Lifeboat Launched from 30 Meters Up
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- čas přidán 13. 06. 2024
- A boat that looks like a submarine? It might be funny looking, but it's actually a lifeboat! Reporter Michelle Yamamoto visits the innovator who developed a lifeboat that is capable of launching from 30 meters above the ocean. Boats like these are used when a crew has no alternative but to abandon ship as quickly as possible. But launching from so high up, means the boat has protect its passengers from the impact of hitting the ocean. The innovator spent three years trying all different designs before he finally found a solution. Join Michelle, as she meets the man behind this innovative lifeboat.
Note: Due to the strict copyright regulations of NHK, this video has a high chance of getting removed. - Věda a technologie
She reminds me of the reporter from family guy
wow, THERE ARE LOTS OF seats
😂😂😂😂😂
Iiiiiimmm Trishaa Takinawaaaaa
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Let’s go never mind she’s dead 😂
I could feel my neck snapping on impact
Chris L4 L5 S1 surgery in your future, if you, survived... Lol
did you even watch the video
How will your neck snap with that seat configuration?
No one will notice you. It's equipped with WiFi, people will be playing video games.
You didn't watch the whole video did you?
I still bet it's bloody awful to be inside one of those things at launch.
It's not the launch that scares you.
Gobby Prick it's like that giant rolleer coaster at universal but 10x scary
Really? It's the launch that's scared me every time I've done it. When the boat comes off the skid and that silence hits, it's only a matter of time.
Fuck. That!
Abcforkids
was it filmed on a nokia 3310 ?
You're an idiot!
Anibal Babilonia why
Japan is far better in technology and you know it. Jealousy won't work. JESUS has blessed them with this wisdom.
Yes.
*Whoaaa, there are LOTS OF SEATS inside!*
"We're on a express elevator to hell, going down!" -private Hudson
amazing. I think about this kinda rescue stuff all the time...that backward seating and the various angles is just lovely. Way to go guys! Thanks for video.
14Gs is still a lot of force. That’ll still break something.
14 gs is not even realistic.
I fly others around real easy n a Pitt.
Maybe pull a little over 3 gs n they pee on my front seat.
It won't if you are seated well and your body is supported well. And if the Gs are breif it also helps a lot
@@fvkinamazed5520 in Arma 3?
You mad 14gs would kill the f*#k out of anyone in a heartbeat
@@dillonmahady6147 yeah after like a minute or so. but just for an instant will not do anything. there was a guy on a rocket sled who hit 38g and just had some eye problems.
Excellent!! Thank You!
Am I really the only one who thinks this looks really fucking fun?
14gs is still a lot and painful
but survivable ... apparently...
Painful maybe, but scientist have established that for very short time 30g is generally safe for a healthy adult, at 35g is where ribs and other weak bones breaks, above 45 g death is almost assured. In this life boat you are probably exposed to those 14 g for only milliseconds.
czcams.com/video/dwUfmvSySV8/video.html here is a video of some guys inside of this life boat experiencing 20 g's, theyre having fun
Better than going down with the ship and dying.
Id say its probably about as harsh as some of the theme parks around the world. Ive been on roller coasters that put some extreme force on your body.
Thats not a lifeboat, its a somalian pirate ship.
tisoy909 😑👏🏽
tisoy909 captain phillips reference
tisoy909 “stolen life boat”
@@jeraldtamayo6830 still blows my mind the snipers were able to perfect those shots and take down all the pirates. Navy snipers use floating targets so they are pretty used to that, but still 3 perfect headshots at once?
@@timbrwolf1121 the terrorists minds were also blown... 😁
Human ingenuity will never cease to amaze me.
I got to go on a test launch of one of these lifeboats off of a container ship in port. The short free fall was pretty exciting, but the actual landing in the water was very smooth and wasn't unpleasant at all. I was surprised to find out that the impact could have been up to 14 Gs, it certainly didn't feel that violent.
thanks
Thanx from South Africa ; nice video 👍 love 🇯🇵 Japan.
Long live Yamamoto
I'll almost certainly never be on any kind of sea vessel, but thanks to the algorithm, I'm a lifeboat nerd now. I really want to take that ride. How can I sign up to be one of their crash dummies?
The Norwegisn companies Norsafe and Schat Harding delevoped similar boats (up to 50 ') decades ago. This one looks as a copy of a Norsafe design.
I first saw this design in Stavanger Norway in the 80s.
True, but there is a difference between 12m and 30m
I thought they have these on oil rigs.
its chinese what would you expect
GuitarxPlayax its japanese
I mean you gotta give some credit to them, they came a long way from Kamikaze launchers to this boat launcher.
