Cut and shut Cruise Ship time lapse vid

[Welly]

How to bring a Cruise ship in and extend it by 99 feet

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d25_1390887534

[steve_earwig]

Bluddy hell wow!! Cut, shut, respray and new registration too (notice how it goes in as Norwegian Crown and goes out as Balmoral?) A bit like the plot of When Eight Bells Toll, except no Scottish lock, an nobody dies... hopefully.

It's a bit like deciding your motor is too small now you have 18 kids and, instead of buying something bigger, you weld a section in and fit another couple of rows of seats. Limousine stretchers, eat your hearts out.

Here's a thought, what if you'd been serving on that ship for 10 years, by now you kind of know your way around and don't really have to think about it. You go on leave for a month, come back and there's something not kind of right with the way it looks, but maybe that's just the hangover. So there you are on the bridge and the captain says to go fetch something from the engine room, so of you go, down the steps, through the door and... I'M LOST! Mind damage!!

[Welly]

I can sort of imagine that you could make that middle section to the same drawings as the original ship but when you start thinking about the internal works I suppose it may have had a full interior refurb ready to accommodate the new section but then you start thinking it would'a been better to buy a new ship? I hope someone got their sums right

That there paint finish is obviously vital, looked like a few different layers of Primer, then 'tracing over' all the welds with a ickle brush (probably about 6 feet wide ) then two? three? coats of tough glossy stuff for the final finish don't know how they paint the bits it was sat on though? trolley jack?

[steve_earwig]

Roller? Check. Paint? Check. Aqualung?

I can sort of imagine that you could make that middle section to the same drawings as the original ship but when you start thinking about the internal works I suppose it may have had a full interior refurb ready to accommodate the new section but then you start thinking it would'a been better to buy a new ship? I hope someone got their sums right

Get the original blueprints, find the best place, cut along the dotted line... It's not like ships roll off the end of a production line with each one being exactly the same. Most of the dimensions are governed by where they have to go, if they'll regularly pass along say Panama, they can't be wider than the canal. Length, on the other hand, is probably as long as you bluddy well want it.

I've watched a fair few shipwreck documentaries (ghoul that I am) and I've heard of lengthening ships a few times, I just thought they stuck a bit on the bow or something though.

[DaiRees]

It's really impressive innit, I love proper heavy engineering like that.