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In today's Impossible Engineering... She
is the best, she is the biggest, and
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she will remain so.
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This is really a mind -blowing vessel.
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The world's largest heavy -lift crane
ship.
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She's a game -changer because of the
cranes, and they are really on the limit
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the engineering possibilities.
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Normally in this area you have 1 ,000
cubic meters of liquid gas at minus 160
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degrees Celsius.
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And the pioneering historic innovations.
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I'm currently shifting eight tons.
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Feel back at two.
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That may be impossible.
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Possible.
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The planet's oceans can often be a
perilous place to work.
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Waves, wind and rain make building
something at sea one of the most
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and dangerous engineering tasks around.
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Overcoming this hostile environment
takes a vessel with some extraordinary
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capabilities.
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Enter the Sleipnir.
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Named after a mythical eight -legged
stallion ridden by a North God, it's a
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154 ,000 -ton heavy lifting crane
megaship that's
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redefining how we build at sea.
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Sleipnir is the biggest semi
-submersible crane vessel in the world.
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Not only in size, length or width, but
also lifting capacity.
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We have two of the biggest cranes in the
world on board.
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That makes it the biggest and the
baddest.
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I believe that the Schleipnir is
absolutely one of the most complex
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built floating at sea.
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It's big, it's strong, it's fabulous.
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Longer than three A380 passenger jets
parked nose to tail.
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And wider than the Statue of Liberty
laid on its side.
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Beneath the surface, eight gigantic
thrusters propel it through the water.
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While almost 165 feet above, on the 130
,000 square foot reinforced deck,
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sits its crowning glory.
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Two record -breaking cranes.
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each capable of shifting the equivalent
weight of the Eiffel Tower, allow the
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Sleipnir to build or decommission oil
and gas platforms, as well as install
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gigantic wind turbines, all while
floating at sea.
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We are now in the central control room.
On all ships you would call this the
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bridge. From here we control navigation,
dynamic positioning, ballasting.
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safety, fire alarms, and it is the
communications hub of the ship.
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It's the responsibility of Captain Arjan
Udo to ensure the safety of the
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supersized ship and the 400 workers who
live on board.
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Sailing this ship is different from
normal ships. We're one of the widest
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in the world. She's very high. Sometimes
we call it an apartment building, only
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it's a really fast apartment building.
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The sailing in itself is not difficult.
It is all the other vessels around you
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that you need to keep an eye on.
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That's ferries crossing, people in
sailboats, sometimes an idiot in a
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Anything can happen. All you have to do
is watch out the window and don't run
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into things.
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With a top speed of around 14 miles an
hour, this floating behemoth can cross
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the Atlantic in less than a week.
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thanks to an innovative fuel system
hidden deep inside its eight giant
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At the moment, we are in one of the LNG
tank rooms. Our fuel, the LNG, is
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contained inside this tank at minus 160
degrees Celsius.
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This is the largest vessel capable of
running on either traditional marine
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diesel or liquefied natural gas, known
as LNG.
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For Joris Velgers and his team.
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This industry first means all new
challenges.
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Fuel tanks like these have to be kept at
a low temperature due to the fact that
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natural gas in nature is a gaseous form
and we have to condense it into a liquid
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to reduce the storage capacity.
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For an example, one liter of liquid gas
exposed in gaseous form to 600 liters of
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gas.
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But keeping a super cold liquid secure
while floating in the middle of the
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isn't an easy task.
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Looking upstairs, we can see that there
are wooden blocks.
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We use wood to prevent the minus 160
degrees radiating outside to the vessel
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structure. Because the vessel structure,
if it is touched with minus 160 liquid,
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it will become brittle.
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Okay.
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With the vessel currently empty of fuel,
Joris and his team have a rare
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opportunity to venture where very few
people have or will ever go.
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We are currently in the LMG tank. This
is a unique opportunity.
