Hauling A Search And Rescue Hovercraft To Canada| Huge Moves | Spark
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- Опубліковано 4 чер 2021
- A team of engineers attempts to build and haul a massive, brand new Search & Rescue Hovercraft 5,000 miles from Southampton to Vancouver in Canada. The Vancouver branch of the Canadian Coastguard deals with hundreds of emergencies every year along the western coastline. They desperately need a new type of all-terrain vehicle to cope with ever-increasing call outs. Engineers in Southampton, England have the answer.
Griffon Hoverworks are at the forefront of Hovercraft design and have struck a million-dollar deal with the coastguard to supply them with one of their biggest ever - the AP1-88. Now all they need to do is get it there - which proves to be an epic endeavour. This film follows the team put the craft through a series of rigorous sea trials followed by a dangerous crossing of a turbulent English Channel to the Netherlands where it will be craned onto an ocean-going vessel for its 5000-mile sea voyage long. Will the craft arrive in time to start saving lives?
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Super-size missions, risky routes, and the biggest cargo on the planet-imagine hauling a submarine over dry land, transporting a fleet of mega-yachts across the Atlantic, or relocating 20 ancient Egyptian temples...and now meet the heavy hauliers who tackle incredible odds to get the job done.
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I was the co designer of the Hover Air HoverHawk and there is one of the survivors in the Police Museum in Winnipeg. I emigrated to Canada 40 years ago and will be visiting it this year. It will be very nostalgic for me.
That’s mad cool. I’ll visit it too!
wow this must cost a lot
God Bless U on ur journey....❗❗💯💌(❁´◡`❁) :-) ^_^ :-D
British engineering at its best lads
The Canadian Coast Guard has been using two or move hovercraft in the area continuously since 1968. This program makes it seem like this is a new concept, not just a new vessel.
HC039 is at the Front Gate @ Sea Island, and HC 045 was later de-commissioned when replaced with
CCGH Siyay
Program is full of B...........
@@johnmorrison1180 Most programmes are. They need to sensationalise everything.
I came to the comments to specifically say the same thing. This is nothing new and not a "new, one off project". Pretty misleading. What else is exaggerated?
You can tell that this was either made by a TV company or someone who has experience in the TV industry.
....very annoying how they dramatize everything.
Yea your right , all they need to do is get a guy to push it out right??? Like what's the big deal with all the heavy machinery and stuff they are soooo dramatic!!
... 🤦
seems like all these big move videos consist of if this if that take out the ifs and you have a video 1/4 the length worth watching.
My buddy works in Washington states most northern port for the coast guard. The training is actually insane. Nobody could ever expect what that ocean throws at you.
What is truly scary is the majority of calls they answer are within the inside passage, protected from the worst of the weather.
I think Gavin should learn international crane hand signs...
This is amazing for me to see. I had no idea that they where still made within the UK. Or made anymore for that matter. I know they are dam expensive to maintain and with that not made anymore. So glad to see this.
6:31 - Wait for the scream I nearly died laughing!!!!
lol there's another one at 35:41
@@damiancameron3614 priceless!!!
If only he had screamed when he saw some asshole hooking up a wrecker to it.
I learn something new today. The worst enemy of a sail boat is a hovercraft.
12:08
"About 6 inch"
"That's what she said last night"
I knew that comment wouldn't be missed,😅.
you are almost as funny as graham norton
lololololololol...??????? why did you lie...???lololol...!
Great documentary guys/gals, really interesting, thank you 😊
Nice that we get a vessel up to date..... Finally ....
Canada has had hovercraft in Vancouver since the early years of the SRN models in the 1960s
Warm waters of Vancouver????? Someone has never swam in English Bay during summer...LOL......it's bloody cold year round.......when I was an elementary school lad in the early 70's, my class got to take a day trip to the Sea Island Coast Guard base and got to ride on one of the Saunders-Roe SR.N6's operating there. I was so taken by it that I spent a good two or three years sketching out my own design afterwards...Later as a member of HMCS Discovery Naval Reserve Division, I got the opportunity to work with one of the CCGH's on a search and rescue opportunity.
The definition of overblown hyperbole and unnecessary inappropriate verbage. If it stuck to the facts and skipped the staged and false hysterics to make a false sense of drama it could be interested.
I totally agree. The presentation is tiresome. Trying to create fake drama out of everyday occurrences. It makes you cringe.
Oddly wast majority of TV consumers seem to like the "murican drama". It is everywhere.
Some youtubers even make it, and so ridiculously over exaggerated that they might die doing something like changing a car tire and when the tire is changed they need at least a week of a rest to recover from a daily thing to a random normal person.
I usually loose all interest if there is man made drama like in this: It's nerve wracking to move such a wessel out, there is allways danger and risk and everything can go disastrously wrong.
