These Mini-Ships Teach Pilots How to Navigate Major Waterways | National Geographic

[@thomaslang9601]

I could play here all day.

[@trevstlog9933]

Thomas Lang yup

[@jasonmajor3437]

Thomas Lang me too

[@captainsarky1859]

Thomas Lang me toooo

[@jiaxyan3359]

this is so cool

[@mamingakuri2436]

Yes

[@ryangis431]

Depending upon how much they cost and a giant lake near me, I'd buy one and ride it everywhere I could.

[@brettryan3298]

That's a big kid's playground!

[@fredl.c8029]

yeee fatboy on a diet

[@Darthbelal]

I would LOOVE to pilot around one of those ships..........

[@budgrant2368]

Yea! After smoking a bunch of weed!

[@jderpz23]

I can see these becoming the new cargo ships in the event of the zombie apocalypse or something

[@greenseaships]

+Bud Grant Joe Hazelwood, is that you?

[@damobruv2562]

I would love to sink one

[@MillionthVector]

That looks like so much fun.

[@DXNewington]

Very interesting! Miniaturised transport is so much fun, whatever its purpose. I like the background music too, it adds to the intrigue of the scene.

[@thescaredshadow]

I wish I got one of those things for Christmas.

[@kanta4444s]

They cost like 200000

[@matthewmeek4289]

You could get a boat like that made for like 25 grand not 200000, he doesnt need all the bullshit instruments

[@RealCadde]

25 grand? It could be built for much less than that to be honest.

[@matthewmeek4289]

Cadde Im saying you could pay a guy to build a hull like that with a motor for 25 grand easy

[@salvatoreshiggerino6810]

The biggest expense is getting it engineered to act as the full scale counterpart. Not the hull, propulsion or "bullshit" instruments. If you don't need extreme realism you can probably put one together in your garage for a few thousand.

[@dougbourdo2589]

Wow. Incredible training facility. Magnificent.

[@markp.7165]

Some things just cannot be recreated on a computer simulator. You need to feel the effect of the wind and current. Very cool place.

[@DanB95]

I know this is serious stuff, but I'd still probably have too much fun there.

[@Anderdingusandcars]

Me too.

[@carlwheezer3353]

@Carmel Nech the bots are learning to be more human

[@Mymorningdessert]

I will just go out to the lake and then just have fun

[@lemesnil1]

Very very good training take.

[@JimsEquipmentShed]

What an amazing tool. You can't get that kind of tactile feel in a simulator.

[@jefftompkins6202]

RAMMING SPEED!!!!

[@manuelmartin8890]

I was justwatching the fast docking champions .now the slow .this is pretty cool I must say

[@MR2Davjohn]

This is awesome.

[@XACMPL]

i want a go

[@pascalbeck7200]

the ending was really cool

[@garrybrpwine3073]

Bravo !!! Excellent !!

[@lyricssongs4292]

Nice Ship

[@milesmouse72]

I'd love to spend a couple of days in this place...learning how to handle ships.

[@mmeovv]

Just watching this video i can already imagine how fun to sail with that ship in the ocean

[@si_xx]

Ohh That's So Fun To Drive, Sinking it

[@ups-pn3ph]

This is awesome!

[@remiguillette109]

Very nice boat

[@AW33406]

title: These Mini-Ships Teach Pilots How to Navigate Major Waterways. me: MINI SHIPS?!? I CAN FLOAT FROM FLORIDA TOO THE CARIBBEAN ON THAT THING!?!?

[@ejay1912]

That was so cool

[@bigredc222]

Looks like fun.

[@Anderdingusandcars]

I want one of those things!

[@johnstevenson9956]

I heard about this place in the 1970s, but wasn't sure it still existed!

[@agleon]

Класс. 👍

[@epichobo2]

I want one. Now!

[@markhahn1170]

I see a great lakes ship:)

[@endwood]

Bit like A/C sims, great tools to use but never quite the same, still there is the fun factor playing with toy boats:-)

[@mohdibrahimmansuri4928]

A new tech in building ships with handful of goods for regional activities of transportation facilities.

[@realgoodideas]

thats sick

[@datphamthanh8008]

mini ship ! so kute

[@michielmaas8891]

Dat pham thanh you mean cute

[@yamahaguy1732]

I WANT TO COME FOR A WEEKEND

[@Mymorningdessert]

Imagine having one of these

[@trezythirdy3527]

really pilot!!!!

[@MKBahn]

Cool

[@theinterceptor7223]

I need to buy this place with the boats

[@ezralabth]

Lex James i like your profile picture

[@rainbowtylenol]

cara, que legal, quero um

[@mottledduckiller]

Hey, that's pretty good

Muito bacana, belo projeto engenheiro. Voi lá Brazil

[@CPUHakker]

I know this looks like playing around, but I think this is cool. I was just on a Viking river cruise from Nuremberg to Budapest and had no idea how many really narrow locks they go through and traffic they encounter. Starting basic training with this is a good thing, even if weight factors are not in play.

