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When the biggest ships have to navigate the narrowest channels - the Conveyance of the “Norwegian Joy”!
Meyer Werft in Germany is one of the biggest shipbuilders in the world. But it has a problem, as big as the ships it builds: the coast and sea are 50 kilometres away. From Papenburg, the only route to the North Sea leads via the shallow and narrow river Ems. This river is actually entirely unsuitable for conveying gigantic cruise ships. But still, every Meyer Werft ship has to negotiate this channel.
This Episode of MEGA TRANSPORTS shows the very first and thus the most difficult kilometres the brand new cruise ship “Norwegian Joy” will ever travel. “Norwegian Joy” is the world’s fourth-largest cruise ship - at 333 metres long and with a nearly 42-metre beam she is a true giant of the seas. With as yet unseen on-board attractions, she is one of the most innovative ships of its era. But: Even the smallest mistake could cause this ocean giant to falter.
For the voyage to the North Sea is full of difficulties: First, the gigantic cruise liner has to leave its covered dock. Things get very tight here. From the shipyard harbour, the Norwegian Joy starts her adventurous journey with only a few centimetres of water under her keel. She has to pass many hurdles on the way: the dock lock gate, two bridges and a barrier. Will she survive the conveyance unscathed?
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Great to see!! This ship was finished in the Eemshaven in the Netherlands, where I had the privilege to be part of the security team! I had a tour on the ship! Magnificent ship it is!!
That is SO close to "Postman Himself", which is kinda awesome xD
I was there as part of the opening crew. A huge thank you to NCL for sending me to Meyer Werft, Germany.
Another perfect narration of IAN WOOD! Congratulations to the entire production team of Free Documentary for another job well done! Greetings from the Philippines.
Many thanks and always a pleasure!
I was nervous watching the water slide clear the building and come out with out a scratch. Thats a good crew !!
Everything in this documentary is mind-blowing.
I saw a Norwegian Joy in Cozumel, Mexico when I had my assignment on Regent Seven Seas Explorer. It's such a giant cruiseship. Our ship looks so tiny and small in front of Joy. Great work by engineers and rest of the team to build huge cruiseships and Container ships.
i was on norwegian encore, joy’s sister, and in ketchikan we were docked next to seven seas explorer and i couldn’t believe how small it was lol!
The construction of these things ars incredible! Respect!
To those wondering about the location of Meyer Werft: According to the company profile, the founder Willm Rolf Meyer started the business in 1795 (!) with building small wooden sailing vessels, and the river Ems was obviously more than big enough for this class of ships. The dockyards have since grown, and the Ems widened and deepened. I assume it is still financially viable to keep producing in Papenburg instead of moving shop to somewhere closer to the North Sea.
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@@jelmarverzo5005 it IS actually because the distance protects the yard from fierce North Sea storms. After acquisition of the Turku yard in 2014-15, they now have capability for much larger ships there. Thus Papenburg and the current limits are acceptable for them
This is NOT a ship. It´s just a floating building!! And a Go-kart track on top of it?!! INSANE!!
"Precision is important" as he snaps off his socket @4:51 in the clip and the proceeds to grind it off. lol
i saw this Norweigian Joy at port of manila last June 2020 ..wow...its so big . im amaze with this ship
Imagine the weight of the propeller 20tons equal to the max weight that can be loaded to the conventional bridge in the philippines
You have the most commercials of any channel, over the top.
3:46 am I the only one impressed by that flashlight
This is and still is Royal Caribbean most beautiful ship she can cruise or run as an Ocean Liner. She had a beautiful air stream deep hull. Back then the Sovereign, Monarch, & more were built the same hull. My parents sailed on the Sovereign three different times one time my Dad said they got into Atlantic tropical storm with 80 mile gusting winds and they and Captain took her slow and easy and the Sovereign made example
Tugboats are the most interesting thing if you ask me
I agree
OMG i worked on that theatre :D :D i used to work in papenburg for 5 years :D 2017 was my last year there, my company ,me included were building funnel ,but other collegues were installing it on ship
OMG 😱
It's claimed Norwegian Joy is the biggest ship built at Papenburg, the Quantum-class ship built for Royal Caribbean were in excess of 348 mtres
Knowing Germans, they will built next shipyard somewhere in Alps...