Giray YALÇIN -- this joke is grossly underrated
Sa
I wanted to make something that was unique only made in Japan...
so I copied a u.s. coast guard design that I found the plans to online
FSEVENMAN What makes you believe the US Coast Guard came up with this first?
Haha - All wrong my man it is communist China that can't build $h!t without 1st stealing the plans (intellectual property)
Regardless of how well they design it, that number of Gs at impact is more than enough to break your neck or snap your spine.
I can’t stop watching this.
Seat absorbs shock and your own urine during free fall! Science!!!!
Lifeboat designs are regulated by SOLAS. In the specific case of free-fall lifeboats like this SOLAS is pathetically naïve. The design doesn´t give you enough space. For instance, it sates a separation between the back of two successive seats of 60cm. That is roughly enough space to sit without touching the seat in front of you with your knee. However, your feet wil not fit, and you´ll have to turn them either side. besides, wearing shoes makes things worse and you´ll have to bend your knee into a position that is considerable more crammed that what is allowed in tourist class airliners. And not for just 12 hours as on a plane, SOLAS expects you to stay in the boat for up to a week. Oh, I forgot to mention it: the only seated positiion possible is with your back forming a 90° angle with your legs. SOLAS also gives a daily ration of 500 cc of water, none to be drunk during the first 24hs. Why? Well, because it is assumed that you board the boat well fed and well hydrated from the ship. But this implies assuming that your ship is sinking as consecuence of a collision or flooding. If you had been fighting a fire in the engine rom, for example, for a couple of hours you will be already dehidrated.
All this means that you not only have to survive the sinking of your ship: you must also survive SOLAS.
Why don’t they just make longer rails that extends to the side of the ship that provides resistance so the lifeboat doesn’t crash into the sea in free fall?
Very impresive...
Didn't Norway have this in the 80's..... Stavanger was the port I first saw this in designed for oil rigs.
I think they became common after the Piper Alpha accident.
This looks a lot like a lifeboat I saw on the dockside at Lorient in France about 4 or 5 years ago. It's still visible on google earth, streetview takes you almost right up to it. Next to the old keroman submarine base.
I worked for a company that did the inspections on these lifeboats We would go to all the different ports around the country Boarding vessels to do our inspections and almost every single crewmember I talked to said they wouldn’t step foot inside one of these under any circumstances
I would have to crawl inside of these and conduct our inspections but when you’re up that high looking down at the water it’s terrifying and I don’t see how anyone could survive that impact because most of these lifeboats are poorly made It’s basically a fiberglass tube with cheap seats on the inside
So what type of lifeboat do you recommend?
You're aware that these are tested and people survive it just fine btw? In an emergency, how many more conventional type lifeboats failed to launch, possibly because the crew didn't manage to lower them down? Did you look into this?
@@ramdas363 I worked for UNITOR Fire protection and Drew marine accompanied by the US Coast Guard
The problem is most of the vessels that come into the Port of Houston our primary port are sailing under a foreign flag so they get their life boats from all around the world by different vendors……. But if they are in American water they do have to follow the guidelines under the US Coast Guard in order to get their certificate so they can safely sail….. The problem is the US Coast Guard doesn’t regulate or mandate any type of life boat manufacturer and most of them are made out of fiberglass with metal braces around the seat and a very thin seatbelt on the inside
So it’s like getting into a car crash when you hit the water after you just dropped 40 or 50 feet
And to answer your next question most of the lifeboats have a lever on the inside that releases a hook and gravity takes care of the rest
Also Viking is a very good life boat company they actually provide shock absorbent seats and seatbelts Most of the other life food companies make these as cheap as possible
And yes I am aware of the testing I have witnessed multiple tests when we were doing our inspections out in the Gulf of Mexico and you’re right the crew members do Survive but it’s like getting into a head on collision lots of crew members have been seriously injured
@@NocturnalNews Got you. Fair point about the safety standards in less developed countries, which are not like in Japan or the US.
Seems like we're in agreement the design itself is fine if executed properly. In the video they explain what sort of measures they took to lessen the effects of the impact.
I'm not sure what would be worse in case of a real emergency: A lever system that doesn't properly deploy the lifeboat because the mother ship already has a heavy list (or other issues). Or a practically foolproof drop mechanism that might be a rough landing but at least you're off the ship and in the lifeboat. When the ship really goes down in bad weather, I guess the latter would still be preferable.
