Five and a half mile braking distance.. Needs a set of carbon ceramics.

@wavey_meetz6311

3 жыл бұрын

John McMahon 😂😂😂😂

@venskus2009

3 жыл бұрын

You mean "brakes made of silcone carbi....🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

@numbereightyseven

3 жыл бұрын

I break after moving five and a half miles under my own steam, too.

@skringardhildegard4000

3 жыл бұрын

I'm no grammar Nazi but it's "braking"

@papapetad

3 жыл бұрын

And a pop/up rear wing, air brake thing.

I imagine with 35 people, it'd be quite shocking to run into one of your colleagues. "Oh Dave, been a few weeks since I saw you. Where've you been?" "On this boat."

@haninditabudhi6574

3 жыл бұрын

Awkward moment at its finest 😂

@mentilly_all

3 жыл бұрын

"I actually fell overboard a couple days ago, near the bow.. just climbed up here this morning."

@hocusmcpocus8876

3 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣👍🏼

@sammyb1328

3 жыл бұрын

mentilly all "oh must have been quite nice, I was just doing the usual errands, standing at the edge and rethinking my life choices"

@Goodnight_Robicheaux

3 жыл бұрын

😂

Suez Canal: *(Chuckles) I’m in danger*

@carlosrincon905

3 жыл бұрын

😂😂

@hagestad

3 жыл бұрын

This thing has been already scraped few years ago. And the tanker as well.

@ourmilotin2819

3 жыл бұрын

@@hagestad someone missed the joke

@hagestad

3 жыл бұрын

@@ourmilotin2819 that's necrophilia son

@SpadesNeil

3 жыл бұрын

The fact that it's going around the cape of south Africa implies to me it's already banned from the Suez Canal.

Only a 2 mile turning radius? That's about on par with most American busses and Harley Davidson Dyna Glide models...

@dookiebooger9967

5 жыл бұрын

I laughed way too hard at this, and i never laugh, so it must be true

@tkx86

5 жыл бұрын

I got a dyna glide custom wideglide fxdc, I can indeed confirm 2.2 mile turning circle.

@brunsvikk2714

5 жыл бұрын

Ktm xbow?

@losangeleslakers1650

5 жыл бұрын

@Dave Pawson twat

@luciusquinctiuscincinnatus6627

5 жыл бұрын

And every American car

Now we need Stig to lap it !

@njd834

8 жыл бұрын

"... And across the line in: 4 months, 25 days, 9 hours, and 3 minutes!"

@thelema3278

7 жыл бұрын

Metalistforlife U want stig to lap a scrapped boat? ( I get your joke, don't worry)

@Outside85

6 жыл бұрын

Oh no! It's all gone wrong! Stiggy is stuck in the loo and cant get out of the engine because he doesn't understand directions outside of a racetrack.

@choughed3072

6 жыл бұрын

Do you mean do a lap in it or around it? Either way I'd still like to see it 😀

@plazasta

6 жыл бұрын

it would cross the finish line before the rear end's crossed the starting line!

Must take half hour to run to a life boat.

@PeterMaude

10 жыл бұрын

yep -

@plazasta

6 жыл бұрын

the ship was so big they had bicycles to travel from one end to the other

@azypk

5 жыл бұрын

Imagine the time needed for sinking this ship

@basstrammel1322

5 жыл бұрын

@@plazasta Not bisycles, mopeds. And most big tankers do.

@veryorignalname4804

4 жыл бұрын

I think it sank from one or two anti ship missiles during the tanker war

"They fitted a hideous gargoyle... on the bow" *zooms in on clarkson* 🤣

@dunruden9720

3 жыл бұрын

Yep. Watched it! You're American, aren't you?

@sunnyjim98

3 жыл бұрын

@@dunruden9720 Irish 👌

@TheDeanoc69

3 жыл бұрын

Wooondus same thing 🧐

@defencebangladesh4068

3 жыл бұрын

😂

@mrstorch5068

3 жыл бұрын

Would be cool if it had an actual gargoyle.

