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- čas přidán 26. 05. 2024
- In this episode we're talking about the drydock's caisson.
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Hi, I'm Ryan Szimanski, Curator for the Caisson at Dock #3, Philadelphia Naval Shipyard. 😄 Thanks, Ryan, for the work you and everyone connected with BB-62 is doing.
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Sunday Today had a nice segment uploaded to CZcams on May 26 entitled "Inside the restoration of America’s most decorated warship". It features Ryan!
Saw that, lots of great shots.
Can you supply a link?
Good presentation and Ryan was spot on.
@mm3mm3 just enter the title in the CZcams search field.
@@mm3mm3 czcams.com/video/UjtMLCoXHgE/video.html
‘Battleship zen garden’ what a great line! 😂🥳
Yeah, I thought the Zen Garden line was hilarious! And I'm sure quite true.
That was worth clicking on the Video for sure! Now I just have to figure out how to use that line again in day to day conversation!
It's more like a zen pool. To have a zen garden, you'd need at least one plant, I would think. 😉
RYAN, Good to meet and talk to you today. Enjoyed the tour. Left a book (You probably have it) a friend gave it to me who was into German Battleships and gave it to me. ( I read it twice) to get it all in. All you there are GREAT each time I have been to the ship.
I was standing on top of this caisson on April 6th,2024 and enjoyed the view of New Jersey from her slim clipper bow looking aft as she sat high and dry on her keel blocks. That caisson is a very interesting structure in of itself. That shed roofed structure at centerline of the caisson is the entry to the stairs to go down inside the structure which is lighted. At the conclusion of the Drydock Tour they allow you to get on the caisson and view the Battleship as well as the Delaware River. The stairs in the Drydock next to Ryan are the ones we used to ascend from the Drydock floor ( only 150 steps up ! ). A lot easier going down than coming up !
I love these unexpected lessons on things I would otherwise never have thought about. Thanks again!
1:13 now i can imagine Ryan going to the zen garden, bringing two plastic chairs, sitting on one and kicking up his feet on the other while holding his hands in meditation. Wooosaaaa, woooosaaaa.
LOL, at 2:47 when Ryan describes the caisson as it own independent vessel there is a tug behind it with only the wheelhouse and funnel showing above the caisson so it almost looks like the caisson has it's own wheelhouse and funnel. Love that!
Watching this on Memorial Day 5/27/24! Thank You to those who served and sacrificed!
Love the design/idea that either side can be presented to the drydock.
"The only thing holding the caisson in place..." Yeah well that's a WHOLE lot of water pressure there, at what looks like 40+ feet of water differential. It's actually pretty amazing that the caisson can span across the opening of the dry dock with that much water pressure on it.
I assume it has a bunch of girders inside.
Glad Ryan explained how the caisson works . I worked on lighting in the flood tank space at the bottom of a couple of ours . A long climb but an interesting experience realising you have thirty feet or more of seawater just the other side .
and those caissons go rolling along
(different kind of Caisson)
🎶And those caissons keep holding the water back.🎶
So interesting Ryan - yes I've always wondered how dry docks work and now I know!
I enjoyed this one. I'm currently working on the design of a new floating concrete caisson for an existing drydock in the UK thats of a similar vintage to this one and is undergoing refurbishment. Helps to see one actually in use and not just drawings and models.
Excellent video! Ryan, the keel blocks take the form of a stick figure man at 2:00! Too funny!
You should try to do a video on the drydock pump room. The pumps, valves and piping for flooding and dewatering a drydock are enormous. Fun fact on that subject; flooding the piping used to flood and dewater a drydock generates so much air pressure from the water displacing the air in the pipes that the vent grates around the drydock have to be secured in place with steel straps because if the valves are opened too quickly, there is a possibility of the grates being launched into the air.
That was very cool and super informative. I had this idea that the cassion was just a kind of gate. No idea it was so interesting.
Haven't been to a drydock, but definitely reminds me of the locks on Erie canal. Cool.
Philadelphia Shipyard is in Pennsylvania the Keystone State so it seems appropriate for there to be a keystone element to the whole Dry Dock Arrangement there
Very interesting. The battleship is looking great
I keep seeing you on the news --- and I live in Australia. OK, it's news from American news shows on Youtune, but still!
Good thing we still have some of these older ships. Our Navy cant even build a wooden boat. Our current fleet is 3-4 years behind major maintenance, leaving them on the side of the piers "Inactive".
Great work Ryan! Keep the Jersey in 'tip-top' shape, we may need her!
I went through Hull Technician A school at the Philadelphia Naval Station. September through December of 1977. 🇺🇸⚓️
It’s a different part of the base from the dry docks, but I remember plenty of ships there as part of the mothball fleet.
Our team managed to sink the Buttercup.
