Life Inside the World's Largest Oil Tanker Ship

The Largest Ship In The World Has A GIANT Problem. The Seawise Giant, known as an Ultra Large Crude Carrier, was the longest and heaviest ship to ever set sail in the world. However, despite its massive size, it faced a variety of limitations that ultimately made it fall into obscurity. It was also a prime target during one of the most intense conflicts of the past fifty years.
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[@johnarnold893]

This ship was scrapped in India 14 years ago.

[@Beau_Toes]

★Hey random viewer! If you're looking for an educational video, you're in the wrong place.

[@bigoldgrizzly]

you got that right !

[@craigsibley8161]

Yep the picture in the thumbnail told me all I needed to know...

[@boltvanderhuge8711]

Why does youtube allow these obvious AI slop channels?

[@samfromportadown]

The biggest problem faced by this ship is the fact that it no longer exists - it has been taken apart and recycled into all sorts of other things. Cars, bicycles, farm gates, razor blades, new ships etc.

[@bigoldgrizzly]

You mean turned into stuff that is actually useful ;

[@johnwolfy9100]

That is a giant problem.

[@rickdunn3883]

There are a lot of inaccurate information in this video. For example one would not compare a warships emergency crash stop to a tankers head reach.

[@janjohnson9746]

It's not steam powered.

[@mrbinks7851]

4th grade math is required to know before giving an answer to a multiplication math equation.😂

[@Jodocus1000]

@@janjohnson9746 yes it was.

[@lo-firobotboy7112]

This video is full of inaccuracies, errors, and hyperbole. None of the images correspond to the script. (This Channel should be called Without Facts)

[@betteramwthanbmw]

"Beyond Facts" in the most correct and honest meaning, still better would be "Far away from Facts"

[@lo-firobotboy7112]

@@betteramwthanbmw haha....yup.

[@bigoldgrizzly]

Gotta love how it shrunk from 1504 metres right down to 1500 feet .. ' Honey I shrunk the ULCC '

[@pluto9000]

That's about 1/3 the size 🥴

[@mattbosley3531]

You do know that 4 dollars a barrel to 12 dollars a barrel is only triple, not quadruple. This video is riddled with errors.

[@fredkraus9180]

I got that too

[@edasm4113]

Well it is "Beyond Facts" so I guess truth was never part of the mix?

[@tommycscat]

When AI content reads the wrong articles...

[@stevegillespie6424]

I came in to say the same thing about the price of fuel. It also showed this ship as 1504M long. Get the fuck outta here. Shit video full of crap info.

[@thatguy3892]

@@tommycscat *Wrote the article wrong

[@olafzijnbuis]

At 02:12 Wrong again. I see a DIESEL ENGINE, NOT a BOILER

[@PublicMixHardworking1]

Amazing very nice

[@johnarnold893]

Yup, this ship was powered by a steam turbine with two boilers.

[@railace3815]

It’s giant problem is that it doesn’t even exist anymore…

[@northerncaptain855]

A speed of about 16 knots is a completely normal for Tankers. Container ships go faster, tankers do not.

[@mastercommander4535]

I was at sea at the time serving on tankers . 16 knots is a reasonable speed for a tanker especially as they spend a lot of their time awaiting orders or changing destinations. In fact I served on one that managed 9 knots so this information is wrong . Secondly it’s rare that tankers go into port . Normal routine is mooring to an offshore pipe line connection and sometimes so far off it was difficult in Persian gulf etc to even see the shore . I remember this vessel well . C Y Tung went on to become the first Chief Executive of Hong Kong after the British left . His shipping line still trades ( OOCL ) but was sold last decade to the mainland Chinese company COSCO .

[@hbeverhart]

beyond facts is correct, theres not one in the whole channel

[@dougselsam5393]

I'm only 13 seconds into this video, and... The Empire State Building is not 1454 meters tall, it is 1454 FEET tall, and that includes a tall antenna on top.

[@dontobi1736]

I don't think the ship was almost a mile long as you claim at 0:12. "Beyond Facts" - nailed it!

[@VroodenTheGreat]

"Oil prices quadrupled from $4 a barrel to nearly $12 a barrel."

[@TheDavidlloydjones]

Can I break it to you gently, folks? The Empire State Building is not a boat -- and the diameter of the propellors is at right-angels to the boat, so it's not relevant to the overall length. It is inane to say "the original owner refused to purchase her." If you're the owner you've already made the purchase. If you refuse to purchase it, you're not its owner. Duh.

