Inside One Of The MOST EXPENSIVE Cruise Ships In The World

Deck 12 of the giant transatlantic liner called Symphony Of The Seas can accommodate 6,500 happy passengers, they will enjoy an incredible adventure, a trip through the Caribbean, this is a calm and peaceful place, now you will not find pirates here unless they part of the entertainment team, of course, several days of unforgettable rest await passengers, but throughout their trip they will never see the hundreds of devices, machines and sophisticated pieces of engineering technology, nor the al

most

fifteen hundred people in the lower decks of the ship that is part of a crew of more than 2,000 people who will make your vacation truly comfortable and safe.

Symphony Of The Seas is indeed the largest passenger ship in the

world

today, it has even been recognized in the Guinness Book of Records, but what do we do? I mean with the largest it's not really about size when it comes to

ships

, another liner in the same class, the Harmony of the Seas, is several centimeters longer than the Symphony, but the Symphony has the largest displacement; the amount of water that the ship displaces due to its volume remember armed principle well the symphony has a displacement of 228,000 tons which is equal to five Titanic a giant like this is not capable of interfering in any port in Russia for example there is only one that can accommodate this ship in vastor while the

most

advanced places in this sense are the countries of Asia, Europe and, of course, the United States.

The most important seaport in Miami, Florida, here is its cargo terminal. Overall it has pretty modest traffic figures, around a million containers move through here a year, so we've got maybe a dozen cranes and only a couple of

ships

stored here at the moment. This is not what this port is famous for, of course, that would be another thing I'll show you right now. Here is the largest passenger terminal for

cruise

ships in the

world

. ships here behind my back that is not a multi-story building no, it is the stern of a shift called Symphony Of The Seas 6,000 people are boarding it at this moment and in the span of just one year 5,600,000 people pass through this Terminal Passengers which is more than the For the entire population of Miami, it is not so much that Americans especially like

cruise

ships, but that Miami has an ideal location.

Mexico, Cuba and the Bahamas are just a few days' journey from here, which is why this port was chosen by several major cruise companies to be their From the departure points you can see that right now six different liners are preparing to set sail and are owned by four different operators, but Symphony Of The Seas immediately stands out from the others due to its incredible size around the same time a shipyard in France began. to build the ship several thousand miles from Europe. On a completely different continent, right here in Miami, they started building this terminal again.

Basically, it turns out that the ship was not built to fit the size of the port, but the port was built. To suit the size of the ship, the main feature of this terminal or maybe I should say the main art installation in this terminal are these two rotating propellers which are exact copies of the Symphony Of The Seas propellers. Each one has a diameter of 50 feet and the weight of the real ones is 200 tons each, but of course they are a little lighter, by the way, the ship has not two of these propellers, but three.

They are mounted on potted propulsion systems, so-called aipods, which are made of enormous capsules that are suspended from the bottom of the ship at the stern and are capable of rotating 360°, meaning that the aipods provide the giant ship with superior maneuverability. easy and fast. I'll show you in more detail how this all works in the second part of the episode, but for now I'll just say that these azipods were manufactured in Finland and then shipped by seed to the French town of St Naer, home of the shipyard where the ship was built in general. Symphony Of The Seas is a huge construction set made up of hundreds of thousands of parts that were manufactured in dozens of different countries located on different continents, so they began uniting people from distant corners of the world even before the first passengers. of various nationalities boarded.

Boarding a ship is very similar to boarding a plane. even these walkways well, those who fly often know that they are almost identical to those at airports, well, maybe they are a little wider, only that airplanes have a maximum of two such walkways, while larger planes Big ones may have three, but here there are five. And another interesting peculiarity, those who fly know that the boarding of a plane begins approximately one hour before departure and stops 20 minutes before, but since 6,000 people have to pass through here, the ship begins 6 hours before departure so that everyone has time to get on board that's why cruises almost always leave in the afternoon throughout the day passengers come on board get used to their cabins and then closer to Sunset the gangplank is finally removed the doors are all closed and the ship moves away from the dock wall thanks to the aipods that we mentioned above and an additional tail rotor, Symphony Of The Seas completes this difficult maneuver on its own without the help of any tugboat, only a small Coast Guard patrol boat moves ahead of him scattering small pleasure boats and fairies out of the liner's path.