Went to fire fighting & NBC Defense school in Philly in 1980 while my ship was in the yard.
I really like how you're keeping us updated on the progress of the Jersey. The Texas was sporadic at best.
Absolutely fascinating, even though I am a retired professional Engineer.
I find all your videos very well explained Sir!
Many thanks for your experience and dedicated time.
I hope you will also cover the pump house.
A walk through of the whole system with the drydock personnel would have been cool.
There are several options to make drydock gate. Caisson, cofferdam, full scale gate and so on. They can float, slide on some rails, be hinged, rotate around horizontal axle. Depends on many reasons
I’d love to see the dewatering pumps for the dry dock.
A great video! That's so cool. I actually posted my video with footage I took when I visited May 12. On my climb out of the dry dock I mentioned and highlighted the caisson. I also mentioned that as of today there are tour tickets left.
Thanks so much to your channel; I never would have been able to visit if I hadn't been plugged here. Visiting was so cool!
Like many others I would love to learn more about the dry dock and its construction. I’m hoping if I keep asking Ryan will make a video 🤓
One thing I wonder about is how the dry dock itself handles all that weight of the battleship on blocks? Does it have piers down to bedrock? It’ll be fascinating to learn how a dry dock was made a hundred years ago that’s still functional today.
I also wonder how it manages to, well, stay out. ‘Round these parts where I live if you drain a swimming pool and don’t refill it immediately during the rainy season the force of ground water will dislodge and/or destroy the pool. It’s not uncommon for people to need their pool rebuilt because the bottom popped up or the sides caved in……so I’m curious how massive dry dock manages these forces.
Last but not least what’s the difference between a graving dock and a regular old dry dock?
Bonus curiosity: I find myself wondering about the dewatering process for the dry dock, specifically the electric pumps needed for that huge volume of water. They must be massive.
Graving dock is same as a regular dry dock. If you got time, read 152 page UFC 4-213-10. Easy to find with google.
Ryan, not sure you have. But a video on your career would be interesting. How you became BB62s curator and your prior jobs. Love all the videos. Thanks
Amazing the 103 year old caisson on #3 dry dock still working. Google search stated it was built in 1921. ( like walking encloycopidia hard working Ryan stated at 4:50 ). Heard two things back in the early 1970's that the Philly Naval yard was not able to construct any nuclear ships. Heard but never know if was true they did not want a nuclear ship be built in back then in the third largest city in the USA. Hope Ryan takes a few week of much deserved overdue vacation when the NJ gets settled into Camden.
Another very interesting factoid. Ryan you never cease to keep us informed ..... and hooked!
Short vid but some really interesting info. I was one of those that thought it would swing out or something along those lines. The fact that it's pretty much a giant cork that floats outta the way is neat.
When you dewater a hydro electric station they put in what they call logs to isolate the turbine area. These logs do dot completely seal the turbine area. As they pump out the water they drop in hay and horse manure to seal the gate. It is very effective seal.
Learned something new about dry docks today
Ryan, nice video on Sunday Today. Great exposure for the ship.
Very interesting information, thank you.
Great topic. I never knew any of this.
Ryan, I'd love to see the dewatering pumps for the drydock and their power system?
Thanks for sharing this information all the door. Very smart engineering.
Received my Battleship New Jersey teak deck clock last Fri, Thanks
The clock is really nicely made and high quality, and I couldn’t be happier with the purchase. 👍
So Wise , Thank You. A tour inside the Caisson could be interesting
Its uh, a giant metal water tank. There's not much to it.
Very interesting! I had thought they cassion worked like shipping locks. Now I know how they really work.
What I wonder is how long does it take to dewater and flood a drydock like that.
Great explanation Ryan, on how the cassion works. I thought it would be more like a lock, similar to those on the Panama Canal.
Thank you for posting. I learned a great deal.
😎👍
I really wish I could have made it down there to see her in drydock. I'll definitely come see you once you get back to the pier.
Very interesting Ryan, i just assumed it was some kind of door.
Great video! Interesting info.
Thanks!
So much wish I had the money to fly from Australia to see NJ in the drydock, but being disabled is not so great for the bank account.
I would also like a Battleship zen garden.
Another fantastic vid Ryan and Co.💯🙏🇬🇧 🇺🇸 she's a speedboat 🚤, hard to imagine the energy needed to get her upto full speed.😮
Video.
@@kiereluurs1243 Donkeysmell
Ryan has gotten a lot better at doing these videos
Over hill, over dale. As we hit the dusty trail, And the Caissons go rolling along.
So cool!
