ALP Defender engineroom

[@akimbojimbo3763]

Don't think I'll ever tire of watching this video. At least my 10th time in the past couple years. Always have found the clever engineering that makes a commerical ship work, and excel at tasks, far more interesting than a tour of luxurious yacht cabins. At least this vessel is no stranger to strong seas

[@tautren227]

Is it a towing ship ?

[@ThyPredator]

Have you seen this ? Big towing job for sister tug. kzbin.info/www/bejne/amTGpKuDl6lor80

[@k9killer221]

This is a great video. Very few people realise there is a whole world down there in the engineering spaces of a ship. My favourite place to visit.

[@ralphaverill2001]

Machinery! Glorious machinery! Thank you for letting the music of the machines come through. All that machinery working together is, I know, an every day occurrence, but it is also a profound symphony that is the result of many generations of human endeavor and ingenuity. Bravo, humanity!

[@savagemako17]

Absolutely !! Everything screams ENGINEERING!!!! Considering the engineering eye candy going on here...what makes it even more remarkable in my mind is that that pretty much everything you are looking at here...needs to be there. A lot of talented people sweated countless details in the planning of this beautiful beast. What a masterpiece! While the rocket scientists get to play with what are probably considered the most advanced and exotic engineering marvels...to my eye, this ship is way more fascinating than the space shuttle! Thanks for the tour...great video! Smooth sailing!!

[@matthewbracht940]

All so clean and well maintained. Surgery could be preformed anywhere in those spaces. Amazing.

[@Largecar2165]

Incredible how clean it is

[@christopherkemmann5886]

Watching this the intricacy and complexity of the machinery makes this engine room look more like the inside of a modern manufacturing facility than what I'd ever expected. From working in manufacturing I can recognize many control systems, automation components, etc. A very clean ship she is!

[@JanDootjes]

She sure is, like the rest of the ALP Tugs. When I recorded this vid the vessel was just a few months old. Thanks for your kind comment, Jan.

[@andypandy4798]

Defender has been at anchor just below our house near Falmouth UK for a couple of weeks. (Xmas 21). Fascinating video to see what's going on there as it swings round on the anchor, currently SW Force 7. Happy New Year guys!

[@thedoctor2102]

Watching this made me realise the true size and scale of large cargo ships. This engine room is very, very big and then the engine rooms in some of these large container ships are just monumental.

[@peet4921]

Ehh, this was the Tugboat's engineroom.

[@repalmore]

Absolutely amazing how much machinery is needed to support a ship.

[@jimnunes6286]

Great video, like the labeling of the differenting locations on the ship and no garbage music. The ship should sound like a ship!!!

[@richardlewis6630]

What a Vessel, and perfectly maintained well done fellas.

[@victorhex6380]

Dang, this is great. The boat is cleaner than many kitchens.

[@johnstreet797]

That is the cleanest most squared away engine space I have ever seen. Makes me want to go to sea again, almost.

[@bobw7066]

What a fantastic feat of engineering, absolutely mind blowing.

[@bobeden5027]

Lots of bright colours, hey? On Nevasa all was white or cream or silver so we painted the valve handwheels to look like flowers!

[@claudebouchard3231]

This vessel is either two hours old or the crew and capt. take immense pride in their vessel.....the absolute definition of " shipshape". You could probably eat off the deck of that engine room....wow!

[@GWRProductions-kg9pt]

there's one way to find out, google it

[@davo8955]

Brand new in the video

[@stephhaug3316]

Thank you 4 the upload! Im a big Fan of these bulkybow- ships 👍👍

[@Waterman-wv2jx]

Thank you! Amazing ship. So new and clean. A real thing of beauty.

[@williamgibb5557]

Clean and well organized like it should be! Proves that it can be done and probably without the bosses orders! Great video.

[@repentuklondonwatchman1373]

THE TOTALITY Of ENGINEERING PERFECTION.

[@ratherbeflying101]

Incrediable, complexity is amazingly detailed.

[@johnfry9010]

That is one big complicated machine , Thank you for posting !

