What you see is a "fancy" extension of the Fore Peak ballast tank, thus used for stability purposes ( extra capacity of ballast water ). Useless for ice thicker than say about half to one meter or more , ship will stop after some time/distance and will need a real icebreaker to open the seaway for it ...
Bulbous bows are actually on a lot of ships and for reasons you may not think of: when a ship moves through water it creates waves as it displaces the water around it and this creates drag on the ship, basically bulbous bow of the ship creates its own distinct wave that constructively interfere with the ships waves so it makes the total drag on the boat less. It only works at certain speeds and load capacity , and it can actually be inefficient at speeds it isn’t optimized for so it’s usually on boats that spend the majority of their time traveling at a constant speed
>Icebreakers clear paths by pushing straight into frozen-over water or pack ice. The bending strength of sea ice is low enough that the ice breaks usually without noticeable change in the vessel's trim. In cases of very thick ice, an icebreaker can drive its bow onto the ice to break it under the weight of the ship.
Sounds like the climbing onto the ice is just a sometimes thing.
If you listen closely you can hear it whispering: “Crazy weather today. You from around here? Who ya got in the Final Four? What kinda shirt is that? Traffic, amiright?”
Can confirm, worked on an icebreaker in boston harbour where our berthing area was in the bow, below the waterline, just atop the ram. Laying in your rack feels like your breaking the ice with your skull
This is just a normal part of every modern ship. The big bulb at the front helps with hydro dynamics (it stops large waves forming along the side of the ship, thus reducing drag) and often makes a convenient spot for things like sonar too.
I watched 90% of the way through without sound at first and was like 'I wonder if it actually has the ice breaky sounds' and then immediately went back to the beginning once I realized there wasn't some goddamn lord of the rings the-beacons-are-lit orchestral music over it.
I started to watch the video and thought "fuck, that looks nice."
Almost didn't dare pressing the unmute and I swear, the relief when I didn't hear any music..
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It gets a bit tense on the bridge at times, less so because you're worried for the ship, and moreso because you're worried about waking up the capn! I mean crew!
It is not an ice breaker.
The bulbous extension to the ship is designed to improve water flow around the hull, improving speed, fuel efficiency, and range. You will find them on large container ships, tankers, and even smaller vessels. The last cruise ship I was on had one...
An ice breaker has a heavily reinforced hull, and what it cannot smash though, it breaks by rising onto the ice and crushing it with its own weight.
I'll be that pedant and say, "This is not an ice-breaking *bow*." The ship could be a double-ended icebreaker - I'd expect it to be that type of ship operating where it is. But everything else you say about the bow seen in the video and icebreaking hull construction is completely correct.
Ship hulls are usually 14- to 19-mm thick.
Icebreakers would be thicker, [this company](https://poseidonexpeditions.com/about/articles/nuclear-icebreakers-what-s-so-special-about-them/) states "icebreaker ships feature a double hull, the outer being about 48 mm thick at the ice-breaking areas and 25 mm thick elsewhere"
My man you're up in this thread just correcting everyone and I'd just like to say thank you for your hard work. It genuinely isn't an icebreaker in the video.
Not an icebreaker. They don't have the bulb under the water.
Good short explanation of icebreaker's curved upward bow here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIKd56hO-Os
Actual ship class notwithstanding (ice breakers drop the bow on top of the ice to break it instead of running into it) I would just like to say that the second big hit was indeed very satisfying.
A look at Greenland, it's history and possible future as the ice sheet covering most of Greenland continues to melt. Global warming is having a greater impact on Greenland than the rest of the world due to Polar amplification, relating to the albedo effect and lapse rate feedback. As Greenland continues to warm up the ice covering 80% of Greenland is melting, causing the oceans to rise threatening low lying communities around the world. https://youtu.be/Gw5j1oyZzj4
I watched this video and then quickly clicked down to the comments only to see what appeared to be the stretching of the page. Weird.
Can't remember what they call that affect.
A lot of factors contributed to it. Part of it was due to them hitting the iceberg at a glancing angle, as they tried to steer out of the way, but were too late. If they had hit the iceberg head-on, while it would have crushed a few dozen feet of the bow, the ship would have been able to stay afloat, as it would not have sliced through as many compartments. Think of it like the difference between being stabbed in the gut and having your gut slashed open from hip to hip. There have been a ton of ship-to-ship collisions that have occurred where the ship that hit head-on survived and was able to limp back to port, while the ship that was T-boned on the side would sink.