This already routine moment for the crew is always quite exciting for the passengers who at the time of departure always go out to the upper decks after all the sea and even more so these calm ocean waters are nothing like railway tracks and these giant ships. In reality, they look very different from trains, however, passengers will hardly have time to feel the separation problems on the ship. This giant floating city is designed to be fun and entertaining. The liner is 1.53 feet long. More than three football fields. Its width is 216 feet and in this enormous space there are 28 restaurants, three swimming pools, 10 jacuzzis, a theater equipped with the most complex machinery on Broadway, an ice rink, a tropical park, a water park, a gym, a casino and many shops and boutiques that are constantly maintained. tourists in a state of shock, amazement and continuous happiness, it reminds a little of something out of a fairy tale, a place where you only need to eat, sleep and drink, when you look at the ship's map, they are posted everywhere, here you go the feeling. that the ship is a kind of toy yes, there are 12 passenger decks yes, it says 2750 cabins, but what do all these numbers mean?

You just start to get the idea right here at the Atrio elevator, just take a look at six high-speed elevators transporting thousands of people to a height of 229 feet all day long and at the same time all of this is now moving at a speed 30 mph heading towards Mexico incredible even more incredible is the fact that the boat is directly controlled by only three people while it is in motion and among them there are no boats, no skipper, no helmsman, not even the captain himself is on the bridge, many times today the people who control the ship from here from the captain's cabin are no longer what one might imagine.

Sailors with hard, salty and weathered faces, they look more like office workers and this place looks like some kind of control room or something and here is my biggest disappointment this is the captain's chair there is no steering wheel the ship is controlled by two special joysticks are called anti-ice in general, everything is technologically advanced, safe, highly scientific and completely devoid of romance. The width of the boat, I will remind you again, is 216 feet, so the side mirrors here clearly would not be enough for parking, so when parking well, in motion, that is. uses a special motion console here, by the way, it sticks out a little from the side of the ship.

You see it hanging over the side to improve. Side lines, there is a second identical control panel on the other side of the liner, either the left or right one can be used and that is determined by which side of the ship you are approaching. The pier wall. The compass and binoculars found here are probably more of a tribute to maritime tradition than anything else. The movement here again takes place with the help of space satellites in GPS when the ship finally reaches the correct position, one could say that it is tied to the pier with special ropes.

This is almost the only step in the entire docking process that looks virtually the same today as it did several centuries ago. Held in place by 22 of these extra strong strings, each about 5 inches in diameter, they are now stretched like piano strings, they even vibrate a little and there is something amazing here. If you touch the rope, you'll have to take my word for it. It's very solid, it feels like it has some kind of metal core inside, but it actually doesn't. The rope is woven from a variety of synthetic threads. They are very strong. They have a high coefficient of elasticity.

They are able to handle. the highest stress levels, but at the same time, as you can see, the rope is already quite frayed even though it is less than a year old, it will be changed soon. hemp the use of polypropylene fibers is a more recent development these ropes turned out to be much stronger and what is even more important they do not absorb moisture so they are much lighter curiously in these ropes from the 21st century these shields from the 16th century, If not before, they are still used, they are called rat guards and are necessary to prevent shore rats from climbing the movement lines towards the ship.

Today, this small Mexican port has a really full house. Three cruise ships arrived here. at the same time and all the birth walls are occupied here Symphony Of The Seas 6,000 tourists the Norwegian Dawn about 4,000 and finally a ship called Celebrity Reflection there are about 5,000 more people on it in total about 15,000 people disembark all at the same time this for The road often becomes a serious headache for the boat staff at night, when tourists return here relaxed, they say after trying some tequila that they have a bad habit of trying to board the wrong boat, but there has been no case of anyone sailing.

