Casual Navigation

Casual Navigation

I am a former maritime navigational officer and harbour pilot, with a passion for animation. My hobby is presenting educational stories and interesting nuggets from the maritime industry and sharing them on social media to keep them freely accessible to everyone.

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Why Are Big Ships Bendy?

Why Are Big Ships Bendy?

Why Does Rice Sink Ships?

Why Does Rice Sink Ships?

Why Did She Split In Half?

Why Did She Split In Half?

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  • @robertclare6137
    @robertclare613757 минут бұрын

    We've all known it was there, the heavy ordnance is safe,it's in the ship and has no primers and therefore is as safe as houses, the big problem is the large amount of smaller incendiary devices and fuses that are stored on the deck above them, the ships structure is slowly rotting and rusting away,if the deck above were to give way and the incendiary devices and fuses were to fall onto the larger ordinance and explode 😲🔥🔥💥💥💨💨Ka booom Good night Sheerness Harbour

  • @Luvs2Troll
    @Luvs2Troll4 сағат бұрын

    “The understatement of the century” - “uhhh we’re leaking a little oil.”

  • @AlexT74
    @AlexT7413 сағат бұрын

    This is why you test! Test successful.

  • @deborahdonnithorne3404
    @deborahdonnithorne340415 сағат бұрын

    FYI…. Lake St. Clair. Not Sinclair.

  • @deborahdonnithorne3404
    @deborahdonnithorne340415 сағат бұрын

    St.Claire…. My bad🤦🏽‍♀️

  • @offgridselfteliant
    @offgridselfteliant18 сағат бұрын

    This is the worst Edmund Fitzgerald video I've ever seen and couldn't make it but 30 seconds past the gibberish of a sponsor!

  • @texasgrillchef8581
    @texasgrillchef858120 сағат бұрын

    So if four blades are better then three…. Then wouldn’t 8 blades be better than 4?

  • @maxwellchallender6852
    @maxwellchallender685221 сағат бұрын

    It's not wrong to have a steamship with sails.

  • @Fuke_Yu
    @Fuke_YuКүн бұрын

    It would of been really cool if at the end of the video you had the sub launch torpedoes at all the other ships! That would of made for a funny animation. 😜

  • @notaaronpitts4439
    @notaaronpitts4439Күн бұрын

    Am I the only one who thought that oil rigs were connected to the sea floor

  • @ThomasMattia
    @ThomasMattia2 күн бұрын

    What about a video on the Amoco Cadiz shipwreck? Would be amazing!

  • @xxxxz4862
    @xxxxz48622 күн бұрын

    I read the title and was like WTF?

  • @crazycanadiansgmodvideos5419
    @crazycanadiansgmodvideos54192 күн бұрын

    FINNALLY! I'm from Halifax thanks for publishing this!

  • @crazycanadiansgmodvideos5419
    @crazycanadiansgmodvideos54192 күн бұрын

    Forgot to mention that my teacher's great grandfather was in the Halifax explosion but he survived.

  • @eureka5635
    @eureka56352 күн бұрын

    It's a show of respect, anybody who think it's objectification is silly, and I say that as a feminist and a woman.

  • @robertbailey7511
    @robertbailey75113 күн бұрын

    Bow shape on smaller boats is VITALLY important, not "less important."

  • @griffithwes0074
    @griffithwes00743 күн бұрын

    The motion of the ocean 🗣🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

  • @garysmith2450
    @garysmith24503 күн бұрын

    I’m pretty sure the centre prop was right handed, not left as shown in the very good animation😊

  • @user-ze6er6dx9x
    @user-ze6er6dx9x3 күн бұрын

    God bless Gordon Lightfoot!!!

  • @roberttalada5196
    @roberttalada51964 күн бұрын

    Ah yes. The fictional nation of Zulu. 🎉

  • @raekell
    @raekell4 күн бұрын

    Discharging graywater into the sea sounds aweful! People use all kinds of weird chemicals when they shower. Probably kills lots of sea life.

  • @williamhorton9763
    @williamhorton97634 күн бұрын

    The demolition charges helped, too.

  • @RichardPivas
    @RichardPivas4 күн бұрын

    Does this simulation need internet connection to work?

  • @warbird1e1
    @warbird1e14 күн бұрын

    Yeah i think there was a few different factors as well

  • @user-uy6ko5vl1t
    @user-uy6ko5vl1t4 күн бұрын

    Gordon lightfoot

  • @dissimulii
    @dissimulii5 күн бұрын

    my biggest take away from this is how broken logistics and shit is. how is it more economical to send a load of coal 75% of the way around the world instead of just getting it from your neighbor, Russia?

  • @darksars3622
    @darksars36226 күн бұрын

    Skip da ad 7:53

  • @wildsurfer12
    @wildsurfer126 күн бұрын

    A supervillain trying to blow up the Montgomery would be a great plot for a Bond movie!

  • @SnowyRoblox69
    @SnowyRoblox696 күн бұрын

    it looks like melon playground FR

  • @geradkavanagh8240
    @geradkavanagh82406 күн бұрын

    The length of chain is part of the reason harbour authorities take a dim view of ships dropping anchor in some places. As the ship moves due to tide and wind, the chain drags along the bottom and absolutely annihilates sea bottom life.

  • @PCrailfan3790
    @PCrailfan37906 күн бұрын

    5:44 why is the third funnel not producing smoke but the fourth is?

