Ship Spotting container ship

Twocalf · Jul 22, 2019

Very cool.

blackomega · Jul 22, 2019

Montana John said:
Are there strong tides or currents that make so many tugs necessary?
Love the opening and the switch to high speed.

I just remembered this video I shot earlier this year with my spark of all things. Here you see they only used two ASD tractor tugs. The Humber and Clyde

So not sure why the Orleans was added. She is more powerful then the other two but lately when I check my AIS I can see them using three tugs more often now.

macoman · Jul 22, 2019

blackomega said:
I just remembered this video I shot earlier this year with my spark of all things. Here you see they only used two ASD tractor tugs. The Humber and Clyde

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So not sure why the Orleans was added. She is more powerful then the other two but lately when I check my AIS I can see them using three tugs more often now.

Those tugs are so little boats for such monstrosity of container ship. Love the video!

Meta4 · Jul 22, 2019

blackomega said:
So not sure why the Orleans was added. She is more powerful then the other two but lately when I check my AIS I can see them using three tugs more often now.

It's likely to be related to the size of the ship involved or maybe how much wind or current they anticipated having to work against.

macoman said:
Those tugs are so little boats for such monstrosity of container ship.

They may look little on the outside, but down below they have big engines.

macoman · Jul 22, 2019

Meta4 said:
They may look little on the outside, but down below they have big engines.

Your response made me visited YouTube to learn more about it...

blackomega · Jul 22, 2019

Meta4 said:
It's likely to be related to the size of the ship involved or maybe how much wind or current they anticipated having to work against.

They may look little on the outside, but down below they have big engines.