[@unixtohack]

damn right, adorable technology

[@adrivanderster9467]

complicated???? just a normal engineroom

[@TheTwinkyehzZ]

Yeh alright mate, please list everything shown in the video if its just normal...

[@박재길-u8r]

9 .. .....

[@steve1978ger]

Every complicated machine is made of simpler machines :D - Very nice to see in a ship, where everything is accessible for maintenance, unlike a modern car, or other consumer product

[@MrAli171]

Nice engine room, I was a chief engineer on factory trawlers for 20 years still miss it thanks for posting the video

[@StuartZiane]

I was a chief engineer on tugs, dredgers and AHTSVs, having started out on the box boats. I miss going to sea so much! I'm now a design engineer, but it's not the same :(

[@bjre.wa.8681]

@@StuartZiane I was a chief engineer as well, and, DO NOT miss it. All I see in this video is over the top complicated HIGH maintenance machinery. I don't know what the manning on engineering staff is but there would a marathon gear box oil changes compressor oil changes; refrigeration compressor oil changes. Never mind constant diddling with the Oily Water Separators. I've only scratched the surface of maintenance. I left the Ocean for a good reason and haven't looked back.

[@poly_hexamethyl]

Fascinating video, thanks for posting! I would love to have a full explanation of what every single thing and control is and does. Of course, that would make the video hours long, but worth it! It's amazing the amount of "stuff" there is in the engine room of a ship this size. Think about it...in a little motorboat, everything fits into a single outboard motor. For a small tug/workboat, maybe there's an inboard engine, a genset, hydraulic steering gear, a compressor, bilge pumps. It just goes up exponentially from there. Amazing!

[@Texaca]

I wanna see the 10 Volume service Manual on a Blu-Ray disc 🤘

[@GreatDaneLoverz]

I've always wanted to do one last run as a crew member on a large modern ocean tug... never got my chance... i was a tankerman for 12 years (pumper or pumperman in some countries) on small sea tugs from 1100 to 3500hp Thanks for sharing

[@JanDootjes]

I sure could recommend it, it is nice working with new equipment 👌🏻

[@GreatDaneLoverz]

@@JanDootjes yeah, ive been on a few boats that were super new... i was mainly a "floating" tankerman... so i did all 62 boats that my company had and whatever tank barges they were assigned and their respective chemical cargoes... then i was the trainer on an old boat that we had for training deck hands and tankerman... but never got work on an ocean tug... especially for a company that really takes care of their crew and equipment...

[@dough9512]

@@GreatDaneLoverz Where would your crews mostly come from? Train any females?

[@dough9512]

@@JanDootjes What was your ship's horsepower? And with four engines, how many props did the ship have? And what was your draft?

[@JanDootjes]

@@dough9512 18.000 Kw, two props of 5 metres. Draft was about 7 metres.

[@anttiroppola4414]

Magnificent! And it just keeps going and going. Thanks

[@libenasukro]

Next time you turn on the faucet to get a drink of water or flush the toilet, to get rid of it, think about all the machinery behind that process and now cram it onto a ship. This amazing video really shows what it takes to sustain people in an environmentally sound manner in the middle of the ocean for long periods. For the untrained, lots of ways to die in those spaces! Incredible. I wonder how much smaller this vessel could be if it was design to operate without humans? I know it's not possible...yet, but incinerators, waste plant, water purifiers, refrigeration, heating, cooling, washing, kitchen, food storage, space for 35 crew. How much smaller would the boat be without all of that?

[@conantdog]

Beautiful thing to understand and maintain such a active complicated vessel 👍 you the man 👍

[@andrewrees8749]

I had no idea, there was so much equipment on a Tug , great video

[@mikemcduff427]

What a monster of a ship. Beautiful engine room. The winch spooling gear is huge. It looks like they were towing that cruise ship behind them.

[@felixthecleaner8843]

this is an awesome vid with hypnotic rhythmic beating of the engine....also liked the emptiness of the Control Room - where is everyone...how many people are needed to sail this behemoth about. Lastly, a beautifully clean ship - thanks for this vid!

