Shipyard pictures

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a big crane of pipe laying ship: Subsea7a bridge of fixed offshore platform for conocophillipsa LNG carriera FPSOa jack up rig
Reply:sweet pics :]
Reply:wheres these taken? im guessing galveston area?
Reply:I have always wanted to take a tour of a big ship (I mean, REALLY BIG SHIP), to see the under the hood stuff (e.g. Engine Room, bridge, etc.).Maybe some day.Working on cars and bikes is my hobby, learning to weld the pieces together is my quest.
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Reply:Hello David, unfortunately, in the U.S. anyway, I believe that homeland security has a lot to say about who is allowed access to engine rooms and other such systems on large ships anymore. We are much less likely afforded access for those sorts of tours, darn it! I am with you though, I would love to see the "guts" of ships like those. Best regards, Allanaevald
Reply:I'm sure there is a museum somewhere that has BIG boats and stuff..Cool pics..Must be neat to be so close to stuff like that.....zap!I am not completely insane..Some parts are missing Professional Driver on a closed course....Do not attempt.Just because I'm a  dumbass don't mean that you can be too.So DON'T try any of this **** l do at home.
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Reply:Originally Posted by rusty ripplewheres these taken? im guessing galveston area?
Reply:My Uncle used to fix those ships engines (some Destroyers too...).  He used to do the tour from the Southern US, over to the UK, then to Japan and back to the US...He Showed me some pretty cool photos of the 'innerds' of Ship Engines...  Had a number of him crawling up and down Cylinder bores with ladders! (Man those things were HUGE.., just Crazy stuff.)He told me an interesting story about a Ship that was almost completely blown to pieces (Was a LNG or OIL tanker of some sort) when at port due to a 'Welding Accident'.  Apparently one of the main tanks wasn't 'purged' properly due to a failed exhaust system or something and fumes settled back into the tank for almost full day.  The Welder and his assistant were killed immediately along with many other people, including my Uncle's best friend (the Captain or 1st Mate I believe)...  My Uncle was supposed to be on that ship, but became Ill and went home to recoup and missed the event by only 12 hours.He used to fix 'Big Bells' as well...  As far as I know, He was the only person who actually came close to 'FIXING' the Liberty Bell! (Company he worked for in the 70's had the Contract, but it was nixed.)  He used to engineer custom clamps and tighten them over a period of time (like a kids braces.. Heh heh..), then he'd Braze it (although I'm sure there were Many More steps to the process).Cheers,Miller Diversion 165120 amp Buzz BoxVictor Oxy/Ace Oxy/LPGSmith "Little" Oxy/LPGHypertherm Powermax 30Lot's of Misc. tools n' crap....
Reply:I was lucky and polite and saw many engine rooms in my teens.  I would go down to the docks on a Saturday and walk up the gangplank and ask to see the engineroom.  When you are only 15 years old doors open especially if you have done some reading.  I even walked into a locomotive repair shop and got shown around.... on the sly.   I even got to see the top end of a Doxford opposed piston engine.  It is a nightmare of crossheads, beams, and tie rods connecting the top piston to the cranks down below in the bilge.
Reply:[quotei am working in Singapore right now, here are lots of engineering vessel and offshore rig newbuilding projects][/quote]ahh,  it was the jack up that threw me, legs look like a rowan rig, and until i just did a little googlin, i didnt know they had any rigs overseas, and it seemed odd they would send one overseas to a shipyard-theyre not especially speedy machines.  once upon a time all rowans rigs were made in vicksburg. turns out i was all kinds of wrong about that...theyve got em all over.otherwise not terribly surprised ships that size go overseas, it seems rare over here for big shipyards to work on non-navy big ships.  when i was working as a diver we found ourselves running around in engine rooms often, the giant diesels with boilers are really cool just to be in the same room as.  the immensity of those things is really difficult to grasp without being next to them.  there are hatches built into the engine so a person can crawl inside, thats insane when you think about walking inside an engine.   alot of vessels nowadays have thrusters instead of giant props. these dont have giant engines, they have  big generators, but theyre not the huge multistory engines behemoths.  def drill ships and semisubmersibles-vessels that need dynamic positioning have thrusters, though i was under a cruise ship a few years ago with thrusters, i suppose so they can maneuver in wee little carribean ports.