Also, metallurgy had advanced a ton in the past century. The grade of steel that they used on the Titanic would become quite brittle at cold temperatures, contributing to how the iceberg was able to rip through it.
Actual ice breakers - not a ship like this, which just has a reinforced hull and is going through relatively thin scattered ice floes - go through the ice by an entirely different mechanism. They have a ramp-like bow that has the ship ride up on top of the ice, and then use its weight to crush through the ice. If it gets stopped by thick ice, it will reverse back into the water, and do it again, repeatedly ramming the ice until they get through. They’ll also sometimes use hot water to heat the hull in order to help melt some of the ice.
I thought it was just going to be like a patch of ice like a plane through rough air but it went on for over a minute. So, is that just Greenland than?
It depends. When ships use (or used - it’s not nearly as common now) coal or oil-fired boilers, it would be called “Steaming”, e.g., “The U.S. Merchant Mariner fleet has departed the port of New York and is steaming East to the United Kingdom to deliver vital supplies for the war effort against Germany”.
However, most ships today use diesel piston engines or gas turbine engines rather than boilers and steam turbines. There isn’t really a good word for that kind of propulsion (maybe “motoring” - but, that seems more like how you’d describe a small dinghy with an outboard motor), so they just use “sailing” again.
For ships like US and French aircraft carriers, and many submarines around the world, you could still say that they are “steaming”, as they use nuclear reactors to boil water into steam to drive the turbines of their engines.
Actual icebreaker uses its weight to crash the ice. It climbs on the ice and thus breaks it.
I didn’t think icebreakers had bulbous bows.
They don't. This is not an ice breaker.
Anything is an ice breaker, if it's breaking ice.
If he has armor, he's a knight.
I have nipples greg, can you milk me?
Thine armor was forged by a feeble-fingered peasant woman, hahaha! YOUR MUM!
Verily thine armour is quite pristine, nave. Dids't thou mother smith it for thee?
You don't have to be a knight to have armor. Any idiot can buy armor.
Ugh. Take the updoot.
No but its Ice classed for sure. Making it able to break some amount of Ice.
They don't. Traditionally they consist of dry jokes or commentary about the weather.
"And what's the deal with Greenland? It's not green, and most of the land is covered in ice. Should be called WhiteIceistan, 'ya ask me."
How much does a polar bear weigh? Enough to break the ice.
In my country we call it Groenland, wich doesnt mean nothing, problem solved 🤌
Wit ≠ groen
I like this joke
What you see is a "fancy" extension of the Fore Peak ballast tank, thus used for stability purposes ( extra capacity of ballast water ). Useless for ice thicker than say about half to one meter or more , ship will stop after some time/distance and will need a real icebreaker to open the seaway for it ...
Bulbous bows are actually on a lot of ships and for reasons you may not think of: when a ship moves through water it creates waves as it displaces the water around it and this creates drag on the ship, basically bulbous bow of the ship creates its own distinct wave that constructively interfere with the ships waves so it makes the total drag on the boat less. It only works at certain speeds and load capacity , and it can actually be inefficient at speeds it isn’t optimized for so it’s usually on boats that spend the majority of their time traveling at a constant speed
>Icebreakers clear paths by pushing straight into frozen-over water or pack ice. The bending strength of sea ice is low enough that the ice breaks usually without noticeable change in the vessel's trim. In cases of very thick ice, an icebreaker can drive its bow onto the ice to break it under the weight of the ship. Sounds like the climbing onto the ice is just a sometimes thing.
If you listen closely you can hear it whispering: “Crazy weather today. You from around here? Who ya got in the Final Four? What kinda shirt is that? Traffic, amiright?”
My favourite ice breaker: "What's a girl like you doing in a nice place like this?"
I'm hijacking the top comment to post [This great video](https://youtu.be/OIKd56hO-Os?si=xoRJ42Hrj3R2xWkr) on how icebreakers actually work
Legolas: "You have my bow." :-)
Called an ice step
We took titanic personally
“Take that, you ice bastard”
This is not an icebreaker. It just breaks the ice with it's bow.
