This is an tour through the engine room of the MT Iver Expert.
It is an 46,000 T Product tanker (1997)
Main engine: MAN B&W 6S50MC-C
This is an tour through the engine room of the MT Iver Expert.
It is an 46,000 T Product tanker (1997)
Main engine: MAN B&W 6S50MC-C
Im an old us Navy snipe and I watched every second of your video , with starting and stopping 2,5 hours .Thank you so much!! I'll be watching it two or numerous more. I guess I just miss being in engine and boiler rooms. I love the poem THE SNIPES LAMENT. Fair Winds and Following Seas.
What a great video, thank you Jasper. Spent the first 16 years of my working life as a Marine Engineer before coming ashore for family reasons. 12 years on Product and Crude carriers motor and steam, 25,000 - 270,000 T. Our 6 cylinder main propulsion were a little larger and slightly slower however time and technology marches on. 4 years on Diving Support vessels. Had I remained single I am sure I would completed my career at sea.
This is the most comprehensive tour of an ship's engine room I have ever seen. Very helpful for me as I am trying to learning about ship mechanics. Jasper you deserve an Academy Award for cinematography haha.
Another thing I like about this video as a friend pointed out is that there is no "narrative" and you hear the operations as they would sound on a routine maintenance inspection. Nice overview of how an engine room actually operates! Cudos to Jasper!
This has got to be the most soothing noise. I wonder how many of the crew have fallen asleep!
Wat a beautiful noise singing in my ears fits like a hand in a glove! @ I long back 2:those days !!!@ mooootiful !!!!
Neat as a pin and careful watch over by their crew as Jasper points out. Excellent video of the enormous and intricate machinery that gets these giants moving to begin with!
When i saw this video i remember my fast memories as motorman exp.in deferent kind of main engine,genator,purifier,boiler, housekeeping, now i'm retired but i m steel remember my precious work....thx for this video....
Im retired since 25 ago as first engineer, still remmenber my very rich expierience un that job..thank for you video..greeting from Uruguay 🇺🇾🇺🇾
Give me my Rockers walking 2 the beat!! @ please sir ! I want some more !!!.
Want to hear em.at Dead Slow ahead vs Full Astern @ Bow thrusters !!@ pleas Sir !!
I would never get tired or sick of going to work in that environment, you would have to drag me away!
have never seen cleaner engine room than this!! Cheers
Great video Jasper! Loved the noise, reminds me of when I was at sea in the late 70's early 80's on general cargo ships (Bank Line). I bet the funnel was hot! The main engine looked small compared to our old Doxfords. Amazed at the size and space of the engine room, and the electrical workshop! As an electrician I would love to have had a workshop like that. Would love to be back at sea again. I hope you have a wonderful life at sea, enjoy it and make the most of it, it will set you up for life.
20 years in the Navy I never saw anything like this! Look at all the room!
Truly impressive. The amount of support equipment needed to make one of these giant engines work is staggering. Between all the pumps, valves and whatnot, just the number of electric motors must be in the hundreds.
awesome video of these beasts in action!
Interesting video, had no idea that the engine room would be so complex. That's a lot of machinery to maintain. Thanks for posting.
Thanks for a great guidet tour through the engine room on the MT IVER EXPERT . it was a pleasure . :-)
Great video, thanks for posting.
That was very interesting. Really enjoyed the tour.
Amazing complexity! Who designed this system? Who assembled it? They are geniuses! How do you troubleshoot it? There must be a large crew to handle it, including machinists who can manufacture needed parts if necessary. The designers, assemblers and operators deserve a lot of respect and big salaries! These are the real heroes who risk their lives for the "cause". How can one become a chief engineer on a system like this? In my next life I want to be one.
What a nice and clean engine room, really gorgeous
Thanks for very interesting video tour.
vERY well done and thanks for the really good written explanations!
this engine has a nice rhythm when it strokes
Nice to see everything kept so incredibly clean. Always better to work with clean gear. Good video Jasper, thanks.
Great to see! Did almost two years as third engineer on Bro Promotion, ex Iver Example.
