Humanity has long adored that absolute spectacle and grandeur that many of our oceangoing vessels have to offer; but some of the most fundamental parts of what makes these ships work are often underappreciated. We have spent many years streamlining the parts that ensure boats can safely get to their destination, and making sure that they can float, stop, and pass obstacles safely.
Let’s take some time to appreciate the hard work and scientific effort that is such a vital part of the development of ships throughout history, and how both our strengths and our weaknesses have allowed us to ensure that the grand vessels of the sea perform at the absolute best of their ability.
Oceanliner Designs explores the design, construction, engineering and operation of history’s greatest vessels– from Titanic to Queen Mary and from the Empress of Ireland to the Lusitania. Join maritime researcher and illustrator Michael Brady as he tells the stories behind some of history’s most famous ocean liners and machines!
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00:00 Intro
01:16 How Do Ships Stop?
13:07 Icebreakers
25:14 How Do Ships Float?
34:51 How Do Ships Sink?
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Does anyone know if Mike Brady has done a video on SS La Bourgogne sinking? Couldn't seem to find one.
Please talk about the crazy ss united states situation
This man really is the bob ross/Mr. Rogers of youtube.
Mike Bradey, I dont know if you see this comment now, but the SS United States on September 3rd of 2024, the ship will be purchased for around 9 million dollars to be SUNK as an artificial Reef. All that history… will be all gone…
Yes our friend Mike, I too am just like you, except less handsome, older, less successful lo!. ⚓
I think it's fair to call Makarov a practical genius. ⚓
I know you have covered rogue waves, what about eddys or maelstroms, methane eruptions, milky sea and other oceanic phenomena.
I count Mike Brady amongst my friends. Lol
Have you seen the old movie " Bridges of Toko Ri , 1954, a classic William holden movie set during the Korean war, an aircraft carrier comes into port in Japan and carrier crew use the Douglas Skyraider AD's engines to help park the ship by revving engines over time.
This is the best channel on youtube. Thank you for the top tier content, i feel i should be paying for this
On buoyancy: here on the Salish Sea, every once in a while a fishing boat will load up with as much fish as it can possibly carry and then sink when it enters the freshwater of the Fraser estuary. It doesn't happen every year, but it has happened several times in my life. The only possible excuse for someone ostensibly competent to command a commercial fishing boat is that some of the fishing ports around here are saltwater and some are freshwater. Not a good excuse, but possible.
A well spent hour, while healing from a brief, no smell no taste illness.
THREE YEARS! wow! Thanks for the great content always. By the way, get that rash on your top lip looked at, it might get serious… 😋 BTW… is it true that if the RMS Titty Nik had hit the iceberg head on rather than scraping along the side she would have been OK?
I love the titanic, and I love our friend Mike Brady giving us more insite than iv ever know, your voice is also soothing and helps me sleep at night, thanks for the content our friend 😊
An hour long video from my friend Mike Brady from Ocean Liner Designs? Yes please 😊
my boy looking hot af ngl
As regards to ships sinking, you didn't mention the MV Derbyshire, which sank in a typhoon by virtue of taking waves over the bow, which stove in the hatch covers and flooded the forward cargo holds and caused the ship to nose into a wave and simply continue driving forward and downwards. The other ship is the Edmund Fitzgerald, which also sank in a storm after shipping water, but which broke in two.
I’ve always been interested in ships and the realm of the nautical but it didn’t really take off for me until I started kayak fishing. The ocean (pacific) is wild and sketchy!
Incredibly interesting and informative as usual.
Can I suggest a topic that I don't think you have done yet, and one that is seriously important, the history of the Lifeboat. Not just one we see on a ship bit the development of the coastal Lifeboat that is especially prevalent around the shores of the UK.
Stupid ice bergs.
Did tug boat design and power have to be improved to accommodate these huge growing ships?
Thanks Mike! We sort of knew this stuff but your expertise in explaining it in great detail, made it crystal clear! Thanks!
We need water or everything won't be alive
Thanks for these interesting videos! Maybe a discussion on metacentric height might be useful.
GET A BETTER BACK ROUND
YOU DID IT
You had a hard time while recording this video
39:18 I have to stop you right there. The weight of the ship has not changed. The net buoyant force acting on that weight has changed. Since buoyancy relies on a difference in density, and seawater inside the ship has the same density as water outside the ship, any water that enters the ship reduces that difference in density, and therefore the buoyancy. It is the buoyancy of a ship reducing until it is unable to support the weight of the ship, not the weight increasing, that causes a ship to sink.
Yermak my beloved
I love your channel, but with regard to Arctica (23:08), isn’t nuclear power also a form of steam power, just a different fuel source?
I have a feeling this landlocked individual should watch this video.
Mike ,I posted a idea about a week ago. You should consider doing videos also about True but strange things. YOU WOULD BE A HUGE HIT ! ❤
My old boat, Coral Sea took about 5 miles to stop from full speed, thankfully she never had a collision I was aware of…. but that's with reversing the shafts , but it would take minutes to stop, oh Coral Sea did have a collision I read about on the 80s in monster seas, lost an elevator to a wave, tough boat, must have been huge seas Mike, a shipmate I met in Montana told me when he was aboard in the late 80s, also in crazy seas, lost a gun sponset to a, yep another wave, she was taken out of service in '91, she was 45 years old and we called her "the ageless warrior" and she was, heres an idea for you, one on each class of aircraft carriers from Langley to the Ford class that makes my old boats seem tiny, still huge, but smaller, the Essexs might need a part one and two, they built a bunch of them and most saw combat in the war, all served in Korea and many in the Cuban missile crisis and of course Vietnam and a few are still around as museums… but I love the Midways more, more durable and versatile and then the Forrestals , Enterprise, a name we really stole from the Brits you know,… sorry to ramble… keep it up….
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"Ermak" and "Makarov" are two (of 3) diesel icebreakers, made in 1974 and 1975 for Soviet Arctic fleet. And since they are not decommissioned yet, their names can't be given to a newer Arctica 22220-class ships.
Aircraft have air brakes, ships could have something similar, but marine growth would probably disable these quickly, they would require too much maintenance.
I can’t seem to stop watching your videos!🤷♂️