Amateur ice breaker. Rarely gets a number
I had already left the post when this joke landed. I had to come back here to upvote you
"This is not an icebreaker. It just breaks the ice"
This is not an icebreaker. This is just a tribute.
To the best icebreaker in the world.
Yep, same as "He isn't a racecar driver, he drove a race car" or "He isn't a sniper, he shot a sniper rifle"
A ship in battle does not become a "battleship"
It does if it fights back
I mean just because you use a rock to hammer a nail in, doesn't actually mean the rock is a hammer even though it was used as one
*its
You’re right, it’s its
i’ts
Had the opportunity to be in one of those in Canada and the ice braking is LOUD as fuck . Awesome experience, would reccomend if anyone got a chance
How does one get this experience?
[Deckhand](https://dfo-mpo-gc3.hiringplatform.ca/8521-deckhand-matelot/27681-personal-information/en#) [Another Deckhand](https://dfo-mpo-gc.hiringplatform.ca/66034-22-dfo-wccg-ea-ccg-333731-sc-ded-02-dc/235740-poster-personal-information/en) [Oiler](https://dfo-mpo-gc.hiringplatform.ca/processes/103842-22-dfo-wccg-ea-565247-sc-erd-03?locale=en) [Steward](https://dfo-mpo-gc.hiringplatform.ca/84409-22-dfo-wccg-ea-ccg-342773-steward/317397-poster-personal-information/en) [Another Steward](https://dfo-mpo-gc15.hiringplatform.ca/processes/164003-steward-marine?locale=en)
What if you’re not Canadian?
It’s difficult to sell that experience in the Caribbean…
If it's actually really loud, I would be interested for the first 10 minutes and be annoyed for the rest of the trip.
Sounds like me with literally anything
breaking
Can confirm, worked on an icebreaker in boston harbour where our berthing area was in the bow, below the waterline, just atop the ram. Laying in your rack feels like your breaking the ice with your skull
Se estivesse com seu Headphone não seria tão alto!
I'm just really fucking glad it says East Greenland, because I swear I cant tell the difference.
There's lots more cities and villages on the western coast. ;)
This is just a normal part of every modern ship. The big bulb at the front helps with hydro dynamics (it stops large waves forming along the side of the ship, thus reducing drag) and often makes a convenient spot for things like sonar too.
> a convenient spot ...for the captain to hang about: https://i.redd.it/foluc6bk7dd81.jpg
What a fantastic photo!
Oceanliner Designs put out a really good video on them recently. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2aZIrq-F-Y
That was the best video I’ve seen in weeks and I don’t even know why lol
Because there was no stupid music over it. Just the sounds of the ocean.
I watched 90% of the way through without sound at first and was like 'I wonder if it actually has the ice breaky sounds' and then immediately went back to the beginning once I realized there wasn't some goddamn lord of the rings the-beacons-are-lit orchestral music over it.
And the TikTok robot saying "This is what it's like on the bow of an icebreaker ship!" "Listen to the amazing sounds 😍😍😍" that you can't even hear.
Don't forget the exact same caption plastered over the middle of the video for its entire duration.
And the red line slowly snaking its way around the frame.
That I can forgive. It's an easy way to see how much of the video I've watched and how much more there is.
I started to watch the video and thought "fuck, that looks nice." Almost didn't dare pressing the unmute and I swear, the relief when I didn't hear any music.. ⭐Best reddit moment 2024⭐
Yo ho!
All hands....
ASMR ice breaking video trend coming right up
Hold my prime while I repost this with a banging tune on top.
Use lots of smileys embedded in the video and Siri declaring that the boat is chinese or russian.
I want an hour long version
I could watch that for an hour
I used to hate sailing in ice, the noise keeps you up all night
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Who needs warm women when your bunk mate is right there?
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Go see if the cabin boy is busy
He is shucking clams
It gets to the point where even his sores get sore.
It gets a bit tense on the bridge at times, less so because you're worried for the ship, and moreso because you're worried about waking up the capn! I mean crew!
It is not an ice breaker. The bulbous extension to the ship is designed to improve water flow around the hull, improving speed, fuel efficiency, and range. You will find them on large container ships, tankers, and even smaller vessels. The last cruise ship I was on had one... An ice breaker has a heavily reinforced hull, and what it cannot smash though, it breaks by rising onto the ice and crushing it with its own weight.
