That 3 set of cans are refrigerated 20’ containers. Most can be set as cold as about -30c to as warm as +18c. Some will have cycles to reduce or even maintain humidity. They have about 3-4 inches of spray foam insulation all around. They only have a diesel genset on them when they are on the road or railroad. Otherwise they plug into shore power or connect to the ship’s mains power. They typically operate on 460v 50-60 hz 3ph power @ up to 30 amps per leg under full load. As far as lifting there are no pad eyes. Only the 4 corner castings on the top and 4 on the bottom. Those are the same places that we pick them up from with container gantry cranes and top handlers in the container yards. Those are also the same places we connect lashing bars to to help secure them to the deck of the ship when they are stacked on deck. Usually anything over two high on deck and the 3rd and sometimes 4th tiers get lashed to the ship. I’ve worked as a docker (called a longshoreman in the US) for 24 years (since I was 16). For 19 years of that time I was a journeyman diesel mechanic and now I’m an equipment operator which includes operating container gantry cranes which load/unload those containers from ships. When they fall off the ship very often this is from heavy seas and is violent. Between the force of the water, shifting cargo, hitting the other cans and hitting the ship itself they often get damaged. Cheers Jeremy ILWU local 23, Tacoma WA PS the founder of our labour union was an Australian named Harry Bridges.

@ZachNMcCall

4 жыл бұрын

I grew up in Tacoma and went to school in the area. I knew a few longshoreman over the years. TY for the explanation.

@DangarMarine

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Jeremy, really appreciate you sharing your experience. :)

@tysonmillar

4 жыл бұрын

I am glad you mentioned Harry Bridges - he was my Great Grandfather's uncle!

@jeremykamel9655

4 жыл бұрын

Nancy Pelosi The lashings connect the containers to the ship itself and not to each other. You’ll probably find this video interesting. kzread.info/dash/bejne/oomgx5VrlrbMoNo.html

@jeremykamel9655

4 жыл бұрын

Tyson Millar that’s awesome! Did you ever meet him? He did a lot for the American labor movement. We have pictures of him hanging up in every one of our union halls on the west coast. I know for me personally multiple generations of my family owe our lives and livelihoods to him!

Three refrigerated containers bolted together, 80mm polyurethane insulation, excellent buoyancy. Take care Stu.

I hope your paws continue to heal well. Also, your camera is fantastic, and you film so well, it’s a pleasure to watch. Be well, Paul.

most or some of us do not have a life. personally l appreciate anything you put out.

@SuperDave-vj9en

4 жыл бұрын

A video of sex with me and my girlfriend?

How did you hurt yourself glad to see your videos back online

“Autoclaved my workbench” 🤣🤣

i like it when dave is a special guest.

Looking much better Stu! Keep getting well mate. Go D Squad!

"what passes for entertainment around these parts"....LOL just about spit out my coffee! ;-)

Good to see the content still coming Stu. All the best with the rest of your recovery mate!

Hi Stu - Thanks for the video. Note: Arana's Main Engines are 2 x Yanmar 6HA2M - WDT (Somewhere in the 200-300Kw range depending on the rating).

@DangarMarine

4 жыл бұрын

Cool, thanks!

@peterlavelle567

4 жыл бұрын

Haha you found it too... www.ausbarge.com/vessels/

This was great. I worked with the U.S. Army Corps of engineers national guard as a paramedic. What you're doing is what I did, just watch everyone from my hmmv lol

Glad to see you are healing well.

Nice work Stu. Great to see some river life.

Containers have a locking system in each corner. when they go on ship a pin is inserted that locates one container to another. When they go ashore onto a truck the truck has quarter turn locking pins which is why they don't need straps or chains. You mentioned them fitting shackles to the lift chains...these are a special hook again specifically designed to lock into the container corners.

@johnduffy7502

4 жыл бұрын

They are called twist-locks...

Awesome as always STU,please do not rush with that R.hand as 20 years down the road you could be like me (broke both wrists years back while diving) and avoid cold water dives for the next 12 months. If you have to dive in cold water (cold by your standards) make sure you insulate the break area as much as possible and make sure you can soak the hand in very warm/hot water for 15 minutes post dive..take care

I was one of the laboureers helping out on this job, and dammmm it was hard work.