@@ramdas363 yes in a life or death situation you could use the Lifeboat but every single vessel also has inflatable life rafts with food water GPS trackers flashlights batteries blankets everything you need to survive we would have to bring the life rafts back to our shop in Houston inflate them and repack all the supplies because the food and water and the batteries would expire...... then we would repack the rafts and deliver them back to the ships but my point is the lifeboats don't really have any survival gear inside of them and most of them smell like dead fish and rotten fuel
Over the 7 years that I did this type of work I've crawled around inside of hundreds of these and I can assure you a inflatable life raft is the preferred thing to use
The inside of these lifeboats are hot uncomfortable and dangerous they have very little fuel and no survival packs
Also 9 out of 10 inspections the Lifeboat wouldn't start once it hit the water because of poor maintenance and or bad fuel
We would fly out to the 50 Mi Anchorage off the Gulf of Mexico to the super tankers they are basically too big to come into port anyway long story short it's like an apartment building floating on the water so could you imagine dropping into the ocean from one of those
@@ramdas363 and yes in this video it's a fairly decent Lifeboat but I've seen some real Clunkers out there I would take my chances with a life ring first LOL
I have my BOISET and my HUET, which means I had training in one of these boats. It scared the hell out of me. However, hitting the water wasn’t all that bad. What got me was the heat and rocking until we got aboard the crew boat.
It has to be insanely hot on these lifeboats... but still better than drowning
Once had to sit in one of these for 5 hours straight due to a (small) fire on my oilrig. Wearing a survival-suit designed to keep you comfortable for sig hours in 2-degree water. We were 40 dudes. It was VERY hot, and then we even had a hatch open and were in the north-sea in the middle of the night.
What kind of situation are we talking about that requires the crew to GTFO a ship in less than five seconds?! Seriously, would it hurt to have a trailing cable at the back with a brake that slows enough of the descent to have an impact of 8Gs instead?
I mean if you were really scared you could just wait for the ship to go down a fair bit
Imagine a burning petrol tanker, do you want to get lowered down licking the flames, the free fall life boat not only gets you down quickly but also gets you clear of the danger.
18-20 G?! Holy hell, the whiplash!
Can we have some information on available inflight refreshments and onboard entertainment options?
The circular shape or oval shape distribute the force along it so that the impact is not focus in one place
A few months ago I went to Florida and went fishing and I probably saw 5 of these
How do people survive a 100 foot fall in that thing? That's amazing.
This is older than the 2013 posting date, because I haven't seen a bulker in the harbour without one of these on the stern in over a decade.
It’s nice design and better than death.
Just thinking what if the boat was in showllow water somehow? I know it will probably not happen but emergencies don't happen to often to
Awesome, how do you get one?
Ok that takes care of the crew. Great! Now what about the customer passengers on cruise ships?
Wow super 👌👌👌 fantastic 👍👍👍 God Bless 💐💐💐
I would honestly love to do this lol
i dont get it. when the boat hits the water the passengers on the back dont feel it till the back of the boat touches the water or what?
It fills with spray form on impact!
Is Michelle Yamamoto related to Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto ?
What was said at 4:39 is not always true as the angle at which the lifeboat hits the wave depends on many issues and there are occasions when such a drop resulted in the craft looping and somersaulting forward.
Yes.... I'm sure those are the only yamamotos In Japan...
Best ride ever!
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The one I was in bounced around a lot, not like this one. Your strapped in big time.. First times fun
Is this anime
Mikehardgamestv 1 yes
Willpower can overcome even the strongest of Gs
Very rare and exotic form of anime. Stunning.
@@trentbrisket1159 3 years later
such lifeboats were produced in 1979 at the Ustka shipyard in Poland.
I would have thought they would use a drag line to slow down the impact velocity. 14 gs... some old folk might not survive that.
Deaf Smith - That's a good idea. Or a spring loaded outer front end. I wonder what would happen if it fell upside down. Maybe that's not possible.
@@annwithaplan9766 Those things are self up-righting. Of course I presume everyone on board is strapped in!
@@deafsmith1006 - Oh that's good to know. Thanks!
I think the Japanese manufacturer knows about what below and that's why he puts the putty.
I know from the Maritime Convention specialist that the British Admiralty has published a report some time ago regarding this type of life. She controlled the period of 20 years in terms of the safety of dropping these lifeboats with people. It turned out that during shelling exercise alarms (I can change the size and because I already I do not remember), 600 sailors were killed and 800 sailors were seriously injured. As in parentheses, I said that it was the opposite. The new Maritime Convention was due to change the rules for the use of launching cannons. As the Convention specialist reported, it was supposed to be the crew but it was a different route. It was only about training alarms.
I so want to try this!!!!
Is it possible for the lifeboat to accidentally land upside down when launched off a cargo ship
six years later still going strong
How do I get to experience this roller coaster?
If he believed in the design , he would have got in it himself and dropped in.
Nick Dawn -- or tested it with crash test dummies with sensors
@@thomaspayne6866 Nope Nick is correct and i'd add he has to sit in the front
@@Antipodean33 damn, it would snap his neck.
@@Antipodean33 Exactly!
Its supposed to keep you alive, its not always guaranteed it will keep you out of hospital.