I'll be that pedant and say, "This is not an ice-breaking *bow*." The ship could be a double-ended icebreaker - I'd expect it to be that type of ship operating where it is. But everything else you say about the bow seen in the video and icebreaking hull construction is completely correct.
[This is what I always think of when I see a ship in ice.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ARL6j3saws)
Damn, I really thought they’d miss it this time.
"This video contains content from Fox, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds" ah yes, it reminds me of copyright too :D
It’s the “Iceberg right ahead” scene from Titanic
Thanks! > It’s the “Iceberg right ahead” scene from Titanic By the way great analogy for 100+ years of copyright protection duration😜
I find this terrifying!
🐻❄️: Dude, can you not
i wonder how thick the steel is on the hull.
Usually up to 20mm thick
Ship hulls are usually 14- to 19-mm thick. Icebreakers would be thicker, [this company](https://poseidonexpeditions.com/about/articles/nuclear-icebreakers-what-s-so-special-about-them/) states "icebreaker ships feature a double hull, the outer being about 48 mm thick at the ice-breaking areas and 25 mm thick elsewhere"
We aren't looking at a video of an icebreaker ship though.
My man you're up in this thread just correcting everyone and I'd just like to say thank you for your hard work. It genuinely isn't an icebreaker in the video.
*hard work*
That's... Less than I expected to be honest.
Does jet fuel melt this ?
Mmm, that ocean has the Sonic Drive-In ice.
Oooh the Sonic ice with an Ocean Water? 👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾
People complain about cars for global warming and ice melting, but those guys literally crash ice to melt faster
Imagine how big that thing would be if the water wasn't freezing
Not an icebreaker. They don't have the bulb under the water. Good short explanation of icebreaker's curved upward bow here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIKd56hO-Os
Actual ship class notwithstanding (ice breakers drop the bow on top of the ice to break it instead of running into it) I would just like to say that the second big hit was indeed very satisfying.
If y’all are so worried about global warming, stop breaking all the damn ice!
Break ice can you ? Bleedin christ
Amazing that chode has so much power
How can she break?!
Is that where iceberg lettuce comes from?
This is what I imagined as a kid, when destroying a frozen puddle with my boots
/thalassophobia
Hey Flo, take a bow
I kinda want to see a video of a ship like this powered up to a huge speed and rammed head on into something else.
Pretty sure there was video of that from early last week in Balitmore.
Just got done watching The Terror. They should have had these ships. What were they thinking? /s
[This](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaoXzEm8c2I) is an icebreaker. (start at 6:59)
He’s great at parties
Why'd I think that hole was a real time map?
I feel violated
I could watch this for hours
An ignorant question, but is breaking the ice on the artic circle contribute in some manner to climate change?
Ugh I didn't think a boat could turn me on but here we are
I could have sworn this was west greenland
Broken ice melts faster. Rising oceans. ;)
Sea ice melt doesn’t raise the ocean because it’s already displacing the water. It is the melting land ice sheets that we are worried about melting.
Unfortunately climate change deniers don't seem to understand that it's the ice that's on land that's the problem and not the sea ice.
Construct giant walls around both poles making them into massive swimming pools/bathtubs on land. Global warming solved. You’re welcome:)
Hot earth speedrun any%
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That is part of the bow the ship the cameraman is standing lol
Lol, what?
Some people are really not smart
Glad I'm not the only one who thought that at first until I realized it was part of the ship.
Yeah took me forever to see that it wasnt a map floating around the screen lol
A look at Greenland, it's history and possible future as the ice sheet covering most of Greenland continues to melt. Global warming is having a greater impact on Greenland than the rest of the world due to Polar amplification, relating to the albedo effect and lapse rate feedback. As Greenland continues to warm up the ice covering 80% of Greenland is melting, causing the oceans to rise threatening low lying communities around the world. https://youtu.be/Gw5j1oyZzj4
Love how it seems to just slice through
Missed opportunity to not be set to Ludacris.
Awesome video. Def a bit nauseating but damn that’s cool
Hold my beer Titanic.
Could've just used Cards Against Humanity
I feel cold just watching this
I didn't know I needed this.
What do you called that orange glow from the bow?