And USA wil revote for Trump....
@@sjefhendrickx2257 you were wrong
With more Chinese words on the ship, sad.
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@@sjefhendrickx2257 🤣
Thank you for your information. This video is very interesting.
Thanks a lot!
Closest I have ever come to a cruise ship was on the dock in St Johns Antigua. We were staying at Blue Waters one New Year when I heard a ship was due in, so I wandered down in scruff order 30 mins to town to take a look. There was a stage with a sound system so I bought a beer and sat talking to some locals listening to reggae till the passengers stared coming off, blubbery, pink baubly people dressed up for God knows what. Suddenly there were no locals in the square, they had all rushed over to the long line of passengers ready to fleece them for tours of St Johns etc ! Land of opportunity on a small island.
Its big Technology wow wow wow
Spitzenklasse, immer punktlich und grundlich !!
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oh man, i feel super nervous and tramendous pressure by just sitting in the cafe and watiching it. Can't believe how they manage that level of pressure applys to them
Thats one hell of a drydock to. Also record breaking
I love these documentary
Great video and footage.
That slide looks terrifying. It goes over the side of the ship. 😬 🤨 😯
very nice video
Excellent job.
Gotta love the fake baked in drama. Of course the water slide cleared everything. Does anyone seriously believe that everything has not been carefully measured down to the last centimeter before a single piece of steel was even delivered to the shipyard?
I work construction and engineers get it wrong more than you think so yes it’s believable.
Don't they know about all these obstacles when they were constructing the ship? They knew and calculate everything and start only after confirming everything. But these documantary makers make it appear like a suspense thriller
Wow big ship
17:26 A gokart track on a ship lol
What Do you mean its safe NCL number one is saftey
@@xenocx1092 ofcourse its made in a safeway, otherwise it had never been allowed. ive just never seen anything like it
ak Supercars i have Cruised with the ship
Nice job
Imagine going on holiday with 4000 people ?? What a nightmare.
People go to Paris, New York, Tokyo, etc for holiday, not to mention all the megacasinos in Vegas and Macao, and the target customer is people who live in congested cities like Beijing. It being all inclusive, many will view 4000 people as a respite.
A floating germ infected prison disguised as a drunken bar offering the most fattening cholesterol laden food in the world.
I can think of a thousand better things to do than go on that thing...really!
@@1utube01 If you are on land you can get out of it. If you are at sea you are stuck.
I like ocean liners
Good job great job 👌👌🇬🇭🇬🇭💞💞
Was there an element of unknown from the proj manager? It was more hit and hope than I know the slide is going to clear at the bridge.
Drink every time narrator says "Norwegian Joy" ..lol..🍻🍺🍺🍻
this ship is $900 MILLION? i just watched a video about a super yacht priced at $1 billion. the price for the richest 1% to flex on us is INSANE lol
just from watching that on the richest right now 😁
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Imagine Mark Webber driving on that Go-Kart track
I love this documentary but I wish that the dubbing could be replaced by simple English subtitles instead
Wouldn't it make it easier to build the ship yard right next to the sea
7:40 or TV show measuring units.
Symphony of the seas is the greatest ship
Interesting
Yes narrator I think we all know that the ship's name is "Norwegian Joy" by now
He doesn`t write the script ;) Probably a request from the yard or owners that the name be mentioned some number of times or something, because it`s a lot more than usual lol..
@@afrog2666 no shit
Whats its name again ?
@@sjefhendrickx2257 Something like the Nor-Sweden Toy? Idk.
nice
COVID-19 : Now, let me thke this ship
strange location for a shipyard
Big Ship😱 I like turtle🐢
I like this 👍
That cruise ship, 4000 passengers, at least half that number of crew, the Titanic had 2200. It could have sat amongst the life boats.