So you done this for 40years and never occured to change the company or crew whose taking the wessels out, but every time someone has to have a heart attack while doing regular "daily"work.
And all of a sudden they realise that OMG there are tracks for the hangar doors, but oddly conveniently there are metal plates made just for to get over the tracks none have noticed before in 40years.
They think we are all stupid
Bet you're fun at parties Doug...
No sir, life is full of peril. As I go to my kitchen for a snack, I am in grave danger. A multitude of unsafe events could cause grievous bodily harm, or at worst:!:::!!! I could Die. I have determined that that snack is not only worth it ,it is a necessity. Onward into danger I go..............
So we do still make stuff, well done all involved.
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@@abrahamramlal434 lol this was 8 years ago so probably not
You are so 😍😍😍💯
Congratulations!
Nice job!!
June 26th 2021-
Everything British is built to last indefinitely.
Extraordinary feat great accomplishment.
Watching and appreciative from the Fiji Islands.
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I enjoyed that, watched the whole thing! The engineering is awesome
These individuals are the best in their field no doubt!
Those Brits need to learn some universal rigger hand signals before someone gets hurt.
Thank you for teaching us how to move an object made to move on water, across water!
So cool! Great job all around. Tremendous coordinated effort.
these things are awesome and i`ve personally seen them help dozens .; and on hot days when they take off from the beach its mist heaven .
I rode something called a sidewall hovercraft in the early seventies between Ryde & Portsmouth.
Interesting engineering in that one. Part hovercraft. Part boat. Had a skirt at bow & stern, just like a pure hovercraft. Was propelled by two inwater screws & steered by rudders. Had a pair of diesel engines. Was just a little slower than a pure hovercraft. Did not need the ramp or beach that a hovercraft needs. Any dock would do. Was much more controllable in busy harbour conditions than a hovercraft given the props & rudders in the water.
My ex wife's uncle was part of the Ryde side of the development and building team in the early days of hovercraft on the IoW, was an incredible concept engineer that made things work for the projects.
6:43 I'm crying
Nice work I can't wait to take it for a spin.
I remember doing work experience in the drawing office at Westland Aerospace on the Isle of Wight for the AP1-88. I believe Westland bought Saunders Roe who originally built the first hover craft. The drawing office was situated across the road behind the main "hanger" on the river. The funny thing is that 25 yrs later I live about 5 mins walk from the office site which is now flats and a supermarket.
Good work!
I like the way they even got the tea lady to go under the boat.
BDF=Bad -Design Flaw
The CCG also uses beasts like this as icebreakers in the winter time on the St. Lawrence Seaway. Rather surprised by the damage to the balance skirt. Hope they get a extended warranty
BDF=Bad -Design Flaw
What a great movie its a good place its going to
Its a pleasure to see this machine going to such an honourable and brave Men and women of the canadian coast guard
This was years ago!
Wow, I woke up this morning and I thought to myself. Will I be able to make a fairly ordinary days work seem as if I am walking to the moon and back, carrying a quarter ton of liquid slurry on my back in 32 Sainsburys carrier bags. Perhaps most important, will I be able to do it without spilling a drop and at the same time make every camera angle and every video clip as tense as a Hitchcock thriller.
GREAT to see but far too many ads on the video that fuck up the learning.
buy premium or go to watch it somewhere else. shows 8 years old
That was the most entertaining thing i've watched all week 😂awesome vid!
The Canadian Coast Guard actually just decommissioned one of their hovercrafts and transported it across the country from one coast to the other.
I remember Sir Christopher when he lived in my Village, I would imagine him leaving a nice comment on this video if he were alive today.
*paces the hold*
Its exactly 12m... gonna be tight.
Hovercraft in hold - plenty of room.
Measured by 'pacing the floor'....
@@RangieNZ pacing works every time... 🤣
imagine being on your boat in the UK and the friggin Canada parks and rec boat just plows you over lmao. fuckin worst luck lol
Very well👍 good👍🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
I would drive it there!!
Well done, hopefully the same mistake was not made while I worked for Vosper Thorneycroft who built two fast ferries for the Hong Kong waters. They were being shipped as deck cargo but a question that was failed to be asked was what route was the cargo vessel taking to reach Hong Kong and as they were going to be working in warm waters no antifreeze was added to the engines water cooling system. Unfortunately the vessel sailed via Norway where it spent three days and the air temperature fell well below 0 degrees C. Consequencely all the fast ferries engines were damaged due to the freezing conditions and all through a simple communication error.
usualballs up not thinking forward
That was nerve wracking getting that thing loaded on the shipping vessel. My hats off to all the men and women around the world who make things like this happen!