@hearsejr

4 жыл бұрын

What was inside them? I was hoping to see it opened. Lol

Good to cya Stu hope your healing well buddy!

Apriciated this vid Stu, interesting that you get a fair few containers lost in your area. Good to see the injuries are mending nicely 👍

Had a bad fracture on my right thumb (bennett fracture) back in college. Surgery, same plastic splint. I feel your pain. Keep up on as much physical therapy as you can. That's one important and useful digit.

3 things, nice to see that tugboat action, also good to see you're healing well, and the special guest appearances of the D squad! :-) Keep healing and take care! :-)

Bloody hell, those containers polluting our oceans! Speedy recovery mate, good video!

@dustyfarmer

4 жыл бұрын

Not half as much as those pox ridden cruise ships, they dump their thousands of tons rubbish overboard at night into the sea...legally.

@Dan_C604

4 жыл бұрын

Dusty Farmer indeed, cruise ships are the other big polluters, rich money maker companies. I hate them.

@dustyfarmer

4 жыл бұрын

@@Dan_C604 You reckon SeaShepherd would be out there ramming the cruise ships and throwing stink bombs onto their decks. Hopefully one upside with the Chinavirus, the plague ships will never darken our horizons or ports again to infect our citizens and spread death and destruction in Australia.

Glad the hand is slowly improving Stu, keep safe!

Found one floating off of Catalina Island about 20 years ago, called the Coast Guard they came out and took care of it! wouldn't want to hit one in a plastic boat!

Wow ,your a very lucky guy but I think you must know this by now👍 hand looks like it’s coming around and no doubt you’ll be back to normal in no time👌👌⚓️⚓️, love the channel and can’t wait to see the diving commence for salvaging.

That Cabover tow truck was badass.

perfect video to watch whilst having lunch...............nuff said,. glad you are recovering nicely!

Brings back horrible memories of when my thumb got ripped in half. ... They obviously sewed up the end. Too mangled to re-connect. What traumatized me was 6 weeks later it got infected and a pimple formed. From that pimple I pulled 4” of stitching string, that was supposed to dissolve. I almost fainted. Glad your ok. Cool exhaust pipe

Thanks Stu good to see you’re on the mend mate and thanks for the video of the containers recovery something you don’t normally see every day for the Couch potato home viewer 😎👍

Beautiful cab over

Thanks for sharing that. I had a bad hand accident last September. My “dissolvable” stitches inside my finger didn’t dissolve, causing additional surgery and a longer recovery.

Thumb looks great! You take care, too, Stu!

Tip from experience, don't use an impact in that hand, or a hammer for a while. It can make you regret it.

Glad you are healing well. Great video

Very interesting watching the recovery of the shipping containers. Hope your healing is speedy!

Looks good Stu.. Just take good care of it and before you know it you will be back to normal.

Really good thanks for showing us what we often miss out on

that was ok, something different and I will be more alert when traversing the English channel. cheers fella.

Had three loops of stainless wire holding my left elbow together many years ago after a car accident. It’s all good these days and expect you’ll be no worse of in time. Love the channel. Cheers.

Hi Stu, hands looking better for sure. There are some containers in the sound but not many. They don't usually fall off inland but float in from the Ocean. About a year ago there was a old test mine that was floating around and they blew it up. Pretty cool to watch

Glad to see you are on the mend Stu !!

that cab over tow truck took me back to the seventies

Insurance companies must love the shipping industry!

@scottlittlewood4527

4 жыл бұрын

BrianRDub Only when they don't fuck it up.

Glad to see you're doing better, Stu. Interesting video!

Do love a good tug boat video. Keep it clean people...

@davidharlem6824

4 жыл бұрын

Paul Bateman 😂

I can watch your videos all day long my man thanks for sharing 👍

Great to see you on the mend Stu 👍🏼

Thumb actually looks good!....had the same fracture actually....still has its moments and it was 4 years ago....just take your time!

Always enjoy your vids, watching from the States. Glad to see your injury doing so well.

Hello, from Michigan USA. Very interesting video on the containers, never knew so many fell off ships in one year. Thanks Friend

Thumb looks good Stu considering it could have looked like the new piece of exhaust pipe from Damian

Great to see you healing well!! I remember there was an offshore go fast race boat that hit a partially submerged container during a race and killed the crew so ya its a real danger. That big tow was clean$$$$:)) Not to many cab overs left these days but when you see one the owner is in love with it and it always shines!!