[@Denys-zp6ff]

I do rememeber, when we were at simulator and teacher simulated Bosphorus. An then he left us annatended. And ten ships ran full ahead in order to competite each other crossing the bridge. That was fun!

[@romandybala]

The money involved in international shipping allows this sort of funtime for adults. In the old days you learned on the job over years. I bet no one below ships captain gets to play there . though.. Good on em for having the ability to do this. If all this is supposed to be to scale that rolling ship would kill its crew in minutes.

[@sekou3758]

Wrong

[@denziiey]

it would be hard at first for me to remain professional :D but this is a nice simulation

[@bigimskiweisenheimer8325]

They have similar little boats in little creek VA. On the Amphibious base lake

[@ismschism5176]

Would it help teach these guys better if they were looking through special lenses that made it look like they were looking at a longer ship & not just sitting in a tiny toy boat? & put a box around their head so they couldn't just swing their head around for a 360-degree view. Give them little convex mirrors if they want to see behind them.

[@TheOwenMajor]

+ism schism In a real ship there isn't any difficulty looking around, it takes 5 sec to walk to another window.

[@agricola1964]

and their seats are designed to give them the same relative (to scale) eye height over water then they would have in the real ship

[@bastijssen9931]

ships have to be designed in a way that you can get a really quick 360 view with the naked eye so this is already realistic enough

[@risajib7187]

I want to play here..

[@pavelzaman]

Can i buy one?? I wanna play on it it looks fun and it is I did it before

[@gunner-5006]

Hell yeah Canada

[@MrCarlossses]

wow, I want to do that! are they Electric?

[@ryanmonke2646]

I think I speak for a lot of people when I say: I WANT ONE.

[@carmelpule6954]

In science there is an area called dimensional analysis dealing with units and could be very useful in this field. The inertia of ships and planes changes and if floated or flying one needs to be very careful as their behaviour could not be so related. Take for example a fly, a humming bird, an eagle and an Jumbo A380 or a Boeing 747. As they use the same medium for operation one would not expect that they would use an equivalent flying manner. As the size changes while the medium remains the same, they the flight dynamics could change too and hence this is the reason for the different shape and the rate of change of movements in their wings. A house fly would never fly with fixed wings and we would be able to see it!! Nor a humming bird hovers as it does with fixed wings, Nature in its wisdom saw to the right solution. Incidentally , some say that a magnetic motor cannot be made smaller that a certain size as it would not behave as a large one as magnetism come in DOMAINS of a certain size. The same with this ships of this size floating in the same density water as the larger counterpart, It the small ship had to have the same time response and speed response, then the water had to be changed into a medium of higher density. I used to work such problems about 70 years ago when I worked on ships and attended the Royal Naval Dockyard School. When I attended the University of Newcastle upon Tyne many years ago, I often went to Exhibition Park (Town Moor) to "play about" on the Turbina the world's first turbine ship and also I played with the same rubber band powered boats as used by Parsons and other to study propellers and stepped hulls. NIce memories of my younger days.

[@Managarmr420]

Holy massive paragraph. I'd love to know what you're trying to say but I'm finding it hard to read.

[@Bigusbackus]

Stop typing nonsense trying to sound smart lol. There's a reason pilots all over the world go to these schools...BECAUSE IT WORKS.

[@randyohm3445]

None of this sounds anything like dimensional analysis. I think you just used the wrong term.

[@ricomon35]

@Current Batches Water density, and viscosity. In order for the ships, as models to behave in scale, the water needs to be denser/thicker. I'm sure he's speaking from a modeling POV, in relation to studying scale ship reactions in scaled medium.

[@ricomon35]

@@Bigusbackus He is smart, you on the other hand, need some schooling ;)

[@RealCadde]

I want one looking like the Bismark. With real guns.

[@TheT-90thatstaresintoyoursoul]

I need a container ship and a canal.

[@milesmouse72]

JOY.....can I play with the ships?? PLZPLZPLZPLZZZZZZZ???????

[@phishENchimps]

I want one.

[@sushiromifune7096]

1:02 Someone collided "BRITANY" and broke her nose.

[@southernwulf6983]

Possible to buy these for my self ima devoloping a new mislim airsoft place soon and i think thes would be perfect?!

[@titanicboy2722]

how much do they cost and if they are not for sale how do they make them

[@tonydiaz787]

Aquí en México hay un lugar que se llama xochimilco y hay unas lanchas mas chingonas

[@TWOHEADEDOGRE]

It would be cool to turn one of them into a small house boat

[@StevenRides]

Search up narrowboats, i think that would be possible with an older cargo narrowboat

[@demiurge8058]

gr8

[@MrCharky66]

Me to

[@Cous1nJack]

Funny how this popped up the day nEver Going was freed from Suez!

