Thank you so much for a great video! At one time I worked on an offshore supply boat servicing two of Heerema’s construction barges. Our boat was based in Berwick Bay LA which is right below Morgan City LA. We made one to two runs a week carrying fuel water groceries and any construction materials they needed. The oilfield work dried up in the 80s and they put both barges in Galveston Tx. We left Berwick Bay and went down to stay in Galveston to continue getting fuel and water to the barges as needed. They were a great company to work for but eventually our contract was terminated due to the lack of oilfield work. The owners came down to the boat and told us we were all being laid off because they couldn’t find any other work for us. We left Galveston TX and headed back to Morgan City LA. When we got there we parked the boat at a old dive company dock and the owners asked meif I wanted to finish out my hitch keeping watch on the boat until the boat was moved to be moth balled at another area in Morgan City. We all worked on a 28 days on 14 days off schedule. I had two weeks to go and I kept the inside of the boat cleaned, keeping a check on the engine room and changing our generators daily. I hated to see this job end up but the oilfield was really bad going into the start of the 80s so it didn’t surprise me when our contract ended. Thanks to Heerema for a job well done!

This Crane can probably pick up the entire Francis Scott Key bridge all by itself.

That’s what Baltimore needs for sure.

Greetings yu'all . I'm new around here. I spent ten years on US Navy ships and I LOVED being underway! This brings me back. Sublime.

I work with the company that built these cranes. I pent 6 months in their yard while working on the Noble Globetrotter rigs. Amazing. This is why I got into the oilfield equipment business.

Now that is a crane to be proud of, what a machine!! When you see it next to the big tanker you can really appreciate just how enormous it is. Thank you for capturing it on video and letting us see.

Loving the accompanying birdsong . Unusual background to ships

In the words of crocodile Dundee now this is a crane

Now that's the 8th wonder of the world!

EXCELLENT EXCELLENT EXCELLENT video with crisp steady images and ACTUAL sounds !!! Many thanks ❤️❤️❤️

Magnificent ships going about their business. 🎉

The Sleipnir (Odin's eight-legged horse), Construction Year 2019 at a cost of $1 to $1.5 billion dollars, Lift Capacity 20,000 metric tons (10,000 tons per crane). Sleipnir is outfitted with LED-lighting, has a heat/cold energy recovery system, is equipped with variable frequency drives, state-of-the-art silicon-based anti-fouling paint to reduce pollution. It can run on LNG! It is a marvel of engineering and its home is the Port of Rotterdam. If you want to see it in action check out the Leviathan installation videos. Best guess, about a million dollar per day to charter, probably a lot more on short notice. I take it we know were some of the $60 million dollars in emergency funds is going.

That thing is *massive!* It always blows my mind, how they can take tons of steel, concrete, and goods and *make them float!* The physics and engineering is incredible. Amazing 😲👍🏽⚓🌹

Magnificent. Truly magnificent vessel. It would be awesome to have it in Baltimore, but it would run aground far from the site of the fallen bridge. The draft of the Sleipnir (determined depth of the vessel below the waterline) exceeds the depth of the Baltimore Harbor. The draft of the Sleipnir, the biggest crane ship in the world, is 32 meters (105 feet). The depth of the Baltimore Harbor is 15.24 meters (50 feet).

First time I have seen his beauty. Looks very versatile. Thank you fo posting.

WoooooW they said that it was huge but I never imagined this HUGE.

Человек не поленился встать в такую рань и в сумерках, в тумане качественно снимал суда несколько часов. Такой труд заслуживает лайка.

...it's like watching a city slowly moving...

The birds excited to see this big sailing beauty. Hear Dem birds 🤣🤣🤣🤣🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹

Merci! De partagé, cette vidéo, de cette, énorme, grue, maritime!! Incroyable!!❤

Better get going to Baltimore......services required!

That is a modern marvel.

Sleipnir, because it has eight "legs"! Clever!

That thing is badass😎

GOAT for ship spotting channel!!

WOW this footage is stunning!!!

Survey, up-fit, outward bound.... beautiful vessel, marvel of engineering and industry. Thanks for the stream.

Dang those are some nice life boats!

Man, I'd hate to pay the hourly bill to rent that baby ! But what a beauty she is !

I’d like to see how this crane operates on the high seas in severe weather

Might want to fill up your tanks and head over to Baltimore! Bit of a mess to clean up over there!

The sleipner crane ship made the oil tanker look small wow. Imagine seeing it in real. Love your video 🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹💯💯💯

Those three guys are making a burrito run.

Beautiful to hear nature in the background with all this industrial activity. Nice to to see without explaining everything.