Glad to see you are mending well. From Georgia US.

Stu, been using the dysfunctional left hand and pouring beer over your right shoulder. Glad to see that you are getting movement back.

Stu, in ya mates "iffy" little boat, in a sling, and bandages, no life jacket !!!!, glad your getting better m8.

@chrishaan5766

4 жыл бұрын

And whites swimming all around ya mate

@ladydi4runner

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly what I thought! Not usually a Safety Suzie, but with a bum wing and no life jacket?!?! 😳🤔 Stu, please stay safe we want you around for a very long time Bro!!! BTW, different and interesting vid! 👍👏🏻

Was going to give you a thumb's up,but thought you might think I was taking the piss

Actually quite interesting Stu, at least you are trying to provide content, its good...have entered that nerd phase of life now so very happy, have even got a Honda crv, OK but now got roof bars for the kayak which puts me into super nerd zone : )

I'm glad to see that you are on the mend.

I’m glad that you’re healing well. Hate to see anyone get hurt.

Hey entertainment is where you find it, glad to see they got those out of the water so people don’t run over them. Nice job!!!!

Hope your hands heal up well, I know the feeling, I’m extremely right handed, can’t think of a worse finger to damage than your right thumb. Get well soon and keep the great videos coming.

Good to see healing progress! I've broken my share of bones, most of them mine... Doc always tells me they have to leave a cast or splint in place for four weeks for the bone to stitch together. BUT they seem to get pleasure in only telling you four weeks at a time!! Typical is more like 8 or 10 weeks to stitch. Possibly less if you have southern lights overhead. This vid WAS interesting Stu, thanks.

Left hand. Find a newspaper . Place a single sheet over middle of left palm. One finger from right hand, push middle of page into palm. Close fingers and start wadding into a ball without help from other hand.. when balled up. Flatten and wad again. Repeat same sheet 5 times palm up. New sheet. 5 times palm down. Do that 10 times a day.. you wont believe the strength that returns to your hand. This works better than a squeeze ball as each individual finger is opened and closed with thought. This also works for many stroke and brain damage victims as it allows the brain to relearn how to use individual muscles. I met a guitar player who had been shot in the head while playing in a bar. Drive by shooting. I snagged him a pile of news papers. Showed him the trick. I saw him a week later with a high smile. He saw me and wiggled all his fingers then gave me the big thumbs up. I never even got his name. Get better and out searching for containers. You'll need some crab pot line and some buoys with a radar reflector to mark them. Perhaps a really big fishing magnet on the crab pot line.

@SuperDave-vj9en

4 жыл бұрын

Does it matter if you use the sports page?

I lived on the West coast of North America, on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington state. We used to go beachcombing for items after winter storms. I never found a container but plenty of glass fishing net floats, Fukashima debris, and Nike shoes.

This qualifies as good entertainment. Not long ago the city of seattle put in a large storm water collection tank. They circled the whole thing with secant piles, and then dug down a million gallons. I watched the progress of digging this hole just by walking by two or three time a week. I looked forward to it each time.

The guy at my local chandlery lost his boat to a shipping container while in the middle of the ocean. They were sailing quite fast before coming to an abrupt holt and then minutes later all they had was themselves and their life jackets.

thanks for the video. i came across one 25-30 years ago here in gulf of mexico while sport fishing about 10 miles offshore. no markings or lights only the point of box was above water, easily sink a fiberglass boat at speed. always looking way forward when i steer my boat now! john

If it helps... this was the most interesting thing I've watched on YT tonight. Very cool!

Great content. Always assumed that containers sank. Great to see your hands getting better!

Excellent - it made a nice change to watch one of your videos where the person working was sober and knew what they were doing. Sorry Stu, I couldn’t resist! 😂 Glad to see your thumb is well attached and getting better. 🍻

Speedy Recover Stu good to see you gettin out on the waves keep up the good work !!!

Y'all could upgrade your fishing magnets and pull up a container full of Rolexes 😆 Enjoyed this video. Curiosity satisfied. Thanks

Always up to something Stu, good show.

