam on his very first themed cruise, taking place on the Discovery Princess! Learn more: www.princess.com/cruise-with-adam-savage
This video is part of a sponsored series with Princess Cruises.
You can sail on the Sun Princess in 2024! Visit: www.princess.com/ships-and-experience/ships/su-sun-princess/
This Object Is the First of Its Kind: ua-cam.com/video/M8dFvQ1XChE/v-deo.html
This Ship Has a Big ... Nose? ua-cam.com/video/0IBJwcvjZIY/v-deo.html
Engineering Inch by Inch: ua-cam.com/video/Q3T_Up8q_r4/v-deo.html
This Theater Is AMAZING: ua-cam.com/video/4ckFAdQjCpM/v-deo.html
Adam Savage Tours an EPIC Bridge: ua-cam.com/video/j3OjwsKSWoA/v-deo.html
How Giant Ships Move From Land to Sea: ua-cam.com/video/oPc9u-UMIcA/v-deo.html
Building a Cruise Ship in Just 10 Months EXPLAINED: ua-cam.com/video/uOaLGESFyZk/v-deo.html
The difference between "ship" and "boat": ua-cam.com/video/61k3n_YDygk/v-deo.html
How would I be able to contact you directly Adam? I have some Navy memorabilia I collected when I served to share with you.
Modular guest rooms was also a feature of Walt Disney World's Contemporary Resort construction in 1969 in Orlando FL
It would be interesting if Adam could visit the Hyundai Shipyard in Korea, which is the biggest shipyard in the world.
There he could contrast the way that ships are built because at Hyundai they have a factory that builds ship sections, which are the size of a four-story building and an inventory of these sections stored in the yard that are transported to the dry-dock to build ships. Typically it takes about 3 months for them to build a ship.
Maybe have a part 2 where we see the ENGINES!!!!!
We are super excited to be going on the cruise with Adam and hope we get to tour the ship.
I never cease to be excited by how excited Adam gets at learning something new. I wish everyone had that kind of passion for learning.
This is exactly why whenever I’ve been on cruises I asked permission to get a tour of the working areas. The engines (as a gear head) as INSANE. A piston the size of a mini cooper is wild. And powering everything flawlessly is a feat of pure engineering heaven.
Do they actually give you one? I’d have assumed they would think of it as a liability
@@loganyoung2408 Not OP but I imagine the engineers are quite proud of their baby, so they'll try to find a way
@@loganyoung2408 Not always, it honestly depends on your luck for the day. I have taken some multi day cruises and made some acquaintances with maintenance people. I also tend to talk about engineering type stuff with them to prove I am not a threat. It has worked twice now. lol
is it weird that i would prefer working in engineering of a cruse ship more than an actual cruse?
@@MichaelThe-Pyronah, same here!
you know, I'd probably have more fun on a mostly built cruise ship then in one that's completely finished. all that beautiful engineering is going to be covered up.
Honestly same, I spent pretty much all my on-ship time last summer reading
having sections of clear wall around the place would be nice, that way it looks finished but you still get to see bits of the engineering, would also make inspections easier for those parts
I would be interested in cruise ships if they offered a behind the scenes tour of the ship while out and show all of the engineering and how the system work and the efforts behind it. So much in a city that floats on the ocean
@@MikeHarris1984 Most cruise lines do.
I think most people would have fun getting to see both like you're proposing. It would be cool to do both! But I'd prefer to tour an unfinished ship than a finished one in myself.
Adam… is a renaissance man. I love his passion and interest, in design, mechanics, and engineering, science, pop culture. I’m slow thinking and forgetful at the best of times but I like how “on” he is, engaged. The lights are always on in his exploration and interest. I think if I was an angel I would never be bored shadowing him around. Watching him and people passionate and interested in how things work and were assembled. I wish I had half as much of the life experience. It’s too bad you can’t just show up, tour and see behind the scenes of whatever you want like he does. An all access pass would be nice.
48 minute engine video WITHOUT AN ENGINE IN SIGHT (except on the modular cabin segment where we see a tug moving the modules that's engine powered.)
