Assalamoalaikum, and welcome back to Orange Shots.
Before planes even existed,
ships ruled the seas.
Man would travel between countries via ships.
These ships would also be used for trade.
Back then, ships would often face disasters.
These same ships would then break and sink as a result.
As time went on, ships were no longer made of wood, but metal.
They also gradually grew in size.
Just for comparison,
take a century old ship and compare it to one used today,
the older ship will look like a little boat in comparison.
But what's surprising is that after the emergence of these gargantuan iron ships,
ships didn't sink as much anymore.
Despite being bigger than before, and more in quantity,
they wouldn't sink as much.
Surprising, isn't it?
Most of you must be thinking that since ships are bigger and heavier now
they should be more prone to sinking.
No.
But it doesn't work like that.
Let's take for example, the Crimson Polaris,
it was broken into two,
and by the way, I've made a video about it before,
so despite being broken in two halves,
both halves didn't sink at all.
Both halves kept floating on the water on their own.
Even though nothing can compete with the power of water and the oceans,
and mother nature makes sure to remind of that -
of how nature overpowers all else,
there's also another fact.
Compared to the ships that used to be helpless the the face of storms,
today's modern ships can face them alright.
So, what could be the secret behind this?
Why don't the gigantic ships of today sink?
What makes them so resilient?
The answer to this question is that it's not just one factor. There are several.
It's often a combination of things that make ships unsinkable.
Stronger than ever before.
And despite ships getting larger, their overall production increasing,
they don't sink as often anymore.
If I were to go into detail,
Discussing the factors that help keep ships from sinking,
I believe the first factor would be their size.
Yes, size does matter.
At least when it comes to ships.
It's also true that since ships are bigger now
their surface area is also larger,
with the waves, currents, swells and whatnot acting on it.
That's true, but at the same time,
with engines now being larger, ships can
take storms, waves, currents, etc.
So, a ships size does offer a lot of stability.
Now, since a modern ship is larger and heavier,
it's not as easy to push and pull it around,
granted, the engine is working optimally.
The second factor I'd like to discuss is hull integrity.
Hull tightness, weather tightness, water tightness;
I'm talking about them together as a whole.
But the first thing, what are all these things?
Hull tightness, hull integrity, water integrity,
weather integrity, what is all that?
To put it simply,
whenever whater hits a ship, whether it's rain or seawater,
it can't enter the ship easily.
The compartments inside a ship are built tightly,
tight enough to withstand waves, currents, tides, etc.
Since the water can't get in,
obviously, the ship's compartments are already loaded.
That also means nothing (oil, water) will leave those compartments.
With all the compartments being water and weathertight,
and with a good hull integrity,
sinking a ship isn't easy.
This integrity has seen many improvements over the years.
Over the years, new rules and regulations have strengthened this integrity.
Making it better than ever before.
A modern ship's structural integrity is
going to be a lot sounder compared to one that's a century old.
If your ship is well-maintained, believe me when I say that
In sha ALLAH, your ship won't sink so easily.
As an example, I'd like to discuss something that's very interesting,
it's a vessel's worst stability condition.
We also have to calculate our ship's
worst stability damage probability.
To put it simply,
that's when a ship's compartments break.
How many broken compartments will it take to sink the ship?
Let me tell you something surprisign as well.
I calculated it for one of my ships
and I flooded 90% of my ship's compartments,
with water flooding in and out,
but the ship still didn't sink.
This is a simulation that we use on our computers, by the way.
And that's how good the water integrity, hull integrity, and water tightness
of a ship is.
The third factor is a ship's structural integrity.
The strength of a ship's structure.
They design frames differently now. The latest type is XYZ framing,
that's a lot stronger than the previous types.
Experimenting with all the different framing styles over the years,
it has evolved to such a point that
whenever a ship is subjected to stresses,
they're distributed throughout the entire structure.
There's never a ship in the world that doesn't get subjected to stresses.
But with modern framing, (a ship's skeleton)
being so well-designed;
they don't use thick plates per se,
but the frames are designed so well that
all the stress gets distributed equally throughout a ship.
I'm sure you must remember that I've talked about
bending movement and shearing forces before.
It was my Crimson Polaris video, I think.
I told you that a ship can break when subjected to too many stresses.
But at the same time, these ships are so strong,
we have calculated stresses up to 110%,
and that still does nothing.
No permanent damage, whatsoever.
But at the same time, being a captain and chief officer of the ship,
you have to make sure the stresses don't overwhelm the ship.
Let's move on to the fourth factor.
This was the main reason why so many ships sank in the past.
Weather, storms.
Cyclone, typhoons, all that stuff.
It was very difficult to predict these in the past.
As a master, you are trained to predict extreme weather conditions.
You find out where the low pressure and high areas lie.
But nowadays, with advanced technology,
we get real-time weather reports via the internet.
We already know where to expect a storm,
and where to expect a forming storm.
When we begin our voyages,
we already have an idea of when to expect a storm.
And usually, the date and time are the same.
Since we already know when to expect a storm,
we can protect ourselves better.
We do that in three ways.
The first is evasion.
When you see a storm approaching you, you speed up and clear the area.
And ships can actually outrun storms.
And second, if a storm happens to pass by us, we wait, stop our engine and watch.
We let the storm pass,
and once it does, we go our own way.
Then there's the third way,
there's also a possibility
where you're stalling somewhere and a storm approaches you.
I've already made a video about these two scenarios, by the way.
Do watch it, you'll like it for sure, in sha ALLAH.
This is where the ship's engine comes in handy.
Because since the ship is big, it's engine is obviously big as well.
And we use our ship's engine to our advantage.
Keeping the swell at the ship's bow or quarter stern,
we keep moving forward continuously.
That's when the ship's engine helps us fight off the storm.
Another thing that stabilizes a ship is better stability.
It's mostly in the ship captain's hands.
If the captain has seen to it that the ship has been loaded well,
the cargo properly distributed within the compartments.
If the GM is accurate, meaning,
if the ship rolls towards starboard or port,
its GZ lever and GM decide how easily the stip will stabilize itself,
whether it's a stiff ship or a tender ship
both of which are obviously bad
but I won't go into that right now.
So if a chief officer manages to keep their ship stable,
even if they face bad weather
I've seen ships rolling 30-35 degrees
it may look like the ship will capsize any minute, but it doesn't.
So if a ship's stability is maintained
modern ships can easily persevere.
They don't sink easily.
Now let me tell you one more thing.
In my first point I talked about how
it isn't easy to displace ships because they're large and heavy,
so bad weather cannot affect them.
Another truth there is when a ship is fully loaded,
it's very stable.
If a ship's compartments are properly closed,
and it's stable, consider a loaded ship extra stable.
If your ship's integrity is all set,
and its engine and anchor are in good condition,
its chances of sinking or breaking are very slim.
When you're at sea, you're the safest inside a ship.
Meanwhile, if you want to learn about one of the storms I mentioned in my video,
I have a video about that linked here.
And if you want to find out what happened when we once encountered a storm,
my video about that is linked here.
Until my next video, take good care of yourselves,
always remember me in your prayers.
With tons of love to my Orange Shots family,
and to-be Orange Shots family.
This is me Zahid Nisar.
You're watching Orange Shots.
And until my next video, ALLAH Hafiz.