2 miles turning radius? So about the same as Jeremy’s giant Panda limousine.

@florianmaschke269

3 жыл бұрын

The same turning radius as Jezza's Prius....

@ChazSweatshirt

3 жыл бұрын

That's where he got the inspo for it - same colour, too!

@blockbreaker8839

3 жыл бұрын

I FINALLY decide to watch a random episode of Top Gear tonight and when I finish and this video is recommended to me I get this as top comment, what are the fucking odds lmao

@deniss5533

3 жыл бұрын

2 miles hahaha

@r0dnee

2 жыл бұрын

Never before bread in captivity

That pipe organ music is perfect for this.

@revman417

9 жыл бұрын

Gwasgray fyi..Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor BWV 565...

@Outland9000

6 жыл бұрын

The first piece is 'Mars, Bringer of war' by Gustav Holst. The second is Toccata and Fugue.

@bonkeydollocks1879

5 жыл бұрын

They call big engines " cathedrals"

@Zethy

5 жыл бұрын

The engines on these ships are called cathedral engines. So it makes even more sense.

@willlasdf123

4 жыл бұрын

I mean, the machinery spaces in these beasts are cathedrals!

It had many names across the years: Seawise Giant (1979-1989) Happy Giant (1989-1991) Jahre Viking (1991-2004) Knock Nevis (2004-2009) Mont (2009-2010) It's one and the same ship, don't get confused (like me) when searching on google images "which one is bigger". :-) It's one and the same. :-)

@AkitaSyn

7 жыл бұрын

Johnnie Walker thank you! I was like "isn't the Knock Nevis bigger?!"

@johnniewalker39

7 жыл бұрын

Exactly. :-) I asked myself the same question.

@geemanbmw

7 жыл бұрын

Johnnie Walker there was 2 more names before that which were porthos and oppama in 1976. It was originally ordered by Greek owners who refused delivery because of engine vibration.

@johnniewalker39

7 жыл бұрын

Gman k Thank you! I din't know that.

@slimlol-j5b

7 жыл бұрын

The Mont got extended so some of those names might show pictures of a shorter version of the ship.

"And there's only 2 lifeboats." The lifeboats are smaller freighters.

@vladimirvlad2563

3 жыл бұрын

Imagine a 1/720 scale model of this behemoth.It would be the size of a small real life fishing boat!🤣🤣🤣

@jakecollins3669

3 жыл бұрын

Welp, this is an unsinkable boat, right?

@McBlah1976

3 жыл бұрын

"And over here on the stern of the JV we can see the Captain's personal launch" - points to the IJN Yamato

@spiroagnew3909

3 жыл бұрын

@@jakecollins3669 it sank in the persian gulf war.

@torstenraab532

3 жыл бұрын

@@spiroagnew3909 - nope, it didn´t

This video has been around for 12 years and I am simply amazed that it continue to attract so many comments. I use to be Captain of large oil tankers in my sailing years and one of the operations we do at sea is oil transfer from ultra large tankers to large tankers. That is when I came across this monster in Gulf of Mexico in the 90s. My ship was a 100,000 ton tanker and next to her, felt like sitting in a lifeboat. We get amazed by human achievements, the Apollo, ISS, bullet trains, fastest jets and the list goes on, but for seafarers, a profession that gets attention all for the wrong reasons, she is indeed our proudest because she sits up there among the greatest ever.

@bernhardt1557

3 жыл бұрын

Very big indeed

@AmongUs-mb4qx

3 жыл бұрын

Shush child, moon landing was fake, remove Apollo from the list!

@TheWill0fStrength

Жыл бұрын

Comments come from generation z garbage who don't contribute... only in video games and weeb and Otaku garbage! World War 3 would wipe them out easy!