Damn that turbo charger is loud! Great engines, great ships.
tonskulus well yeah, it's the size of your average bathroom. so that's to be expected lol
Thanks for the excellent video. Particularly for your descriptions of what we are looking at.
This is a Great tour! 5/5 for ths : )
Thanks for sharing this video sir, nicely done, and very informative. thanks.
Nice engine room!
Great Tour, tyvm :)
excellant job man!
Better engine room then JJ's Star Trek.. That looked like Anheuser Busch tour. Don't get me started on the water slide park..
I am very glad to see the contents of the engine room is hopefully what I am watching this video could be a lesson for my personal.. thanks
Fine Job!!
very good engine room
Good vidoe, ship well maintained & organised.
Awesome video. Thanks!
GOOD,VERY GOOD ,THANKS FOR THE EXCELLENT VIDEO.
Thanks so much, this is awesome!
This ship was in front of our cruise ship in the panama canal. Cool stuff !!
Now I wonder when this was! Must have been a while ago.
@@jaspervanstratum I think around 1994
awesome good job
What is an Escape Trunk? As with all these engine room videos, I keep wondering, "Where is everyone?!!" Do these massive places just run without the need for human monitoring? How many people does it take to know how all this stuff works and how to fix things? Does Mr. Scott really handle everything by himself? Fascinating.
I find the engine room noise relaxing
Great video Thanks 👍🙂
Great video. Im studying Marine and technical engineer in denmark. And I hope that I can get a job at sea when im done with that :) Your video gives a good overview at the mechanical part of the ship.
Man I love this video.!
....Thanks for taking the time to make this video, I find this sort of stuff very interesting........2 questions...how do you know if you have a bad piston? #2, what kind of clearance do you have between piston and cylinder wall...?
Valeu Jasper, muito legal, parabens.
Wow, what a great tour, that's a pretty big engine room. I assume they pay you a lot of $$ to keep that engine purring.. Thanks for sharing
THANK YOU.
The best i'v seen so far ,very good . Do you need a sparks??
When going up the funnel what was the equipment with liquid inside flowing and then it looked like a sight glass to a boiler? What that the main engine exhaust?
great video, I joined and I left a like, I wanted to ask the valve on which rests the foot as a measure of the diameter? 400mm?
nice vid
Well, the Turbocharger from the Main Engine makes the most noise (high pitched sound) As for how long ships lasts. That depends on the users :P After 20 years it is getting pretty old and I think 25 years is a good time to scrap them.
I was se cine enginner 15 year on the tanker ship tankerske plovidba thanks you
i watched your whole video i think you didn't locate the sewage plan in engine room. where it is fitted? what is the pros and cons of this place where the plan is fitted?
Thanks, Well I am not an engineer but I think it is in case we have problems with the steering gear. When something happens to the hydraulic part of the steering gear, and all the hydraulic oil drains out of the system onto the floor, you are still able to walk there.
THANKS !
Thanks for making this Jasper, always wanted a video showing everything in an engine room. I was wondering if you could tell me what the Critical RPM of 52-63 means on the Main Engine Speed table though. Why is that speed critical? Does it not run as well at that speed?
Very impressive. It's amazing how much equipment it takes to keep ships like this going. Ironic that the main engine is quieter than anything else How long do these ships last?.
This is really interesting. How many people maintain these various units?
Nossa... Que infinidades de maquinários dentro de um navio... Se faz necessário tudo isso...
Спасибо Джаспер. Я из России. Очень интересное видео. Люблю море и теплоходы. Страна Голландия это прекрасная страна!!! Страна Тюльпанов (tulips country)
Thank you! Yes, The funnel and Purifier Room were hot ( around 50 - 55 degrees Celsius ) This is one of the smallest 2-stroke engines, but for me, I still think it is big :P This video was taken during my time on board as a dual cadet ( Bridge / Engine Room ) I have chosen a career on deck, which is starting next week. But I enjoyed my time in the ER as well, but it is just not for me.
