Ferry Strip Down | Engineering Giants | Spark

32,000 tonnes of steel. 7 decks, each the length of a football pitch. 4 engines, burning 2500 litres of fuel an hour. One massive feat of engineering. The North Sea Ferry. For 25 years this metal monster has been on the ocean, but now, it's been taken out for the biggest overhaul of its life. Join us as we explore the underbelly as it's stripped down to its core.
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[@ScottMD80]

Good video, It would be a great video if the background music didn't overpower the voice over.

[@Screwital420]

Came to the comment section just because of this. The backround music is WAY too loud and overpowers the voice over completely on some parts of the video.

[@sarkybugger5009]

Add me to the list of complainants. We don't all have the ears of a bat!

[@davdski5935]

I can't watch this for that reason, no good if you can't hear what the two muppets are saying. Shit upload by the "Spark"....

[@tylerduchene7560]

must have been where top gear sound crew got hired!

[@mfx1]

Suspect it's been overdubbed, maybe in an attempt to bypass KZbins copyright detection.

[@ColonelBummleigh]

Always quantifying the scale of things with football pitches.. Why not use something more accurate like the size of uncle Albert's cauliflower patch so I can gauge it properly....

[@mikeyhau]

And the ship weighs more than 50,000,000 mice.

[@UnauthorisedService]

Olympic sized swimming pools too

[@verifiedgentlemanbug]

😂😂🤣🤣😂

[@becca6791]

Lol an its hull steel is as thick as my grandads toenail

[@verifiedgentlemanbug]

becca lol

[@KevinMichaelCallihan]

Around 51 minutes I had to stop in awe and with respect laugh when of our hosts said, "They should sell tickets to this!" It brought memories to be used for the future from days working at a location where two blast furnaces were in use. Entertaining while very educational videos with a serious emphasis within the discipline of engineering. We respect all. The comments are hilarious.

[@wagonron]

Excellent hosting team. No ego, just lots of information. I love the music. It adds a dramatic element that makes me feel like I'm listening to the radio while watching tv.

[@tonyquigley6543]

A smell i love is when you get on a ship via it's car deck, ever get out of your car on a very big ferry inside the car deck and you walk over to the door to the stairs to the interior, i just love that sea... engineering... metal mixture smell... Always have ever since i was a kid!

[@tommos16]

I watched this many years ago, wanting to get into the industry. I am now a Project manager and engineer for the Steel replacement system (SPS) that they described. Life has its funny ways sometimes.

[@duncanbhaltaireanraigwilso9627]

Pride of Bruges no longer sails between Hull and Zebrugge. That route has been dying a slow death for a decade, and closed in April 2021. After a period laid up at both Zebrugge and Rotterdam, the ship now works in the Mediterranean sailing for GNV between Naples, and Palermo. She in now named the GNV Antares.

[@MarcosCerutti]

Veeeery good documentary, but the sound track is awfully loud

[@nxxxxzn]

look into dynamic range compression

[@Armadauzbekistan]

Anyone knows the name of the soundtrack at the beginning?

[@walterrdzukola8868]

STOP the damn background music that drowns out the narrations ! GET A CLUE, DAMMIT !

[@granskare]

just turn the volume down if you are on the internet.

[@MakerofThingss]

This channel is just uploading OTHER documentaries... How do people not notice that? You really think a youtube channel is producing this level of content and putting it out, for free, massively compressed? They just upload other companies/networks documentaries.

[@kylehill3643]

@Derek Charette Welcome to the phone world! The majority of people on here 10 years ago I'd say 60 percent but now it's 99.9 percent and us old farts are .001 of the community so Sparks see's it and does what's cool in the phone community.

[@kylehill3643]

@Derek Charette Furthermore phone people view their phone as a phone not as an entertainment machine though it can do that but that's not why people buy phones. They buy phones to talk to work,their family members and friends. It's essentially a digital telephone no matter how you slice it.

[@Hotspur37]

yea I gave up after a couple of minutes because of the music now I will never know if the finished or not

[@deanlabbe9952]

Next time you make a video leave the dam music home so the speech can be heard. Otherwise great video.

[@michaelloach9461]

Every day is a school day! Its nice to learn where the saying 'until the bitter end' comes from.