@pawankumarbatra5331

Жыл бұрын

Those were the days of the real seafarers and nowadays our own kids can't even walk for few hundred metres people and the seafarers were rough and tough in the time gone by

@miapdx503

8 ай бұрын

I have immense respect for those who put out to sea. You are truly a special breed. I couldn't have the courage to go out on the ocean in *anything!* One storm at sea and my career would be over. 😏⚓

I wonder how fast it would go around the test track

@FuZionHDTj

8 жыл бұрын

top speed of 10mph, a few hundred thousand horse power

@MasterViseOMG

7 жыл бұрын

i think it's longer than the test track

@alexjack2864

6 жыл бұрын

Same size as like thousands of tracks so like 00:00 time

@Klockorino

6 жыл бұрын

The track could probably do laps on the boat tbh

@homemadethingies627

5 жыл бұрын

This can go 9 knots, a lot slower than her older war sister, the Yamato (27 knots)

Back in the day when you needed 2 helicopters with million dollar camera equipment to shoot such footage. Now a $500 drone can do better in 4k

@alexanderhagmanwilberg640

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, it really is quite crazy to think about! Hey, can you tell me when this was filmed?

@blackksabbath

3 жыл бұрын

@@alexanderhagmanwilberg640 This series is over 20 years old. Aired in 1998 I believe

@davespooney8472

3 жыл бұрын

Out at sea? Round the bottom of Cape Hope? In winter?

@nvignesh

3 жыл бұрын

Can the drones today manage to run in the windy conditions?

@blackksabbath

3 жыл бұрын

@@nvignesh yep. A small non cinema standard dji phantom 4 has a 15mi wind resistance. Tv and movie productions use slightly bigger drones with more powerful motors usually custom or attached with a dedicated mirrorless camera

That little "oh crap it moved" at 1:26 makes me laugh every time.

@historytank5673

2 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/ia1kzq-LfrnXnbA.html

@Gameboy-Unboxings

Жыл бұрын

Every time? What do you have like a ritual of watching this 24 year old video?

@maxwelburke9160

11 ай бұрын

You don’t?

It is curved a bit, to follow the earths curvature.

@GMSdackel1

3 жыл бұрын

The earth is flat just do your research...

@juanordonezgalban2278

3 жыл бұрын

Is it for real? That's actually really interesting

@laskasase

3 жыл бұрын

@@GMSdackel1 I did my research. I went and I measured it. Front to end, it is off for 0,0002mm.

@laskasase

3 жыл бұрын

@@juanordonezgalban2278 yes, it is true.

@Tonyx.yt.

3 жыл бұрын

nice bullshit... 0.002mm ? WTF... is not even possible such precision for a single small machined metal component, just imagine hundreds of meters of ship made out of thousand of steel plates and bars. the water pressure and movement itself cause far higher flex over the structure.

I had the honour of lightering this vessel at Gulf of Mexico in 1998... I was on board Jahre Progress a very decent size vessel, which looked like a small boat infront of this giant.... our head and stern lines became its springs

@packofmilk7408

5 жыл бұрын

why not sinking

@ollijokinen1571

3 жыл бұрын

@Nihar Bendre 3 years ago? The Jahre was already scrapped 3 years ago.

@ollijokinen1571

3 жыл бұрын

@Nihar Bendre Well looks like I cant read lol

Jeremy Clarkson knows how to make fantastic videos

@madheadmadDAZ

8 жыл бұрын

+bread_n_butter the BBC doesn't agree xD

@blasphemytard

8 жыл бұрын

Yes they did, they didn't agree with the jew bashing however (which normal ppl don't care about).

@antirussia8194

7 жыл бұрын

I hope you wanted to write "jaw" :) Clarkson sometimes acts like a spoiled, irresponsible kid but I think he has never bashed any Jew... Or maybe I missed some of his shenanigans?

@unfortunately_fortunate2000

4 жыл бұрын

bread_n_butter you mean the BBC’s editors and film crew do...

@urmum3773

3 жыл бұрын

vzdorr b it’s pretty cringe

Tonight, on Top Gear: I get the Jahre Viking stuck in the Suez Canal, Richard crashes a car, and James eats some cheese

@jacobmurray7867

3 жыл бұрын

This ship was actually to big to even be considered to go through lmaow

@enricocarrara4741

3 жыл бұрын

lol

@morris9973

3 жыл бұрын

oh how I miss those times.