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Normally in this area you have 1 ,000
cubic meters of liquid gas at minus 160
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degrees Celsius.
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downstairs two of my men are dismantling
one pump for periodical maintenance the
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tank is eight meters in diameter and 25
meters high where we're looking at is
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about 23 meters deep in the dungeons
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Out on the deck, a large proportion of
the electricity generated by burning the
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LNG will be consumed by the ship's two
gigantic cranes, designed in part by
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specialist technical superintendent Jori
Brouwers.
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So here you have a complete overview of
the crane. The top of the A -frame
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is 125 meters above the water, and if
the boom is fully up, It's 170
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meter high.
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This whole crane is only operated by one
man.
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He's sitting in a control cabin
connected to the crane, so he has a good
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overview of everything.
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It's really amazing engineering.
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However, creating such a vast vessel
poses many seemingly impossible
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challenges.
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How can a floating structure remain
upright as it lifts the equivalent of 35
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passenger jets into the air?
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To design and build a vessel that can
lift 20 ,000 tons is one of the most
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difficult things in the world.
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I think you can compare it to sending
someone into space.
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How do you engineer a crane that can
rotate even with a load attached?
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The loads that occur on the structure,
they are immense.
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And keep up to 400 workers safe as they
carry out some of the most dangerous
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tasks on the planet.
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You have big waves, lots of wind, so
it's really a difficult environment to
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these type of jobs.
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To achieve this, engineers will need to
draw on inspiration from the pioneers of
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the past.
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Wow, look at it. What an amazing piece
of technology.
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Here it goes.
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This is a beautiful system, but it has
one problem.
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The door is closed.
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I'm so nervous.
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This is the Sleipnir.
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The largest heavy lift crane vessel in
the world.
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Designed to shift gigantic pieces of
energy generating infrastructure.
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Its two record -breaking cranes make it
unlike anything else at sea.
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Weighing roughly 150 ,000 tons, it's 10
times heavier than the Brooklyn Bridge.
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And from the waterline to the top of its
cranes, it stands more than 230 feet
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taller than the London Eye.
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But propelling a vessel of such
monumental proportion through the water
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enormous challenge.
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When you're sailing or want to go
sailing, you need to increase power.
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Now, all the equipment here is big. This
thruster is 5 .5 megawatts, which is
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about 8 ,000 horsepower.
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You have eight of those. They are being
fed electricity from the generators.
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Those are 12 ,000 horsepower each.
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Sleipnir is the most powerful vessel
I've ever sailed on. That's for sure.
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Below the central control center, deep
inside the main deck, are the Sleipnir's
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four engine rooms.
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Hey, can you start engine number 10?
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Because we need more power.
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Thank you.
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Now the pre -lubrication systems are
starting, and then the engine will come
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online. And it's up to engineer Joris
Velder to ensure that there's always
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enough power to go around.
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Very good.
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We are currently standing in engine room
number four.
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This is nice. It's running.
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It's spinning.
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In each engine room, we have three
diesel engines with derived generator.
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Each engine is good for 8 ,000
kilowatts.
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And all together, we have sufficient
power to provide a quarter of the city
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Amsterdam for power.
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The electrical power is used to propel
the vessel to operate the cranes. We
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accommodation for 400 people that also
need electricity. For example, your
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toothbrush will also be powered via this
electricity.
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Engineers may have found the solution to
propelling this megaship across the
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ocean. But once the Sleipnir and its
army of workers get to their
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how do they safely lift over 20 ,000
tons without a solid foundation?
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It's an enormous challenge for the
ship's designers, headed up by naval
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architect Sipke Sherman.
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When you're in the middle of the ocean,
of course, you're exposed to big waves,
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lots of wind, current.
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So when you lift a big load, you want to
avoid any damage. So you avoid damage
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by reducing the motions.
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How do you do that?
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Well, you have to have something
floating. And stable, of course, because
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lift something, then it wants to
capsize. Also, you lift it at a point
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up, so the vessel wants to tip over, so
you have to provide stability.