[@olafzijnbuis]

At 04:49 Wrong again So they added 10 feet (ca 3 meter) to this giant ship? That is less than 1 percent! I don't think so. Why don't you find a proper job? Bricklayer perhaps.

[@lo-firobotboy7112]

Bricklayers need to understand math and measurement.

[@calibos3329]

Eh... Depends on the brick layer.

[@lo-firobotboy7112]

@@calibos3329 🙃

[@bigoldgrizzly]

@@calibos3329 I've met that type - accurate to the nearest half brick ;

[@betteramwthanbmw]

"Beyond Facts" in the most correct and honest meaning, still better would be "Far away from Facts"

[@robsalvv5853]

I stopped at 1500 m long ship. Such sloppy work gets a block from me.

[@Keenasalways]

This gets a downvote for its errors and inconsistencies.

[@chrispaul1117]

ancient news. its been scrapped years ago

[@Colorado_Native]

You need to hire a proofreader. At :11 you said the ship is 1,504 meters (about 4,934 feet); then at 1:23 you said she was 1,498 feet (458 meters).

[@PublicMixHardworking1]

Amazing very nice ❤ So Bountiful 🌹 love you

[@jarnosaarinen4583]

@@PublicMixHardworking1 the

[@7777drummer]

Yeah, I had to stop and think 1500 meters long is 1.5km. That's way too long.

[@MrTeff999]

Fifty feet longer than the Empire State Building? This means nothing to me.

[@IdRatherBeDiving-vr5gk]

It means the ESB is 50 feet shorter than the ship.

[@MrTeff999]

⁠ So if you cut 50 feet off the top of the Empire State building and fastened it to the front of the ship, the Empire State building would still be about 1200 feet taller than the ship. Most of the people in the world have never seen the empire State building or a super tanker. Perhaps it would be more useful to say that a super tanker is over 1/3 of mile long. Or, it’s the length of 15 football fields. Or the length of four city blocks. Or 300 to 400 feet longer than a modern cruise ship or aircraft carrier.

[@david10291029]

The boat IS NOT 1500m it is 1500 FEET. Huge difference lmao...

[@barrysteven5964]

I had just thinking 'wow, that's one and a half kilometres long!!'

[@queeg3353]

What can you expect from a channel called Beyond Facts?

[@rdsieben]

Problem: It won't fit in the Panama Canal.

[@j.l.5935]

It says Panama Canal may close, it may go to Mexico but at first cut the land unknown when (not sure).

[@francisbeaudry8598]

oups ,,,loll

[@user-hp8bk7bf5n]

bigger problem it didnt fit in the Suez canal

[@atomicsockbombs]

When you go "Beyond Facts" you get into fiction. So I guess the channels name explains the outrageous inaccuracies.

[@olafzijnbuis]

At 02:34 Wrong again. What you show is NOT the diameter of the propellor.

[@PublicMixHardworking1]

Have a great video

[@Bryan-Hensley]

Where?​@@PublicMixHardworking1

[@Andy-df5fj]

0:12 the narrator suggests feet, but the text say 1504m. Is it 1504 feet or 1504 meters?

[@jarnosaarinen4583]

is sure as hell isn't 1.5 kilometres long (nearly a Mile) & barely a 3rd of that!

[@johnybravo8989]

he obviously has no idea what is he talking about.

[@zatmanh2]

It is 451 meters = 1504 feet

[@johnybravo8989]

@@zatmanh2 everyone sane knew that, if you did not get it, except the narrator. He obviously read the text w/o thinking😂

[@user-tl8du8oe6t]

GM bought all the scrap from the sea wize giant, then GM produced rust bucket pickup trucks from 1973 to 1978. Have a nice day.

[@thairatcatcher]

Sumitomo Heavy Ind, is based in Shinagawa Tokyo. This rubbish has more holes than Swiss cheese 😮

[@jssmi765]

$4 to $12 is NOT quadrupled, it is tripled.

[@jobson586]

$12 a barrel?? The crew and I would hit the bars back then and would be legless on $12 Now a pint costs $15!!!!!

[@Mehranwahid]

You got the length wrong at the beginning- it was 1504 FEET long which is 458m. Still the longest vessel...!

[@jcBurton2094]

Beyond Facts has a GIANT problem

[@pork_friedrice]

1504 ft not meters…. 0:12 , you made it 12 seconds👏🏽

[@rustle2]

The bigger they come the harder they fall.

[@Crunch104]

The start the video shows the length as 1504m, where m stands for meters, but the voice over states 50 ft greater than the Empire State building. It should show 1504 ft. Time to maybe do some better error checking!