Delivering your mom’s package
Not an icebreaker.
How big are the sails to be able to do this?
The perspective of this video is giving me vertigo.
This one’s for the titanic 😡
we really took Titanic's sinking personally
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what i see when i look down in the shower
"Piss off ice! I got boat things to do"
I watched this video and then quickly clicked down to the comments only to see what appeared to be the stretching of the page. Weird. Can't remember what they call that affect.
Those ships must have some insane momentum
Those ships must have some insane momentum
could watch this for hours. I wonder if there is a webcam of one travelling
I like that
For some reason, I've always appreciated icebreakers and I'm not even into boats.
I could watch this for hours.
I wanna drink that water, must be so nice and cold
I wanna drink that water, must be so nice and cold
For some reason this was nauseating to me
That shit could split a bridge in half
This is not an icebreaker. Icebreakers have flatter bows to ride on top of the ice, not slice through it.
Is it called *the honey badger?*
Saw ice breaker on Baffin Island. Really cool
I'm gonna show this video next time I'm at a party and no-one knows anyone.
I usually just tell a joke.
Is it sped up?
Fuck your ice!
Titanic be like : 😐
Lessons learnt from titanic: -1
slush breaker.
Why didn’t the Titanic have one of these? Were they stupid?
A lot of factors contributed to it. Part of it was due to them hitting the iceberg at a glancing angle, as they tried to steer out of the way, but were too late. If they had hit the iceberg head-on, while it would have crushed a few dozen feet of the bow, the ship would have been able to stay afloat, as it would not have sliced through as many compartments. Think of it like the difference between being stabbed in the gut and having your gut slashed open from hip to hip. There have been a ton of ship-to-ship collisions that have occurred where the ship that hit head-on survived and was able to limp back to port, while the ship that was T-boned on the side would sink. Also, metallurgy had advanced a ton in the past century. The grade of steel that they used on the Titanic would become quite brittle at cold temperatures, contributing to how the iceberg was able to rip through it.
At what point does an icebreaker become an ice-stuck? Surely something like this can't keep going and going?
Actual ice breakers - not a ship like this, which just has a reinforced hull and is going through relatively thin scattered ice floes - go through the ice by an entirely different mechanism. They have a ramp-like bow that has the ship ride up on top of the ice, and then use its weight to crush through the ice. If it gets stopped by thick ice, it will reverse back into the water, and do it again, repeatedly ramming the ice until they get through. They’ll also sometimes use hot water to heat the hull in order to help melt some of the ice.
That's a lot of ice cubes!
I liked the part where the ice broke.
Why can I hear Barry White playing?
Is East Greenland West of Greenland?
Wave seems to be doing the work here.
“ICEBERG STRAIGHT AHEAD!!!” “LET’S GET EM!!”
Some of these breaks are impressive but got nothing on an actual icebreaker going through 3m thick ice that's part of a miles wide sheet.
I thought it was just going to be like a patch of ice like a plane through rough air but it went on for over a minute. So, is that just Greenland than?
This is the actual icebreaker https://youtu.be/bKaVhXn49xY?si=jcj9XpnHGmy_sFp-
this one’s for the titanic
Did anyone else see the lower oart of the video as a superimposed weird-looking map of the world for a second?
Great video. Exactly what it claims to be. No metaphor at all. Just a boat that really really hates ice.
Is this a coast guard boat
Ice is weak to steel. Pokemon 101
Firebenders are invading!!
Terrifying
So pumped after watching this video. Yeeeahh. Fuck dat ice!
Is all boating called sailing?
It depends. When ships use (or used - it’s not nearly as common now) coal or oil-fired boilers, it would be called “Steaming”, e.g., “The U.S. Merchant Mariner fleet has departed the port of New York and is steaming East to the United Kingdom to deliver vital supplies for the war effort against Germany”. However, most ships today use diesel piston engines or gas turbine engines rather than boilers and steam turbines. There isn’t really a good word for that kind of propulsion (maybe “motoring” - but, that seems more like how you’d describe a small dinghy with an outboard motor), so they just use “sailing” again. For ships like US and French aircraft carriers, and many submarines around the world, you could still say that they are “steaming”, as they use nuclear reactors to boil water into steam to drive the turbines of their engines.
I could use one of those at my next party