Jasper van Stratum Engine Room too hot for you :-)
thank you old seamen from Finland
Parabéns pelo vídeo; notei que o MCP estava em max. rpm; quantos nós estava desenvolvendo??????
Who cleans them things? They're always so spotless.
Mooi mach kmr . Prachtig geluid , brings back memories , ex wtk kon marine en shell tankers
BTW, Jasper, can you tell me why their is wooden slats for walking on in the steering room?
Hi, Well these 2 stroke engines are made for long continuous running. These engines have a few fixed RPM's ( Dead slow, Slow, Half, Full and Sea ) These are fixed RPM's as you can see at the plate on the engine next to the local engine control. However you can set the engine on any RPM you like. But between 52 and 63 RPM the stress inside the engine is to high for continuously running and can result in some serious damage. Passing these RPM's when speeding up/slowing down is no problem.
HI FROM EX-MARINE ENGINEER 2nd....CROATIAN JADROPLOV Co.!Remember when i 1 st time enter in Engine Room....and last times when i know almost everything i need to know...ha ha first time was scary a little bit-i thought i'll never learn 10% of all this Auxiliary engines,after few years i could drive ship like this on open sea alone,cos i spent much time with 3rd Mates,after second Mates on Bridge,looking the sea,like to learn all about Vessel-i made good part,even every Ship is different!Cheers!
does it have a manual pull start, like a Yamaha 40?
wish i was still at sea spent 18.5 years deep sea and 25.5 on Tugs.
I sail at the tankers from the company: Vroon
Thanks for an interesting tour Jasper. Question: Why the wooden slats on the floor of the steering gear room?
+divisioneight Hydraulic oil and painted steel floors are very slippery, there may be some oil mist from tank breathers in the room. The slats give some grip.
They are as a result of the "Amoco Cadiz". Her steering gear failed and the leaking oil caused the steering gear room's floor to be coated with oil. As a result the engineers couldn't reach the steering gear and the ship ran aground off the French coast with a massive oil spill as a result. Since then the steering gears of all ships have to have steel gratings around them, or in this case wooden.
Fantastic, thanks! I take it the inert gas is for use as a fire extinguisher?
We use the inert gas system for inerting the cargo tanks. This way there is no explosive mixture of air on top of the cargo inside the cargo tanks. Against fire in the engine room we have an CO2 system. With this system we can fill the complete engine room with CO2.
Those are Haltlappa compressors right? easy to work on.
16:05 Can someone tell me if the main engine is reversible? The RPM gauge shown here appears to indicate RPMs in the reversed direction but i find it hard to believe that the engine can actually be reversed. I always thought the propellers were variable pitch and could produce forward thrust by changing the pitch rather than actually reversing direction.
Yes, engines such as this(and this engine) are in fact reversible. Variable pitch props do exist, but are not as common.
If the engine stays for prolonged time periods at critical rpm the engine will be damaged of even destroyed. This happens because of the tuning of the natural frequency of the engine with the vibrations that the engine has at this RPM.Critical speed is different among engines. All engines have critical speed even our cars, but car engines are high RPM engines, so critical RPM are already overcame when we start our engines at about 1000 RPM.
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Why is there a wooden walkway in the steering gear room?
In case of an oil leakage from the steering gear, we need to be able to walk there to do repairs or do emergency steering.
Starting air compressor is Hatlapa or what ??
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This may be a stupid question, but what is a 2-stroke engine doing with valves?
+cyrex686 It still need exhaust valves ;)
When fitted with an Exhaust valve. Then these engines are termed Uniflow it is all to promote efficient scavenging of burnt gasses.
Where is the radiator and carburetor?
workshop on board!!!
what happens if your iPad freezes?
Good thing I had my ear protection when that door opened WTF
What company are you with? I am a dual officer myself :)
Half een motor (M/E)? Iemand snijd het in tweeën? lol (Eigenlijk, ik ben gewend aan het dubbele van de cilinders ook slechts een halve meter boring? Ach, ik veronderstel dat was alles wat ze hadden in 1997!)... Ik zag dit een paar keer, maar deze keer merkte ik uit uw monitor in CR dat cilinder liner (jacket) was in rood en het lezen van "0". Waar ging dat over? Ook, rpm indicator op de motor de juiste wankelde alsof rpm was niet stabiel (kunnen worden gerelateerd aan rode "0" indicatie voor nummer 4 cilinder jacket?) Mooie machinekamer in het algemeen! Dank u veel!