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Those are the kinds of things you have
to take into account.
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To keep a vessel upright in the water
while it lifts loads up to 22 ,000 tons
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a monumental challenge.
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Potentially you capsize, and actually
that's really what you want to avoid.
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To find a solution, the Sleipnir's
engineers must look to the innovations
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past.
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Engineer Sascha Koschlik is in the
northern German shipbuilding city of
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Well, just look at all the cranes over
there. They come in all shapes and
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Discovering an innovative piece of
maritime engineering.
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Well, look at it. What an amazing piece
of technology.
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This is the 177 -foot -tall Long Henry,
or Langer Heinrich, as it's known to the
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locals.
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I've never seen it from that angle, from
the water. That's just amazing.
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One of the oldest surviving floating
cranes in the world, it was
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for the time.
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Designed in 1905 by German engineers
August Beschum and Theodor Kietmann.
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The Long Henry's arched shape allowed it
to reach further than other cranes of
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the time, while an ingenious system
hidden deep within its pontoon allows it
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lift 100 tons without capsizing.
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To demonstrate, Sascha has prepared an
experiment.
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Now here I've got my crane attached to a
pontoon, just like in the background
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with the Langer Heinrich. And if we put
that in the water now like this, It's
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floating nicely, upright, it's perfectly
balanced, right?
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But if I put a little bit of weight onto
the boom, and I've got here prepared a
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little bucket with some rocks in here,
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if I attach that, then the whole thing
will just tilt over.
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And it will end up in a complete
disaster, as you can imagine here,
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So what can we do in order to
counterbalance it again?
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We need to put weight onto that side of
the vessel.
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And what better is there to use than
actually the water in which we float? So
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I've prepared here two ballast tanks,
basically, one that is only partially
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filled that goes onto the front, and
we've got one which is almost filled
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goes onto the back of the vessel.
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So we put that here, and the other one
goes right here.
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Here we go.
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If I now add the load to the front, what
we can see is it floats upright and
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it's nicely balanced.
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And that's exactly what they do in the
Lange Heinrich.
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On board, nine ballast tanks hidden deep
inside the pontoon of the Lange
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Heinrich can be filled with over 200
tons of ballast water.
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Wow, this is amazing.
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We're now right in the belly of the
crane.
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We've got ballast tanks behind those
walls on either side. And everything was
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done by that tiny little pump here on
the side, which has one horsepower,
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actually. And with all those pipes you
can see here, you could move the ballast
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water to either side of the vessel,
depending on what you actually wanted to
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lift.
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Having served in shipyards in Poland and
Germany, and after over seven decades
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of service, the Long Henry was finally
retired.
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It's quite amazing to think that it has
worked throughout the two world wars and
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has been shipped around Europe, and yet
here it is still floating, and when you
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look at it, it looks almost as good as
it did the day it was built.
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Back in the Netherlands, engineers have
taken the concept behind the Long Henry
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and enlarged it to
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astronomical proportions.
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Schleidmere is the biggest crane vessel
on Earth.
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It's 100 meters wide, 220 meters long,
and to the top of the crane, 200 meters
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high. The size of it, it's really
amazing.
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to ensure it doesn't capsize during a
lift.
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Engineers have designed an equally
supersized solution to balance the load.
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Underneath the waterline fit the ship
two giant pontoons.
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Inside them, 82 ballast tanks can be
pumped full of water, adding more than
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weight of an aircraft carrier to the
vessel and sinking it to a maximum depth
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almost 120 feet.
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The deeper it sits, the more stable it
gets.
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And also when we lift big weights, we
need to have counterbalance basically,
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which we do with water balance.
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Once the team is out in the middle of
the ocean, It's the responsibility of
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Captain Arjan Udo to ensure that this
process runs smoothly.
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This is where we do all ballast
operations for the vessel.
