Assalamualaikum, and welcome back to Orange Shots.
In today's video, I'm going to share 10 facts
you most likely don't know about ships.
So, without wasting any more time, let's start.
Did you know that ship's don't have any breaks?
At least not in a classical sense.
If a ship needs to "pull the breaks", it simply switches to reverse.
And that's how they stop a ship.
However, every ship has a different stopping distance.
It's not like it just stops when you put the main engine on reverse.
It doesn't happen like that.
If we consider mammoth-sized ships -
at least one of the ships I've sailed -
its stopping distance
under normal conditions, without crash astern,
was approx. 8 NM.
The ship would take 15 km to fully stop.
With the engine in full astern, it was approx. 7 km,
and in the case of a crash astern,
it would take 3-3.5 km for the ship to stop.
This is one of the reasons why
you need to be proficient with ships,
so that you know when to stop a ship.
Do you know what the biggest manmade thing on earth is?
It's ships.
They are the largest manmade moving object on earth.
If we consider perspective,
there have been ships carrying a deadweight of approx. 4 lac 75 thousand.
Perhaps even more.
They are by far the hugest,
I think I just made this word up.
They are the hugest manmade objects on earth.
How fascinating is that?
And through that perspective, if we consider momentum,
take my previous ship, for example, it carried a deadweight of 1.5 lac tonnes.
And the ship's displacement (full weight) when it was fully loaded
used to be approx. 175,000 metric tonnes.
And if you want to calculate the ship's momentum,
the fully loaded ship going at its normal speed, i.e., 15 knots,
its momentum was 13,45,750 tm/sec.
That is a lot of momentum.
A crushing sort of momentum,
that is if it crashed into something at that speed, it would be a goner.
Do you know why a ship is referred to as a "she"?
It's rather strange to refer to an inanimate object as a "she".
Why's that?
Apart from all the funny facts we've been hearing about all these years,
let me tell you the real reason why ships are referred to as "ships".
It was the Royal Navy that started referring to ships that way.
The Royal Navy is based in the UK,
and the reason why it assigned this pronoun to ships is because
according to them, a ship protects their crew, cargo and all like a mother would.
It guides them like a mother would.
It takes them around like a mother would.
This is why ships are referred to this way.
It is among the inanimate objects
that are assigned pronouns. Not everything is assigned pronouns.
Did you know that the back end of a ship is called a poop deck?
It's a funny name, but the thing is,
the reason why a ship's back end is called a poop deck is because
the word poop deck isn't as funny as the actual word "poop".
This term was used in a different sense back then.
The word poop came from the French word "La Poupe".
La Poupe means backend, or stern/aft.
The Americans giving poop a different meaning is a different story,
that's why we find the term so funny today.
A ship has its own "poop" deck.
I used to laugh about it,
but now I know why the aft part of a ship is called a poop deck.
That's because it's the aftmost part of a ship.
There's no other reason besides that,
but yes, the name does sound funny.
The topmost part of a ship is called a "Monkey Island".
Again, it's a funny name.
Why would they call a ship's deck a money island?
Monkey islands got their name long ago, because of older ships.
The ships today, like old ships, do have aft masts and forward masts,
where different things are attached.
But the aft and forward mast served different purposes back then,
but now, not anymore.
One of them is watchkeeping.
There used to be a post in the forward region
where a crewmember would stand guard.
If you've seen the Titanic,
you must remember that the ship had a forward watchkeeper
we don't have those anymore.
The aft mast of a ship
wasn't really used for usual watchkeeping,
but sometimes a crewmember would stand guard there.
When a crewmember had to climb that station,
they resembled a monkey climbing a tree.
And that's why
the area they stood on for watchkeeping
was called a monkey island.
That station doesn't exist but the name still does.
And that's the reason why the topmost deck of a ship,
or the topmost roof of a ship is called a monkey island.
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Another fun fact:
Did you know that ships don't actually travel in a straight line?
Not on long passages at least.
There's a reason behind this, and its called Great Circle Sailing.
We follow the earth's curvature - since the earth is round,
I've said this in many of my videos -
not only do we have to use that curvature,
but we also have to take advantage of it.
When ships run in curved lines, they travel faster.
Rather, the overall distance is decreased.
But if you go in a straight line,
the overall distance is increased.
The difference is mercator and great circle sailing.
I'll make a video about them someday.
But, anyway, what you normally think when
you imagine a ship travelling from one country to another,
i.e., in a straight line.
No, it doesn't happen that way.
We go in a circle.
Isn't that amazing?
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Did you know that 90 percent of the world's trade is by sea?
In fact, according to some statistics,
more than 90 percent of the world's trade is by ship.
Are you aware if the consequences if ships suddenly stopped working?
The economy in some countries may die down,
since they completely depend on imports and exports.
Shipping is as important for the world as blood is for the body.
Like humans cannot survive without blood,
without shipping, trade wouldn't exist.
And like I said, the economy of some countries may completely
collapse, if ships suddenly stopped working.
Did you know that some ships in the world are so big,
that if you walked two rounds on them, you'd have travelled 1.5 km.
They are so huge, I sailed one of those ships.
The ship was 373 m long.
That means walking two rounds on it
you'd have walked 1320 m or 1.3 km.
Almost 1.5 km.
They are the huge monsters of the sea.
By the way, one more thing I'd like to tell you is,
the whales, sharks, fish, huge sea animals
are tiny compared to ships.
Do you have any idea about
the amount of power a ship's engine can produce?
If we walk about a mid-sized ship,
not a top tier one,
like the last ship I captained.
That ship would produce 235320 BHP.
If we convert this to hp,
that makes 3,33,117 hp.
That means that if you combined 2108 Honda Civics,
they'd be able to produce the same about of power as that ship.
This isn't a very technical comparison,
but I think it does the job.
One more fun fact:
Did you know how much power a ship's generator can produce?
Again it can vary depending on the size of a ship.
The equipment it comes with, and what it's going to run.
But again, if we consider a mid-sized ship,
my ship's previous generators could produce 1135 KW.
Three generators combined were producing power,
so that makes 3405 KW.
If we look at Pakistan's statistics for the year 2016,
one house consumed 235 kWh.
Divide it by 24 and you get 9.9 kWh/home.
This power isn't being consumed all of the time, however,
so, on a safety margin, if we make that figure 5 kWg/home,
and divide 3405 by 5,
our ship's generator could basically power 681 homes.
To be more precise, it's around 682 homes.
In the mean time, if you want to know about the world's 10 biggest ships,
my video about that is here.
And if you want to know how big a ship's engine is,
my video about that's here.
Take good care of yourselves,
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With tons of love to my Orange Shots family,
and to-be Orange Shots family.
This is me Zahid Nisar.
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And until my next video,
ALLAH Hafiz.