The scale and complexity of this vessel are mind-blowing. It’s amazing what human ingenuity can achieve! ☺

Interesting! - For those much younger than me (1956): When I was to become a ship engineer (sponsored by Shell Tankers NL), the size of "crude carriers" had recently jumped up from around 80,000 tons to just over 200,000 tons - if I remember correctly: due to the 1967 war that closed the Suez Canal. Around 1975, Shell Tankers (France) added two crude carriers of some 540,000 tons. Other ship owners even went closer to 600,000 tons. These huge ones didn't exist long. Coming to think of it, this second size jump may have accelerated the demise of big-ship building at least in the Netherlands. Just no room...

Much bigger than a Honda Prelude.

@jblob5764

19 күн бұрын

Yea but this prelude makes it own gas 😅

Dang! THAT is a MASSIVE structure and on top of that it is 'mobile' and an industrial processing plant. Good vid.

@BrilliantDesignOnline

20 күн бұрын

Oh, and expensive.

@Skidderoperator

19 күн бұрын

Blackrock & Vanguard have deep pockets.

@Skidderoperator

19 күн бұрын

If it goes 💥 insurance company will cease to exist.

@BrilliantDesignOnline

19 күн бұрын

@@Skidderoperator 🙂

i think there is a larger ship called pioneering spirit and is used for removing ocean oil platforms and also for pipeline laying in it's off time. it displaces 1,000,000 tons fully loaded

This is by far not the biggest man made object put into the sea, that would be the Gullfaks C plattform with a weight of 870000 tons hand displacement of 1.5 mio

Not even close to the biggest ship. The Pioneering Spirit displaces 1 million tons.

Thank you for great content and editing 🎉🎉

Been there, during build in SHI, Korea 😎 It's not it's length that is breathtaking, it is width and especially height, dwarfing everything else in the yard. Going all the way up to hose handling crane every day was some serious training

Truly a Marvel of engineering..👏

It's truly amazing that mankind even can construct it with all logistics that is needed to be made. How do one even plan for it? Mind boggling.

The icon class ships weigh 100,000 tons, the other is a cubic space measurement

@adamking882

15 күн бұрын

Yeah, they confused displacement (weight) with gross tonnage (volume). While that's a common mistake, I'd expect more from an engineering channel.

Where does it drydock if needed ?(and it will be) and no matter how big nature has a habit of sinking things

Most the stuff you said in the last 5 mins was complete bull. Correct words put together in wrong order.

Great content 🚢🛳

Excellent 👌👌

Has never worked, launched 3 years late and has had a large fire onboard. I was in S Korea in 2013 when the hull was launched. No gas has made it onboard

Great video, guys.

Great content 👌

perfect

When comparing the Icon of the Seas to Titanic, I think you confused displacement (weight) with gross tonnage (volume). While that's a common mistake, I'd expect more from an engineering channel.

So the heaviest floating ship not the largest, got it

This biggest polluter needs to add CCS or gas to plastics for zero carbon emissions along with the customers

The vessel does not “bring” storms🙄🙄🙄🙄

Kraken? Bro. Also industrial acrion? 8 presume you mean a strike in the workforce. Let me guess . The owners didn't want to pay the workers during then downtime .so they redused the work. They found a way to can the workers and hire cheap now work has resumed

Long tonnes? Are there short ones? Use the metric system :D

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@bobmahnamahknob

19 күн бұрын

.....and this is what you came up with? Congratulations on your amazing feat of skill and knowledge that will surely stand the test of time. Your prize will arrive on the second Tuesday of next week.

@dancer20617

18 күн бұрын

Cringe

Excellent content detailed and accurate information