BOTTOM PLUG OPENING OF A CONTAINER SHIP IN DRY DOCK

OPENING OF BALLAST TANK BOTTOM PLUG IN DRY DOCK - TURKEY

This is not sewage or grey water and doesn't smell bad. its just sea water mixed with some mud.

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[careyrose]

I spent most of my life as a deep-sea diver and have inspected and cleaned countless hulls. I've seen hundreds of those plugs, documented their condition, but that's the first time I've seen one pulled. Cool.

[dozerboy]

When I was 15 my family decided that we were going to buy an old boat and fix it up! We bought this old wooden boat that was built back in the 30’s in Maiorca and was in pretty rough shape. We slipped her and began replacing all of the dry rot, and re caulking all of the seams. It was quite a lot of work, I can tell you! After removing the old engine, it was my job to scrub the bilges. So after some investigating, I discovered the bung hole as it’s called, and pounded out the wooden dowel that was in the hole, and then proceeded to scrub and clean the bilges. This was in Scotland in the middle of winter, cold as hell! I learned a lot about boats, and ships, and traditional rigging. Looking back, I was very lucky! So I know exactly how that guy feels, it’s a dirty job, but someone has to do it! 💪⚓️⚓️🤙

[michaellong]

50 plus years on ships never knew there was a plug.

[jcb]

Just to clear up some confusion down here:
Most ships have many plugs actually. Every double bottom tank has one, whether this be for fuel or ballast. To identify them they have different heads, square or hectagonal. You don’t want to pull the plug of a fuel tank by accident!
Anyway if you have to inspect a ballast tank at sea you can always choose another tank to pump the contents into, but in a drydock they would rather just pull a plug because;

a) They want to inspect all tanks so nowhere else to pump the water to;

b) It’s a lot faster.

Does it smell? Meh, not really. I’ve been in some ballast tanks myself and it just smells like murky water; the sort of smell you’d have in a marsh. Just of old plants and dirty sand. And that’s if water is gotten from a river or something. Some ships just get their ballast out at sea and I reckon if their ballast tanks are kept clean you won’t smell very much at all.

The color? Idk, could be from rust which would not be a very good sign, could be from dirt in the water, no idea. To many possibilities. You do see the water clearing up quite nicely the longer it drains so it could also be sand particles in the water that just sedimented in the tank. Nothing dirty or anything.

[smellymudhut]

I’m a maritime plumber and have just started this career within the past year! I mainly install valves and small systems for all sorts of different things in yachts/ ships! It’s not the cleanest or safest job by a long shot, but honestly it’s something I love. It’s definitely more of a niche thing, but it’s always so fascinating to me looking at these boats and thinking how far they will sail with my simple work.

I love thinking to myself when I install a through hull, or a valve that takes on raw water for any sort of system “this boat will float because of me.”

Another thing most people don’t think about : he’s casually working under a multi-ton ship, pulling a plug from the bottom.

That is the manliest breaker bar I've ever seen. No lug nut in the world would be a challenge with that thing, got to get one!

[XPLAlN]

Same colour as as when I opened my bottom plug this morning.

[markhollingsworth]

Known as as "Docking plugs" . Plugs located in technical water tanks, fuel, ballast & water tanks . Plugs are there to allow draining and cleaning of the tanks.

[TheNakaleader]

68 plus years working on ships and this is the first time seeing one pulled, gud stuff.

[bernardkeenan]

It's amazing and creepy being under a huge ship like that, you feel like an ant about to be stepped on by an elephant.

[technewsfortechnoobs]

Ship sets out to sea again after leaving dry dock.

Dockworker: "What's does this screw go to?"

[fenech]

I never knew that ships have this plug . I have seen my Dad removing the plug from underneath our wooden boat which he used to take tourists with, to Blue Grotto here in Malta. He used to unplug the hole to let out the water which may have come in the boat. Thanks for sharing.

[Stevel_]

Didn't realize big ships had drain plugs. I put one in our little waterski boat every spring. Nice to see the bilgewater looks the same, haha.

[animted]

I see his face shield is protecting the top of his helmet.

[edc]

Wish I had that breaker bar when I was trying to change my brake rotors.

[CivilEngineerWroxton]

And the ship is going, I needed that. Been holding that in way too long. THANK YOU!"

I'm a Civil Engineer and there was a river bridge project that I worked on as the Chief Designer. The construction trailer was located very close to a drydock structure. It had six slips in which to put ships. Every time a ship would be drydocked and the plug pulled, we could always tell that's what they were doing without even looking. This was because the smell was absolutely HORRIBLE. There was a few times it even just about triggered my gag reflex. We got to a point where we made sure to keep the construction trailer sealed up and air filtration devices running. The fluid that poured out of those ships when they drain them had all manner of the nastiest substances imaginable. So being the guy who has to drain the fluids from the very bottom of the ship hull would be a REALLY nasty job.

I'm thinking that the guy in this video that is unscrewing the drain plug is not happy about having this job. I know that I wouldn't be.

[jeffreyx]

I went through the drive thru at Taco Bell and 30 minutes later it was exactly like

[chadgdry]

something I would never have been able to see, thanks for sharing that.

[q]

Imagine being the new guy and the supervisor hands you a waterproofed drawing of the ships bottom and shows you the breaker bar, you've got till noon to pull all the plugs and put them in the cart over there.

[Ojb_]

That was a well spent minute. Reminds me of my days offshore. Thanks for uploading🤙🏼