[@JanDootjes]

Hey Felix, thanks for your kind comment. Really appreciate it! I was, together with my oiler, on duty that night. We had a crew of about 22 men onboard.

[@dough9512]

@@JanDootjes Sir, was any of that equipment made in China? Just curious. Wonderful video; amazing ship!!

[@JanDootjes]

@@dough9512 Hello Doug, No, the vessel was designed by a Norwegian company, owned by a Dutch company and build in Japan. Most of the equipment onboard is either from Norway, Holland or Japan. No Chinizium stuff there.

[@abdulnasir4178]

Watching this E/R tour video was such a nice feeling.. Awesome

[@paxwallacejazz]

This Hydrodynamic design innovative and efficient as it is scares me regarding the safety of marine mammals. Tugs already create huge suction into their giant props but your design enhances this already hazardous situation. I love the design on other levels though. Looks like an influence from auto racing ground effect.

[@michaelcaplin8969]

I wonder what would happen to you in this regard if you fell from the sides during voyage at cruise speeds?

[@petervogwill6499]

@@michaelcaplin8969 you would become FLOTSAM.... AND FISH FOOD....LOL

[@chriscpl]

I was at sea 40 years ago, not as much gear as this vessel. Love the noise. I miss being at sea. Good luck J.

[@JanDootjes]

Thanks man!

[@nucleonst]

The sound is just awesome!

[@BJK1715]

Can you imagine designing this ship? Sooo many systems!!! Crazy!!! No wasted space.

[@anthonykirkham6184]

Fantastic video of a. very complex system. Quite a contrast to my experience!

[@percival23]

Hands down the most impressive piece of equipment I have ever seen. And I would love to know this tug was designed with a snub nose type bow.

[@StuartZiane]

It's called the X-bow. The purpose is to reduce "slamming" that happens when a vessel with a conventional bow climbs over a wave and then "slams" into the water. X-bow makes rougher weather more comfortable for the crew (and machinery) because you don't feel like you're hitting a wall every time you hit a swell. Subsequently, there are reduced vibrations and improved power efficiency. In a nutshell :)

[@percival23]

@@StuartZiane Great Answer! Thank you.

[@basicbikesltd7226]

Brilliant Video, I've been building a model of this boat, but never was able to get detail of the inside or any plans, all done from photo. thanks for posting

[@xybermaster]

Very nice AHTS vessel. Good video. 👍🏾

[@joewoodchuck3824]

I never would have thought it takes so many electricals and mechanicals to run a ship.

[@666mrgene]

Same here

[@GWRProductions-kg9pt]

ship's company is only 35

[@OmmerSyssel]

Essential equipment is doubled for safety reasons. Even by our days relatively high educational level ~80 accidents at Sea is caused by humans controlling, or mismanaging, the equipment...

[@trumpingtonfanhurst694]

I googled ship name for exterior view; interesting how high the bow is compared to the very low stern. Thanks for the vid.

[@JanDootjes]

Yeah, it's called and X-bow.

[@Vagabondo-fs6qu]

Awesome video. Worked on Diving Support Vessels myself as a Marine Engineer. A lot of machinery crammed in with not a lot of space around to maintain it.

[@bogthing1]

Real nice tour, thank you

[@jamesdaple9951]

Boy those marine engineers had there work cut out for them designing this thing!!! Amazing!!

[@sirvere4840]

kinda wish there was some commentary as to what the use of everything was and did and the such, i love learning

[@onetruekeeper418]

That is one clean engine room.

[@olegk455]

So, lets say I am 40 and a land diesel heavy duty technician with exceptional knowledge of hydraulics, valves, actuators, motors and centrifugal pumps in the past. Also winches, hydraulic cylinders and other land stuff that mechanics deal with. Good with engine electronics and most electrical circuitry. Is it possible to get a job on the vessel like that without marine retraining at all? Is it worth the time to retrain myself to persuade this career path at 40?

[@tautren227]

Hello Oleg, at least you must pass the STCW. Standard basic seaman training just to work on board without any consideration of your task onboard.