On the wrong liner, the stewards and representatives of the Port Logistics service do not yet work like clockwork and do not drink tequila like the other 2,000 crew members of the Symphony Of The Seas who, unlike the passengers, do not disembark when the ship docks. While tourists explore local attractions on the lower decks, preparations are underway for the day's main task: cooking dinner for 6,000 passengers before returning on board, first carrying several tons of produce from the area. from storage to the kitchen normally the entire selection of products for the cruise is loaded onto the ship at the port of departure the liner can only carry water on its intermediate stops and even then only bottled water, they are very afraid of the possibility of food poisoning Here, since thousands of people live compactly on the boat, a simple case of wind chill can become a real epidemic in the space of a few hours and even leaving that aside, not all countries can provide the high quality products they require.

Chefs Symphony milk meat Seafood vegetables Frozen products fish, all that and more is stored in dozens of refrigerators. Everything that may be necessary to prepare the 350 different dishes that can be found on the ship's restaurant menus. Of all the food stored on the ship, only two products are respected. with having your own private refrigerators well simply because they are the most consumed items first we have bananas here there are many boxes with yellow ones and there are also boxes with green ones that will finish ripening during the cruise and the second product is the most popular what do you think it is?

I'll show you eggs now. Every week 120,000 eggs are eaten on board, in addition, bananas and eggs are, as economists and logisticians say. Goods of inelastic demand, their consumption rate and therefore the amount of plant required is easy to Predict things are more interesting when it comes to the rest of the products on board, a specially developed computer program analyzes the number of passengers in their nationalities even before establishing the sale and, based on that information, gives recommendations on how many of this or that product you. you need to take with you on any trip, for example, if there are a large number of Latin Americans on board, more meat and spicy foods will be added to the menu, if there are more Asians, they will reduce the amount of dairy products, and if they are Indians. are frequent, they will increase the number of curry dishes but at the same time they will bring less beef.

One of the main delicacies of any H kitchen is, of course, the Atlantic lobster. Here is such a handsome guy, this dish, by the way, is not. cheap, therefore very rare and even here it is cooked well, not very oftenIt is a one of a kind item, you could say it is made 6,000 times a day, each of these workers, mostly Filipinos who work here, shells around 500 lobsters a day. Those who have ever peeled, for example, crayfish, can imagine the work that this entails. On just three decks, more than a thousand people work in this huge floating kitchen, 250 of whom are professional restaurant chefs, frying, boiling, sautéing and stirring 24 hours a day. and in turns we take rolls for breakfast, for example, 12,000 are baked here every day, in fact, the responsibility of the cooks here is enormous, the customers on the ship are very demanding, the products are

expensive

and the cooking portions are gigantic, therefore the slightest error in the proportions of ingredients can cost tens of thousands of dollars, for example, tomato soup, 160 liters if it is a little overcooked or undersalted, that's all, eat it yourself same, since no one else will sit and serve several thousand people in online restaurants at the same time.

Time is a separate logistical task and they strive so that customers do not have to wait more than 15 minutes to receive an order. Several hundred waiters of 50 nationalities are responsible for this task, each of whom must speak at least three languages ​​and the bartenders must be technically well versed in at least five. An exception was made to that rule, in general, everything on this ship suggests that this is a high-tech structure created in accordance with the latest advances in science, for example, in this bar the drinks are mixed and probably from the most progressive form on the planet.

What you have to do is make your choice on the tablet screen so yes, we confirm and that's it, we go up to the bar and that's it, we enjoy another high-tech installation, although it doesn't seem like it at first glance, it is a huge park. With its own microclimate, which is presented in the central part of the liner, here among the shady alleys furrowed by the songs of specially brought crickets and frogs, it is easy to forget that you are actually somewhere in the middle of the ocean in this park. not many oh only no less than 10,000 plants have been planted from rose bushes and orchids to lemon trees and all this grows here it blooms and blooms what is the secret that I will show you here for each plant maybe I am not being generous enough with Almost every blade of weed practically has a special tube placed next to it that from time to time you will probably see it.

Yes, fresh water is sprayed and not just water. Now I'll show you the irrigation station here through these four-ton pipes. of specially prepared water are pushed every week here is the main secret here in this blue barrel the fertilizer is kept here the water passes through it it takes away part of the fertilizer and brings it to the plants so, in fact, thanks to this small seemingly nondescript device all this There is a huge flourishing park. Another secret of the permanently green park is its honeycomb structure. There was no solid land here. All plants, from trees to grass, are inserted into special cells on separate segments.