[@nknumero]

I wish new buyer renamed her "Your Mom"

[@IdRatherBeDiving-vr5gk]

1:35 "... draft of 80 feet, the Seawise Giant was nearly eight stories tall." No, please, stop. The draft is just the portion underwater. The overall height of the ship is much greater than the draft... unless the entire ship in underwater.

[@nbrown5907]

I am only surprised Dubai didn't order this ship up.

[@olafzijnbuis]

At 00:13 No, not so. The ship is (only) 458 meter long.

[@user-hu9si1ku6p]

She had a section added to make her 1504 feet long

[@olafzijnbuis]

@@user-hu9si1ku6p Correct, but in the video it shows as 1504 meter

[@msreenivas3946]

Timeless piece of information on a gigantic giant!!! Tku sir.

[@TheTransportDepot]

Within the first 12 seconds the video has already confused feet with metres and shows the vessel in the on-screen graphic as being nearly a mile long (1504 metres) instead of 1504 feet. I didn't bother watching the rest of the video after it made such a basic error so early on.

[@ticklefritz5406]

That poor ship had such a crappy life.

[@5minutesaleslessons]

1504 meters? 🤣🤣🤣

[@stoerenungeheuer543]

Spaceball One

[@wandamaddox7824]

Mistakes in math in the first 12 seconds.

[@robertperrett7087]

With an overall length of 50 feet, must've been really big feet.

[@robertkerby2581]

Wow, an extroidinairily giant ship, and a history making story!

[@davidlynnholtzclaw3919]

Tripled to$12 a barrel for oil we should suffer so much!

[@stoerenungeheuer543]

The largest Ship is a Katamaran, the Pioneering Spirit. "Pioneering Spirit (formerly Pieter Schelte) is a catamaran crane vessel owned by the Switzerland-based Allseas Group designed for the single-lift installation and removal of large oil and gas platforms and the installation of record-weight pipelines.[4][2] The 382-metre-long (1,253 ft), 124-metre-wide (407 ft) vessel is the world's largest vessel by gross tonnage, the heaviest vehicle ever made and since September 2021 also the largest floating sheerleg in the world.[6]"

[@AgricultureTechUS]

Unprecedented heavy equipment features redefine modern industrial capabilities.

[@jobson586]

Fun fact , the 70's ULCC's could carry 3M barrels which paid for the ship on its 1st shipment

[@sillygoose9070]

'The daily fuel needs of 7 million people' A drop in the ocean then.

[@edasm4113]

TIL The Empire State Building is 4770 ft tall!

[@user-hu9si1ku6p]

WRONG , THE TALLEST BUILDING IS KALIFA AT 2330 FEET TALL ... THE EMPIRIER STATE BUILDING IS AROUND 1000 FEET TALL

[@edasm4113]

@@user-hu9si1ku6p WATCH THE VIDEO!!!

[@Bryan-Hensley]

​@user-hu9si1ku6p wrong, all you have to do is Google it

[@jeffjenkel2011]

Oh, Gas prices just doubled or tripled! Now I feel better.

[@eddjordan2399]

This entire video has a giant problem. and i believe the channel name is correct.

[@mcgyver007]

HAD a giant problem?

[@PublicMixHardworking1]

Had a giant big problems

[@appatula]

FYI its almost as LONG as a football field NOT WIDE....A regulation football field's distance from goal line to goal line is 100 yards or 300 feet, Note that the 10-yard (30 feet) end zones go beyond each goal line for a total length of 360ft or 120 yards. Riddled with errors indeed.

[@garybensman1358]

They had the football field graphic on there turned 90°in error

[@heraldtim]

Thanks for a very intersting video! You've earned a new subscriber. :)

[@IdRatherBeDiving-vr5gk]

0:41 "... quadrupled from $4 a barrel to nearly $12 a barrel" You Keep Using That Word, I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means.

[@makeithappenvideos]

Great information and history

[@barrysteven5964]

I'm just enjoying reading the comments. So entertaining. This video is clearly a masterpiece of incompetent, ignorant and confused amateurism. To think it's had 225K views. Terrifying.

[@benzalkionium]

QUADrupling $4, $12 does not make.

[@johnhennery8820]

This was carter's opec

[@brianstone3972]

Lengths in first minute are not correct (shown as meters). If they were, the Empire State Building would be over 3x taller than it actually is and this ship would be nearly 1 mile long.. No way do other cargo ships max out at 24-26 knots. A 16 knot top speed is actually quite fast, not slow as video says.

