How Ships Avoid Disaster At Sea

I know this video is not about the Titanic. Couldn't the officer on watch have asked to keep the Stbd engine full shead and telegraphed for the the Port engine full astern? This manouver might have swung the Titanic far enough to port to clear the iceberg. Just asking.

Radar IS a type of light, the same as the spotlights you mentioned in use during WWII. Radio waves are the precise exact 100% same thing as visible light. They both exist on the same spectrum (the electromagnetic or “EM” spectrum), with radio being a slightly higher frequency than visible light.

The EM spectrum is enormous, encompassing everything lower frequency than visible light, like x rays, gamma rays and ultraviolet, and everything higher frequency like infrared, microwave and radio. The visible part- the stuff we can see with the Mark 1 Eyeball- is about 4 thousandths off the whole spectrum. Radio is about 30x times larger.

So in a very real sense, radar IS a headlight.

have you done a video on the ss atlantic and I just missed it?

Love my friend Mike Brady

great lakes freighter have spot lights on the bow. they shined on me a few times when I was out fishing it had heat to it like the sun and so Brite you could not see anything. so I can see how it would mess up vision.

The Titanic, Andrea Doria, Edmund Fitzgerald, Samina, El Faro, and Bayesian Super Yacht.....😢🙏

Also ice breakers need lights cuz they cannot go through all types of ice

Intro is badass

OMG I didn’t realize Australians pronounce aluminum like the British. You just get sexier with every video. 😘

Can you make a video on the S.S. United States

By not hiring Lesbian captains just to be trendy.

Looking at you New Zealand...

There's one safety feature that always works !

....Not getting on a ship/boat EVER

On the ship i worked at we had a inflatable raft that could fit about 300 people. With food and water, no lifejacket.

Why does he keep calling the Evergreen the Evergiven?

Gumby suit.....

Nothing about sonar beacons?

USNavy salvage ships had carbon arc spot lights.

Avoid Battle of Jutland Cordite traces from Magazines go Guns. (Nitroglycerin in inflammable cases.)

I was a Navy lookout. The Navy, unlike cruise ships, runs topside black-out and we got the same night vision training. When you're 100's, or even thousands of miles from the nearest city the sky becomes incredibly beautiful! I remember transiting the heavily trafficked Strait of Gibraltar in the daytime. The conditions for “looming” were right ( cold air over our ship and hot air over the horizon}. I spotted dozens of contacts over the horizon and beyond the range of our radar. The officer on the bridge Was astonished that we could receive visual before radar. Eventually he told me to keep these contacts to myself, it was just too much work keeping track of all of them, lol.

Because of the ubiquity of artificial light, especially the new ultra high Blue content LEDs, very few people have ever experienced their own innate night vision. Very Sad.

Take a shot everytime Mike says "Night vision"

Very nice video! Although you didn't get the lights completely right.
The top light has a forward arch of 225 degrees, so you would see red plus white when it goes from right to left from your position. Only when the ship is shorter then 50 meters, otherwise it would have 2 white top lights, one high in the middle or back and one lower then the other one on the front/bow. When you are outside the 225 degrees arch of the the top light(s) you'd be in the stern area of the target ship, where another white light is with an arch of 135 degrees. And then there are loads of other light combinations for fishing vessels (several options), restricted maneuverable (several options), towing/tugs, mine sweepers, dredgers, pilots, etc. And then there are area specific lights, like the blue light when carrying hazardous materials when entering / leaving Rotterdam harbor.

It is possible to see the direction a ship is going by looking at the lights you can see, but also how far away the top lights are from each other for example.

About the eyesight at night, we had to wait 10min on the bridge, which was completely dark during the night, before we were allowed to take duties. At first you see nothing and bump into everything. After 10min you can see so much around you, on the bridge but also 12 nautical miles away. Whenever we needed a light to look into the charts for example, we only use very dim red lights so our eyes wont adjust too much to it and we keep most of our dark vision.

wow tenthousand thats the population on the town i live in, and i have one of those immersion suit have it when i worked on a small fishing boat

Have you considered a video about the history of ship radio communications? Or am I just super-nerding because I'm into amateur radio? Thanks for being our friend!