So the thing the British Empire commando forces rammed an ex-American Wickes-class destroyer, the USS Buchanan now Town-Class Destroyer HMS Campbeltown I42 with 4.1 tons of Amatol into during Operation Chariot in 1942
I don’t understand… Did the British use an American ship to ram the Germans or did the British ram an American ship??? 😮😮😮😮😮
@@mm3mm3 The British Commandos sailed an obsolete 4 stacker into the St Nazaire drydock then blew it up
google Operation Chariot
@@mm3mm3They used an old American destroyer loaded with explosives as a torpedo to wreck a dry dock.
The raid at St Nazaire, a.k.a. "the Greatest Raid" blew up the caisson in Normandy during WWII.
m.czcams.com/video/07Zd0Oy8JyQ/video.html
She was one of the "4 pipers" sent to the UK as part of Lend Lease. It was lend with no expectation we'd get them back.
I wonder if the dry dock bottom smells bad, with all the leftover mud and river water remnants
Probably not as bad as seawater but they use pressure hoses to clear it and it settled down quite quickly .
Thats a huge cork. Is there a kitchen inside the topside of this caisson?
Very interesting
When are you planning on fleeting the ship off the blocks to finish the painting?
There is an area of river mud on the ship side of the caisson. When I went on the drydock tour the tour guide said that it is like quicksand and deep 😬 and to not walk over there cuz they would be able to pull you out
That's to keep knuckle draggers from falling into the sump.
I'd love a tour of the caisson. Would that be possible?
Hi Ryan!! I read about the IOWA explosion in 89. Comment something about shooting safety.
I learned what a graving dock was from watching The Hunt For Red October.
Can you show us the pump rooms for the dry dock??
How do they maintain the uderside of the caisson. Do they have to drydock it on the blocks as well?
🎵and those caissions go floating along 🎵
Wow, I had no idea how that thing worked.
Hi Ryan, would it possible to actually see the cassion/ship depart the dry dock when it happens in person? How close can you get?
this has been done this way for literally hundreds of years wherever a drydock is built. then you also have floating drydocks that submerge and a ship comes in then they pump the water out of ballast tanks and the whole dock floats up with the ship. there are transport ships as well that do that like the one that carried the vincenes after it had a huge hole blown into the hull by islamic extremists.
Can you say anything about the Spearhead class ships sitting among New Jersey and JFK? Are they just sitting inactive or getting upfits?
so, what do you grow in the Zen garden? - Reminder these naval caissons are very different than the Army or Marine Corp Caissons (ammunition trailers for the Artillery)
Who originally built the cassion? If they ever have to replace it, who would build a new one, or say it a new yard is built where do you get something like this?
Where do we find the link to the livestream for tomorrow?? am unable to locate,,
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Personally I hope you take New Jersey back out on June 21st. That will be our 39th wedding anniversary.
Or June 28th, one of our grandson's birthdays.
how do the room and lamps on the caisson get power? a jury-rigged extension cord?
Over hill, over dale, yada yada yada, caissons go rolling along...
so when they worked on the caisson did they dry dock it? 🙃
Are you blasting and painting above the water line as well or is that done another time ?
Knowing how water pressure works, I don't think "wow, the *only* thing holding the caisson against its seal is water pressure". I think, "I hope it's built to stand up to the pressure over a long haul.
Look at it.
Clever..
You need to bring that little greasy guy in the screen rowboat to help with the seals. Maybe not.
What keeps the Caisson upright when it’s floating and the tug is moving it? What keeps it from tipping over?
Ballast
If you wanted to deny your battleship a dry dock would Campbeltown be your first choice?
The Submarine Cod doesn't have a zen garden... (Jiggle the handle) it's just a leaky toilet
The Battle of New Jersey Cod
Can we see inside the passion please
Ryan, is it equipped with its own generator or do they hook it to shore power? Learn something new every time I watch your videos.
"It"?
Is the Chiasson still flooded right now?
it is flooded to 'sink' it into position at the end of the drydock. if it were not flooded, they float.
@@mazwa2007: When it’s wedged, like now, it *wouldn’t* (?) be able to float…? Just wondering if tons of water weight stresses it out when wedged?
Forgive me Ryan for what I am about to edit that intro to.
I heard it as Kson
Ok so the caisson can be maintained on the front and back, but what about when it needs maintenance on the ends or the bottom? Do you have to drydock the caisson? lol
Caissons like this can be drydocked, happens all the time
@@BattleshipNewJersey funny to think about and to picture, but it makes sense
Plese record the reflating of. The battle ship I what to see that
but does the caisson keep rolling along? 😁
i'll be here all week, try the veal....
@@sibhuskyguy And don’t forget to tip the waitstaff!
Wait you can't just drop that the shell plate has worn away to 1/4 inch and there's been miles of caulk found and then change the subject!
Check out our other videos, we've done whole episodes on both
And the caissons go rolling along... oh wait, wrong service.
BB zen garden 🪴🚢 🍺
Battleship Zen Garden….😂😂