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Inside The World's Most Advanced $200 Million Diving Ship

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Creator's Key Takeaways

If you lose this seal with pressure inside here, we would all die. Every single one of us standing around here would die.

It's a lovely place to work. If this causes you fear, you shouldn't be here because if you're being frightened, you can't do your job properly.

The divers' lives depend on it. Now, it's full speed ahead to finish the job on the ocean floor.

We're making about 27 knots here on the ship and slowly losing ground, but the small boat has a visual on them.

Questions This Creator Answers

QHow do saturation divers live and work at extreme depths?
QHow does the US Coast Guard intercept drug smugglers at sea?
QHow do super heavy lift ships transport massive industrial machinery?

Topics Covered

Ship Condition2½ Happy BaconSafety Medical2 Sad Bacon

Port Highlights

Bergen
Costa Rica1 Happy Bacon
Panama City
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YouTube Video Description

Operating 175 kilometers off Norway's coast, the world's most advanced dive support vessel—the $200 million Scandi Arctic—embarks on a high-stakes, 20-day mission in the pitch-black, freezing depths of the North Sea. To perform vital repairs on subsea oil and gas installations 130 meters down, an elite team of saturation divers must live trapped inside pressurized steel chambers for three weeks, breathing a specialized helium-oxygen mixture that distorts their voices. Welcome aboard Big Ships! We are your port of call for a captivating voyage through the giants of naval history. From the legendary ships of antiquity to colossal cargo carriers, we promise an ocean of content to quench your thirst. Anchors aweigh! You can now become a History Hit member right here on YouTube! Join for access to a new exclusive documentary every week, and access to over 160+ of our documentaries presented by world renowned historians like Dan Snow, Eleanor Janega, Tristan Hughes, Mary Beard, Matt Lewis and more. Get an exclusive release every week by signing up here: https://bit.ly/4pyExyn For any enquiries please email owned-enquiries@littledotstudios.com Big Ships! is part of the History Hit Network.