Supertanker School
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- čas přidán 9. 08. 2016
- A maritime academy is training skippers to pilot the largest ships on the high seas, tankers and large container ships in model boats. The new manned model ship handling centre at Timsbury Lake, in Hampshire has recently opened at a cost of nearly 3 million pounds.
The site itself is ideal, it is sheltered, the right depth and is not particularly visible giving the mariners the privacy their need to concentrate on their manoeuvres’.
Here, apprentice through to professional mariners and masters are taught the art of handling ships and massive oil tankers in a fleet of miniature supertankers. The centre is one of only 5 facilities around the globe that do this simulation with models and its courses attract participants from as far afield as Australia and Hawaii. It is perhaps not so surprising this academy is based in the UK since shipping has always been a big part of UK industry, especially as some 95% of our import/exports come by sea.
Professional mariners partake in many courses over their career to gain and maintain their licence. Although some are initially a little sceptical when first introduced to the models, they often maintain at the end of the course that it’s the best course they’ve ever done. Pilots from some countries such as the US, come back every 5 years to comply with a state requirement.
The Centre has 7 scale model vessels, which can represent 9 different vessels and the 30ft models are replicas of full-size ships approximately 1:25 or 1:40 scale models, which cost up to £150.000 to build. They are electrically powered and run for 1 week without recharging. Gordon Maxwell (in the footage) is sitting in a twin-screw shuttle tanker built for an oil company to specifically train their people. The model has exactly the same controls as the real ship and has the correct power to weight ratio as its full-sized counterpart. Since it is designed to stop in a scale distance of what the real ship will do, students find it better than practising in a simulator. As well as skills such as Berthing and other manoeuvres, they hone their skills in dealing with potentially dangerous situations such as if one or more engine stops. The courses are operated on the 9-acre lake offering a variety of berths, basins and channels, including a canal. Different port scenarios can be built using floating pontoons. Another advantage over is simulator is that the models respond to the natural and somewhat unpredictable hydrodynamics which are not easily replicated in a computer-based simulator. Finally, because of the scaling factors of the models, 5 times as many manoeuvres can be carried out on a model as opposed to a bridge simulator, or the real ship.
By steering them on a purpose-built lake, students can practise manoeuvres without risking the lives of other mariners. Indeed many of the real super containers and tankers cost some 300 million dollars so the pilot error is a risk worth minimising. Their aim is to prevent disasters as whilst the cost of ships and their cargoes are enormous you can multiply that by 100 if you have a major spillage, indeed even a small incident could cost 1 million dollars. The Warsash Maritime Academy is a proper faculty of the Southampton Solent University. The simulation courses are on average 5 days duration and cost £5,500 per person. - Jak na to + styl
Do y'all do birthdays? Looks like so much fun.
Yeah at £5.5k per person
Super Lazy for the whole course. Something tells me IF they’d do a sample of it, or would be a little cheaper
@@jamesbizs that makes no sense at all, why would a training ground that offers courses at £5.5k per person offer simplified services for the general population to use? I think unless you're paying to be on the course, that's about it!
Super Lazy Well I know for a fact most if not all professional flight simulation facilities offer flight simulator experiences for the general public for a lot less than an actual type rating.
So why shouldn’t a facility like this offer something similar?
@@niklaspilot let me know how you get on with your enquiry! 👍
Are you kidding?! I watched that entire thing and didn't get to see the guy park it. Man.
Plot twist, he only knows how to go straight.
I don't think he has any tiny tugboats to dock it for him
@@CalebSalstrom I T W A S A J O K E
U don't park a ships u dock it 👍..sry I'm a maritime officer so fyi 👍
Great 👍 question, I was waiting for some great tactical maneuvering, maybe by a student
Is there a Suez Canal training ground being built now?
Alright where the HELL can I get one of those baby tankers!!!! My fishing buddies will be so jealous!
Description says they cost 150k
Rampant its pretty much just a jon boat and a trolling motor.
