How Not to dock a large ship.

[candcallen]

Sum Ting Wong !Ho Lee Fuk"

Hay now.

That's racist.

This isn't about the chicom response to covid.

This is about a shipping incident.

 

[BMF500]

Cruise ships have these thrusters and routinely dock on their own. Much more successfully than this guy did!

Close, tunnel.

 

[lightflyer1]

Tunnel in the bow and azimuth thrusters, which are pods housing propellers that can rotate 360 degrees and provide optimum maneuverability, in the stern.

 

[BMF500]

Really? I didn't know they had that kind of heavy dope. It's amazing what azimuthing thrusters can do.

 

[lightflyer1]

https://gcaptain.com/video-the-azipods-used-propel-the-worlds-largest-cruise-ships/



"On Royal Caribbean’s Oasis of the Seas and Allure of the Seas, the world’s largest cruise ships, the vessels are equipped with a tailor-made electrical propulsion system comprising three stern-mounted 20-megawatt (MW) Azipod propulsion units. The newer Quantum of the Seas uses two 20.5 MW Azipod XO2300 units, part of ABB’s new XO line."