[@AlfieGoodrich]

31'01"... a nice feeling for me because I've been on this ship (in the early 1990s) and now I can see the maker's plate. Nice because the shipyard they built this in, in Tsurumi, is only about 12kms from where I live now.

[@_KARMA_78]

Gotta love that with as far as mankind has come-we still cannot have the backgrounds of any and all tely shows and film length videos be kept at the right levels. So having music and sound effect volume levels are all over the place and hearing whats being said gets washed out and not heard. But no. This is a feat yet to be mastered and perfected.

[@thespaceman3200]

Pride of York Captain Alastair Mcfadyen was my Captain onboard the Pride of Bilbao,a great officer a wonderfull person and a gentleman of the Sea and thanks for keep us safe in all the storms in the Gulf of Biscaia and i still miss the Pride of Bilbao great ship and a amazing crew....

[@Gettothechopper123]

the guy in charge of the music was on commission for how many seconds of music played!!

[@garyrobertson7350]

I watched the whole thing. I loved every minute of it. I wish we'd have seen more of the passenger upgrades etc but what I did see and hear was awesome. I've travelled on this ship many times. Thanks

[@ruskiryan2398]

Three weeks is a good result when you consider what was involved in the overhaul.

[@commiezombie2477]

14:30 He like things that go bang up down and round n round DEFINITELY an ENGINEER YO 😂😂😎

[@cottonwood992000]

Fascinating video, very enjoyable despite the loud background music and also despite the fact the You Tube hasn't gotten their act together to make the breaks for adverts come at more appropriate places than in the middle of words of the narration.

[@thefuppits]

The video actually start 4 minutes in - these guys really, really, love their Production. Feels more like a Production that happens to be about something, where the Production is what they really want you to be aware of when you watch.

[@ericgeorge5483]

Carrying out the work that those guys did in just 3 weeks is nothing short of astonishing. Great video.

[@jonwilliams40]

I must have missed this when it was aired on TV, I’m glad I caught it here. This is my kind of stuff, very interesting and thanks for uploading. Like others have said, the music was a bit loud but very dramatic non the less.

[@ea.charles9176]

"The Bitter End" ... I learned something new today ha ha

[@jamessaunders7699]

This would be a lot better with out all the commercials

[@andyroid7339]

The day before the dockyard visit… Bell: Now then Tom, remember that tomorrow we’ll be visiting the ship in its Newcastle dry dock. It’s being refurbished by tough Geordie engineers, welders and workmen. These men have been hardened by heavy, difficult grimey jobs. They’re not used to encountering middle class “softies” like us and will probably mock us at the drop of a hat. Let’s not give them an excuse to ridicule our dress and mannerisms. Wrigglesworth: Don’t worry about that Rob! I’ll gain their respect by wearing my burgundy duffle coat with its chunky toggles. Also, I’ll ask questions containing plenty of hyperbole and superlatives and deliver them with a smorgasbord of onomatopoeias. They’re bound to relish that! Bell: I don’t think you understand Tom! Please think about how you’ll be received by these people. Oh, and get your haircut - we’ll be wearing hard hats, you don’t want to give the appearance that your hair is a wig attached to your hat which comes off when you remove your headgear, do you? A silent moment passes… Bell: Tom? Why so quiet? (pause) What’s the matter? (pause) Why the long face (yes, I know it’s genetic)? (pause) Tom...? Oh f*ck it! Wear what you f*cking want! I’m just trying to protect you! 9.00a.m. the day of the shoot….. Bell (on seeing Wrigglesworth bound over energetically towards him, holds his head in hands and mutters under his breath): oh f*cking hell! We’re going to get roasted.

[@stanpatterson5033]

I don't know how anyone could take that guy seriously with his absolute mop of a head of hair flopping around. There were even shots where he was brushing his own hair out of his face. What a tool....

[@cory95ify]

Googi Shite that was bloody beautiful man, brought a year to me eye eye n Al that

[@andyroid7339]

Hairy sosage - So glad you appreciated it! I was worried that it would go unread. Reading it again, it puts me in mind of a Viz cartoon strip.