No lie I want this to go bass fishing
Jason Persaud bro it’s 150,000 pounds, some countries use the period symbol instead of the comma for numbers. Materials for the boat hull itself would be over 150 pounds
It’s a very expensive boat you could buy a house for that it’s also not a fucking toy like some ppl thing the equipment alone cost 100k
Looks like the school would be more fun and interesting than the actual job, I could stay there a few days straight. Awesome
You do the job, you'll stay for a few months straight.
Now all they need is a wind generator blowing gale force and rolling 30 foot waves and they can simulate the North Atlantic/ indian Ocean/ Cape Horn conditions...:)...Now THAT would be a cool simulator!
Hahahahahahah! ! ! ! ...so true
or tides
or sandbars
I was kinda thinking the same thing... I was thinking they should do this in a wave pool lol
They could get some fat guy to do cannonballs into the lake.
Too bad they can't simulate the twisting of the ship like you see in rough waves
The only school i would EVER enjoy every minute!
Until you beach his 30,000 tanker. Anchor costs at least 1500 on that setup
You’d get bored very quickly if the very slow ship.
Ya
Does the Royal Navy come down with midget warships and play war games sometimes shooting B.B. guns at each other.......... I would like to see that.
Super soakers!
You sank my battleship
I don’t think there’s any military application but there are plenty of RC warship combat groups around the world.
they throw wet tissues at you and pretends to be a TORPEDO. you sunk
@El Sucio Federali No. The Queen Elizabeth II is a fake to raise taxes.
So, that scene in "Naked Gun: the smell of fear" about Supertank driving school, was inspired by reality 😆😂
I was thinking the same thing! Except they weren't giving sobriety tests to the captains here lol
I think when he got that job he wad just sbout the happiest guy on the planet!
It looks like blokes messing about in kids toys.😁 I love the to scale mooring points and the anchor.
Was really hoping for a rundown of the controls, basic explanation of how they are teaching the use of engines, rudder, bow thrusters, etc.
No kidding, how am I supposed to drive around in my supertanker if youtube doesn't show me
The anchor drop at the end lol
When you wanna play with toy boats but need to make money
The tiny Anchor. My god.
WOW What a job. Excellent way to understand how and why ship handles as it does. TOP CLASS !!
I watched this clip 2 years ago, but britclip is still inprented on my eyes wherever I look...
Dont even ask this guy about simulators!!!!!! Don't even think about it.
Is this an actual Maritime Academy or are we all just humoring this guy?
It's very real
Nah, this is a therapeutic program for people with dementia.
He's in his yard
It's real.... and real retarded too. I'm a maritime simulator engineer, these maned models, aren't realistic.... Pilots say they are, but physics doesn't lie, and it's getting hard to justify having a harbor pilot... and pilots are frantic to justify their existence... even though technology IE Dynamic positioning systems, are far better pilots.... And who wouldn't want to go to the EU and drive a cool toy like that?
Your comment is hilarious.
3:11 when he says "there's no computer wizardry in these" it reminds me of Scotty from star trek for whatever reason.
blackhawks81H Scotty with 0.4 horsepower. Ahm givvin 'er all she's got, cap'n She cannah take anny moar.
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The anchor at the end was the icing on the cake. 😂
Back in the 60's Shell Oil ran a commercial of their Captains on a course very similar to this. Of course Super Tankers were just coming into vogue then.
I just want one of these cool little boats to tool around my local lake!!! awesome video, thanks for posting.
I gotta be honest, i was sceptical at first too, but this looks pretty good.
Make it realistic, fill the hold with crude and have a shallow reef on which to ground on...😆
Your right as long as it doesn't start rolling that happened to me and my grandfather on a lobster fishing boat
Yes he argues this is closest to real thing you could ever get. So dump a couple of tonnes of hardcore into that pond just beneath the surface 👍😂 oh plus also a wave machine.
I’m glad that Maersk line is like the modern blue star line
Strangely soothing to watch this again years later. o/
This. Fuggen....this. THIS makes me happy. That's one lucky bloke, that is - and he KNOWS it.