Small plastic boxes. It turns out to be something like a huge. puzzle If one of the segments suddenly starts to get sick or dry, it is simply exchanged for a new one upon arrival at the HomePort. This vertical landscaping wall in the ship's Central Park follows the same principle. The gardener who turns out to be a bit of an industrial climber also just goes into the bucket and changes the parts of the wall he doesn't like and discards the old segments there's no time for sentimentality nothing should stop people from enjoying their time here and be filled with joy Remember what I said at the beginning that this episode was about a cruise without romance and without leaving anything out in the next episode of Monster Machines why doesn't the ice melt on the only floating ice rink in the Caribbean, now you know, know. like the simplest and most ordinary Russian snow, how can 1,500 sheets be washed and ironed in one day?

I want one of these from my house, the only thing is I'm afraid it won't fit in my laundry room. Does Symphony Of The Seas have enough life? ships in case of disaster, how were the engines of this liner that consumes 3 tons of fuel per hour arranged and how do they work? Fifth grade physics working on the world's largest ship. What is a 19th century telephone doing in a supermarket? modern ship hello bridge and how can you wash 30,000 dishes in two hours, huh. Mr. Clean would be impressed. See all this and much more of the anatomy of the world's largest cruise ship in the next episode of the first part of our look at the anatomy of the world's largest passenger liner that we tell you about and show you why Miami is the home of this monster essentially it turns out that the ship was not built to fit the size of the port, but rather the port was built to fit the size of the ship who are the people who run this giant and why are there no helmsmen on the ship this It is the captain's chair there is no steering wheel which room on the ship is the safest and most guarded here is the most sacred place in the Symphony of the The storage areas of the seas and how many cocktail recipes does the least talkative bartender on the ship know biggest in the world.

You are not a conversational list. This was all in the previous episode and now we get even more about what's hidden inside this monster. cruise without romance but with science and what could be less romantic on a ship than the engine room at the bottom of the ship where no tourists are allowed day and night there is the roar of the machines working in the semi-darkness and this is what it does That this entire giant city on the water moves with Symphony Of The Seas are six diesel engines with a total power capacity of more than 100,000 horsepower for a benchmark that is approximately the power capacity of 1,1200 automobiles, however , not even all this energy is spent.

Directly when moving the ship, the ship consumes enormous amounts of electricity, for example for lighting, there are about 140,000 light bulbs on the liner, electricity is also spent on the operation of air conditioning systems and on the production of large quantities of water steam. Yes, despite the fact that steamers and steam engines are a thing of the past. Modern ocean liners still use steam. Lots of steam. No, of course, it no longer spins the turbines as it did, for example, on the Titanic, but steam is needed for more domestic purposes. It is a simple method. to heat water in showers and bathrooms and also heats different spaces when necessary, however, those are not its main function.

Steam is needed for the heating systems of the huge fuel and oil tanks and is also used in fuel oil separators. It is consumed by the turboprops of some pumps and well, if it is necessary for other important machines on ships, it is consumed by the turboprops of some pumps and although it is still necessary for other important machines on ships even in the 21st century, in addition It must be perfectly clean, so that impurities do not accumulate on the walls of the steam lines, therefore it is created from distilled water, but where do they get such large quantities of distilled water?

It is produced right here on the ship using giant stills. Here they are, there are three of them. The working principle is very simple, it is basically a large teapot. This is where the water from outside enters. Boiled steam accumulates at the top of this chamber and sea salt settles at the bottom, so after a while the steam overheats. a lot enters this chamber here it condenses and as a result the finished distilled water is drained through the pipe into the leftover salt no, it is not used in the kitchen they simply throw it into the sea several tons every day in the end The resulting steam is used for its intended purposes, plus part of it, when condensed again, is returned to the boiler.