[@denniscat9395]

Googi Shite I'm sure the host would go for a crazy night of shandy drinking with the guys regaling them with his office stapler accident and other Alan Partridge style anecdotes. Thank you for writing this - acerbic Englishness at its best

[@andyroid7339]

Dennis Cat - An inside source reliably informs me that he was going to go for a night out with the lads -he’d cleaned his best brogue shoes, ironed his jeans and wiped off the spit from the back of his blue velvet jacket. He'd thought about what he was going to chat about and rehearsed his funniest “lad” joke: Q: What’s pink and wrinkled and belongs to grandpa? A: Grandma. But when it came time for him to leave the house his Mum said he couldn’t go because he’d not washed his hair and that last time he went out on this sort of night he was sick down his jumper so he couldn’t go again until he was able to control himself properly.

[@WildeFyre69]

A wonderfully interesting and informative video. They need to sack the sound engineers though!!!!!

[@choe627]

I worked for a California company named Accurex. They're an instrumentation company with contracts for torsion metres that straps on the propeller shafts .. Upon a refit, the torsion metres are calibrated on a measured naughtical mile upon first sea trials. that's the way they measure drag on the haul.

[@scabbycatcat4202]

Whats interesting about this ship is she was built as the Norsun sistership to the Norsea. Both ships were ordered and laid down in 1985 and had their maiden voyages in 1987. For a 32000 ton ship to be completed from start to finish in 2 years is incredible. Norsea was built on the Clyde and Norsun built in Japan. So the British yard was every bit as efficient and productive as the Japanese yard .

[@princessshaman]

Narrator: 32 thousand tons of- Me: WHAT DID YOU SAY? I CAN'T HEAR YOU!

[@Colaholiker]

He said "32 thousand tons of background music". You're welcome. ;-)

[@verifiedgentlemanbug]

@@Colaholiker 😂😂🤣🤣😂

[@frankcooke1692]

45:26 "Pride of York - NASSAU" - Well I guess they're not THAT proud then.

[@JohnSmith-rn8ui]

Not even a British company owned by arabs dubai world ports ,,, York formerly norsea , was my 2nd home for 19yrs

[@Hino992]

I endured about three minutes before the 'soundtrack' drove me away.

[@helenemso32]

amazing giants engineering good video it would be a great video

[@dcfromthev]

Awesome video thank you!!!!

[@howielane8406]

Awesome job, but I agree. The musical audio needs to be lowered.

[@ispacedesign]

10:32 Sgt. Pepper's on the job, with a little help from his friends.

[@spinaway]

Been on this ship when it was the Norsun, sailed from Amsterdam to hull in a force ten, it was brilliant.

[@gary96397]

Norsun was the first ship that I ever sailed on ...Hull to ROTTERDAM

[@janernn]

Ad every six minutes and loud background music. This is an exercise in patience

[@verifiedgentlemanbug]

janernn lmfao

[@Windows98R]

janernn I can definitely agree on the loud ass BGM, dunno how bad the ADs are though. Kept ad blocker running

[@nightruler666]

Skip to end of the video and hit replay

[@NicholasLittlejohn]

Just like a water heater..it has sacrificial anodes! And flaps and controllable pitch prop like an airplane..thermodynamics in action!

[@donnataylor9294]

Fascinating and informative. However the music is so loud that it drowns out the voice of the commentator.

[@woody41165]

Brings back some happy memories when I used to work in this shipyard before being transferred to McNulty`s offshore a little further down the river.

[@worldjoes1]

How do they paint where the blocks are?

[@williamb199]

Great to watch however I couldn't hear what the guys were saying as the music was very over powering

[@nickrobinson2023]

I enjoyed every moment. You have the gift of making technology interesting and enjoyable. Thanks for sharing and for all the world that has gone into making this marvellous documentary.

[@Thomes-Maisling]

Urgh, sort it out with the sound editing! I can't watch this it's so bad. Byeee!

[@tiecas01]

lekker irritant die muziek zo agressief er doorheen!! waardeloos!

[@Cumbriahandyman]

How do they treat and paint those parts of the ship sitting on the wooden blocks?

[@ivanandreevich8568]

I'm glad the ship was being repaired, not torn apart and destroyed.

[@HulkSith89]

Damn, I never knew that a boat could be that interesting as well engineering and making metal.

