How To Fake An Ocean

How do you train sailors to operate in some of Australia's most treacherous waters without accidentally sinking million-dollar vessels? You build them a world-class simulator of course.
In this video we go behind the scenes at the Australian Maritime College to take a look at how engineers literally build their own oceans to get the data needed to make it work. From the real ships to the small-scale model test basin (literally an indoor ocean) and towing tank this is some amazing Australian Engineering.

Engineering Australia, Episode One | Ship Simulator

#EngineeringAustralia #Tasmania

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[AtomicFrontier]

Best thing about this episode was seeing how crazy we could make the wave conditions. Apparently “most of boat is out the water” isn’t something that normally constitutes good research.

[TheImmortalPwnage]

I used one of these in England. We asked the engineers if we could try a tsunami. They sent the waves on max and we nearly broke the computer.

[opresopre]

The fact that you had to slow down the recordings to account for the fact that gravity is constant was a mind blowing "of course". Thanks for the wonderful educational content!

[jheckerman]

i'm atomic frontier and today i've found a wonderful facility that leaves their doors unlocked...

[mission]

6:45 You know it’s a real physics explanation when it involves spherical cows in vacuums

[adrianlongley-preston]

I see a new Tom Scott in the making.

Also, I see that you use Z for up and X&Y for the horizontal plane, as is only right and proper. :D

[mini_hek]

it’s hard to find a channel with consistent high-quality content like yours!

[asldfkhjaslk]

Ah, yes. A spherical cow. Also known as: *me*

[seegurkekiller]

For those who don't want to stop and search for the text that appears for a split second at 4:59:
"Understatement of the video right here. To be fair, I shouldn't have tried making it from MDF... sorry Scott!"

[johngrey]

Back in WWII my grandfather trained on a submarine simulator. It was all mechanical back then. They didn't even have a periscope, only a kaleidoscope. My grandfather raised the scope and looked through it. There was one ship on the surface. My grandfather exclaimed, "We're surrounded!" and they immediately surrendered to the small fishing vessel.

[StuffandThings_]

On the one hand, its crazy how much we can simulate in computers now.

On the other, its crazy just how much we _can't_ yet.

Although that being said, fluid dynamics has to be one of the more complicated things you could pick to try and simulate (as well as one of the more important ones). I'm really excited for how crazy we could make these sorts of things in a few decades.

[vladxx]

Great video - just a piece of advice about 8:00 - in the future when filming LED screens, or some lights, etc adjust your shutter speed in the camera to match the frequency that the LED / light source is at, if you get it right it'll remove the rolling bars on the LED screens. (if you are filming at 25fps for example, if the LED panel is outputting at 50hz, set the shutter speed to 180 degrees)

[koxukoshu]

01:54 I found you standing in the water very funny. Thank you for your dedication

[jasonhowell]

"Old school disaster movies"
ah, shit, I'm old aren't I...

[deborah]

All this talk of feedback loops and wave generation makes me think of building synthesizers.. which is exactly what's going on but for life saving rather than artistic expression. Also when James said "like piano keys replicating the symphony of the ocean" I learned he's a bit of a romantic. ✨💙

[DigitalicaEG]

@3:00 Narrating while a ship is spinning donuts around you LIKE A BOSS

[iLikeTheUDK]

3:22 your narration just gives an info on how a ship stays boyant but the music says all of these moments will be lost in time like tears in rain

[joeyhenninger]

It's crazy to me that something so seemingly random and unpredictable as objects interacting with fluid can be realistically simulated

[MEngelberts]

Echoing a common sentiment but this is definitely giving me "New Tom Scott" vibes! Very excited to see where you go with your content

[thefinaldegree]

Text at 4:59 - "Understatement of the video right here. To be fair, I shouldn't have tried making it from MDF... sorry Scott!"