This is the so-called reverse cycle, but most of it is irretrievably lost and therefore distilled water reserves must be replenished all the time. It is also necessary to freeze a real skating rink on the ship. Here you can skate during the day and see an amazing ice show at night that includes several Russian figure skaters and by the way, the ice here is very high. You could tell it's Olympic quality, the ice on the rink is about 3.5 inches thick. Surely many of you have seen an ice resurfacing machine on TV or maybe even in person, here you have exactly the same type, although maybe it is a little smaller than the typical ones, by the way, since this ice is frozen from desalinated sea water, it does not freeze so well and, according to skaters, this ice is softer than that on which they are used to performing on land, to be honest, it is difficult for me.

Imagine how ice may be soft, but what is absolutely certain is that it is incredibly clean and distilled. I even tried it, but it wasn't really anything miraculous, just typical snow. The total weight of the ice in the sand is several tons and a refrigeration unit is needed. to refreeze it is more or less the same one used at Brinks and professional skating arenas. Well, this one could be a little smaller. It is located as you would expect in the area under the stands. The principle of operation is very simple through special pipes. Here they are wrapped in thermal insulating water and coolant with a temperature of 14 ° F is pumped into the urine, this freezes the ice layer by layer.

It takes approximately 5 days to prepare the entire ice rink, say the owners and designers of Symphony Of The Seas. that this ship is not only the largest in the world but also the safest; There are so many different safeguards in its control system that it is argued that it is almost impossible to lead the liner to disaster, even if a deliberate attempt were made to do so. Therefore, in the event of an extreme case, there are means to evacuate the ship on board. They have to allow the evacuation of all passengers and crew if something were to happen.

These ship-height lifeboats are the largest in the world. Each has a capacity for 370 people there are 18 of them on the ship plus they are kept fully prepared at all times their fuel tanks are full they have a cruising range of approximately 155 miles there was a special supply of dry rations and water on board in special containers sealed boxes in case of disaster there would be no time to remove everything from the ship in general everything is thought out down to the smallest detail this unsinkable and waterproof plastic jar, for example, contains signal flares in addition to the huge ships that also There are many rafts that are inflated in the water.

Several of these high-speed rescue boats are used to coordinate actions and quickly help people in the water. The crew must participate in evacuation exercises at least once a month. This ship has never seen a true red alert, but thanks to constant training 2,000 crew members are prepared for any event 24/7 the ship also has its own waste recycling plant here This is, for example, a machine for pressing cardboard packaging here. The cans are collected like this and then crushed into these large bricks. Cellophane is processed here at first glance, it is a bit paradoxical how they treat glass bottles.

Now I will show you that they are simply broken into small pieces so that they take up less space. space and they are arranged as follows here we have a big bag with dark glass here we have broken transparent bottles and here we have green glass and this is the amazing thing how everywhere on the ship in this waste recycling workshop everything is kept perfectly organized there there is not even an unpleasant smell here the creators of this ship seem to have something to do with cleanliness and environmental friendliness in a good way, of course, for example, the engines of the liner burn several tons of diesel fuel every hour, but at the same time they are not black, no.

Even blue but exclusively white smoke comes out of the Symphony's exhaust pipes, all thanks to cleaning with a scrubber, while, to simplify it as much as possible, the exhaust gases are washed with seawater , this dirty water is kept and stored in special tanks until the ship arrives. in a port and only carbon dioxide with a minimal amount of soot and impurities is released into the atmosphere. The scrubbers and engines are controlled from this control room, it is located in the middle of the ship, almost on the waterline, so there are no huge windows. It can be found here as on the captain's bridge, but there are 51 monitors displaying thousands of different parameters.

The larger touchscreen control panel even had to be hidden in the ceiling. It's already pretty tight here without it. There is a special emergency phone in this control room. there is a telephone for singular emergencies, its peculiarity is that it will work in any case, even if God forbid, of course, all systems here fail forcomplete and all the energy is lost, by what means I will now show you the old inductive coil, this technology, well, I don't know, it is probably around 120 years old and it is very strange to see it in this ultra-modern ship, but technology like this is a times the most reliable bridge, plus the equipment in this control room is of a quality comparable to that of NASA.

Flight control center and the entire ship is practically a spaceship. Sure they are not jet engines, but V diesel engines, but each one weighs around 200 tons. Two of them have 16 cylinders. Four more are a little smaller with only 12 cylinders. These giants were made in Italy. and then they were sent in a special convoy, first along blocked roads and then delivered by sea to a shipyard in the French town of St Nair. Building each of the six fiery hearts of this monster was such a difficult technological task that we decided to explain it to you in more detail, which is why we are taking the reverse path to the engine from the Caribbean Sea and Miami through France to the Italian industrial port of Trist.