Any lifeboat is dangerous, free-fall lifeboats have the cleanest record of any type of lifeboat.
The classic passenger ship lifeboats are the most dangerous type, as well as the type most prone to human error.
The same boat was used by the pirates in a movie "CAPTAIN PHILLIPS"
Grandma and Grandpa are not going to survive that impact with the water.
Made in Norway many years before they started copying it in Japan
yep these thing have been round all of my life if you go to Portsmouth diver training centre you can see one on the dock side
Back in the 1980's.
Noticed no volunteers for the test Michelle!!...
This is my favorite anime
THE QUALITY THO.
I have experience.
Its a terrifying experience.
Why not make the launch rails slope less downward and longer, so as to lessen force?
What is the range of the lifeboat ?
30 metre drop is to show Pirates what badasses these sailors are!!!
which pixel is the boat?
what if the stern sinks first? what if the ship is listing to one side. Offshore platforms use these around the globe to evacuate personnel. The newer ones will propel themselves even when underwater if the water is aerated from rising gas bubbles. Oftentimes the water will not support the lifeboat until it moves away from the drilling or production platform. These were becoming popular when I worked in the gulf in the 60's and 70's.
i dont know what this show is i just wanna see a lifeboat smash into the water man
Why not a bungee cord that absorbs some of the fall, then detaches itself?
The eye hook on the lifeboat can later be used by helicopters to lift the boat out of the water.
The weight of the people inside will vary greatly, but design the breakaway bungee only to account for the weight of the lifeboat. I imagine that alone should reduce the impact G-force greatly.
Or having the device the bungee is attached to automatically adjust for the total weight of the lifeboat and people inside.
Watching this when I barely step on the beach
The seats in back are going to get the shock angle as the front when it hits. Is this rocket science?
This is why it is safer to sit in bus/train facing back into the direction of the ride.
So, the make is 'Nishi-F' Co. Ltd?
Have they done any real world test with fully loaded crew inside?
Nope. But the lifeboat comes with a life time guarantee though! !
They should be mounted on an arm that drops outwards, bringing it away from the hull, and then letting it down on a drag line or braked reel. Should bring the G's down and increase the survivable drop height.
Takumi? Is he the lifeboat drift king
It would probably be a little scary having to evacuate a sinking ship, on fire, or severely damaged, listing heavily, and having to crawl outside in perhaps a storm to get into the lifeboat only to face a 30 meter fall into the ocean. But if the ship is being evacuated because of an explosion, collision or enemy attack, the lifeboat might land onto floating debris. I wonder if that has been considered.
looks like fun
SHNTZL -- I want the boat to float across the ocean
At that height, you could put wings on the boat and it could fly to safety.
😂😂 no shit. Fuckin survive a ship sinking to be paralyzed falling in a lifeboat.
The design he came up with? :-) Are you totally positive it was "the design he choose to copy" ? :-P
The concept was pioneered in Norway, back in the 1980's.
I would call it an escape capsule, rather than a lifeboat. It does not appear to have a motor, so it depends on being found by rescue craft, and it can not move away from hazards such as fire, or away from a sinking vessel
They alway have an engine, the whole point of these boats is te be away from the ship as soon as possible.
Ours can be sealed from the outside with oxygen inside, a sprinkler system and it does 6 miles an hour.
25 people onboard the lifeboat and 25 heart attacks and sprained necks!
But the boat being built on certain angles are relying on the ship to be fully afloat. What if the ship has already half sank and is already on its side
Lifeboat is launched from the boat, instantly becomes a multi-person porta-potty in the air.
Hi, I would rather wait to pull the launch cord once the vessel has sunk lower to reduce impact G’s. Hi
My stomach dropped just watching it
If it will be deployed from 30m; I hope they design and test it from 45m ... oh, and retro-rockets would be fun ...
I thought this video would be about a lifeboat themed carnival ride that is free to ride and opens in the fall... guess not.
Could you just launch it when boat was about to go under kind a like buggs bunny bailing out of plane just before it hits the ground
Or like jumping up in a falling elevator right before it hits the ground.
Or like if you need to escape from someone pull your portable hole out of your pocket, throw it on the ground and jump in.
Launch one out of a C-130 at around 6k ft.
I saw a steering wheel. Does it have a motor?
Howard Mora have you not seen captain Phillips?
I am de captain now
Pure engineering genius. Down to the seat angles.
The tiniest lifeboat... Full of people I know...
I live in one of those
All the angles are explained in ideal sea conditions...! The reality in rough seas is totally different than that. With 60 ft. Swells and rocking sideways you'd be lucky if that thing won't crash into the ocean upside down...😣
How old is this video?
all you are thinking 14 g will kill a person. that is true if it is endured for a long time, but just for a brief moment they will be fine. still pretty scary though