Heavy engineering at its best am sure everyone who worked on this project feels proud of it Well done all round, n maybe one day nuclear power will be miniaturized so these beautiful crafts can power themselves to any destination on earth
"Solent Express was pulled from service in October 2011 following a major prop shaft failure mid-Solent." That was a Griffon Hoverwork hover craft. It's taken nine years for Hovertravel to take it back and park it up at Ryde on the Isle of Wight.
BDF=Bad -Design Flaw
Incredible to think you can ship that all for 24.99£ or 40.00£ if you want overnight!
300 rescues per year!! That's like one rescue every day!!
The "Inside Passage" of the Pacific North West is protected waterway in that the weather extremes don't hit there. What is often missed is the seasonal change is minimal so the boating season is year round. 300 rescues a year in a 365 day year with roughly 400,000 boats in the waters over the course of a year isn't that many call outs really. 300 out of 400,000, or, for every 4000 boat trips they will get 3 call outs.
Don't forget training. They do mandatory training runs every 6 months or so, for a number of weeks. Those are separate from call outs. That may push the number of runs above 365 every year.
@@wackowacko8931 they also have 2 of the hovercraft.
WOW! Those riggers, dogmen and safety personnel would not get a job here in Australia. A very unprofessional operation. I doubt if the crane driver had any idea what directions they were sending. He deserves an award. All the rest deserve to be sacked.
Catch and release 🐟
Please do more busiest airport series
The Coast Guard in Vancouver has had hovercrafts for decades…. You’re making this sound like it’s a new thing there.
So glad this caught my eye. Great job. Educational and entertaining.
Lol at the graphics bit towing the vehicle out 😂
I would have liked to see them try to sail it across.
That's Lynterm, a large transport terminal in Vancouver. I transport steel from there allot
"...up the West Coast of Canada"to Vancouver?
A perilous 25KM journey.
wow.
24:40 Invest in Robertson screws/screwdrivers ... you'll never be disappointed. (Phillips is junk.)
Another brilliant and often overlooked British invention- the hovercraft name is even copyrighted to a British company (Sidley I believe) and if you ever see the HUGE Mountbatten class crafts that were built you would be amazed. They crossed the channel to France so quickly that no table service really had time to be served. Way faster back then to cross the channel by going by car from Britain to France than it is now through the channel tunnel. I sadly never got to go on one but would love to, sadly before my time. I think the record crossing to France was something insane like 14 minutes but that was at an illegal speed, so isn’t officially recognised.
To this day hovercrafts have great promise for militaries in my opinion. What other mode of transport can go over literally any terrain, water, ice, rocks, rivers etc and be loaded with enough capacity to carry lots of guns/defences as well as transport multiple tanks or heavy armoured vehicles.
It’s a niche but it does exist and nothing else can meet that niche requirement.
The huge cross-channel car-ferrying hovercraft that only the British could build. The French were jealous and by allowing our treacherous politicians to 'persuade' the British people to join the Common Market the days of the giant cross-channel car-ferrying hovercraft were soon numbered.
@@johnericedwards6495 I also think it’s just crazy that our leaders literally sold out our industries. I mean duty free on them was a big earner, it made ordinary British people lots of money and made the whole venture profitable. But we were willing to throw all that away so we could buy apples and oranges from Spain without import duties..
Oh and also to avoid war guys - if I were the PM at the time when France vetoed our membership to the EEC I would have went ape shit. France capitulated to the Nazis as usual and was rescued by the British - and the British alone at the time France fell.
What do they do not even a decade after liberating their country and securing freedom for Europe and all its nations- they block Britain from joining their little trading club.
We should have had dignity and responded with tariffs and never reapplied cap in hand.
I find it really shocking the french would do that - so recently. They are like partial enemies of Britain and her allies, like suppliying nukes to Israel, storming out of NATO, rejoining and trying to renegotiate, dropping out of a gigantic aircraft carrier project, dropping out of a huge aircraft project. They as always historically want to have one foot on either side of any argument so they can always capitulate and claim longstanding support for their conquerors
@@craigduncan4826 and was it just coincidence the French only let us in after we've discovered viable ways of extracting oil and gas from the North Sea.
We could make enough money to pay inefficient French and German farmers to build food mountains and wine lakes that no-one needs and their highly efficient trawlers to make our waters devoid of fish.
@@craigduncan4826 Never forgiven us for Agincourt.........but the site of the battle is actually Britis owned............
He takes it out for one sea trial and puts a big hole in an underskirt bag. What do they think they'll find in Vancouver, where logs are still floated to the mill?
no body went there to see what conditions are like.
"vigorous sea trial" ... "Yeah just take it up to 40 n turn it around n let's ship it"
Pppppppp43e
And get a 5 figure repair bill in the first 10 mins
@@lankaat BDF=Bad -Design Flaw
HTF can you call Vancouver waters warm?
Yes. I noticed that. Perhaps as compared to Antarctica
BDF=Bad -Design Flaw
Vancouver's warm waters??? It's the North Pacific mate!