The company that makes the world's largest marine engines in Italy is actually from Finland and is called vilia. It was named after a small Finnish town where this business once originated. It is curious, but today the urban-type settlement at the Vilia station of the October railway is part of the Sortavala region of the Republic of Kilia, a typical Russian industrial city with a modest budget, at the same time, see Cilia has annual revenue of several billion dollars, but back to the engines, each of them consists of several thousand parts, some of them are manufactured right here in tests, some come from subcontractors, blanks cast and forged, For example. shipped from a metallurgical plant in the Czech Republic, the so-called connecting rods arrive here at the plant in this form, roughly forged, very rough to the touch, here they are then installed in these machines, each one weighs 330 pounds, by the way, many of us When We were children, not everyone, of course, in the workshop class did something similar by carving various objects, here it is more or less the same.

Only the size is much larger and the precision is very high, as a result, the connecting rod works great, just to shine like a mirror. Everyone who has ever looked at their car's engine, seen the pistons, recognizes them immediately and this one, believe me. exactly the same well a little bigger this one weighs about half a ton and the volume of the cylinder in which it works is 6.5 l which by the way is a little more than the total volume of my car's engine well by the way using the crankshaft as an example you can easily understand the working principle of a piston engine look at this position for example the piston would be in the upper position and this crank journal is also up at the same time the other piston is in its lower position and the crank The Tray, respectively, is at the bottom, so the pistons move up and down and the shaft rotates.

It's all very simple, but the most surprising thing is that this particular axle weighs 25 tons, its length is 26 feet, and it is made from a single solid piece of metal. Amazing, by the way, there are only a few Metal Lads in the world that can carve a 26 ton item like this from a multi ton bar of high strength alloy steel. Turner's worst nightmare here is ruining even one detail where the crankshaft is worked on. for several weeks and costs more than a million dollars. In the end, after numerous checks and tests, the crankshaft and thousands of other parts are sent to the assembly area.

In a few more weeks, the engine is finally ready and now a test is expected to check if everything is in order. the engine is put back on the boat, all technical fluids are drained and checked again and again in the test chamber, the engine has already been checked by numerous sensors of automated computer systems, etc., but no one has eliminated the good visual control test, everything here again is like in a car, we open the hood and look inside, perhaps the most important difference between this engine and a car engine is that there are 12 such hoods or, rather , display windows behind each of these windows. one of the cylinders and valves connected by a connecting rod to the crankshaft.

If you wait for the oil to drip from the parts, you will be able to see simply with your eyes whether jams or other metal defects have formed during testing, when at this stage the inspectors give the go-ahead, the only thing left is to pack the engine and send it to the client, but it's easier said than done. Anyone who has transported a chest of drawers well knows that the most necessary thing to achieve this is the ducts. glue some styrofoam, oh here we have some W and a lot of bubble wrap when moving a finished engine, everything is more or less the same, all the protruding parts are carefully wrapped with this foam.

The corners are sealed with tape, clean wrap, etc., and so on, in general, everything. It is the same as when moving furniture. There was a slight difference, although the weight of this chest of drawers is 180 tons, it takes a week to prepare it for transportation, by the way, at the same time Road services and a special platform, the only one in Europe that can withstand such weight and size are preparing for the transfer of the Giants to the port, only here, at the end, in the warehouse of finished products, can you begin to understand the true scale of this giant engine?

Its height is approximately that of a three- building weighs several hundred tons and generates the amount of electricity that would be needed for a small Moscow neighborhood, the world's largest mechanical heart of the world's largest cruise ship and let me remind you that Symphony Of The Seas has six of them and although at the same time even at full speed normally no more than three work, the fuel consumption is still enormous and that is why any company that owns the ship uses a little trick at the starting point of the trip in Miami that they undertake on board. only the fuel necessary to reach the next port, where fuel is cheaper and when they are already in Uruguay or Mexico, for example, the liner is filled with diesel until the end, thanks to this the shipowner manages to save several million dollars. per season, however, there is a warning: for some reason, the fuel from these countries often contains water by accident, of course, I'm sure, but this is unacceptable for the engine, therefore all fuel is cleaned directly on the boat before introducing it into the combustion chamber.