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What you see here is an overview of the
port side of the ship and then the
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ballast system. So you see tanks,
pipelines, and here you have what we
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pump room with the ballast pumps.
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And the ballast pumps we use to get
water in and out of the ship.
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Now we are 140 million kilos.
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When we're at working draft, 32 meters,
it's almost 300 million kilos.
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That makes the ship more stable for the
lift operations.
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The ballast system on the Sleipnir is
designed big, actually so big that we
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fill an Olympic -sized swimming pool
inside five minutes.
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In total, Captain Udo can pump on board
almost 210 ,000 tons of seawater.
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But this ship has a party trick.
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and that is our dynamic ballast system.
We can use it to balance the loads that
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we pick up better.
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And basically you have a connection in
the hull, water comes in, you use the
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pump to put it on the right location,
open the same valve, and you discharge a
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lot of weight very quickly.
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And that means we can use the ballast to
balance the loads on the vessel better.
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On board, 16 dynamic tanks allow the
Sleipnir to continuously adjust its
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Ballasting is controlled sinking.
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Sinking is something you tend to avoid
on a ship. It always gives you a weird
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feeling.
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This sophisticated system is key to
Sleipnir's lifting capacity.
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But it's just one of many creative
solutions necessary to make this one -of
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-kind vessel sail.
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To overcome some monumental challenges.
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Lifting a load is only half of the
battle.
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Engineers will look to innovators of the
past.
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The world around us will be a very
different place without this ingenious
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component.
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Kira Misleipnir is a marvel of
engineering.
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The largest ship crane in the world.
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capable of lifting the weight of 20 ,000
cars at once.
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The vessel's dynamic ballast system
allows operators to finely tune depth
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stability as they handle some of the
largest lifts in the world.
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Many decks below the control center,
deep inside one of the giant pontoons,
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it's up to engineer Joris Velders to
ensure that this controlled sinking
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system is in perfect working order.
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At the moment, we are in one of the
ballast tanks of the Sleipnir.
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The particular ballast tank is one of
the biggest, and it is about 6 ,000
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meters in size.
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And to give you a reference, this
comparison would be two times an Olympic
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swimming pool.
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It's unbelievable.
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There are a few ways to fill it up. You
can do it with free flooding by just
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opening the valves, and then by gravity,
they fill up.
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We also have eight...
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ballast pumps, and these pumps can also,
at high speed, fill it up.
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And getting the vessel empty to get a
sailing draft again, we use the same
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to pump it out again.
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This vessel, when sailing, has a draft
of around 12 meters. If we are doing
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normal operations, we can go to 32
meters.
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The dynamic ballast system maintains
vertical stability.
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But Captain Udo and his team also need
to maintain Sleipnir's geographic
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orientation once the enormous vessel is
in place.
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At sea, you have influence on the ship.
You have wind, you have waves, you have
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current that tends to move the ship.
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But when you're building a platform, you
want to stay in the same position.
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To do this, they rely on advanced GPS
and sensor information.
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We keep the Sleipnir in position by
handing control of the thrusters to a
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computer system.
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So it calculates forces on the ship, and
then it calculates a solution, how it
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should get from where it is to where it
needs to be.
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The accuracy of the system on a ship of
this size is within 30 centimeters.
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If there's a bit more wind, maybe 50
centimeters.
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It stays within that footprint for weeks
on end if you want to.
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But once in position and ready to lift,
the team faces another challenge.
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The ship's two vast cranes need to be
able to rotate 360 degrees, even with
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10 ,000 tons hanging from them.
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It's up to Technical Superintendent Jori
Brouwers to find a solution.
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So to lift 10 ,000 tons is even more
impressive if you consider the forces
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occur on the structure, they are
immense.
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Lifting a load is only half of the
battle.
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When you have the load lifted, you also
need to be able to rotate the cranes to
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position the load where you want to put
it.
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So how do you rotate a crane with such a
heavy load attached?
