Superships, Season 1
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Description
Take the world’s largest ships, from double hulled supertankers to the largest sailing boat, the greatest heavy lift vessel to a floating oil-rig and explore the incredible, extreme engineering that places these ships at the forefront of their industries. In each episode we uncover a pioneering super ship and examine its precise role, history, and the machinery that drives it using state of the art 3-D animation. Each ship is on the frontier of construction, designed to perform unique tasks that are truly immense. Welcome to the world of the Super Ships.
| Name | Description | Time | Price | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | VideoA Grand Carrier the Ferry Ulysses | Crossing the Irish sea in mid-winter the worlds largest car ferry battles through a gale force wind and 10 metre seas. 3-D examination shows the stabilizing and ballasting systems that permit the huge ship to help keep its passengers comfortable during the three hour crossing.- and explains the advanced design that allows a shallow draught vessel to carry up to 1,300 cars and 2,000 people. | 46:02 | £1.19 | View In iTunes |
| 2 | VideoFreeway On the Seaway: The Cat | Launched in the year 2000 The Cat is a super fast car ferry which races across the Gulf of Maine between Yarmouth Nova Scotia and Bar Harbour Maine at speeds in excess of 90 kilometers an hour. On a round trip passage the catamaran aluminum hull construction, water jet propulsion system and car handling systems are explained and made exciting through the use of outstanding images and 3-D animation. | 46:03 | £1.19 | View In iTunes |
| 3 | VideoLaunching a Leviathan: Hellespont Fairfax | In the Daewood shipyard in North Korea, the worlds largest double-hulled oil tanker is being constructed. As hundreds of workers assemble the massive ship over a 12 month period, the story of oil transport, advanced technology and safety issues are highlighted and 3-D animation is used to show the inner workings of the ship. | 46:02 | £1.19 | View In iTunes |
| 4 | VideoSailing the Dream: The Royal Clipper | The biggest sailing ship in the world-a five masted square rigged clipper ship-transporting 200 excited passengers on a seven day cruise through the Caribbean Sea. The secrets of the amazing sail handling system, the silent mechanical systems and the luxury of three swimming pools, an atrium, and a 4 star menu are carefully examined with the help of 3-D animation. | 46:02 | £1.19 | View In iTunes |
| 5 | VideoSuper Servant: The Careful Movers | This amazing ship crosses the oceans of the world-piggybacking racing and pleasure yachts to distant places-on behalf of owners and operators who lack the time or skills to do their own long distance cruising. From Port Everglades, Florida, the Super Servant loads and sails to St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands. 3-D animation and on-the-spot filming reveals how this amazing ship can sink and re-float itself. | 46:02 | £1.19 | View In iTunes |
| 6 | VideoEirik Raude: Oil Patch Explorer | The Worlds largest self-propelled, semi-submersible, all weather oil drilling rig leaves Halifax Harbour on its first voyage to test its sea worthiness and oil drilling systems in the frigid waters of the North Atlantic 300 kilometers from shore. 3-D animation illustrates the work it can perform on the bottom of the sea several kilometers below the drill tower. | 46:02 | £1.19 | View In iTunes |
| 7 | VideoShanghai Express: Ocean Highway Hauler | On a voyage from Rotterdam to Hamburg the worlds biggest container ship is examined in detail-especially for its remarkable cargo handling methods- a veritable ballet of boxes. The business end of operating a container port is also dealt with and 3-D animation illustrates the advanced technology behind the rapid transport of such enormous cargoes. | 46:01 | £1.19 | View In iTunes |
| 8 | VideoKilo Moana: Rough Ocean Researcher | Kilo Moana is a research vessel, which employs a fantastic hull technology to keep itself stable in a stormy sea off of Hawaii. Using 3-D animation the amazing science behind the SWATH hull structure-sort of like two submarines strapped to a big catamaran platform-is explained. Meanwhile scientists grapple with experiments that will help our understanding of the effect of deep ocean currents on marine life and global warming. | 46:02 | £1.19 | View In iTunes |
| 9 | VideoMighty Servant 1: High Seas Muscle | Trucking a huge section of an offshore drilling platform from Korea to the Gulf of Mexico is the hugely difficult task of the Mighty Servant. Loading the massive unit calls for a smooth sea and a steady hand-something the Captain wont compromise-hes seen ships like this flip over and sink in seconds. 3-D animation explains the amazing technology that makes such a heavy lift and transport possible. | 46:02 | £1.19 | View In iTunes |
| 10 | VideoThe Mighty and the Miniature: Atlantic Guardian | When an undersea cable breaks- millions of communication pathways are shut down-the worlds of commerce, entertainment and human discourse cease to function. The Cable Ship Atlantic Guardian which is on 24 hour stand-by in Baltimore, Maryland for just such an emergency demonstrates how quickly it can put to sea and how it searches for and repairs the cable. 3-D animation takes the viewer to the bottom of the sea to watch a shark rip at the cable. | 46:16 | £1.19 | View In iTunes |
| 11 | VideoThe Land Maker: Vasco da Gama | Need an airport created in the ocean-or a harbour dredged to a greater depth-the worlds largest Dredger can suck up sand and transport it to a new location in one ultra smooth, ultra powerful operation. In Singapore, this amazing ocean going apparatus is shown as it goes through its paces and 3D animation explains the parts and processes that are normally hidden from view. | 46:16 | £1.19 | View In iTunes |
| 12 | VideoFirst Lady of the Mississippi: The American Queen | The biggest Sternwheeler ever built plies its trade on the Mississippi River-complete with old fashioned calliope tunes and Riverboat gamblers. Its steam powered engine gets a close up look-as does the navigation and operating systems.3-D animation is used to give us a cross sectional look at the many decks and the shallow draught construction. | 46:02 | £1.19 | View In iTunes |
| 13 | VideoThe Top Ten: Superships | The biggest, smartest STRANGEST and most powerful. We are counting down The Ten most amazing Superships on the ocean today. The most unique, toughest vessels human beings can construct: from super-sized ferries and mighty tankersto the most radical ship design in 6,000 years. You will see the most incredible vessels that sail and work on the Seven Seas. The Top Ten Superships! | 46:16 | £1.19 | View In iTunes |
| Total: 13 Episodes |
- SD Version
- Genre: Non-Fiction
- Released: 01 January 2005
- © 2004 Topsail Entertainment