[@bonzoschlacendaker1057]

Most enjoyable and highly entertaining. It presented information that I found delightfully fascinating. Many thanks to all or this rare view in the ship's life.

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[@bmused55]

I used to sail on this ferry when she was the Norsun operating for North Sea Ferries. Massive ship and never got bored exploring her. Pride of York was once the Norsea. And she was identical to Norsun apart from a few interior details :)

[@JohnSmith-rn8ui]

Other than that same chips except foreign philllipino crew with Dutch officers , they where actually 2 separate company s according to pand o

[@bmused55]

@@JohnSmith-rn8ui P&O and North Sea Ferries were separate for many years. But slowly the North Sea Ferries experience got worse and worse as P&O interfered more and more (basically things got a lot expensive and you got much less for your money), until one day, North Sea Ferries were rebranded P&O.

[@JustMeAndVideos]

Now (2022) called the MS GNV Antares going between Naples and Palermo. 31/12/2020 was the last time is carried passengers between Hull and Zeebrugge

[@janc1978]

so how do they clean and paint the parts where the hull stood against the blocks?

[@MrHetzman]

Very Caerfuly

[@rudolfpeterudo3100]

At every docking which is usually 2.5 or 5 years the position of the previous docking's block coverage is noted and marked down. Subsequent dry docking the vessel is then shifted over by the distance of the unpainted amount. The previous unpainted portion is then uncovered, then prepared, ie:shot-blasted primed and coated in anti fouling.

[@rudolfpeterudo3100]

That 2.5 to 5 year between dry-dockings is classification society dependent. The video says 10 years but when I sailed as Chief Engineer, Class said 5 yearly intervals between inspections.

[@janc1978]

thanks..

[@KerbalFacile]

Each block can be collapsed and moved independently, and there are enough of them the ship remains sustained by all the others around without damage. The base holding the docking block can shrink down using a locking screw mechanism. When they repaint the hull they move each block to a repainted area, one at a time, as they advance along.

[@locemflyer5620]

Is it possible for you Spark to do a solar panel recycling documentary?

[@willsteed439]

Now the question is "How do they refurbish the area where it was sitting on Blocks".

[@spinaway]

Its jacked up and the blocks moved.

[@janvisser2223]

@@spinaway depends, mostly that area is done during next drydocking. (Which is no problem as the hull is still protected by the existing coating) And the vessel is not jacked up for removal of the blocks. They are tapered, so can be hammered loose one by one

[@patrickbrookings]

Very fascinating video! But I have to agree with others, the music drowned the narration at certain times, which is a shame.

[@andyfletcher7535]

Been on the Bruges and york boat many times over the years. Absolute awsome vessel. Shame P&O sold them both

[@quikie1984]

Sack the sound man 👍

[@krqkan]

I hate stabilizers... Nice documentary! :D

[@tpmarkham]

There is nothing like being in a steel plant in person. Photos just can't do it justice. I did a photoshoot at Bethlehem Steel and to this day have never seen anything as fantastic. The heat, the color are lost in photos.

[@chizzer19]

why would you roll the paint on when you could spray it faster and easier?

[@mariejules1130]

You guys are the greatest engineer ❤

[@aquilarossa5191]

I worked at sea for 12 years but got injured. Now I watch ship videos :D

[@michaelbruchas6663]

Great show but the audio mix tracks weren’t encoded correctly!

[@brianlam257]

I keep hoping the music would die down but it won't!!!

[@padraigbranoc5220]

Head splitting music overpowering the low vocals make this impressive documentary hard to enjoy, Sadly!

[@juliewilkes4386]

jimmie wilkes awsome vidio !

[@cw8537]

*things you need more of: pizzicato strings and commercials*

[@nathandean1687]

LOLZ I USE A AD BLOCKER PROGRAM

[@unclebob7534]

Absolute fascinating documentary but got pissed off with the sneaky double adverts halfway through and gave up

[@TI84igor]

Justin Bishop honest video review

[@liamgibson7471]

As a Master Mariner this is a good vid, things accurately explained that are normally left blank, accept the comments on the sound track

[@Myrddin1955]

As of Oct 2020 P & O announced the scrapping of both the York and Bruges!