If it takes 5 miles to stop and 2 miles to turn around, why not turn around twice

@fukawininetynine5999

3 жыл бұрын

I’m a moron and shower thoughts

@PM-vb4od

3 жыл бұрын

Because that would be fucking stupid, that's why 😂😂😂

@imamoronand9199

3 жыл бұрын

@@fukawininetynine5999 How did that happen, Mr Fukawi?

@MrCheesyBaconBits

3 жыл бұрын

Well played.

@naunidhdua

3 жыл бұрын

Turning radius = 2 miles Circumference would be pi*r^2 which is 4pi miles or approx 12 miles, much more than 5 miles

Was scrapped 10 years ago now I believe :-(

@xkecoupe

5 жыл бұрын

unfortunately.They should kept her as a museum.

@ulyssesgrant4324

5 жыл бұрын

xkecoupe I love ships, but that’s a lot of steel they could use.

@SunnySikdar

5 жыл бұрын

@@xkecoupe Its too large to be kept as museum. But you can visit "Hong Kong Maritime Museum" where you can find its 36 tonne anchor perfectly preserved.

@ceirwan

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah I saw the original, this is just an excerpt from the program. IIRC the original ended with it being scrapped.

@samkom33

5 жыл бұрын

@@xkecoupe FUN FACT.. this ship transported very little oil, becouse its to big and deep for most ports. it was mostly used as a buffer ore storage tank near big oilfields. so that say a 100.000 ton ship could be loaded in hours instead of weeks-- months. when the JAHRE VIKING moved to a new plase it was mainly becouse they buildt a permanent land based tank ore the oilfield it was in produced less. ore went empty.

Now imagine this being stuck in Suez Canal.

@CarFreeSegnitz

3 жыл бұрын

It wouldn’t even get into the Suez. Suez Max draft is 66 feet. Jahre Viking had a fully ladened draft of 80.74 feet.

@ivandrago72

3 жыл бұрын

@@CarFreeSegnitz it could block it off at the entrance

@louisebrillo06

3 жыл бұрын

no

Clarkson: "Watch as I pilot this barge THROUGH the Suez Canal at MAX POWER!" May: "CLARKSON YOU ABSOLUTE BUFFOON!!"

@sergeantschlumpf6368

3 жыл бұрын

it’s funny eh.. a lot of old ship news comes up & to light after #mar20s2021 #mar20th2021 #march20th2021 😆 as well popping into people’s feeds

I'm glad the Captain is calm and collected.

@petr7694

3 жыл бұрын

I feel sorry for him, dealing with arrogant, condesceding dickhead like Clarkson must have been a major pita.

@Pritesha

3 жыл бұрын

@@petr7694 couldn’t agree more what a bell end

1,504ft long, 226ft wide, weighed 261,000 tonnes empty. Filled with oil, she weighed 646,600 tonnes and sat 81ft into the water. Her maximum speed was 16 knots (18mph). Her rudder weighed 209 tonnes and her propeller was 35ft across with a weight of 57 tonnes. It's roughly 1.8x the size of Titanic.

@carolturner6189

8 ай бұрын

To say that it was 1.8 times the size of the Titanic is misleading. Today the Titanic is a small ship. It was actually far, far bigger than the Titanic. It was 1.8 times longer but the Titanic’s beam was a mere 92 ft. compared to 225 ft. for the Knock Nevis, displacement of 51,000 compared to 82,000, draft of 35 ft. compared to 80 ft. 46,000 Gross Register Tonnage compared to 261,000 Gross Tonnage. Nope! The Titanic was way, way smaller.

I was on the USS Eisenhower, which at one time, was the largest warship in the world. It was about 1100 ft long and displaced 95,000 tons. This ship literally dwarfs it.

@miapdx503

8 ай бұрын

Thank you for your service. From the bottom of my heart. I keep you all in my prayers. I wish you calm seas and good fortune 🌹⚓

@user-dr2ww2jg8o

Ай бұрын

@@miapdx503???