Every time I watch one of these cruise ship making videos, it takes me back to when I worked for a ship building and repair company in Tampa, FL. We didn't build any cruise ships, but we did build some incredible working ships.
8:37
when he tells them that he has a ruler tattooed onto his arm, the sheer joy and pleasure and entertainment they get from that is so hilariously wonderful lol, the pat on the back and smiling has such strong camaraderie lol.
^_^
I would love a show consisting of Adam touring around different mega engineering projects. His awe and joy are wonderful, plus he asks intelligent questions of the engineers.
Breathlessly blown away...this was amazing to this old sailor!
This whole series is so cool. Civil engineer here, totally geeking out on this. Thanks for sharing this with us.
20 years ago we took a 7 day cruise on Princess Cruise ship. It was AMAZING!!! I still remember most of that cruise. I would do it again in a heart beat.
I love how I still get so much content from adam
I also love how much content I get from Adam
I would never take a cruise, but Id love to take a tour of one. Really cool engineering to get a city to float and not make people sick.
I know where you're coming from. I absolute terms these things are a blight and an abomination (IMO). But that doesn't stop me from being irresistibly fascinated by their engineering and construction.
There is the Queen Mary if you don't mind a bit of history with your tour.
@@markallison4794Well said. As interesting an achievement as it is, it would be like vacationing in a small shopping mall. With a lot of overweight drunk people :)
Adam is actually not really in the engine room that much in this video
14:05 Adam: "How do you get glass to hold in that much water?"
Me: "Transparent aluminum!"
I really love the discussions Adam has with everyone. He is so knowledgable in many areas.
The ships Captain, seems to be an incredibly humble, but endearing man, and dealing with a crew of 50-60 nationalities with their Religions, and beliefs, is outstanding, and then there's the Punters, or Customer's in his words, i bet they will be the hardest to manage
Adam should have asked to see the brig where they lock the unruly drunks in to sober up... :)
Adam is so prefect in this type of environment. I'd love to see him go on an engineering tour of all the fascinating builds in this world.
Came to see this wondrous "Engine Room"........Still haven't seen the behemoth engines that propel this ship. Title should be "Everything Including the Bathroom Sink......Except for the Actual Engine" Come on Adam! lol Loved what you did show but come on man!
Don't know why they used that title, but an engine room during build is not very photogenic. Lots of scaffolding and the engines are probably covered with lots of plywood for protection anyway. Besides, even in service you can never see the engine in its entirity, from the tween deck platform you can look on the cylinder head and see the blowers (turbos ) and from the tanktop platform (engine room floor) the crank case and pumps feeding oil, fuel and water and other gubbins. But never the whole thing in one shot.
Grant would be so proud to see this kind of engineering content being put out. Great stuff
As staggering as the scale of the construction effort is, I’m boggled thinking about the scale of the ongoing logistics it takes to operate a cruise ship too. 🤯
Indeed. The scale of serving the main purpose of housing, transporting, feeding and entertaining thousands of people every handful of days and doing that on time is a massive undertaking all by itself - and they do this for each ship they operate. And one doesn't simply order 10,000 bananas that all come the same way either. You have to understand when the next batch is coming so that you have ripe enough food to serve on day one as well having plenty of less ripe stock so that on day 3-4 just before the next load you still have ripe food to serve. ALL of this is managed and planned out so that food service is never interrupted.
That's why it was such a massive shock when Carnival had to take the step of not serving bacon on the breakfast buffet anymore. The level of supplier breakdown necessary to force that must have created a massive amount of stress for the culinary team before they finally have to make the call on something like that. And in this case Carnival would lose it daily because they're going to give Princess priority as it is their luxury product. Fueling is slightly less daunting but still an undertaking - most of these ships actually can't run super long with the tankage they have available so you'll even see bunkering of fuel in locations that we think of as destinations and not only the main embarkation ports. THAT is the thing that really gets my brain going - thinking about how to keep EVERYTHING fed when doing a 60, 90 or even 120 day cruise in various vastly different locales.