[@The-Average-Noob]

The ship scraping yard, perfect place to see how ships are built

[@robertgillcash1696]

4 Lifeboats with a capacity of 150 people. On a ship designed to carry 1,250 people. Someones gonna die!

[@steve-o6413]

My God that was amazing!

[@AndytheWhite]

Quite interesting when watched on mute but that guy still needs a haircut. I think I’ve officially turned into my Dad.

[@trevorwoodmore8397]

There are not 32,000 tonnes of steel. The ship is approx 32,000 Gross Tonnes...which is measure of volume not weight. Deadweight tonnage is 6748 tonnes...but not all of that is steel.

[@kenolsen1845]

WOW, you must have a calculator.

[@trevorwoodmore8397]

No calculator required. Basic information on the vessel can be found here: www.marinetraffic.com/ais/details/ships/imo:8503797

[@bloguetronica]

The guys that made the documentary could have researched that. They didn't do a proper job.

[@IANinALTONA]

True, but still wrong. Deadweight tonnage is not how much the ship weighs, but how much it can (legally) load, including provisions and bunkers. The weight of the ship itself is not the deadweight tonnage. The actual weight of the (empty) ship is the lightship displacement tonnage (ldt).

[@trevorwoodmore8397]

@@IANinALTONA Correct...hence my comment that not all the DWT is steel.

[@TheOnlyRazziatore]

Great documentary but it have two major problem: the video quality is very poor ( often we see pixels that become gigantic! ) and the background music (although very beautiful) often overpowers the words.

[@kellylamb359]

Just turn off the surround and just watch the video in regular 2 channel stereo to avoid the background overpower.

[@No_Fuse8771]

Best tip ever on the net! Thank you.

[@radionutio81ij79]

Background music is to loud and it's overpowering the voice dialogue which is a pity, apart from this it a a very good upload interesting and enjoyable to watch.

[@burnwash8174]

Absolutely fascinating!

[@Gustav-jj9gx]

Nice Video but what's with the quality it's very pixely...

[@Rick01uk]

Another great doc spoilt once again by a shocking sound mix, do these programmes not have a producer to check the finished product before broadcast !!

[@19bob53]

We have travelled on the Pride of Bruge to Zeebrugge a good number of time in the past, very comfortable sailings.

[@mariejules1130]

Thanks to the works 💪 👷‍♀️ 🙏

[@mariejules1130]

Great accomplishment 👏 👌

[@MrVidar0]

Exellent documentary.

[@russelhessler1476]

How is the haul metal on the blocks treated before launch ?

[@mcinty12]

3 weeks in dry dock isn’t a massive overhaul, it’s basically an oil change.

[@davebeat]

I visited the steel works as a kid with my Dad who worked there it's an incredible place.

[@johnbrownbridge873]

NOT Newcastle but close, actually it's South Shields about 1/2 a mile from my front door. Just to be pedantic hehe.

[@TheWacoKid1963]

Aye wrong side of the watta for the toon

[@bandemunashe4467]

I love ENGINEERING......

[@camptube7621]

Friendly geordie men, true heroes.

[@keira3895]

I didn't even notice the music till I read the comments?

[@bigtone3012]

Good video Spark. Shame its riddled with adverts that puts a downer on a otherwise cool video

[@shinlanten]

Interesting way *_Rodgers_* spends the off-season ;-)

[@stephencodey3073]

Well, I enjoyed watching but the music was so unnecessary and ended up spoiling the film

[@kins9737]

Herald of Free Enterprise

[@ramairgto72]

39:48 Sargent Pepper visits the bridge.

[@jontrout2010]

Pleaaaassseeee reupload this with the background music turned down some dB.

[@jeffreyperalta742]

Please make more videos about big ships

[@jonka1]

I would love to know how the parts of the hull sitting on the blocks was re-painted. They left that out so they had time to ruin the video with bad sound engineering.

[@bjarne_maritime]

Bit of a late comment but there are two docking block plans, this time they used this plan and painted everything they could, next time She'll come in drydock they'll use the other plan and paint What they can. So this time they'll miss some spots, next time those spots will be painted and some other spots will be missed.

[@jonka1]

@@bjarne_maritime )

[@fuellerr]

Really interesting video