How Do You Dock a Ship Into a Port That's 200 Feet Short?

The Viking Sea is docking into the Scottish port of Lerwick. It's a major challenge considering the port is over 200 feet shorter than the ship. Can the staff captain in charge dock without causing damage?

[Accrd]

The staff captain "yeah!" lol Thrilled.

[chriscoppersmith]

So, that's Lerwick? It's smaller than I thought it was going to be. I read that Lerwick has an art museum, a modern-art museum, a natural history museum, a planetarium, 2 universities, a 42 acre botanical garden, 7 nightclubs, 3 Michelin Guide restaurants, 22 pubs, and a 12, 000 square foot roller disco with free admission to all cruise guests.

[jessicamturner]

Beautiful cruise ship. Wow lots of skills from the Captain and it’s crew. and the Pilot from the port. Job Well done! Very nice to watch! 🥰

[maurielknight]

Was on this ship this morning with the pilots in Basseterre..really nice ship...wasn't this captain nor staff captain though.

[avenheavner]

What the heck was that yea for at the end so weird!!

[carmelpule]

Those rubber fenders shown at 2:52 are not meant for that sized vessel. When I was a student at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in UK, about 60 years ago, I was asked to develop a velocity metre which would measure a maximum speed of 0.25 metres every minute and an accelerometer to find the acceleration of a ship that size, so that one day, a fully automatic berthing system would be achieved.
When you see the engineering in a modern ship coupled to the navigation accuracy that exists these days, one can thank God for Engineers and the Deck boys who operate the equipment provided for them. I am sure that they prefer to operate our engineering potentiometers to control those electric motors which can act as thrusters in any direction, rather than the ropes sail spars of the tea clipper Cutty Sark which was built in Scotland incidentally. Knowing the ropes with out engineering equipment take a different meaning and less effort of knowing the ropes on a tall sailing ship. I am sure that both the captains
and the pilot in this video would agree on that.

[rickslife]

The real question.... How to you ship a dock?

[groupcaptainbonzo]

Well done! You don’t often hear “Lerwick” pronounced correctly ...

[costazurra]

So serious it seams like rocket science

[inportcup]

i wonder how good these captains are at parallel parking

[miguelpaneda]

is there any side propeller on these giant ships doing side parking?

[iMatti]

🛳 *@**1:53** ~ Why do both those guys have four stripes on their shoulders, both the captain and 1st officer / staff captain? I see that one of the captain’s stripes are thicker than the others, but I always thought the first officer/staff captain only had three stripes.*

[kampreeetbangke]

staff captain in this on board
Im sure he was A captain the other ship verry good manuvering

[nz_planespotter]

The only reason the staff captain got to dock the ship was because the captain did not want to be liable for destroying a 300 million dollar vessel

[Pish]

If it fits, it ships....for a low flat rate

[Gorantaylis]

Horrible. As if the ferries that go there weren't big enough. Ships that size shouldn't be allowed anywhere near the harbour.

[costazurra]

Staff Captain when he is talking about blablabla short pier it seams scared I can say because he seams very distressed about that

[Bruce-]

Title is of course WRONG. The port is not 200 feet short, it;s the pier. Smithsonian, I would have thought you would get that right

[gsaldana]

The industry needs more Americans in the bridges of cruise ships. All the jobs are going to the Europeans (Italian, German, Swedish), and Filipinos. Some of us like cruse ships too!

[ridgedog]

That's a really small cruise ship.