Captain: "Would you like to learn how to drive the ship?"
Adam: "NO!"
😆🤣😆🤣😆
This series has been so interesting and im learning so much more than I've ever thought! thanks Adam and crew!
The engineering and design for these ships is immensely fascinating. This new bridge has some total scifi ship vibes.
Not sure why this didn't come up sooner but Adam in a cruise ship being built? Sign me up! I swear, Adam could make paint drying exciting and fun.
I am an artist, and I had real fun today after finishing a large pencil drawing when I showed it to people who were blown away (yes, really). It is great to see that engineers and tradesmen like electricians and HVAC engineers can have the same kind of creative fun making things and then looking at and showing the partly finished or finished work to other people. It is a very different creative process to mine but it is certainly a creative process and I love the fact that people who do that very different work can enjoy it as much as I enjoy making art.
48 min engine video with Adam geeking out? Cookies ready, here we go! 🙂
I wish there had actually been anything involving the engine room. Closest he got was the fuel tanks.
Exactly! @@reluctantadv
48 min engine video WITHOUT AN ENGINE!!!
@@ZippoVarga Yes... a little disappointed...
Did I miss the part where we got to see the ships engines? Also where does the crew live?
Wondering the same thing ... title saus Engine Room and we see everything but the engine room.
Not saying the video wasn't great but why the clickbait BS when you have the chops and the content to just be honest?
The heating/cooling reminds me of jet airplanes. All the heat in a jet is bled off the engines, and all the cooling is gather in ram air inlets under the lower fairing. How these two sources are divided and mixed is where all the temp requirements occur.
These guys could probably design a huge, modern space station for mass space tourism. Great planning and engineering.
When the Queen Mary was towed to her retirement berth in Long Beach in the late 1960s, my Pop was keen to go tour it and tour it, we did! The eerie sight of that ship’s huge propeller in a type of immense indoor swimming pool belowdecks, was something i can see in my minds’ eye like it was yesterday. The entire ship was beautiful, and delightfully empty of tourists before it became the property of the Disney company.
Fast forward some 30 odd years to 2010 when my husband and i decided to take to the high seas to enjoy Lewis Blacks’ Comedy Cruise onboard one of Royal Caribbeans’ gorgeous floating cities. It was 7 days and nights of the best time of our lives. ❤
Amazing how much goes into a floating city. I’d imagine that spaceships in the future will need the same kind of thing.
Remarkable the amount of engineering that goes into these massive cruise ships! Truly mind blowing!!
A full tour of the entire finished ship without the passengers would be the best kind of ship video.
I am absolutely loving this series of videos and can't wait to see it all finished (please don't leave us hanging on seeing those finished spaces! haha). Seeing everyone Adam talks to (And Adam himself) absolutely beaming from ear to ear most of the time they spend talking about the ship and their experiences with helping to put it together, the systems, the design, everything is a pleasure to watch. There's a real passion there from everyone involved and it's infectious.
Ive never been on a cruiseship but have been in construction all my life and think a print of the ship blueprints would make an awesome piece to hang on the wall of my house
Adam Savage... a class act.... always informative and educational.
I hop eAdam can return and tour these same spaces once they are completed. Especially the "back of house" spaces.
Great series, can't wait to see the progress through the next year or so! Keep them coming
Fascinating! Thats an amazing inside look at vast construction. ( This beauty makes the RMS Titanic, seem like a dinghy! It boggles the mind when you contemplate what goes into the conception, planning, logistics and construction. They are an amazing team, so insync and intreractive. Thanks so much Adam and the Tested crew!
Curious to ask where I missed the ship engine room tour - since the title was "Adam Savage Tours a Ship Engine Room"...
Fascinating documentary !
the fact that Adam has a ruler tattooed on his wrist is just *so* Adam, lol. it's not gonna be a precise tool, but it's fun and it works well for when you don't need a super precise measurement lol
Adam, I hope you realize that once the ship is completed, you'll have to redo all the footage in the now completed spaces, so that we can see a before and after.
