Building the World's Largest Supertanker

It is one of the largest as the really large ones have been scrapped... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest_ships

The scale & magnitude of this build is beyond belief. Certainly a modern day engineering marvel, minus a transmission.

Thanks for posting Brian.

''But there's one big question, when launch day comes, will this super ship float?''

wtf is that about, of course it will float. It's not like they put some random parts together to see if it will work.

Surprisingly (to me, anyway), direct drive isn't unusual. When transiting the Panama Canal one time, we were told that was the reason yachts have to be in front of big ships. The turbulence from the constant running prop would simply beat up a yacht. Knowing that, then, we had a certain trepidatious outlook on the ship entering the lock behind us.

Interesting video. They mentioned the Valdez incident in 1989 as the impetus requiring double hulls. Two of my classmates were in the engine room as young 3rd assistant engineers when that grounding occurred.