My internet just went out. Thanks for anchoring where ur not supposed to.

Worked on a British Telecom cable laying ship.....Arrived 30 miles off the coast of Norway dropped the hook over the bow which after dragging a mile or so usually locates the cable laying on the seabed but on this occasion it hooked onto a sunken 35ft fibreglass Cabin Cruiser which had recently sunk...Brought it up to the surface only to release back to the depths...

Exciting! And fun!😊. And they can be made into backyard cottages.

Put a bit of antifoul on those stitches and she'll be right as rain mate.

@lancer525

4 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the exact same thing. Here in the US, we have something called "Neosporin" that's a topical antibiotic ointment. A little drop of that and most cuts heal up almost twice as fast as they do without it. No infection, helps eliminate scarring because it has Vitamin E in it, and it helps create a barrier. Don't know if they have an equivalent in the bottom half of the world, but you might look into it. Thanks for keeping us posted, Stu!! Glad you're feeling better.

@neondemon5137

4 жыл бұрын

@@lancer525 No. They just rub some dirt on their wounds.

@lancer525

4 жыл бұрын

@@neondemon5137 May be for the rest of the upside down people, but Stu is smarter than that...

@DangarMarine

4 жыл бұрын

@@lancer525 Sounds interesting, I'll have to see if I can find any.

@mikropower01

4 жыл бұрын

@@DangarMarine - For disinfection I use iodide ointment. It will takes 3 month till your ligaments and tendons have the right length and everything is normal. Always move your hand, but avoid strong force.

Stu, The fellow who wrote "Wind in the Willows once said somewhere that "There is nothing worth doing half so much as messing about in boats" I tend to agree, as you obviously do also, so keep them coming please, even the mundane stuff. It's all "grist for the mill". On another note, some time back I was welding up a new boat trailer when a molten globiel of steel ended up in my boot. It set fire to my sock and continued melting flesh till it hit the bone. After I dug all the bits of molten plastic and stuff out of the wound I decided to bath the wound in a saline bath which contained about 4 times as much salt as you would normally put in. Never had one instance of an infection. Better than all the disinfectants and antibiotics. Even the doctor was impressed with the wounds progress. Cheers mate.

Hilarious commentary! :D Loved this!

glad to see your getting better mate. I know how not nice broken bones are, after breaking the tib and fib in my right leg a couple of months ago. I now have a length of titanium strap and 10 screws holding my leg together near my ankle. Its also good to know about those containers and that attempts are made to recover them.

Yes, Stu. Physical therapy is the key! Learned from my many sprains and breaks. PT is lots of work and occasional discomfort. But you’ll thank yourself many years from now. 👍😁

Lost a bandage already. Good show.

speedy recovery mate

Awesome video!

Great job mate ! Sorry about the bark lost !

Hope the hands are on the mend mate. Great vid champ.

That was interesting thanks for filming that!

Still getting rubbish washing up on the beach an hour and a half north of you. Bumper bars, jars, lolly wrappers, bottles. It's been years since our big storm.

The big tow truck is a beast.

Moral of the story: always always bring the always charged drone. ! ! ! (... and, get forward looking infrared if out at night ! ! ! !) 13:22 exhaust "elbow"... sweet ! 14:51 end credits 15:05 Daffy resting...

Looks like you are healing fine, keep in mind you are still on the sunny side of dirt , it could have been worse

Hay, you got one hand back...Blessings...

Good to see it's on the mend. I want to see you find and recover a shipping container full of Coopers.

I think you will be looking at a bit more than a month ! I have a mate who broke a small bone in his wrist , it took nearly 3months to get back to 100% and the last month was mainly concerned with getting the strength back in his hand . What ever you do don’t rush it !

Cheers!

yacht killers probably the main cuase of offshore loss of yachts ive been told

Very interesting video as always. Really enjoyed!

Glad to see you're on the mend Stu! I always wonder what's in the containers and what happens to it/them? Bet some of the stuff ends up on eBay, lol.... Keep safe mate 🍻

That was interesting! Those big tugs are cool also! Glad your paw is doing better Stu!! "Brown bottle liquid" applied from the inside works well also! 8) --gary

Thanks mate for that very interesting video and all.....Glad to see those hands are coming along....OK......Take care young man.....Your friend in Kentucky...!