- *"Its the largest, moving, man made object.......on the planet."* That just doesnt have the same ring to it.

@dma968

3 жыл бұрын

How come?

@SvendleBerries

3 жыл бұрын

@@dma968 Jeremy Clarkson is well known for adding "...in the world." at the end of sentences when emphasizing the greatness of something. Over the years it became a running joke. So when he said "...on the planet." a part of me was disappointed lol

@YS3Caero

3 жыл бұрын

"and on that terrible disappointment..."

@papapetad

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe the bbc has copyrights to "the world".

@cryo2156

3 жыл бұрын

The largest moving, man-made object... *Bouse* ...in the world

It's hard to even comprehend something so big. Humans truly are amazing when they put their minds to task.

@Weromano

3 жыл бұрын

It reminds me of the spaceship from alien! I think the crew is also pretty small!

Who got this into their recommended after the Evergreen ship got stuck in Suez Canal ?

@hughlevantjames905

3 жыл бұрын

yeh

@vishnumohan2363

3 жыл бұрын

it’s called ever given

@aexetan2769

3 жыл бұрын

@@vishnumohan2363 It's still an Evergreen ship, as it's operated by Evergreen Marine.

@enricocarrara4741

3 жыл бұрын

@@aexetan2769 but not owned by them

@johndododoe1411

3 жыл бұрын

@@enricocarrara4741 Evergreen leased the ship from the shipyard and named it in their EverG style. It's effectively but not legally their ship.

RIP Jahre Viking

@odinvik7821

4 жыл бұрын

@@kasperknutsen8283 are you broken in the head?

@realcanadian96

4 жыл бұрын

Yep

@lubu4u312

3 жыл бұрын

@@odinvik7821 It was beached in Gujrat India and scrapped in 2009.

@Cal97g

3 жыл бұрын

So much for professional Indian captains 😂

@soham3156

3 жыл бұрын

@@Cal97g it was because because it didn't meet the regulations anymore,this is a single hull tanker. Modern rules need them to be double hulled

That ship is now a zillion+ razor blades.

@srschool4298

3 жыл бұрын

True

I’ve seen it in the harbor as a kid. It’s absolutely obscene how big it is.

Oh look, he has hair.

@user-bj4rb5bf2g

4 жыл бұрын

Lol 😆

@sammyb1328

3 жыл бұрын

FoLliClEs

even tho she´s "just" an oil tanker, I wish they had preserved her, she truely was a testimonoy to what we humans could achieve!

@DueySR

3 жыл бұрын

Only problem is that's a massive thing to preserve... where the hell would you put her?

@robinsonsstudios

3 жыл бұрын

@@DueySR shouldnt be too difficult,many of the US aircraft Carriers have been preseeved ,and they arent small either

@pilummurialis6490

3 жыл бұрын

The world wars are what we are known for, all for money

@robinsonsstudios

3 жыл бұрын

@@pilummurialis6490 thats is wrong on so many levels....

@shadowxxe

3 жыл бұрын

the only problem is where would you keep her? far too big to be dry-docked basically anywhere permanently and the same goes for wet docking

This came in everybody's recommendations right after the Ever Given Ship got stuck lmao.

I certainly hope a ship like this doesnt get stuck in the suez canal in 2021

@rolandcastillo9716

3 жыл бұрын

They don't even try its to big

@CarFreeSegnitz

3 жыл бұрын

Suez Max draft is 66 feet. Jahre Viking had a fully ladened draft of 80.74 feet.

@Someone-yt8le

3 жыл бұрын

The one that got stuck is already one of the largest ships on the planet.

@AmongUs-mb4qx

3 жыл бұрын

@@Someone-yt8le When you realize South Korea ship builders built 12 of those back in 2020 alone for a single company. There's a whole lot of *T H I C C* in the ocean now than in 2019

@johndododoe1411

3 жыл бұрын

@@AmongUs-mb4qx The one that got stuck was made in Japan and driven by a Suez pilot assisting an Indian crew hired by a German subcontractor. The ones made in Korea are so well built that when one had a problem there, it didn't get stuck, it just went to port for repairs.