  • @carterthechevrolet9219
    @carterthechevrolet92197 күн бұрын

    One famous crash is when the titanic didn't have headlights, it was blind and scraped and iceberg, forcing the titanic to be in the graveyard.

  • @iknowyouwanttofly
    @iknowyouwanttofly7 күн бұрын

    changeing a ship to be like this they should sell it as somekind of carbon offset thing?

  • @lochlanmuir2291
    @lochlanmuir22918 күн бұрын

    Funny title lol

  • @bjorklive2379
    @bjorklive23798 күн бұрын

    Lusitania was sunk in May 1915 not March.

  • @SVOceanBird
    @SVOceanBird8 күн бұрын

    Best part about my two blade folding prop is when it stops turning ⛵️👍

  • @chriseley9828
    @chriseley98288 күн бұрын

    Mumbles Lighthouse, Swansea doesn’t, wonder why not?

  • @James-kv6kb
    @James-kv6kb8 күн бұрын

    As soon as you mentioned the sponsor I go to another video . KZread was never about making money

  • @GlynOC
    @GlynOC8 күн бұрын

    What happens? If it's P&O Aurora, absolutely naff all usually

  • @khatimkhan997
    @khatimkhan9978 күн бұрын

    amazing

  • @jelucamr
    @jelucamr8 күн бұрын

    I gave up the will to keep listening...

  • @Baconplayingagame
    @Baconplayingagame9 күн бұрын

    Is it just me, or is almost every ship that sinks been renamed?

  • @captainnoob4
    @captainnoob49 күн бұрын

    Instead of a kite, what about a small blimp with small sails on it. It would have less risk of being lost. If bad weather arises, it could be brought down to the deck, deflated, folded, and stored. The lifting gas could be compressed in a tank for storage instead of losing it.

  • @hypercomms2001
    @hypercomms200110 күн бұрын

    What occurred was even more dramatic for the crew.... " ...Confident that the day’s mishaps were over, three crewmembers entered the lifeboat and sat in their assigned positions, with the third officer taking the helm, a seaman grade one (SG1) alongside him and the science bosun in the bow. But as preparations were made, the crew missed a crucial detail - the remote-control wire was not fed into the lifeboat. The third officer stood up, opened the hatch, fed the wire into the lifeboat, and sat back down without refastening his seatbelt. Pulling the remote-control wire to trigger the lifeboat deployment sequence proved useless, until the third officer’s colleague, the SG1, got out of his seat to pull it a second time. This triggered the incident. As the davit arms began to move, the winch system released the lifeboat falls prematurely, causing the boat to crash to the deck. But catching on the still-extending semicircular davit arm, the lifeboat rolled over until it was on its side, throwing its unbuckled passengers against the wall. As the forward suspension ring released, the lifeboat veered over the deck edge bow-first; the aft suspension ring ripped off the aft hatch, and the boat plunged into the sea by the head, hurling the SG1 into the lifeboat’s nose. Water flooded into the hole where the hatch had been, submerging the three crew. The SG1 was thrown to the floor of the boat as it righted itself, discharging the seawater. ...." www.imarest.org/resource/lifeboat-accident-on-rrs-sir-david-attenborough-lessons-learned.html It sounds like the SG1 might have been seriously injured... And so it also demonstrates another important lesson: always do your seatbelt up!

  • @TheEDFLegacy
    @TheEDFLegacy10 күн бұрын

    I wonder if they build tugs to be completely watertight from the top and bottom, effectively making them submarines? If they don't do this, I'm frankly surprised. I've seen small boats that can capsize and re-right themselves without assistance, and it would make a ton of sense to do it with a tug.

  • @user-fd5dx4yr1x
    @user-fd5dx4yr1x11 күн бұрын

    If it was a serious threat it would have been dealt with given it's proximity to a large population. Sensationalist nonsense

  • @Bad_CAT_itude3408
    @Bad_CAT_itude340811 күн бұрын

    That being said, the center propeller on the Olympic class ocean liners was powered by a steam turbine engine rather than a reciprocating steam engine. So, unless it had a gear reduction to match its shaft speed to that of the port and starboard shafts, it may have had somewhat higher rpm’s? This is something I’m going to look into now. lol. 🤔

  • @nicolelala10
    @nicolelala1012 күн бұрын

    Very interesting video. Does anyone know of any good books written about the Edmund Fitzgerald? My local library system has none.

  • @TheLastMarch2.0
    @TheLastMarch2.012 күн бұрын

    Hey, could you cover a video on the Pendleton Rescue? I'd be happy to give details!

  • @LakesideRocker66
    @LakesideRocker6612 күн бұрын

    I have to agree with the Arthur Anderson Captain Bernie Cooper and the Wilfred Sykes Captain Dudley Paquette. The Fitz grounded and hogged upward from center at Cariboo (which snapped the railing) and was sucking water from her damaged hull until buoyancy was lost. Her nose broke into a wave and never recovered to where she plowed into the bottom breaking her in two. The aft propeller turned the stern upside down where it came to rest. The Fitz had keelson problems way before she shoaled... which is why they sent her sister ship to the breakers not long after.

  • @pieterboelen2862
    @pieterboelen286213 күн бұрын

    Good stuff! But... No WeatherFax?

  • @namelezz8649
    @namelezz864913 күн бұрын

    I could imagine it is not all negative for ropes to snap: Wouldn't it be better for a relatively cheap and easy to replace rope to snap rather than damaging the ship or the harbour due to a rigid clamp or whatever that would not let go ? I have no experience in that field at all, I'm just curious