Bila i nk naiki kapal sebesar ini..
It is in this shipyard that PT PELNI INDONESIA PERSERO's ship is designed and built, unfortunately at this time PT PELNI has not ordered a new ship yet🙏🙏🙏🙏
Why not build the ships near the open sea. This is exiting to watch, but seer madness.
4:50 he over tightened the bolt and snapped the head. Costly mistake that the TV crew did not pickup
By design. After the hole was filled and nut broken, the plug was sanded flat to the propeller.
21.60 Joseph Fritzl escaped from prison and has now been found working at a sluice gate near Emden.
I think they said that when it was built it was the 4th largest cruise ship in the world. Now it's the 30th largest. In only 7 years they have gotten bigger & bigger. Royal Caribbean ships are so huge now you might as well just go to a mall or an amusement park.
30 minute inspection with torches? I spend longer inspecting a road going vehicle before paying.
Why on earth make a shipyard at that location...
Its a really old shipyard, and ships only became this big the last decades. They just never bothered to move!
If it works it works, and a location like that (disregarding one factor:distance) is very hard to come by, and expensive as all hell, upgrading or relocating unless you have to is a classic mistake, one they seem unwilling to make ;)
i think you got the answers... what they will do next, because there is a limit how big and tall and large and wide and deep they can build, they bill do the maximum there. and the rest will be floated down on barges and finished at their - new- shipyard. since there are about 3000 workers there and most probably double or three times that amount of people, small shops,or families depending on them, the yard has a more then big influence on local politics. that does not mean they can do anything they want, to the contrary the yard is very aware what can be done or not. but simple closing down and go somewhere else, is just no option. on the other hand, with NORO Virus, Corona Virus, and other - nasties - around, there is also a limit how big the ships will be in future. and who wants to be with 10 000 - Lemmings - on a ship? on top of it, by the time your cruise is over, you might not have seen and explored and used half what they have to offer...
German dude, they always have something different
Why on earth build a boat to such tight constraints when ten centimetres shallower and narrower would have made the journey out easier and quicker? Yes, you would lose a small percentage of space onboard, but I have a suspicion you could have accommodated the same number of passengers - are they really going to notice that the rooms are a centimetre narrower each? (You'd even save money on the weight saved in fuel costs) I could be wrong, but I have to ask whether this whole idea of building ships and planes to their absolute limit in size is really worth it? (It's not like the people buying cruise tickets will be impressed by cabin space that is a little bit larger than cabin space that's already huge)
Does beg the question why not build it closer to the sea?????
Was ist denn Los Ende Monat,,,,,? Die Post verschlafen !
I was very surprised the damaged bridge had not been fixed by then. They need to upgrade all the narrow passageways, or go out of business. The future = larger ships.
This will be the 3rd floating hospital for the Novel Corona Virus patients..
She was originally designed for China market in 2017, but refurbished and transferred to the American Market in 2019. She dodged a bullet there.
BIG ship I like trains
lol
Ok .... tow this monster backwards , in shallow waters, in the fog , at night ... this oughta be good. Keep an eye on the water slide. Safety first,
this might be bigger than the Symphony of the seas and Queen Mary 2
just a suggestion. Please translate in Indonesian. because many of your channel followers are from Indonesia. and your channel is very useful. success continues and thank you
Words of the day : the Norwegian giant
Hei from Norway 🇧🇻🇧🇻🇧🇻🇸🇯🇳🇴🇧🇻
@@RegulareoldNorseBoy cool
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FYI, the most foul smelling bathroom bathrooms in Germany are in that shipyard. Off gassing of sourkraut laden poops.
Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view!" Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam." Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!" Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..." Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!" Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky." Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction." Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment?
MANUEL!!!!!!!!!