[@keyllaoliveiralago1012]

Legal

[@bensmith4563]

I want one

[@ut000bs]

"So, if he says with some tears in the eyes, 'It's my ship!' Then I'm happy." *Pardon my language. I use it to make a point I think you will understand.* That's cool as fuck. It really is.

[@shanereaume77]

So how much do these cost again?

[@baymax8354]

Hey anyone here in 2021 May?

[@lostinlife647866]

Where's this amusement park at?

[@gunner-pm7jh]

can you try them on a beach too or its not legal?

[@gunner-pm7jh]

whatever :/

[@kanta4444s]

***** sorry

[@gunner-pm7jh]

ok..

[@noscopesallowed8128]

I kinda think you might need a boating license, but I'm not sure.

[@gunner-pm7jh]

ok

[@vexviper]

From the damage on the front bow and sides of some of those miniature ships, it looks like the former captain of the Costa Concordia must've been to your school and failed badly. lol

[@CristiNeagu]

The speed seems completely unrealistic, as is the handling.

[@SaltyNolan]

Cristi Neagu There's a reason schools like these are visited by pilots from all around the world. The training works.

[@CristiNeagu]

nolan1185​ I didn't say it doesn't work. I just said those boats look way too maneuverable and fast compared to real ships.

[@northnomad]

Apparently they handle the same except everything is 5X faster.

[@hellyeah66613]

So it's not called captain anymore?

[@ivanmatz5812]

When a ship enters a port, a pilot board from the port to take control and dock it, since they know the place better. This is training for pilots, not captains.

[@hellyeah66613]

Ivan Matz ayy thanks i never knew

[@bas6983]

Hopefully the pilot is thex advisor to the captain. The master or captain stays in command with his bridge team and the pilot should act as a guide, inter port communicator and assisting in berthing.

[@ivanmatz5812]

Bas Graus In theory, yes. But really, the captain usually gives control to the pilot.

[@bas6983]

I'm a very strange captain then. 😉. I'm captain on a chemical tanker and don't need a pilot for manouevring. But you're correct many captains have no idea in how to handle their own vessel. According the many pilots a speak in a week on average 3 ports a week.

[@JuanPierreOosthuizen]

My first question when i would build a ship isn't if its correct, but more importantly, does it float. hahaha

I thought this was the movie... naked gun.

[@PoopFilm]

Thank you! I thought I was the only one :D

[@budisetiawan917]

nice lol

[@W2L5G]

No tug boat?

[@brandonhulse9304]

I think they have people with long poles that act as tugboats by pushing the ship with their poles.

[@W2L5G]

lol, i saw tug boat in the video, skip to 3:33. its behind the guy. is it? but the scale not quite right.

[@igo.m.d.austin8687]

Thats the fastest they go????? Time for some *Nitrous*

[@joeypalochak9985]

can I get a ride

[@taevue]

FYI, Ship pilots make $400,000 a year.

[@marinegordon]

what about visibility you cant just get on your tippie toes and look down to your left in a big ship.

[@atleastyoutried509]

those ships wouldn't care hardly any cargo! and they are too small for the ocean. they need bigger boats.

[@jonnybabes1]

oh you!

[@tricawright5245]

I wunt one

[@erikc1775]

This training did not help the people on the Evergreen ship that tried to drift in the Suez channel...

[@demonbunny8196]

Those are captains not pilots

[@walterF205]

Warning! Lego pirates sighted.

[@alpha2delta875]

I wanna be a river boat pilot here in New Orleans. But u basically have to be grandfathered in. It's a very private business. You're dad or grandfather had to be one to get a chance. Smh. Sucks.

[@aray856]

Can I come smoke a blunt and try?

[@rock3tcatU233]

Sadly you can't hot box an open top mini container ship.

[@aray856]

ⵔⵓⴽⴰⵜⴽⴰⵜ I didn't ask if I can hotbox it, gosh! I just want to smoke a blunt and captain a mini ship! What the heck is wrong with you, gosh

[@rock3tcatU233]

Napoleon Dynamite May all your wildest dreams come true. But only if you vote for me.

[@aray856]

ⵔⵓⴽⴰⵜⴽⴰⵜ hahahahaha

[@kikomontejo9187]

M

[@Wildstar40]

How can it be scale to size when you got a big chunk of human ballast onboard ? LOL Only in France.

[@carlithopapettearguellowat4488]

I need information , tha's à shool ship ?

[@yakovmedongsack]

Some deckie shit for sure

[@mustafakoc1809]

h

[@walterF205]

Insert coin

[@khalidbabamossa3640]

see me at home bebey green

[@fpreston9527]

This is a piss take