Incredible!
Princess is an awesome cruise line. Highly recommend.
I'm a retired master pipefitter. I worked building the compressors that liquefy air.
I loved doing this work. My ex wife explained to friends that I was an aerospace "plumber"... 😆
I really think I'm going to have to go on either Sun or Sky Princess, they do look quite special.
Great video as kind of a summation of the time you spent there! I am sharing this one for the sheer scope of topics you covered. It was the galley discussion and table covers that blew my mind in a personal way....just...WOW. (AND ROOM SERVICE....lol)
As curious, enthusiastic, and appreciative as Adam is about this whole project and industry, it warms my heart so much that he gets to be shown around and be part of it. He deserves it ❤
this is basically an old school discovery program just without all the 3d models they display over the audio. so interesting, love these videos.
Captain truly loves his job 😁
“The cabins are modular, they’re lifted up the side of the ship and rolled into place”
Me: ever seen “Cube”
I wonder how far this ship has already travelled if you were to add up all the distances taken by every part. Phenomenal
Absolutely amazing documentary with Adam Savage, abit disappointed with no Engine room tho, was still a brilliant and informative watch
AWESOME episode!
You talking about food and being in a bad place to be doing it reminded me when I first became a pipefitter my first job was at a nuclear power plant. I took my breaks and ate lunch only a few feet away from where the core of the reactor was. Not a place you would even want to stand for even a min now. Did get back in there once while the plant was coming back up after a refuel because I worked security and they had to secure a door while RP did a survey. Only time I was there and in a short time you got a reading you could see on your dosimeter
Doing a tour like this would be amazingly interesting! Actually riding a cruise ship and NOT seeing all these technical elements? Not so much.
How cool is that!??
Excellent video
Amazing! I love seeing great people good at their jobs✌
This is interesting to come from watching a wooden sailing vessel to this to see the similarities and the difference in the challenges and design choices...
my brain just exploded to think of all the details that goes into this ship :D
31:20 this outta context could be wild😂 ‘what is important is getting the vehicle in your body is it the same? Wow really something this big?’ 😂👀
Can't imagine the amount of pages the punch list will be for everything there! OMG 😲
One thing in when looking at the tanks is having the tanks centered like that is important for ship stability.
Just thinking of him saying the whole ship was 3d modelled makes my head explode thinking of just how big the file size must be. That'd be a dream job for me working on one Massive puzzle.
Not just that, every volumein that model represents a piece ov steel, a pipe, a piece of equipment for which there are properties logged (weight, strength, fluid systems they belong to, etc). On board they then attach maintenance schedules, spare parts remaining in storage, links to logistics software etc. I used to think we would never get rid of paper and hardcopies for all this, but actually we can.
"The theatre can reconfigure itself." Now I'm imagining theatre seats on the end of Portal 2 style manipulator arms...
Now all the ship's engineers are going to get rulers tattooed on their arms!
SO cool - Thanks for sharing! 💜
At the beginning Adam is so Amazed at how big the LNG tanks are. Where as I am looking at them and going "That's It?" For as efficient as the cruise ship is supposed to be. Those tanks really don't seem that large for powering everything. I wonder what range they actually have on them.
LNG will probably be the primary fuel source, then taken to diesels to make the electric power to drive the hotel load and propulsion (on a vessel like this about 50-50 load spread). Big ships like that would do a week's rotation or possibly two. But I would not be surprised if the range of maximum time on LNG is only one week. For larger cruises there surely will be marine diesel tanks as well that can augnent the endurance should that be necessary.
The volume of natural gas in its liquid state is about 600 times smaller than its volume in its gaseous state in a natural gas pipeline.
Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is natural gas that has been cooled to a liquid state (liquefied), to about -260° Fahrenheit, for shipping and storage.
Wow!
For those who are curious,
2000m3 is 2,000,000L.
can someone tell me the timestamp for when he tours the engine room?
Man, Adam’s “Tested” is damn near as informative as a PBS program…perhaps even more entertaining!