That's what chief Brody had in mind probably when he said 'you're gonna need a bigger boat '

@TigerMeadows

4 жыл бұрын

Nice.

@tonydoherty2190

3 жыл бұрын

Megladons mother

@LuxAeterna22878

2 жыл бұрын

On the back of this vessel it read "FUCKING TRY IT, JAWS!".

It's so big I wouldn't be surprised if there's still half of it left to scrap after all this time

KZread recommending this just as a shipping barge is freed from blocking the Suez canal.

This ship alone is responsible for rising sea levels globally. If it ever “sank”, it would create an entire new continent. There must be inhabitants there that still never met in person before.

@oreothebest

3 жыл бұрын

It did sink once

@SubscribersWithoutAnyVid-bd1dv

3 жыл бұрын

I don't think so

@oreothebest

3 жыл бұрын

@@SubscribersWithoutAnyVid-bd1dv it did and they recovered and fixed it. You can do the research and you'll see ;)

@Cenentury0941

3 жыл бұрын

I don't get how sinking and raising the sea levels further would create a new continent, but ok.

@TheEmeraldMenOfficial

3 жыл бұрын

It actually sank in 1990. Got caught in crossfire and was hit by anti-ship missiles.

Geez! That's amazing.You know you could fit 50.176 _billion_ matchboxes inside and still have room for an ice-cream?

What's the turning circle of that beast? Halfway across the North Atlantic?!

@Herttaseiska

8 жыл бұрын

Watch the video and learn.

@VinOnline

7 жыл бұрын

In fair weather, 2.2 miles to 2.8 miles, but this depends heavily on the weather.

@DrLoverLover

3 жыл бұрын

Idiot

@Genesongx

3 жыл бұрын

@@Herttaseiska ok boomer

Excellent reply given by the Captain to the reporter 😀😀👍

That takes me back, fifty years in fact...the largest Tanker ships then were in the 200,000 ton range then. My first time walking along the main deck was amazing, the size of the ship was staggering...when in port we were using walkie- talkie radios and Molton bicycles to get about the deck.

The Suez Canal: Why do i hear boss music?

Long gone - Was beached in 2009 at Alang, Gujarat ship breaking yard..

Sad to know that two of the greatest machines ever built by man no longer exist in this world. Something that once conquered the ocean and something that once conquered the sky. *Seawise Giant or (Mont) and *Antonov An-225 Mriya Truely the legends and thank you for your service!

@ercanyesiltas

Жыл бұрын

Concorde also

@Thellbro

11 ай бұрын

@@ercanyesiltasConcorde was tiny in comparising!

@BogSulphur

9 ай бұрын

Saturn V rocket

@theunemployedtrucker

8 ай бұрын

You forgot about Big Muskie the world's largest dragline ever made and unfortunately that was scrapped as well.

@thanhdinh100

8 ай бұрын

@@theunemployedtrucker you right! I can’t remember them all.

Why is this recommended right after the Evergreen incident?

@ianmacdonald4163

3 жыл бұрын

It's the viking's turn

something about the indian accent when speaking calmly is really soothing, and makes you feel calm (more so than most variants of the accents)

I like how this host just insults the captain like it’s nothing. “I’ve been to your land and your people can’t drive, and you’re the captain of this vessel?”

@doublestrokeroll

3 жыл бұрын

Typical British Racism.

@Zerofightervi

3 жыл бұрын

@@doublestrokeroll It's called humour you dullard.

@doublestrokeroll

3 жыл бұрын

@@Zerofightervi nope. it isn't. and you're a POS for apologizing for it.

@Zerofightervi

3 жыл бұрын

@@doublestrokeroll Who said I said was an apology? I'm explaining it to you because you're probably the kind of person who needs warning labels.

@doublestrokeroll

3 жыл бұрын

@@Zerofightervi OK tough guy....lol Just another anti PC backlash moron. Nothing is ever racist or sexist or homophobic to you idiots. If you don't see how uncomfortable and offended that guy was when Clarkson made that comment....you really are a pos.