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Could a solution be found in the
innovations of the past?
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All right. Take her up, Paul.
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Physicist Susie Sheehy is in the heart
of the English countryside, finding out
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if she's got what it takes to be a
miller.
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Wow. Well, it's a great view up here.
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I can really feel the wind when I get up
this high.
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And discovering an engineering solution
hidden in an unlikely location.
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So on these big structures, this wind,
I'm going to try and put one of these
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enormous canvas sails so that the
windmill can catch the wind.
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Built in 1632, Chesterton Mill is one of
the oldest operating examples left in
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the country.
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The wind is up, so I think we're going
to give it a spin. So, Paul, can we head
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back up? Thank you.
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We're excited to see this turn,
actually.
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Oh, here it goes.
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So at the moment, the wind is coming in.
It's hitting the sails.
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They're tilted at a slight angle, and
that creates this turning motion, which
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really quite beautiful.
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But it has one problem, and that is as
soon as the wind changes direction, it's
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going to grind to a halt.
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So what we're going to need to do...
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is change the direction of the windmill
so that we can pick up the wind again
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and keep going.
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But how do you rotate a structure that's
fixed firmly to the ground?
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The solution lies in an ancient
innovation.
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In 1588, Italian engineer Agostino
Ramelli published designs for over 100
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devices capable of pumping or raising
water from wells.
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And deep in his sketches, lies the
solution to the wind problem faced by
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engineers at Chesterton Mill.
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Oh, wow.
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Oh, this is great.
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So I'm now right at the top of the
windmill structure, and over my head is
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cap. To get it operating in an optimal
way, we need as much wind as possible,
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which means we need to rotate the cap
towards the direction of wind.
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But that's not going to be easy because
this is a massive, heavy wooden
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structure.
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Weighing a whopping eight tons, rotating
the cap is only possible thanks to
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Ramelli's ingenious solution.
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So the way it works is there are two
rings around the outside, one here
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to the cap on the roof and one attached
to the mill, and in between are the
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rollers. So what this system allows is
that the cap, which is circular, can
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rotate while the mill stays still.
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Inside the cap, the giant wooden roller
bearing connects into a system of gears
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that allow the miller to manually rotate
the position of the sails.
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Ensuring no matter what direction the
wind is blowing, the mill is always
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operating at optimum speed.
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Right, so let's give this a go. So if I
turn this wind, it's going to turn the
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gear system, transfer through here, and
hopefully we'll turn this eight -ton
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cap. above my head.
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Apparently, it takes about 20 minutes
for someone stronger than me to
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turn the cap through 90 degrees.
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I don't think I like that one.
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I'm currently shifting eight tons with
this.
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Oh, it feels like it too.
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Oh, there's no way I could have been a
miller.
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Romelli's designs were instrumental to
the development of the roller bearing.
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An innovation that has helped shape the
modern world.
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The roller bearing is an essential
engineering component that most of us
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take for granted today.
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But it's used in manufacturing, in
construction, in the energy sector. The
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around us will be a very different place
without this ingenious component.
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From a 17th century mill to the biggest
and most advanced ship crane in the
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world. The team behind Sleipnir.
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This roller bearing is the biggest in
the world.
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Will need to take Ramelli's idea and
supersize it.
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When you see it rotate for the first
time, it's really impressive.
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17th century visionary Agostino Ramelli
inspired the roller bearing system that
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makes the remarkable rotating cranes on
Hirama Sleipnir possible.
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On board the Sleipnir, Jori is getting
up close to the world's largest
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incarnation of Ramelli's innovative
technology.
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So now we are inside the crane top,
which is the connection piece of the
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to the crane.
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And next to us, we see the roller
bearing.
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Yeah, which makes it possible for the
crane to rotate.
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This roller bearing is the biggest in
the world and has a diameter of 30
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It's really a unique piece.
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So the whole roller bearing is built up
from segments, and within the bearing
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there are...