[@rrg3740]

Noooo, minimum 4 years of school and thousands of euro's to pay your certificates. You have to begin as a third or even fourth engineer. Good salary for someone who is 25 years old but not for someone who is 40.

[@olegk455]

@@rrg3740 Thanks for the reply. That's what I figured plus a lot of things changed since I was working in Qatar a few years back. I am not longer even remotely interested in working that far or remotely, considering all the shit that is happening due to Cervesa sickness bullshit. I have a very good career going running a service truck close to home.

[@rrg3740]

@@olegk455 Yeah its problematic if you have a wife and children at home due to the long days at sea. Sailing is great way to improve your work experience and make a lot of money when your young. I am currently 2e engineer (26 years old) If I have enough money to buy a house and being able to take care of my wife and kids, the sailing days are over. Besides the cool work and traveling, due to ISPS you can not visit many cities. I have visited NYC, Miami, Singapore and many other great cities without being able to go to shore. If you have a contract for 3 months you will become depressed. I am Dutch and have applied at ALP but they only work with the MAFIA organisation named MARLOW. I believe I am to expensive for ALP as a Dutchman. Very sad after all ALP is a Dutch company.

[@Gin-toki]

Interresting video, thanks for sharing. Where does that tiny door at 12:01, right of the orange hose, lead to? Also is that ship shown at the end of the video on tow?

[@khalidmurii]

Amazing ... Just AMAZING Thank you for uploading this video

[@JanDootjes]

Thanks man!!

[@mrpete1972]

Great tour video, thanks for sharing, just hope the pirates aren't watching 😄 lol

[@JanDootjes]

Hope so too! Haha

[@benburra6194]

Captain my ass! You know who REALLY runs that ship? Who ever the gentleman are that run all those engineering spaces!...AND...KEEPS THEM RUNNING!

[@SuperGemma2010]

Love it, music to my ears

[@Jay-Kay-Em]

Amazing video, thank you.

[@dhewoyansyah5779]

This ship is assembled in Mitsui Shipyard Japan, i've worked there, it's a cool boat.

[@GWRProductions-kg9pt]

not according to her owners

[@behari5]

Awesome! The first dynamic positioned drill ship I worked on was the SEDCO 445 that was built at the Mitsui Shipyard half a century ago. They built great vessels.

[@behari5]

@@GWRProductions-kg9pt The Niigata Shipbuilding and Repair yard where the ALP Defender was built, is owned by Mitsui Ship building in Japan.

[@Gizmologist1]

Beautiful and CLEAN machine room! One thing though, it would be great if you could slow down the movement so wer can see the place without getting motion sick.

[@JanDootjes]

Thanks for the tip!

[@ManosKlados]

Fantastic Tug !!!

[@Dryootube]

awesome man!

[@willienolegs8928]

The machines ate the crew?

[@conantdog]

I'd say the plastic chairs are brilliant, safety orange there light and they can be stacked and gotten out of the way you want rolling metal chairs around the engine control room in a boat? I can see stationary chairs bolted to the floor for the control panel but aside from that removable lightweight stackable very practical. Maybe not super comfortable but this crew maybe doesn't sit around a lot 👍

[@village_ram]

At 00:20 , I didnt see any hatch coaming nor barricade for that ladder? Seems dangerous. I could be wrong.

[@Lensteiman]

I am wondering how big needs to be an engine room crew to operate and take care to all of these machinery and equipment.

[@peterjansen7854]

3plus3 or4

[@Texaca]

lots of stuff and Technology inside that ship, do you get a service Manual when it was built, or a laptop with all the schematics, blueprints and troubleshooting guides? I'm curious. There's no way, that one single person can master all that Hardware on that ship. It's impossible! Do you know, just how much energy that room consumes, starting @ 2:05 ? Probably x100 what my house consumes 😆

[@StuartZiane]

Actually... That's why marine engineers are so special! Yes, there is documentation and yes some machinery and equipment would be repaired by service engineers, but marine engineers have such an enormous amount of training and are typically educated to degree level before being certificated as watchkeepers. It's not about learning how every single piece of equipment works, though. It's about learning how to troubleshoot, etc. It's for this reason that the Chief Engineer is GOD on a vessel. The Master is like, I don't know, the Angel Gabriel, perhaps? I hope this helps. P.S. The generators (probably 3 or 4 of them) produce roughly 1000 kW each. There will also likely be shaft generators, which are on the propeller shafts between the main engines and the propellers) will probably be (at a guess) between 2000 kW and 3500 kW. (Former Chief Engineer, now a design engineer).

