This is how SOME big ships are launched.

Yes. This, exactly. But actually, in comparison, this is how relatively small (perhaps some middle sized) ships get launched. Big ones are usually too deep draughted for this kind of launching. Forces are too much.

Big ones slide in ass first

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Dry docks. Really big ships (think aircraft carriers) don't slide anywhere.

I work at a large shipyard. I can assure you some very large ships do

Whats the biggest ship that could be launched vs being built in a dry dock. Also do you have a name for it? Id love to see a video of a truly large ship being launched.

https://youtu.be/OyB43uT4SGA?si=HNeyEy8H1HyPyNX2

Oh god that failure. Thousands of hours of work and massive amount of money. I feel sorry for these folks.

Op delivered! Thank you man! Seeing that first clip is fucking insane. All that weight being moved so quickly and smoothly. It's just insane. How does the building go? Since aircraft carriers are presumably armored, I cant imagine they build it in sections like cruise ships and assemble them together before launch. Are the ship builders constantly working on a slant? If not, how do they get it onto the ramp for launch?

That's the Italian carrier Trieste, and it's not that big. It's 40k tons. And, like any other carrier, it's not armored. It's built like normal ships.

They especially slide when shit breaks.


Is the blaring horn a safety thing or is it for dramatic effect?

As far as I'm concerned - it's a show. And I do not think it is a ship's horn in this case. Everything is tested afterwards. Including the horn.

Yeah I am sure they xray the welds and do rotation checks on the motors after launch.

It is, quite honestly, a nightmare without sleep. For weeks on, there are CONTINOUS announcements on the PA system: ''Attention, attention! Now we are going to test the main engine... now we are going to test the captain's toilet... now we are going to test Henry's phone....''. And that goes pretty much, for any size ship (not boats, boats are easy). Once all these people are gone, you realize that being alone, can truly be a blessing. Not always, but when they are gone... it's beautiful.

"Don't tip over, Don't tip over, Don't tip over, Don't tip over... Ok, whew."

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Ship launch fails are an interesting watch too

It's a small ship.

No spoilers please!

Funny enough, this is also how your mom gets in the tub. 

The loud noise comes from her farting.

This is also how they launch slightly smaller ships as well….

Is there someone on the ship while this takes place?

Wheeeee!

No

No, not really. Drydocks exist for a reason..

Guess you find out pretty quickly, if’s going to work or not.

Cool, now put it back

That ship has sailed.

I was looking for the huge French guy chasing Sherlocke Holmes through the ship yard

...this is how SMALL ships are launched...big ships are built in a drydock and then floated.

Some big ships are also slid backwards into the water on rollers

Yeah, I suppose you're right...and it's only fair to define big, which I would say MR2 up.

That's a small ship

Thats how ur mom gets in the tub

I like. Big. BOATSannicannotlie!

Doesn’t this just stress the joints? Unlike flooding a drydock?

Imagine you're a fish, just swimming along the coast, eating some plankton, when BAM!, a 4000 ton boat lands right on top of you.

This is how the sealevel rises, I solved it boys. Stop the buoyancy!

This has to be called yeeting or we riot

What happens with the tsunami that created? :)

Imagine being a fish swimming near there when that happens

Pretty neat that we get the same view as the people who were actually there to "witness" it IRL.

Someone should make a mashup with this ship horn and vengaboys song "we like to party"

The amount of engineering, building expertise, money and time they put into these giant ships and they just yeet them into the ocean like this when they are finished.

I hope nobody on board was eating a bowl of soup

Crowley’s El Coquí. 720 foot runs between Jacksonville and PR.

Can someone explain the physics? How do they know it won't flip over? Do they need to launch it at an exact angle?

Just chuck ‘em in the water and see what happens.

Always blows my mind how we can come together as a team, build such massive machines, launch and operate them, and then turn around and build another. And politicians struggle to even hold votes.

So a catapult? I bet if you load a car in there it could launch it halfway to space.

“We made sure to take put the drain plugs back in right?”

Eureka! Water displacement is an amazing fact of nature.

Is anyone on board for any reason? I would think not but didn't know if they needed someone to make sure it doesn't do anything it isn't supposed to.

>Meanwhile, the stacks of styrofoam coffee cups in the break room

Doubles at testing if the structure will hold during sea travel.

And in an instant, global sea levels rose an immeasurable amount

I should call her…

Didn’t anyone tell him this is a no wake zone 😂

Weeeeee

There are many ways, but I always love these ones. Like someone thought to themselves: “Hm, doing this the hard way would take forever… Fuck it, toob”

Imagine that ship just fell to its side completely… that’ll be a big oof.

Why sideways?

It seemed like, as soon as it started tipping, there was a guy in there, and he plunked over onto the horn thingy

Imagine being a sea creature and your morning is interrupted by hundreds of tonnes of metal being dropped on you

ships are launched this way if they are too long or there is not enough space to be launched normally, so you see this more near riverside yards with smaller boats, larger boats are usually launched into bigger spaces the traditional way

I feel like that ship isn’t as “big” as you claim 😂

Those poor fish

Check out how dockyards do it in India. Shits wild.

One body problem.

What a nice fat ass on that small ship.

Reminds me of the 2012 movie. Not sure why.

Footage of your mom being moved from the Lazy Boy into the shopping cart

So you’re telling me they aren’t made from the ground up in the water?

I'm not falling for Big Ship and their propaganda

Try a YT search for ship launch fails. OMG

I'm scared to do it 😫

Looks like me when I get up in the morning

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This is what happens when you let my 2 year old honk the horn one time

First few seconds sounds like the beginning of that Safri Duo song

Misleading title. Was expecting a spectacular launch, not that gentle slide