Only OG fans will remember the days when Top Gear was actually a show about ships... XD

Sad that this thing was scrapped. Truly incredible piece of engineering.

@miapdx503

8 ай бұрын

Yes, tons of steel and more...all that work and it's gone. Just sad.

She had a good life; survived her damage in the Iran/Iraq war and soldiered on to 2010. Built in 1976; 34 years is a bloody good life for a ship this size considering the costs of running/degredation from the ocean etc. RIP!!

glad this one didnt end up anywhere near the Suez Canal.

THE SUEZ ALGORITHM BROUGHT ME HERE

It’s crazy seeing Jeremy so young!

legends claim the Jahre Viking is still braking.

The greatest soundtrack ever. :D

You could see the guy face changes when he says "professional right, yea"

Now all we need is to try & make it cross the Suez Canal.

It wasn't on Top Gear, it was a programme that Clarkson made about 10 - 15 years ago on Massive machinery. Awesome ship and would love to see this thing in a dry dock to view it's massive scale

@historytank5673

2 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/ia1kzq-LfrnXnbA.html

@paleoph6168

Жыл бұрын

True, Clarkson did a lot of work before 2002 Top Gear.

I was hoping that the Stig would be at the wheel! that would be funny.

@otaimaksimaify

6 жыл бұрын

snaprollinpitts Stig is not born yet at this time

Quite ironic receiving this in the recommendations now

It will always be the Seawise Giant.

Imagine that weaponized...

@njd834

8 жыл бұрын

.. Or as an aircraft carrier...

@Genius_at_Work

6 жыл бұрын

To slow. Only did 17 knots and aircraft carriers are about twice as fast

@obloodyhell1

6 жыл бұрын

Der Bleifuss It's because it's not nuclear powered. They can make it go as fast as aircraft carrier. Maybe even faster if they want. But it's not practical and not needed.

@devjoshi8124

6 жыл бұрын

Archoir what makes you think it isn't?

@alanb9443

6 жыл бұрын

Wether it's nuclear power or not doesn't affect the speed. Nuclear powered just means you don't need to refuel doesn't mean you necessarily get more power. Nuclear power ships in my opinions are absolutely a waste of money. It doesn't reduc how often the ship has to go into port because the crew needs to eat and the money saved on refuelling over multiple years is still vastly overshadowed by the expense of building a nuclear powered ship in the first place

KZread: let's recommend to this guy after 12 years

Very nice video. Was amazing ship!

Awesome. thanks 👍

Anyone here after that carrier ship got stuck in the suez canal?

She also holds the title for the largest ship sunk ever - having been sunk at her moorings by the Iraqi Air Force while loading oil in Iran during the Iran-Iraq war. She was later raised and repaired.

@Christoff1996

5 жыл бұрын

VersusARCH she was indeed hit by the Iraqi Air Force in February 1988 just before the end of the Iran-Iraq war when she was attacked by a group of Mirage F.1EQ-5s armed with Exocet anti-ship missiles whilst at Kharg Island. This ship’s sinking was the worst loss for Iran, affecting its oil exports for some time but unfortunately Iran’s operational fleet of Grumman F-14A Tomcats was very small (some 20 fully operational aircraft) and these had to be spread thinly across Iran’s vast landscape to protect important areas so they had a difficult task defending its vital oil facilities at Kharg, hence why Iraqi F.1s managed to slip past the island’s defences and sink this ship.

@esbenjakobsen4575

5 жыл бұрын

Well I guess she would be impossible to miss.

@PaulHussey01

5 жыл бұрын

Actually it was a mistake. The Iraqi planes thought it was a carrier, the INS Saddam, and low in fuel and desperate they tried to land on it with predictable results.

@artman40

Жыл бұрын

So that also makes this ship the largest refloated ship.

