when you look at the ships you may think
that they’re small toys but the minute
you get on it the power is to scale to
the size and it becomes very real very
quickly when we build a new ship the
first question is is this ship correct
is it close to the reality the length
and the width and the drops of the
shipping people are reduced by a scale
of 1 in 25 so a 250 meter ship which is
a big ship will be 10 meters here the
history of this place goes back to the
50s later on SO came to us they had a
problem in changing of the size of the
ships going from roughly 50 thousand ton
to two hundred thousand ton their
captains were a bit anxious about that
because they had no simulators no
computers in the 60s so they were
looking for place where they could
anticipate on this and as engineers we
didn’t know if that would work but we
told them okay come and try and that was
a big success so from there we started
in 1967 we opened the place and after
that we took
we receive mainly violets now about 80%
of the people coming here before we
receive are 200 people per year which is
a very small school as a port engineer I
would be ashamed of designing a boat
like this it is full of difficulties and
that’s the aim of our training we have
here the locks one of them here is a
Panamera the new Panamera 50 55 meter
wide and so the ships can go around here
around this waterway horrible is a great
place to come in we can tweak our skills
we can do things here that we couldn’t
do with real live ships but we do it to
scale here so it’s on real time
we have Russians here we have pilots
from Brazil that of course myself from
Canada so even over lunch and dinner we
talk about different scenarios different
ships different cruise it’s it’s a good
learning experience we try to
concentrate on what is more difficult to
do on the simulator so in order to be
complimentary the difference may be
found especially in what seafarers
called interactions between two ships
when they’re at close quarters when they
meet in a canal when they are close to a
bank and that at this time cannot really
be computed correctly but here
everything’s so we reproduce shallow
waters Bank effects and currents and
also waves
usually when we build a new new ship we
tried to ask the captain of the real
ship to come over and to go on the lake
with our model and just do things you
know it’s a few hours when he comes back
we ask him
is it okay and if he says with some
tears in the eyes it’s my ship then I’m
happy
that they’re small toys but the minute
you get on it the power is to scale to
the size and it becomes very real very
quickly when we build a new ship the
first question is is this ship correct
is it close to the reality the length
and the width and the drops of the
shipping people are reduced by a scale
of 1 in 25 so a 250 meter ship which is
a big ship will be 10 meters here the
history of this place goes back to the
50s later on SO came to us they had a
problem in changing of the size of the
ships going from roughly 50 thousand ton
to two hundred thousand ton their
captains were a bit anxious about that
because they had no simulators no
computers in the 60s so they were
looking for place where they could
anticipate on this and as engineers we
didn’t know if that would work but we
told them okay come and try and that was
a big success so from there we started
in 1967 we opened the place and after
that we took
we receive mainly violets now about 80%
of the people coming here before we
receive are 200 people per year which is
a very small school as a port engineer I
would be ashamed of designing a boat
like this it is full of difficulties and
that’s the aim of our training we have
here the locks one of them here is a
Panamera the new Panamera 50 55 meter
wide and so the ships can go around here
around this waterway horrible is a great
place to come in we can tweak our skills
we can do things here that we couldn’t
do with real live ships but we do it to
scale here so it’s on real time
we have Russians here we have pilots
from Brazil that of course myself from
Canada so even over lunch and dinner we
talk about different scenarios different
ships different cruise it’s it’s a good
learning experience we try to
concentrate on what is more difficult to
do on the simulator so in order to be
complimentary the difference may be
found especially in what seafarers
called interactions between two ships
when they’re at close quarters when they
meet in a canal when they are close to a
bank and that at this time cannot really
be computed correctly but here
everything’s so we reproduce shallow
waters Bank effects and currents and
also waves
usually when we build a new new ship we
tried to ask the captain of the real
ship to come over and to go on the lake
with our model and just do things you
know it’s a few hours when he comes back
we ask him
is it okay and if he says with some
tears in the eyes it’s my ship then I’m
happy
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