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5000 small roller elements that make it
possible for the crane to rotate.
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The bearing consists of two rings.
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The lower section is connected to the
vessel, while the top is joined to the
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bottom of the crane.
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When the rollers are added, the system
allows 360 degrees of rotation.
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In the past, on similar cranes, bogey
wheels were used, where the crane
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on like a train track.
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But that means that you will use a lot
of steel and reinforcement.
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So by going back to the roller bearing
design and just expand the size, we made
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it possible to rotate the whole crane,
which weighs 9 ,000 tons, very smoothly
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on the bearing.
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And actually the crane can rotate within
two minutes.
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By implementing the roller bearing
system, the team has made it possible
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two main cranes on board to be able to
lift more than they weigh.
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When you see it rotate for the first
time, it's really impressive.
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Alongside the roller bearing, over 40
miles of steel rope allows the Sleipnir
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lift loads 420 feet into the air.
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allowing giant structures to be built at
sea faster than ever before.
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And floating off the coast of Israel,
Sleipnir recently attempted her toughest
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lift to date.
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After days of planning and positioning,
a vast platform weighing a massive 16
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,860 tons was successfully raised.
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And then moved into place.
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Setting a new world record for a
floating crane lift.
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That's incredible. You hear the engines.
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You see the boom going up.
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It's just amazing.
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Engineers may have built the two most
capable cranes at sea, but now they face
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their most important challenge.
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Safety of the crew on board is the most
important thing to us.
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But keeping up to 400 crew members safe
in these difficult conditions is a major
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challenge.
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We are exposed to different risks. We
work on a ship that moves. It's at sea,
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you can have bad weather.
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We lift very, very heavy things.
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We work with heavy equipment.
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We work with big cranes, so we are
exposed to a lot of different risks that
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won't face on shore.
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If we have to abandon ship, yeah, then
we are faced with a big problem.
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Because getting people off a ship at sea
in an ocean is one of the more
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difficult things there is.
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It's a problem that's made much more
difficult when your deck is situated
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100 feet above the waterline.
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Jumping in the water from this height of
the ship, That's really a lost resort.
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The absolute lost resort.
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So could a life -saving solution lie in
the innovations of the past?
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Launching in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, go!
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The Hirama Sleipnir, a billion -dollar
heavy -lifting crane megaship, capable
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traversing the planet's oceans and
lifting the equivalent of over 30 A380
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passenger jets.
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It takes up to 400 crew members to
operate this monster vessel. And in the
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of a disaster at sea, they need a way to
safely escape.
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But with the deck often situated up to
115 feet above the water, the usual
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lifeboat launch system isn't an option.
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In Cork, in the south of Ireland, deck
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officer Stephanie Hyde is discovering
another mechanism that's been in use for
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over 100 years.
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It offers an alternative to open -top
lifeboats that are lowered mechanically.
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On a vessel as big as the Sleipnir, the
time it takes to discharge a lifeboat
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using a winch could be the difference
between life and death.
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This type of escape system obviously
works, but as ships and facilities got
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larger and even more dangerous,
engineers had to find a system that got
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faster and farther away from danger.
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Luckily, one man was working on a
solution.
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In the 1960s, Dutch marine engineer
Joost Verhoef designed an ingenious new
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system for saving lives at sea.
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So this is what Verhoef came up with.
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It's a fully enclosed, free -fall
lifeboat.
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By opting for a gravity -powered launch,
Verhoef's design was capable of getting
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people to safety faster than ever
before.
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When the ship is at sea, this hook here
is the only thing keeping the boat
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secure.
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Once the coxswain pulls the release
handle, this hook will go up and release
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lifeboat into the sea and away from
danger.
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And by fully enclosing the boat,
escaping crews were protected from fire
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falling debris.
457
00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:39,140
So this is the inside of a free -fall
lifeboat. On my right -hand side here,
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have the coxswain seat, where he can
start and stop the engine. It also has
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00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:45,720
own self -contained air system.