0:32 "And to ward off the bad weather, they've fitted a hideous gargoyle on the bow" *camera zooms into Clarkson*

If anyone is interested, the music for most of it is Mars, from Gustav Holst’s; The Planets

My hubby Melvin Michael worked on this beauty

I was lucky enough to see this at sea years ago somewhere in the gulf with about a metre swell at ss5 the thing had the rigidity of a piece of a4 paper

KZread recommendations are just, perfect

0:59 Every single time I hear that I get goosebumps thinking "Back on the Rocks" is about to play. For a mighty machine like this, strangely fitting.

@brownie9044

2 жыл бұрын

Thank god I wasn’t the only one who expected it

"We can hear it's engine roaring, while it awaits start signal aaaaand....0:00:00!! That's the fastest ever has our track gone around anyone!"

But Can it fit through the Suez canal though

@gpjeeprockz7840

3 жыл бұрын

Back in 1991 it passed through the suez canal

Fantastic....👏👏👏

Spectacular piece of machinery

Imagine if this got stuck in the Suez Canal lmao

@Someone-yt8le

3 жыл бұрын

The ship doesn‘t exist anymore, it got scrapped 10 years ago.

@baysea259

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah I know, it’s just for the jokes

Imagine making a ship twice as big in every metric of having both double the width, double the length, double the height... that would be a massive ship I'd love to see

Now THIS is elite TV production

I’m pretty sure this was the first bit of Top Gear I have ever watched. Quite a good video ngl.

Keep in mind that this has a momentum equivalent to a small bullet travelling at the speed of light. (Ignoring theory of relativity)

@mesut5984

3 жыл бұрын

Can you please explain?

@dhakshingk

3 жыл бұрын

@@mesut5984 momentum is mass times velocity. What this guys is saying is that the momentum of that ship, at about 600,000 tonnes or something travelling at 16 knots, is near enough equivalent to a 10 gram bullet travelling at the speed of light

@numbereightyseven

3 жыл бұрын

@@dhakshingk Yup, that's exactly what I was meaning.

@francisling3196

3 жыл бұрын

My brain doesn't really understand that concept (how fast does a bullet travel) but I guess it's an impressive thing?

Some say he ran off with Jack Sparrow hat once. And rumors have it that he threw Jonah off the boat in the Old Testament. All we know is he’s not the stig, he’s the stig’s pirate brother.

They should have had a large sign at the stern of the ship reading "We brake for nobody". (For those who have seen the opening shot of "Spaceballs" this reference is obvious)

Now let’s see how she handles around the track

Well folks if you're here after March 2021, you know exactly why

Pipe organ was literally, or audibly(?), perfect for these scenes.

I love that the video ends with "positively sprightly!" How up-beat a closing! lol

Just incredible and beautiful 👍

Bach's Toccata and Fugue In D Minor. Bach is awesome.

@richardharrold9736

6 жыл бұрын

As Ralph Vaughan Williams said, Bach's music is not merely of his time, but is for all time. To nitpick, though, there is some dispute over whether the T&F in D is actually by Bach.

@mikkovaltonen3564

5 жыл бұрын

@@richardharrold9736 Slightly connecting to the topic, "Sea Songs" by Vaughan Williams is a great tune and we're playing it with our university symphonic band :)

@richardharrold9736

5 жыл бұрын

@@mikkovaltonen3564 Not to be confused with the gigantic First (Sea) Symphony, or the Henry Wood Fantasia on British Sea Songs!

They should take this to the Suez Canal. Also, why is this in my feed now?

I could not stop thinking about the Suez Canal

Clarkson walking around with a hard hat on, and touching things around the ship, reminds me of when my dad would to take me to work with him lol

I'm here 12 years later because of KZread recommendations

@AlphaHumphrey

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah so am I

Hammond driving this: "If this is the future, I'm so ready for it!!!" Crashes into Madagascar and destroys it.

@foximacentauri7891

3 жыл бұрын

Destroys what? The boat or Madagascar?

@Bobisuruncle54

3 жыл бұрын

@@foximacentauri7891 Both.

Was really expecting an "In the worlddd" on the opening forgeting these were different times lol

Ironic how this is in my recommended now. I hope this beast never get's stuck in a canal.