2:57 Hank Hill would crap himself hearing about all that LP
he'd be sad because it's not propane but LNG (liquefied natural gas), which I think is his enemy, (and no I don't know what the difference is). lol
@@davidtomasetti8520 Hank would be honored to tell you that LP gas is a crude oil product made from but a combination of gases including butane propane and isobutane…. So the LP gas is propane with other gases or it can be the same
espectacular!
The Cap is solid
I hope this is a secret pilot for a new Adam savage engineering show. Yeah your doing your tested thing, but this was great, and would love to see a show where you look deep into mega engineering projects like this
Love these videos, but this part is my favorite.
Great video Mr Adam sir you are awesome
I wonder if that LNG tank has slosh baffles in it. 7:11
It does. We have installed ones that were a bit smaller and there were perforated bulkheads at intervals of roughly the diameter of the tank
I just want to take a trip on the Floston Paradise!
The sphere in the side of the ship looks like the back of a normal ship lol that really puts it into scale
i can't comprehend the main harness wiring loom on an automobile... the wiring of something this scale just boggles the mind
Not big on the decadence aspect of it, but the technology and engineering of super large ships in general is just fascinating!
Well its the lust for decadence that pushes the technology in this case, puritanism are doing the opposite or is at best just a zero sum game.
@@andersandersen6295 No, none of this technology was invented for cruise ships. Its just being adapted for it.
They said so in the video.@@Ganiscol
0:30 incredible shot.
edit: Wait, was that CGI?
At least partly CGI. I am tempted to guess that it is a composite where only the ship and possibly it's shadow is CGI, but all the telltale signs I know to look for have been made ambiguous by UA-cam's data compression.
I say "possibly it's shadow" because the shadow is distorted enough it could belong to quite a few different modern cruise ships to my eye.
Considering how this thing’s made of steel of various thicknesses, how do they keep WiFi and phone signals flowing into the areas people are working?
About the LNG, I don't know when they filmed this, but we already have that on some ships in Norway and there are more being build/modified for it. Had it for quite a while.
So I would be careful with calling something: "the first". Although it's a first of that size
The block built method has been used to build Navy carriers for a while.
Been around since WW2 building the Liberty and Victory ships. The fastest had about 7 days of slipway time between keel lay and launch.
problem with these complex infrastructure features is maintaining them, and vendor support, after a few years, like the LED walls that may work for a time, but when they inevitably fail, they end up as dead weight on the ship not being used
After watching this, what amazes me the most is that theres enough people who still choose to go on a cruise to justify the cost of building a new ship.
Booking for two thanks Adam... 😊
Great dwgs. Is there a printable model you can obtain?
we need to know the engine details!!
I wonder if this something where the initial design was one person or a team? Mind boggling the amount of knowledge and talents to actually make this happen.
Usually there is a designer that works with the cruise company to develop the concept. The whole ship revolves around a huge accommodation, restaurants, retail and entertainment. That is what makes the money come in so those are the most important features. Then the shipyard comes in to design a vessel under that to support all those spaces and check hydrostatics (how much the whole thing will weigh and how much displacement it needs), how much power it needs and where to store the energy for that, and provide a cost estimate. Then if all goes well, basic engineering will start, with subsequent detail engineering leading to production and build.
Would be a massive team, starting with finance and marketing, then risk management, hr, legal etal before even getting to engineering to create a business plan and proposal...
@@PRH123 Think you need to reorganise your priorities. It starts with ideas, customer feedback, a good architect, then a concept and outline spec. Only then is there enough for the suits to come in.
@@d.j.vanderschoot3717 well, ideas and customer feedback are marketing... and ideally it is they that should know the market potential, what customers want and what they are willing to pay... from that starting point the project would be initiated...
That's the ideal of course, though the history of various manufacturers is littered with companies that went bankrupt because they developed and tried to sell products and systems that weren't quite what the market wanted... if you take airliner development as an example, they deeply drill down for years with their customers what their needs are before launching a project....
Remarkable.
And I think loading my camper is a big job..... 😂
Make yourself a paper towel holder after the plumbing episode 😊