[@mpjopatv401]

Nice video

[@rabidbigdog]

What a work of art!

[@hamishcampbell988]

amazing how many water bottles are stashed around the various machinery spaces........

[@ledegraw]

What is the thermal oil used for, is it transferring engine heat, and is is used to heat the ship quarters?

[@MarcStjames-rq1dm]

Just wish you went around slower but cool amazing...... would love a guided tour!

[@humancattoy7767]

Beautiful.

[@9_19Ming]

love offshore tug 😍😍

[@lennyho7479]

Geez, all of that is just the engine room for a tug boat? Amazing. I wonder how many engineers/workers does it take to run this engine room?

[@JanDootjes]

Yes sir! All engine room, or engine room related. The vessel operates with 3 engineers, a electrician, a fitter, an oiler, two. Wipers and sometimes a cadet. Hope my comment makes sense to you :) all the best, Jan

[@lennyho7479]

@@JanDootjes Thanks for the reply. I used to work offshore rig and travelled on the supply/tug boats many times. I was once invited briefly inside the engine room to take a look at the actual engines. That was 25yrs ago. Apprarently the ALP is modern and much more sophisticated than those tug boats I had seen. Very informative indeed.

[@Ohmloud]

Great place to find a xenomorph ..

[@Romans--bo7br]

Global Elitists would certainly fit into that description / "species"!!

[@vandematram4833]

Is the engine room or any factory,,???

[@dough9512]

Is that all?? ☺

[@j.waarsailer6474]

Behoorlijk gecompliceerde installatie al met al. De Smit Rotterdam en de London waren aanzienlijk eenvoudiger.

[@rambojambone4586]

See the “incinerator ashes” drum?

[@yegorderun8966]

Nice review, Aquatuff 3E))) Good luck.

[@hawser27]

What a bunch of over kill. Can tow anything with two EMD mains and a couple detroit gennys. All that stuff looks fancy though... Good luck to ya man

[@hawser27]

Say what you want mate but countless Emd's and detroits are out there still rolling coal. I may be alittle bit old school but at least I'm not a clip board engineer like all these up and coming " big shots". Most of them Cant change a light bulb but they sure can talk about What they know. As matter of fact your comment sounds like the typical clip board engineer...

[@hawser27]

Hahaha at 34 I would like to think im far from a fossil. I got no problem with new shit ive worked plenty i just prefer older mechanical engines.

[@leonperry123]

Its just pumps and valves, pumps and valves! Would like to see and hear how noisy your sleeping quarters are.

[@JanDootjes]

It's allright, noise levels of cabins need to be approved by classification.

[@GWRProductions-kg9pt]

@@JanDootjes Vaseline & cotton wool will do the trick

[@peterbustin2683]

Great stuff ! Thanks..

[@Dankgamer97]

Nice video! I got a question, how many are there in the engine deparrtment onboard ships like this?

[@JanDootjes]

Chief engineer, 2nd engineer, 3rd engineer, electrician, fitter, oiler and 2 wipers.

[@Propellerschrauber]

It's the same as with us, only that everything is bigger, stronger and better on the ships of the Bavarian Mountain Navy.

[@dough9512]

Everyone knows that! I've often wondered how large in diameter your props are and how much they weigh. Any help there?

[@Propellerschrauber]

Some of our bavarian propellers are so heavy that Heinz Ollesch cannot lift them. And Heinz Ollesch can lift a lot. #HeinzOllesch

[@chrispollard6568]

I thought all you needed was a tank of fuel, an engine and a prop shaft with a propeller? How do maintain the reliability of such a complicated system?