I'm guessing this was one of the last AP1-88 built?
I know I'm baked, but does this almost come across as a mockumentary?
Yes but... I’m baked too :):):)
Also baked, the guy that does the boat loading is a right control freak, surely its a piss take?
23:28 Don't lie you ran over another boat lol
Sea Island? What impressive imagination is this?
Other countries still use them. But Britain who invented it, doesnt need them anymore...
The winch truck was attached in the REAR not the front .. the digger was placed in the front not rear
This hovercraft entered service in 2014.
What, no bottle of Champers? Might break the hull!!!
Wonder what happens if the film crew manage to damage it....
Canada uses small hovercraft to break river ice in Ontario & Quebec.
Someone didn't plan ahead for all the floating wood debris up and down the coast did they? Hope it comes with a parts warrantee. I can foresee many torn skirts.
been on the water for 8 years now. no record of torn skirts
Who ever wrote this knows less about Canada, where it's west coast stars and the water temp than I know about women
Ya... I was surprised by the statement "up the west coast of Canada" while passing the Mexican & US west coast ... and the "warm waters" around Vancouver?!? News to me.
I find this series to be consistently poorly researched in almost every episode.
18:55 So y'all gonna help them? Is this considered a hit and run in the boating community?
Loll that was messed up
Completely staged for the cameras, you can clearly see the safety / rescue rib heading to the "capsized" vessel . How could anyone believe this is an actual incident
Im sure theyll find a log or two in Canada!
Especially on the west coast. Many 'dead heads' in the waters around there.
I don't think there were quite enough commercials with this video.
The west coast of Canada is riddled with timber so this type of log damage may well be a regular occurrence.
My first thought too. Rip a skirt. Hit a log with a prop. Take your pick.
Can you make video on Zubr class hovercraft? 💥💥💥
lmao they don't make these videos. yall ignore the beginning where it says the tv shows. this video is about 8 years old now
Why do we not get a little look at the engines, it must be said to be an important part of it all.
Oh WOW! Toilet. bet they succeed! I`m gone !
A shocking lack of Wxmen on these sites :-)
Seems like Dockwise would have been a bit easier
Id assume the price tag must be astronamic built signed and delivered .
Massive!! It’s a bloody dinky toy compared to the old English Channel crossing monsters.
Where was the bit (as described above) where the hovercraft undertakes "a dangerous crossing of a turbulent English Channel to the Netherlands where it will be craned onto an ocean-going vessel for its 5000-mile sea voyage". The video I watched had the hovercraft craned onboard a ship in Southampton Docks a full three sheltered miles from where it was built. No sign of the English Channel or the Netherlands anywhere in the video. Has somebody filed the wrong video with the description, or did you hire Boris Johnson to write the description?.
Jeremy Clarkson
Thanks for this absulootly brilliant film its so Nice to see were our Federal Government Properly spends Hard working Familys Tax Dollars Now Can we See the Federal Government start spending Our Tax dollars on Rebuilding the Canadian Armed Forces they are in desperate need of Several Billions Needs to be spent thankfully do to Top Security we don't Need Videos showing this Just do it. As does the video here thank you again Job well Done.
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Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury
Former Lord President of the Council of the United Kingdom
To answer the first question, yes I reckon they can transport it that far. Skip to the end, amazing.
Trust me, those waters aren’t “warm”
well the digger went to the front not the winch truck lol
16:30 is it just me or does the gauge on the top left look like a toilet symbol lmao??
that's the 'shit has hit the fan' indicator. Very important to know that when operating a hovercraft.
@@sucramsucram3558 HAHAHA
Yep 100% toilet bowl. says HTG: How toilet gauge. You don't want a full toilet bowl at 40 knots , or you get the previously mentioned fan hitshitification.
Oh, the old Southsea Hovertravels are off to Canada ?
[edit] Oh it was used for reference......., not actually going to Canada :(
6:44 😂😂😂
lol skip to 35:41
This manager acting like a drama queen getting everybody an edge
A manager/supervisor of a move like this doing his job, and successfully.
22:30 know wonder these things are Always broken
Oh my the drama.
Could have asked the U.S. Navy to help. Could have just driven it into one of our assault ships. Really I think they would have helped to. What with Canada and the U.K. Being our allies.
Didn't want to give up any secrets. Like where they store the Nanaimo bars . . .
I bet a C-5 could have hauled it. That could easily have been loaned out.
I bet a C-5 could. But i suggested the navy because they have ships already set up to carry ground effect craft
cost of fuel would probably be the limiting factor
Great show but god so many adverts it almost spoilt this show. Ah we can still do it....you should all be very proud.
puno baba , kilavo dite - translation : too many nannies and the child is good for nothing . or among many midwives the child is lost . :-)
I wonder how much it cost to move it.