But how can you clean several tons of fuel per hour and when it moves at full speed and here the centrifugal force reaches our fuel? The heavier part is expelled towards the walls and the oil product, while the lighter portion accumulates in the center and then enters the engine. Fifth-grade physics will work on the world's largest ship at the same time that the fuel in the separators also heats up. makes it more liquid and therefore burns better because of the way the liner has a non-electric propulsion, its powerful internal combustion engines do not directly spin the ship's propellers, they spin generators that generate electricity and then along the high-voltage lines hidden in the bowels of the On the ocean liner, current travels to the electric motors that turn the propellers.

This diesel electrical circuit makes the boat more maneuverable. After all, an electric motor, unlike a piston, can be stopped and change the direction of rotation almost instantly and does not need a gearbox. The engines along with the propellers can also rotate 360° around their axis, making it very easy to operate the liner. However, even the most advanced devices and numerous automatic safety systems are not capable of 100% protecting the ship against basic human errors 3 Weeks after filming this episode in the same Mexican port where Symphony Of The Seas stopped for an afternoon , two cruise ships managed to collide.

OMG, there were no casualties C. Both ships even continued their voyages, but still this situation once again reminded me that Regular emergency evacuation drills on the ship are not at all excessively preventive, but perhaps no less dangerous than A collision with another ship would leave 6,000 passengers hungry. This almost seems to be feared even more here, the 350 exquisite dishes on the ship. The menus of 28 restaurants will satisfy even the most demanding customer. We already showed you how this monstrous kitchen works in the first part of this episode and perhaps at this point the question occurred to you as to how you can quickly wash a large number of plates, cups, glasses and cutlery for after dinner on this boat, In general, all possible technological processes are based on the principle of a conveyor belt, although this is logical, of course, because it is one of the most effective forms of work organization and here, in the kitchen, the dishwasher is also a huge conveyor machine, come with me, I'll show you sorry, dirty dishes are loaded on that side and the clean ones are already coming out here, the whole process takes less than 1 minute, extremely fast.

Mr. Clean would be impressed, there was no other option because after every dinner you have to wash about 50,000 dishes and that's not counting kitchen utensils, although it may seem less than a critical machine, the dishwasher on the ship is actually a unit so important that it has a double backup in case the main one breaks. Another important machine on the liner is the washing machine, which was built by special order and installed in the bowels of the ship. At the time of her construction at the shipyard, two technical decks of Symphony Of The Seas were dedicated to laundry.

Around 10,000 towels are washed here every day. They also tried to automate this process as much as possible. Housekeepers collect dirty towels from the rooms, sort them by color and send them to the laundry terraces. Here they are loaded into this receiving container. The owners know that the most difficult thing to iron are the sheets and duvet covers, it really takes a long time to do it with an iron, but here you have to iron 2,000 sheets every day and that's why they installed this machine here, it doesn't just iron the sheets , but it is also the most Something incredible, I will show you now that it folds, it looks ideal, not everyone can do it, in short, I want one of these for my house, the only thing is that I'm afraid it won't fit in my laundry room, the laundry room. employs several hundred people, there are more than a thousand in the galley, dozens more in the engine room and on the bridge, a huge army of crew members makes every second of the passengers' stay on the ship invisible, comfortable and safe, unforgettable and yet the passengers themselves will never see most of them only service Staff who are in direct contact with tourists can go up below the passenger decks, including waiters, waitresses, bartenders, vendors , hairdressers and other staff, others, sometimes for several weeks in a row, do not leave the depths. of this monster and get out into the sunlight, but keep in mind, first of all, they get paid well for it and second of all, at the end of the day they work on the largest cruise ship in the world and although they can't receive the incredibly beautiful sunsets of the Caribbean Sea from your own balcony Behind the walls of your cabins that are located on the lower decks you can hear the running of the water yes, I promised it would be a story without romance, but still, oh