On those container ships, like the one stuck in the Suez Canal, do they ship anything below decks anymore?
What do they do with all the space?
Is the deck at the same height as the top of the hull or is it like a bowl now?
It seems like that one, the Ever Something, was top-heavy and a good wave would make the whole thing tip over, or some of the containers fall off. No?
Good narrative
Yes.
Fill it up with containers, of course.
Cruise ships look top heavy too but this is carrying tons of freight in those containers.
Inside though, is a 78,000 horsepower diesel engine that turns the prop at 79 RPM at top speed. I don't know how many inches per gallon of fuel it takes.
What is the MPG of a cruise ship?
0.004 mpg Assuming an efficiency of about 30% means the boat is burning roughly 1.84 gallons of fuel per second, or 6640 gallons per hour. Since the ship's cruising speed is 23.7 knots, or 27.3 mph, the cruise ship's fuel efficiency is roughly 0.004 mpg.
You two have convinced me that it's No.
Wow.
The ship was rescued before you posted this thread.
What a load of codswallop. They remove hatch covers, load containers to the covers, then refit the hatch covers and load more containers on top of the covers. Containers below deck are only secured side to side. They are not secured vertically. If the ship is an all container ship, the hold(s) will have container guides into which the containers are stacked. I'd suspect most are these days.
More codswallop. Ballast reduces the amount of tonnage you can carry. If you need ballast for stability, you carry less tonnage. There goes your efficiency and *profits*. What you will find is that the heaviest containers go below the hatch covers, lighter ones above. That provides the *stability*. You simply cannot have a top heavy container ship. It will be dreadfully unstable in a storm if no loading is below the hatch covers.
Common sense isn't clear to you.
Codswallop again. Ballast tanks are for when the ship is running very light or *empty*.
They fill the space below decks with the *heavier* containers.
Depends on the design.
No. Container ships cannot be top heavy - they will tip if they are.
Well, yes. There actually are laws that make this so.
Yes, the laws of physics in particular.
Thanks for displaying your total inability to admit you are wrong. ;-)
Poor Rod, poor embarrassed Rod! ;-)
Rod Speed's standard response when *he* got flushed down the toilet. It's projection writ large!
Embarrassed that you were utterly and totally wrong on how container ships were loaded Rod? Made a right old fool of yourself, eh?
No point in going on. Everybody knows that Rodney never admits defeat. Never.
The graphic images I posted show clearly where *you* got it all wrong.
That's why you go into defeatist mode and wipe my posted info.
Sadly for you, the info I posted has been *seen*.
You're a sad old man Rod, truly sad.
Yeah, and I'm embarrassed to say he is an Aussie.
That was interesting. Quite a few containers below deck.
All the way down to the bottom.
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