When I was in the Navy, we did a port visit to Portsmouth England. I had a few pints with the 3rd officer of the cruise ship that was there. (It's been.overn 30 years and I can't remember the ships name). He said the Captain, 1st officer, chief engineer and engineers assitant are picked even before they lay the keep. So I'm sure that worrying about the slide hitting something And everything else has been planned out to the centimeter.
I saw that launch live
Going to live in the Asian Pacific, I wonder how the decision where in the world the ship goes is made. 🤔
Wouldn't it be simpler to shift the shipyard?
Is it possible to place documentary films that contain an Arabic translation or dubbing it in the Arabic language and that we need to put the title of these films in the Arabic language? Can it be placed in a special channel or within your channel? Thank you
2 years later…. Did they do it for you lol ?
Big huge titanic humongous gigantic But wait ...the title says norwegian joy is the biggest ship..but in the description it is the fourth largest
learn to read. it says "biggest ships navigate the narrowest channels"
@@swunt10 ok just confused..learn to be kind to others ok.
@@indiopeninsulares6723 Yeah this person feels too safe behind his keyboard. The Norwegian Joy is in fact one of the biggest but the Symphony of the Seas is the biggest one. you should check it out!
Naomba mniajiri job kama mkenya kwa hii meli🇰🇪🇰🇪🤔🤔🤔🔥🔥 hata kama ni ya waiter
Andù a nyùmba
Please use English because we need mtu ya kuuza mayai boiled ndani ya meli na kashumbari.
Hello, I would like to ask the channel's administrators, can I take some documentary videos and add Arabic subtitles to them? Or put his dubbing in the Arabic language, with the aim that the viewer in the Arab world can view these films and increase his knowledge of these topics. Please agree to this proposal and I am not aiming to reap profits just to spread knowledge and cross language limits. Thank you very much
A very large floating apartment complex..I wouldn't waste my time on it.
The captain is my grandpa! Im not joking we have the same name
🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂
Just feature the antonov 225 pls
And we couldn't put together the slider after the vessel has cleared the bridges...just like to test those m6ltimill7on dollar navegation gadgets!😆
Is that not the most ridiculous place to have ship yard. Then to put the tightest turn to come out of the shed......
If I was driving the tug I would be shitting my pants
Itu kapal nya berapa lantai njingg??
They should have huge lights to see imperfections them technicians are so used to torches
Can’t they build closer?
Can the giant ship come back to its origin for a major services???
No !
Boka Vanguard.
I like to use the big ship to survive in the end game 2020, it's perfect I can plant trees and make rain water a drinking water and I can fishing 😁 the problems is the ship energy i don't Know. can it use electricity? so I will build solar panel 😁
Go outside sometimes, you'll do yourself good.
@@MyGodZach i'm just dreaming you don't need to reply
@@DrStone-no4xu may your dreams come true ✌
Intelligent mankind! After 5000 years, we will get ships even 10000 times bigger. What we need now is a elevator to the Space Station for day trip.
Humanity will colonize Mars and corrupt it….
I have working there,2,5 years
I wouldn't be surprised if they build another shipyard in a land locked country 😂
Yes Wisconsin,!
@@sjefhendrickx2257 >>> Marshfield !!
Wanna design a ship, ask some norwegians, wanna build it, ask some germans, want it paid for, good luck..
Ihr müsst euch nicht den Fake hier angucken, ihr könnt auch das Original angucken, das hat nämlich ne bessere Qualität und ist auch kostenlos
i wonder if widening the passage is the more wiser option rather than damaging that ship going thru that narrow way!
@Johannes Johnson but the risk of this damaging the ship is high as you can see how narrow the gap is..why risk a brand new ship and have to also spend millons eventually repairing it if damaged?? no matter high tech the equipment is u still need ur brain to think
They aren't allowed to widen the ems right now, so they have to make do
@@irishque the high tech equipment is used so no one has to "use their brain," if it was left to human brains it would most likely not end well. The problem is solved by equipment and sensors far more advanced than the capabilities of our brains..
"The glass waterside" lmao it's clear plastic😂 I love how they have to add extra drama.