They need that in Baltimore 😮

That thing is huge, for a comparison perspective look at the workers standing next to the railing at 3:55

Wow amazing sleipner crane ship. Hear how those birds chirping as this big ship slowly passes by with the soft sounds of the waves amazing amazing video 🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹

Nice video's shipspotting

Yes Baltimore needs it more than anything else how sad that people lost their lives

They will need that in Baltimore to pick up the bridge

WOW!

She "Sleipnir" has her homebase here in Rozenburg, at the Caland-channel. Also all Heerema crane vessels have there "homebase" here. I live here in Rozenburg and can see when the are in. The crane has a couple of lights that lighten the sky at night. They have an powerplant on shore here, where the get the power from when the are home.

This looks like one of those contraptions youd see in a post apocalyptic video game!.. Super monstrous and hella cool!!!!

Crazy Crane . Excellant :)

My city needs this right now.

At 3:25 it's genuinely like a scene from an episode of Thunderbirds!

What a massive boy! Never seen such a thick ship!

She spent a few days anchored in Walvis Bay Namibia in February..she is massive.

Off to Baltimore.

Seriously u guys need to go to Baltimore Maryland and help out right now they are going to be using a crane that does not have the lifting capacity like u guys do they need u asap

What an absolute unit

Can you imagine being skilled at operating one of those huge cranes? Nice.

De omvang/grootte/capaciteit blijft verbazend. Mooi werk.

Nice to see this big cranes arrivial in port of Baltimore i will shout top the cranes and enjoy clean up well we will be satified by its big cranes to work must say Bravissimo ☆☆☆☆☆

Breath-taking. Just absolutely incredible.

This Can Make It But A Cargo Ship Can’t With Out Crashing Is Krazy

Spectacular engineering and craftsmanship to build such an amazing tool. Definitely a mind blowing feat! Hooray! 🇵🇦

Wish you had two channels, one for ships which I would love and another for airplaines not so much... Thank you for these great videos, love them

Maryland needs something like this

Very amazing engineering technology, the effort of human beings

This why Americans are great nothing can stop us but God pray for everything u see we are truly blessed God bless all of the people of God land Timmy c Bristol CT 💯

Damn!!!, who 's the captain of that gargantuan? A big God Bless U.

Yes, Baltimore needs some giant, specialized equipment such as this, it would appear. The mass and size of what they're lifting and cutting is so huge.

You'd think you were hallucinating if you looked out of your window and saw that inexorably advancing towards you wouldn't you. 😧 Even dwarfs an unladen VLCC. 14:21is that how you get ashore from it! 😂

An old friend worked on the Bolder out from New Plymouth NZ, this is much bigger. RIP Paul.

This needs to be in Baltimore, MD

I was once the superintendent and captain of the Sleipnir till I retired after falling off its catwalk 120’ down to the water and broke my neck. It was a gigantuous nightmare. Be a farmer, I hated the high seas

Glad to see some of the ships can move in and out of the port. That's a nice big crane ship. ❤

Wow this is a crane 😄

Perrrrfect pick ship up in one swoop in Baltimore...

Now That's a crane. Please send it to Baltimore.

What an epic video mate! Liked!

Damn imagine being in one of those escape boat and being drop from over 1000 feet into the water lol

Respect that a big Crain 👏

This is is absolutely crazy. look at the tiny staircases on the tub cranes. Also look uo photos of people next to the crane hook. it's amazing!

Somebody is operating without a budget.

You would not want to lose control of that monster,amazing piece of kit 😮

yeah buddy

Baltimore needs it !

Heer she comes 😁 love to see it!

Holy Cow .... that's big

This is America and we will be there god bless from Athens AL 😊

Wow, beautiful video footage.

When they said huge,they really ment it.That crane is the largest I've ever seen.🤙🇺🇲😳

WOW! That is a HUGE crane ship!

Wow! That thing is huge. Amazing. And the control they have over it. Self docking with out any tugs. Amazing.

Yes this crane looks a little more substantial. When I saw that first crane I thought they don't know what they're doing. I was a crane operator with local number 3.

Thanks for the great morning. Just what I needed.

I hope it going to Baltimore to help out

My grandson would love to have a lego of that.

That's got it's own weather and area codes.

Wow so cool bro 😮

MEGA

It's insane that humans made this thing.

To the rescue! That has it's own zip code! 😎🇺🇲

Their bringing in the Big Guns for this job!

a true monster of it's class

impressive

I beg to differ, Im sure there are much smaller crane barges quite capable of dealing with the bridge wreckage. It will surely be cut into manageable pieces by acetalyn torch and thus removed.

Dam that is a crane 😮