[@ronaldrio7950]

In the future, mega ships like these will fly

[@brianflansburg8934]

A football/soccer pitch should be 70-80 meters wide less (not more) than the 255ft you reported around 1:30. Did you mean less than the length in which case your field image was incorrectly positioned.

[@mrbinks7851]

Notice he said, "cut in two", and not in half. That would require at least 4th grade level math.

[@mutantryeff]

Should be powered by a SMR

[@Jodocus1000]

Lot of nonsens here. CY Tung did not have the ship extended by 10 feet, but by 140 meters.

[@jimreadey4837]

0:40 Going from $4 to $12 is not "quadrupling." It's called *tripling.*

[@borismedved835]

heh heh.... He said "boiler." Funnier than saying the length was 1500 meters.

[@bluegizmo1983]

10:56 Yes, there will absolutely be more ships like this created in the future, even bigger ships in fact! ... they will just be starships 😂

[@9ZERO6]

There are sooo many better channels on YT than this if this is your thing.

[@starpawsy]

No one is EVER going to see a battery electric ship this size. Not ever. The idea is completely absurd. For several separate reasons.

[@bigoldgrizzly]

Some say that the russians are training dolphins to tow oil tankers

[@starpawsy]

@@bigoldgrizzly That's the funniest thing I"ve read today. I picture a literal sea of dolphins towing a tanker.

[@bigoldgrizzly]

@@starpawsy I aim to raise a chuckle, but often miss .... thanks for being as mad as me ;

[@matthiaswille8641]

There is no building on the planet that is 1451m(eter) tall as per animated graphic, this isn't meter, but feet. At least the narrator gets it verbally correct.

[@SK69europe]

dude, dude, you confused feet with meters in the graphics ....

[@IdRatherBeDiving-vr5gk]

3:40 "jumboisation" is not unique to the maritime industry. They do it with cars also: cut it in half, insert extra body in the middle.

[@jannuzijannuzicharlescharl3260]

HAD HAD HAD HAD a problem. Seems like it had more than one problem.

[@adrianlittle2118]

That's not the biggest ship lol

[@annbualaganchengottayan902]

ship measurement is wrong

[@deckuofm]

If explodes it is like an H-bomb.

[@richardnelson317]

The barrels are 42gls not 55gls a big difference.

[@SuperSetright]

Beyond facts=far in the distance.

[@Bryan-Hensley]

Those ships at 6:02 were much bigger. I'd like to hear about those. What is the name of those two ships that are much bigger?

[@markdoldon8852]

Fictional images on a screen illustrating a pointless fact. ULCC spent most of their lives offshore, maneuverability not an issue

[@mrbinks7851]

Misgendering the boat is micro aggression, and may hurt her feelings 😂😂

[@richardkroll2269]

Given the Red Sea to the Suez Canal is nearly closed, this ship would be worth it's weight in ... well it would make the long trip around the southern tip of Africa worth while.

[@scotexscarrier8461]

16kts for a super tanker is quite fast

[@DingoBYD]

So what was the giant problem?

[@Carl-ht7cg]

Join the Navy 😎

[@yogiperogy]

Absolutely amazing! Thanks for posting this video.

[@PublicMixHardworking1]

Hello farind 🌹 Good work

[@PublicMixHardworking1]

Hello farind 🌹 Good work

[@PublicMixHardworking1]

Hello farind 🌹 Good work

[@UncleJoeLITE]

Umm...$4 x 4 = $16. So it really tripled from $4 to $12.

[@YenzikovALCherasLegend]

You can record this as History.. The World 's Largest Floating White Elephant'. Learn from History and built our Wisdom.

[@markdoldon8852]

It stayed in service 30 yrs, not accounting for war damage. Ptetty decent working life, i wouldnt call it a white elephant, despite thr changing market and environment.

[@Bryan-Hensley]

Empire State building is 1,400 feet, the ship is not 4,934 feet long. Is this artificial intelligence created?

[@IdRatherBeDiving-vr5gk]

1:30 "Almost as wide as a football field." Your graphic needs to turn the field the other way. The ship's width was almost as much as the LENGTH of a football field. A standard American football field is 160 feet wide... the ship was much MUCH wider. A European (or anywhere else in the world) football pitch is about 50 meters wide, which nearly the same as 160 feet. Details, details...

[@c957327]

Since when did the Canadian Snowbirds fly combat for Iraq?

[@panioloprep8126]

And to compare this monsters' stopping distance to one of our destroyers is STUPID. We build them for emergency crash back maneuvers.