To Launch A Tug In 30 Secs??? Spectacular Stuff!

The powerful "Enseleni" tug boat, now residing in Cape Town, is seen being launched from the berth of SAFBuild in the port of Durban, South Africa... but with a difference. The day-long process has been speeded up from 6 hrs to 30 seconds! Watch how a magnitude of 400 men guide and slide a $71 million, Voith Propulsion tug over 200m using 80 gallons of dish washing soap to eventually be lifted and dropped into the bay. This was an engineers nightmare, and dream.

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[Axle123abc]

@railrdr523 if you read the description its 6 hours

[berns1008]

nice job



[MrPaul2901]

Wonderful, but does it blend?

[tl124]

How COOL was that?!!

[tmahoney58]

Cool, Nice job.

[XysflightchampX]

@hwoods01 ya cus that "raft" has enough power (and weight) to pull a ship

[hwoods01]

all that shit for a small raft? OMGz..

[vladimir2366fa]

COOL...Thanks you, Videos very nice, ５★★★★★

[IstasPumaNevada]

Now I can see why it's popular to just dump the ship off a ramp and into the water. Lot faster. Nifty to see the alternative.

[VancouverCanucksRock]

Um that so wasn't a 30 second tug launching!!!!!!!!!!