Tanker in Storm

Somewhere on the North Atlantic, several days after storm. Tanker is long 274 m, wide 48 and carries 157,000 metric tons of crude oil. Her name is Max Jacob, build in South Korea 2000 in Daewoo shipyard.

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• daewoo

[balte2007]

Gyroscopes were first used to control a ship's roll in the late 1920s and early 1930s, for warships and then passenger liners. The most ambitious use of large gyros to control a ship's roll was on an Italian passenger liner, the SS Conte di Savoia..[2]

Gyro stabilizers consist of a spinning flywheel and gyroscopic precession that imposes boat-righting torque on the hull structure. Pasted from wikipedia

[balte2007]

Cruise ships have specal equipment that prevents rolling (stabilised by gyro spheres i think).

[blackevil1990]

@balte2007 I have heard of and seen stabilizers in the form of fins at cruise ship's ship side and special designs to keel of ships for aiding stability. But gyro spheres i havent heard of or seen. would be interesting to know how they would employ that technology =)

[234icarlyfan]

I've been in rougher.

[exodu266]

@beaum1c shipping lanes and cruise ship destination are far from the same thing, and do you think they want people to see cruise ships sway ? no, but who care about a big 200,000 ton oil tanker? so there aren't as many videos but they sway all right trust me XD also cruise ship avoid rough seas while tankers take the shortest route possible even if that means 30 foot waves smashing all around it, i've been around soo many of those big ships and trust me, if they sway, its because its very rough

[Emporerking27]

why does water keep comeing off the top during waves?

[beaum1cah]

y do those things rock around so much but cruise ships dont? and those are way bigger