460
00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:50,740
So in the event of the ship being on
fire, we'll be able to breathe in fresh
461
00:35:50,740 --> 00:35:53,180
rather than any toxic gases or smoke.
462
00:35:53,670 --> 00:35:55,370
which may be coming from the outside
environment.
463
00:35:55,830 --> 00:36:00,810
The great thing about this design of
lifeboat is that it's much safer and
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00:36:00,810 --> 00:36:01,810
much more efficient.
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00:36:01,970 --> 00:36:06,270
As soon as you press the release handle,
you're in the water and you're away
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00:36:06,270 --> 00:36:07,430
from danger straight away.
467
00:36:08,330 --> 00:36:12,970
But this increased speed of launch
creates a problem when the lifeboat
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00:36:12,970 --> 00:36:13,970
water.
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00:36:14,280 --> 00:36:18,120
When the coxswain is happy, he'll pull
the lever and release the lifeboat,
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00:36:18,120 --> 00:36:21,980
will travel at a very high speed into
the water. It is possible that it will
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00:36:21,980 --> 00:36:26,100
capsize, but there's a ballast system in
it that will ensure it always rights
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00:36:26,100 --> 00:36:27,100
itself afterwards.
473
00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:34,480
Situated in the hull of each boat,
liquid -filled ballast tanks and
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00:36:34,480 --> 00:36:39,580
foam ensure that however the vessel hits
the water, it always rights itself to
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00:36:39,580 --> 00:36:40,580
the correct position.
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00:36:45,550 --> 00:36:50,050
To understand the engineering brilliance
behind Bear Hoof's design, Okay, I'm
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00:36:50,050 --> 00:36:51,050
all strapped in.
478
00:36:51,530 --> 00:36:55,250
Stephanie is strapping in for a brief
but extreme ride.
479
00:36:56,730 --> 00:36:57,870
I'm so nervous.
480
00:37:00,030 --> 00:37:02,290
The door is closed.
481
00:37:04,070 --> 00:37:05,930
So we're almost ready to go.
482
00:37:07,470 --> 00:37:13,550
Launching in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1,
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00:37:13,890 --> 00:37:14,890
launch!
484
00:37:28,380 --> 00:37:30,760
Oh my God, that was unreal.
485
00:37:31,260 --> 00:37:33,340
We went fully under the water.
486
00:37:34,300 --> 00:37:38,680
We can now get away from danger really
fast and safely.
487
00:37:39,300 --> 00:37:44,560
You see, we're in seconds. We're about
100 metres away from the jetty already.
488
00:37:44,760 --> 00:37:48,540
Much faster than if we were using the
open lifeboat.
489
00:37:50,140 --> 00:37:52,640
It's tough. Can be used in all weather.
490
00:37:53,050 --> 00:37:55,570
And most importantly, it gets you out of
danger quickly.
491
00:37:55,850 --> 00:37:57,230
That was so much fun.
492
00:37:57,470 --> 00:37:59,310
What an amazing piece of engineering.
493
00:38:11,630 --> 00:38:16,610
This pioneering lifeboat system has been
in use on oil rigs and large merchant
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00:38:16,610 --> 00:38:18,370
ships since the 1980s.
495
00:38:19,370 --> 00:38:21,350
But to outfit the Sleipnir...
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00:38:22,380 --> 00:38:25,360
Of course, we hope that we never have to
use these boats for real.
497
00:38:26,060 --> 00:38:29,360
Engineers will push Barehoof's
innovation to its limit.
498
00:38:29,860 --> 00:38:32,920
There's no free -fall lifeboat that has
been launched with people from this high
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00:38:32,920 --> 00:38:33,920
up.
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00:38:35,620 --> 00:38:40,340
Inspired by Dutch inventor Joost
Barehoof, the free -fall lifeboat system
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00:38:40,340 --> 00:38:44,780
board mega -crane Hirama Sleipnir is one
of the most advanced in the world.