I'd really like his job, but I'm content knowing that it's too late for me to go down that route, and that there's already someone in that postition, enjoying the heck out of his workdays. =D
I know right
Hell yeah! Realistically, sure, it's a fancy john boat fitted with a nice engine and dressed up like a tanker. But it's effing awesome! I want one...or two!
Love him throwing the knot at the end.
The British accent makes me think that this man cured cancer and not just drives around in toy boats.
It would be cool if they put a go pro camera inside the cabin up on top and they made you were a VR headset that be more realistic
This was shot before VR sets etc were around. Nice idea.
They already have simulators... This is intended to teach you how the boats ACTUALLY handle and maneuver. You can't get that from VR.
They have simulators as well but these are exact to scale so they behave just like the big one will
Not sure what advantage that would have - I was noticing the operator's head is right in front of the bridge, their eyes at the same level as the windows. Thus they have almost the exact same vantage point as they would on the real ship, no VR necessary. I wonder if they designed it that way, or if it's just a coincidence?
stenbak88 lol yeah, except if you move your body slightly, the whole thing will rock. Just like the big ones.
That is pretty darn cool
Looks like a perfect platform for fishing
Cool how your head is at the bridge level so the perspective is similar
Those ships are a crazy good idea ... need to go back to the old ways in the dmv live simulation
I would love to take this course.
What an experience.
how did you get your captain licens ? well i did drive arround in a bathtub and did image it was a ship. so here i am. give me a real ship now to drive i can do it!...
I remember watching this years ago. When I got a yacht, its so hard to judge how far it will travel before being able to pick up the swing anchor. Sold "Das Boot".
Dude this is such a cool video! make me wanna try wat they're doing 😄
I want one of these for my bathtub
Either you are very small or your bathtub is massive...
I want to take one of these fishing on the local lake just to watch the reaction from the tourists.
Oh man I like to go there with my buddies and each have a case of Bud Light and drive around in those :D
I would LOVE to learn manual navigation. Any vids coming on that? That is very important to know how to use a sexton, compass maps and stars for navigating. Please make a series of videos about this for your training purposes. Great idea with these boats, and school.
That's so cool. thanks for the video.
Do you have a wave pool set up for extremely rough water or a 50 ft seas training course. or can you take your ships into the ocean from where you are situated.
That's a very awesome setup you have there.
This is really cool would love to go try it out I love love big ships
In a boat like this you can allso get a lot more visual cues from the surrounding coastline, trees and the water surface concerning wind and other external forces, then you would ever get in a simulator. Our senses take in way more info then sims can give us.
My father, an old Exxon exec (and Scottish), told me about these about 50 years ago now.
I didn't realise they had been going for so long.
I want to see these ships on a big lake with waves simulating an ocean storm and see how they perform!
Great Video
Good deck for fishing from these boats
Hydrodynamics, the very reason why videogame simulations still can't duplicate real water
DJ Programer CFD software can simulate fluid dynamics but with the time to simulate even something like a boat, it will not be practical to implement in a simulation where a player needs to control the vehicle in real time.
Now they can idiot
BR0TH3R TUB3 if you are talking aesthetic waves, yes, it can be done in real time. If you are talking accurate modelling, it may take weeks.
@@shaider1982 If you want to simulate every molecule of water and every structural element of the ship individually, then sure, you won't achieve that in real-time at that scale. But that's not necessary in order to simulate the control-behaviour of a ship as far as the bridge-crew is concerned. Even a desktop computer can run a reasonably accurate simulation like that. Let alone a specialised simulator-setup.
I do believe that these real boats have some merit! They are likely less expensive, more fun and more suitable for getting a basic understanding. But a dedicated computer simulator, similar to what's used in aviation, will easily achieve a more realistic experience (aside from the quality of the graphics perhaps :P)
@@namewarvergeben CFD does not actualy simulate "every molecule" but uses continuum mechanics , which treats the flow as one object. Concern is in the accuracy. It really does take time to simulate the flow, I have tried it in a small boat and it can take hours in a CFD program (ANSYS CFX, about ten years ago). This is because solving cotniuum mechanics involve pde's. This do not have a close form equations hence the need for a numerical solution. I think in simulators they do first the modelling and interpolate the results. In one flight sim, they use blade element theory. But a ship travelling in water has bouyancy flows to contend with. Granted, computer speeds or a new form of math may make a simulation easier and hey, quantum computing might actually make all those iterations appear instantly but now, these models have relevance. Deck simulators and these small boats do have a use for training the crew.
