Engineering marvel
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Pretty amazing, really.
You should check the SV Seeker thread!
chester
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good one
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Or check the thread that discussed this same subject last week!
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Building a ship the modern way
Building a 1100 foot long ship the modern way. Time lapse video shows the construction of a LNG powered cruise ship. Fascinating.
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Russell Brown
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Pretty amazing, but I wash those things were all low-income housing instead of horrible polluting stains on the landscape.
socalrider
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The human condition: awe over our powers, despondency over our priorities..
Bull City
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I get the lips on the stem and the eyes, but what did they do for graphics on the stern?
I spotted a few bad welds and some offset companionways - Doomed vessel.
I spotted a few bad welds and some offset companionways - Doomed vessel.
robtoujours
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I wonder if they built the Magic pipe into that one?
The $40m 'magic pipe': Princess Cruises given record fine for dumping oil at sea
Ferrer said the illegal practices came to light when an engineer aboard the Caribbean Princess discovered the “magic pipe” in 2013 off the coast of Britain and told investigators about it.Authorities later learned the 952ft ship had been illegally discharging oily water into the ocean since 2005.
“Our open seas are not dumping grounds for waste,” Ferrer said. “One thing we must never do is take our clear blue oceans for granted.”
A single illegal discharge dumped 4,227 gallons of oil-contaminated waste about 20 miles off the coast of England on 26 August 2013, according to court documents.
The documents also show illegal practices were found on four other Princess ships, including use of clean ocean water to fool onboard sensors that would otherwise detect dumping of improperly contaminated bilge water. Authorities say cost savings was the motive and that the ship’s officers and crew conspired to cover up what was going on.
sculpin
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Block construction is pretty standard in the boat building industry. I think there are 40+ in the Ford.
mckenzie.keith
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Post covid, I can't imagine that anyone would actually go on a cruise. Maybe they will end up being used for low-income housing afterall.
steele
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The Seattle cruise season started a month ago. The prediction is 290 sailings with about 700,000 passengers, all in 5 months. We humans have very short memories.
sculpin
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Indeed, the definition of a "block" is different at Newport News compared to my neighbors at Irving Shipbuilding...
SASSAFRASS
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You keep seeing snow come and go in the US time lapse.....
mckenzie.keith
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Cruise ship nearly destroyed and flooded as it navigated storm
The Carnival Sunshine was caught in a treacherous storm off the coast of South Carolina on Saturday and videos showed flooded halls and a damaged ship.
blurocketsmate
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^^^ Oh no, not the crew bar!
PaulK
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At BIW they build the blocks upside down, so that the welding slag doesn't fall on the welder. Then they flip them and weld them together. This enables a joint 40 or more feet long that meets the next section with about a 1/4" variation in where the welds fall.
Calling Elvis
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Just to pile on, nothing quite like getting an environmental education from the NPS while literally on one of the things destroying the NPs. It’s like getting instructions on how to use a microwave while standing inside the microwave.