502
00:38:49,930 --> 00:38:55,010
Should Arjan and the crew need to
abandon ship, a fleet of free -fall
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00:38:55,010 --> 00:38:56,870
is ready to ensure their safety.
504
00:39:02,610 --> 00:39:08,050
We are here at lifeboat station 123, and
what you see here are our free -fall
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00:39:08,050 --> 00:39:11,970
lifeboats, our means of escape in case
of an emergency.
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00:39:15,830 --> 00:39:20,200
If we launch this lifeboat, With people
inside, we would be breaking a world
507
00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:23,920
record. Because no free -fall lifeboat
has been launched with people from this
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00:39:23,920 --> 00:39:26,800
high up, which is about 55 meters at the
moment.
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00:39:29,600 --> 00:39:35,080
Located above the deck, nine free -fall
lifeboats with space for a total of 630
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00:39:35,080 --> 00:39:38,460
people are ready to launch 24 hours a
day.
511
00:39:43,180 --> 00:39:46,200
Of course, we hope that we never have to
use these boats for real.
512
00:39:46,730 --> 00:39:49,870
We only exercise with them. We don't
want to use them in real life.
513
00:39:52,730 --> 00:39:56,370
Each lifeboat is equipped with the
essentials to survive at sea.
514
00:39:57,710 --> 00:40:01,430
These lifeboats come equipped with quite
a few things.
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00:40:02,030 --> 00:40:03,070
There's water inside.
516
00:40:03,490 --> 00:40:04,550
There's food inside.
517
00:40:04,830 --> 00:40:06,450
There's also fishing tackle inside.
518
00:40:06,850 --> 00:40:10,370
There's means to rescue, to alert
people. There's a radio.
519
00:40:10,710 --> 00:40:14,370
We have fuel for the boat for 24 hours,
so we can sail actually.
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00:40:15,070 --> 00:40:17,110
about 150 miles from location.
521
00:40:18,390 --> 00:40:23,710
I've never been on board in a free -fall
lifeboat, but what I understand from
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00:40:23,710 --> 00:40:26,990
those who have, it is quite a
rollercoaster ride.
523
00:40:39,210 --> 00:40:42,290
It's a feat of engineering few thought
possible.
524
00:40:43,560 --> 00:40:48,900
Sleipnir for me is really a mind
-blowing vessel. Seeing the cranes
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00:40:48,900 --> 00:40:50,880
I have designed makes me really proud.
526
00:40:57,500 --> 00:41:03,940
By looking to great pioneers of the past
for inspiration, adapting their ideas,
527
00:41:04,280 --> 00:41:10,480
refining their designs, and overcoming
monumental challenges.
528
00:41:11,190 --> 00:41:16,470
I'm a naval architect, so you can
imagine that building such a big vessel
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00:41:16,470 --> 00:41:20,650
naval architect is like a once -in -a
-lifetime dream. I'm really excited
530
00:41:20,650 --> 00:41:22,290
the whole thing we've done with
Sleipnir.
531
00:41:24,210 --> 00:41:30,150
Engineers have constructed something
radical and succeeded in making the
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00:41:30,150 --> 00:41:33,230
impossible possible.
533
00:41:35,790 --> 00:41:37,830
It's the best feeling to be captain of a
ship.
534
00:41:38,170 --> 00:41:40,330
I've wanted to do that since I was a
little kid.
535
00:41:41,839 --> 00:41:45,280
For me, nothing compares to this one
because this is my ship.
536
00:41:45,720 --> 00:41:48,960
This is the one I was involved with.
This is the one I helped build.
537
00:41:49,560 --> 00:41:51,400
And this is the one I took on sea
trials.
538
00:41:51,920 --> 00:41:53,380
Yeah, that makes me really proud.
539
00:41:53,430 --> 00:41:57,980
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