Well this is not a container ship so its not build for speed so a 6 cylinder is very common on ships of 180 m (Tanker/Bulk). The red 0 was a High Temp. Cooling water sensor that just broke. So there is no reading at that time. The Engine is running stable.
Great job man But where were all the mechanics and technicians??
It dosnt take alot of hands to run the engine dept with computers and such. Most of em spend their time in a little hutch closed off from the rest of the engine room monitoring screens... not what it used to be.
Cessna 182a This is not 100% true. On board we have 4 engineers and 3 ratings doing maintenance. This engine room is what they call "Unmanned", that means that it is allowed not to have someone to be in the ER all the time. This means that at night time there is no one, and that the duty engineer will receive the alarms in his cabin. They all work during day and are doing continuously maintenance on all the engines/pumps and other machinery. I dont see computers do any maintenance !!. The computers we have are there for the maintenance/planning programs. Maybe the Chief Engineers spends most time in the Engine Control Room yes, but he has a lot of paperwork to do. All the others are always working hard outside this Engine Control Room. I made the video at night time. I went down with the duty engineer who had to make his evening watch round. He does not like to be on camera though :)
So I assume most new vessels being built have unmanned engine rooms... Thats probably what most of em are since bridge control became a thing? Btw great video, sir.
Thanks to both of you for try and answer my question,now I know how is the engine room of this kind of ships I guess it's the same thing for the cruise ship,kind of reminds me of "Titanic" the movie while all the people the in cruise were having fun,drinks and why not "sex" Deep below the ship an army of workers kept the engine running.Both of you are right more "computers and high tech equipment" may require less workers,but all kind of mechanical devices need manually maintenance and even newest ship of all kind are not exception.
Jasper van Stratum I spoke to a guy at my gym who worked on a container ship and he said computer or no computer he saw some techs who could be relied upon to literally "hear" when something was not quite right within the rhythm of the machines that the computers would not be aware of!
Wow
What does the steam from the exhaust gas boiler supply?
vessels like these burn HFO or heavy fuel oil which needs to have its viscosity (pumpability) to be change-able, and steam heating is used for this. if heating is not supplied the fuel will not flow.
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Wait, I have something to ask. Is anyone here knows what are the duties and responsibilities of a PUMPMAN? I am planning to try to work on board, as of now I am working as a mechanical technician, I also work before as a hydraulic mechanic, And also a machinist by profession and have a year of experience. I need your advice guys, thanks.
The Pumpman was a crew member whose main function was to oversee the operation of the cargo pumps in oil tankers, and be very familiar with the pipework and associated valve systems to allow any of the pumps to deliver cargo from tanks to shore etc. They also had other duties when the ship was between ports and this additional work was usually controlled by the Chief Mate or Chief Engineer. A good pumpman was always an asset as they could be relied upon to operate the machinery in a professional and safe manner. With your qualifications I would think you could cope with the work, but have you not considered a post as a marine engineer? More challenging, but better pay etc!
Thanks for your info. very much appreciated. Can you recommend me any educational sites, and videos things like that sir. thanks
HA! I had an idea that came to me overnight, for a ship engine .....cos im thinking about doing an engine room apprenticeship for 3 years ... i realised just how stupid my idea was after watching this ... way too many systems to streamline an engine that can do alot of things efficently in one package and it would be a nightmare to repair if something went wrong on a streamlined packaged aio system
Another one... Twitchy! Guy needs to recommend Dramamine before watching. I'll check some other pieces off his work Before I subscribe. As for this one, skipping it before I taste breakfast for a second time.
Sorry man, took this in 2009 just with a simple photo camera, no stabilization options back then.
"a very well designed engine room." ..."**.**