[@nanba25]

Wow ! a several million dollar thing, and they had to make their own pulpit, very homemade like (@14:34)

[@stevenmetzger3385]

Great! Thanks!!!

[@christiandietz6341]

Riiiipleeey! They're coming out from the walls!!

[@lucianene7741]

So, two types of engines onboard this ship? Main engines burning HFO, and auxiliary engines using MDO?

[@JanDootjes]

Main engines can run on HFO and MDO and auxiliary running only on MDO

[@geombrehd]

@@JanDootjes 4 main engines. Are they paired to each shaft to run together or independently.....or both

[@nanba25]

Mmmmm… @13:03, we can see a manhole, almost totally blocked by a ladder. How can you get inside, if necessary ?

[@LeonAllanDavis]

I have no idea...you'll have to direct that question to a guy who has actually been in a "man hole"...

[@StuartZiane]

Ask nicely?

[@nanba25]

@@StuartZiane Yes ! but I wouldn't like to be be down there in case of an emergency, fire or water flooding…

[@StuartZiane]

@@nanba25 It's not that sort of manhole. As you can see there are quite a lot of nuts holding that inspection manhole cover in place, rather than dogs that would be used on other kinds of hatches. It's to provide access to a tank. I'm not 100% sure what the tank might contain, but as the pipes that appear to be coming out of it appear to have cooling sea water colour coding on them, that may be a clue. If they needed to get in there, they would remove the ladder. But as it's a confined space, you would need a permit, hence why I said "ask nicely" :) (I am a former Chief Engineer BTW)

[@offshoresparky]

Hi, man!! Very interesting videos on your channel , thanks a lot. What is your position onboard ?

[@JanDootjes]

I was third engineer on that vessel.

[@sjem618]

Plastic garden chairs in the control room? I heard some cowboy stories of ALP being out of money after all these newbuilds, maybe they were true after all. LOL

[@JanDootjes]

The vessel came just of the shipyard and the more luxurious chairs were still in pastic stored elsewhere. Don't just take those cowboy stories for granted ;)

[@nanba25]

Too bad the camera is panning much too fast, the image is just blurred most of the time. Captions OK (but what could be Fi-Fi ?…), but too few. As an architect, I think I recognize water heater systems (blue thick flanges with silver filling like sleeves, @3:26 for example, but am I right ? I noticed some beautiful parts of the plumbing system (@ 3:18 on the left, Y shaped twin tubes, half yellow, half white - God knows for what reason?) With some additional work, this could be an excellent video

[@claudebouchard3231]

Fi- fi...short for fire fighting

[@Lucius_Chiaraviglio]

Agreed, but would also like some of the other abbreviations spelled out and some of the terms explained for the benefit of people who haven't worked on a ship.

[@andrewrees8749]

Get a life, if you can do better,

[@davo8955]

What brand are the Main engines?

[@JanDootjes]

MAK

[@Herzankerkreuz67]

And now I would like someone to explain me how everything works please !

[@JanDootjes]

Consider joining the maritime school!

[@sailorman9595]

I can sir

[@BrianDHoefs]

Imagine what if cost to build that thing. My oh my.

[@tracylemme1375]

For what purpose is the Theminol used? We us it to heat platens on presses for composites.

[@JanDootjes]

You mean thermal oil? Onboard it's used to heat up heavy fuel oil.

[@petervogwill6499]

Practice on starship designs.....dilithium crystal regeneration chambers , please...?

[@AartJanPrins]

Im gonna have to see one of those myself someday any one of those in NL Nowadays?

[@JanDootjes]

Hello Aart. Currently there is not an X-bow ALP tug in Holland. The ALP Defender comes close, she is in Norway now.

[@ralphaverill2001]

I've spent a little time in the engine room of a ship forty years ago. What is a "shaft generator"?

[@vs-sb6wm]

It's when generators getting rotary power from main engine by gear box.

[@Buck1954]

Busy place. Just wondering if there is any place aboard that doesn't thump?

[@Texaca]

...or Humm?

[@andrewrees8749]

Why is there a lathe on board ?