English is the only language I know. But I can only understand about half of what you're saying. Please take a course in Speech and Public Speaking.

It was an unusually dark night, so they decided it was best to go full steam ahead... Brilliant!

What about modern equipment like light amplifiers or IR-lamps and goggles? This way some personnel could use spotlights but those without IR-Goggles wouldn't lose their night vision? Is that less useful than I think or just so situational that it isn't used much?

Great video! The insights into how ships navigate and avoid disasters are fascinating and well-explained. Really enjoyed learning about these essential strategies. Nice work!

R.A.N. Admiral of the Fleet Brady SIR!
Thank you for another well done, informative video.
From now on I...
1: Will know where my life jacket is.
2: Will know where my lifeboat station is.
3: WILL STAY OUT OF SHIPPING LANES! (Such as The Indiana Harbor and Ship Canal)
4: Realize that Ships (usually) DO NOT have headlights. I have to see them first, or I'll end up looking like a very wet deer in the...
But, again, thank you for good information.

Seriously though. Have you had any thoughts about the proposed sinking of The S.S. United States? A deal is in the works to have her turned into a diving and marine life reef. Okaloosa County, Florida thinks it will pump up the tourist visits to Destin - Fort Washington Beach by having the old girl sunk offshore as the world's largest reef. The S.S. United States Conservancy could not find the huge amount of overdue pier rent, so she no longer had a home at Philadelphia's Pier 82. She was ordered to leave her home of almost 30 years on September 12, 2024. A motion filed by The S.S. United States Conservancy on September 11, 2024 (I think?) wanted to keep the ship at Pier 82 until December of 2024. The motion must have been denied because the ship was scheduled to depart Pier 82 on October 28, 2024. Because of a tropical storm in the Caribbean, as of the evening of October 29th the ship still is tied to Pier 82. Moving her at high tide will be fun because she is "silted in" at her berth, and the 4 bridges she will have to pass under give her only very minimal clearance at low tide.
Would following the last voyage and final fate of the "raped and pillaged" husk of this once mighty (indeed some say the mightiest) Liner be a good "live" video, or just a heartache? She is scheduled to be towed to the port of Mobile Alabama for removal of toxic material and to make her Eco-Friendly.
I hope they can salvage the 5 bladed "screw" that now resides on her fantail.

I wonder what percentage of uncrewed, towed large hulks of ships actually make it to their destination. The two U.S. Navy vessels I served on did in June of 2014 and June of 1976.
Historically there are many ships that did not complete their last voyage.

I hope this information be to ye likin'.
By your leave, SIR!

Melka J F BT3
B55 1853

fletcher class mentioned :0

Long video but great stuff.

A known homosexual.... he knows his ships and history...

I have seen multiple river ships with head lights, my guess is, it's likely a similar reason to have them as the suez light.

Takes me back to survival at sea training in the Navy. Hours in cold water lol. I hate salt water

That was an interesting presentation on a shipping disaster that should have never happened. I recall the Chernobyl disaster as if it happened yesterday and yet I had never heard of the Admiral Nakhimov until today. As you stated in your video this disaster went all but unreported in Western Europe.

famous fishing story... theres a red and a green light what do i do? go between them, the channel markers also will be red and green, red on right while returning

Who’s scrolling through the comments while listening ?

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

It’s very. Very. Simple.
Greed over safety.
That’s all good night.

William Alden Smith could definitely smell icebergs

re headlights: I've seen spotlights in use on the Hudson River (Champlain Canal, by Saratoga NHP, a very dark area) in New York State, USA. The clearances at bends are tight and the maintenance boats (with barge) sometimes travel at night. The crews seem to use them to positively identify the banks and to check for any obstacles (snags, trees, etc.) that may cause an issue. That's a pretty unusual situation though.

I wonder if a ship could have small inflatable life rafts that would be a part of, or under every bed and chair, including a scuba dry-suit. Perhaps even a small scuba tank in case the person gets sucked under by a sinking ship.

"[The Suez canal] such a narrow body of water that one wrong move could result in stuck ships". Only if the Ever Given had listened to Mr. Brady's words.

“How do you stop a ship the size of the Ever Given?”
I mean, historically, parking a bit of Egypt in front of it has proven very effective.