All in a day's work without the coffee n smokes
That would be an awsome job hell yea !
It seems this man had not enough time for playing in his childhood
This is the most fun job ever
This looks like the most peaceful job in the world! Sign me up!
This is adorable
me: can we go to the port
mom: we have a port at home
the port at home:
here in USA , the local water is controlled by local captain and they board or leave the moving ship by rope ladder that could be 10 story high , in wind and rain , night or day .
They even have RC Tugs?? This is so cool!!
OK, I'm sold, where do I need to apply to tinker with these boats?! :-) I always wanted a bigger RC boat.
love the idea iam sure it works ,if the pilot sat in a 360 vision cockpit where it looks to him as a real 1000 foot tanker it would seem real life
They have a heavy mining equipment training center that is a big indoor sandbox with remote controlled machines only a few feet long. The control cabs are real equipment. It allows the trainees to see from a distance what their machine is doing as it is operated.
awsome model ship
I would like to have seen at least one docking technique or learn something about how little boats can simulate large ship handling. I thought I heard, "It's a small world after all."
Me too
id love to replace my old canoe with something like this
The anchor at the end 😂
I wish I could play with those smaller ships
OK, this was way cool!
They are trimmed down by the bow...is that to compensate for the person sitting inside? Also shouldn’t you have a backing bell on when dropping the hook?
Parabéns pelo vídeo!
$5,500 for a five day course, how much tiny ship time do I get?
That's all I care about too
This is so cool I would love to go there because I like boats and like being on them alot
5:55 WHAAAAAT THE ANCHOR ACTUALLY WORKS LIKE A REAL SHIP!!
This looks a lot of fun. It would be great if you could be seated inside the housing and look out through the bridge windows. I crewed a few of these large tankers (VLCC) back in the sixties/seventies. They steered quite well considering the length of them...at normal sea going speed 16-18 knots.... not so good at slow speed though. I don't know about the present but it was a crew member who steered the ship not the 'Old Man', of course he or a pilot gave the orders so were ultimately responsible for good and safe seamanship.
Thanks Brian for the story - It was fun to spend a day filming there.
I’d love to have one of those boats. That’d be fun.
Turns out Hexagon Oil had it right all along.
The Navy has a similar training devise to teach and practice ship handling for qualifying newly certified command captains.
I would love one of these
Its a serious topic, I get that, but that sure does look like fun.
I thought it was going to be a tiny rc model at first that things actually pretty big
If you stand on the deck and surf do you fail the class?
Real life experiences will always be better than a simulator
Looks fun!
You know this guy goes out at night on these boats and tugs it.
One thing worth pointing out, these ships have not one, not one point two, but one point four full horsepower.
These are nice. Clearly not made of paper, or paper derivatives. I doubt the front will even fall off.
Definitely not paper
To me it looks more like a toy for adults. It also looks fun.
Nice 😀👍👍🏴
i dont know what this is but i love it
Just awesome 👍
Ugh,,, let's see the tugs! Let's see some of the skills they would learn!
Damn Sean Connery really hit his stride in this video. I almost didn't even know it was him.
Where is the mini rugs. That thing isn’t going any dock without tugs.
I prep and help launch boat rentals at a marina. You would be surprised how many people get a party boat rental with the driver saying "I have been boating for 30 years", "piece of cake", or "I own 3 boats" just to bang the shit out of it, bend the prop, and generally become magnets to pylons. With that in mind I think this actually makes a lot of sense to get a feel for accuracy with such an awkward and long ship at a digestible scale.
XD i though that ship was very small like a rc toy 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I want one of those just to dive around and maybe fish from like a kayak
I keep getting these in my recommendation after the Evergiven crashed
53/5000
No more than 4 mt. Same as using sandalwood