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[Castelnuovo]

Thanks for watching

 

[nerwin]

Hey I was bamboozled!

Great shots. When I first saw one of these vessels in person, I just stood there in awe at the shear size of them. Absolutely incredible. They look so small on the ocean but they are massive in person.

Perspectives are crazy.

 

[Jeff15]

A very nice set ...

 

[Castelnuovo]

Thanks . Yup, perspectives can be so crazy. I used to work on ships like these. You see the ship at sea but you never get really close to them, so they look kinda small. Then you approach them to board and they look huge. These are about 200-250m long. Then you sail by a 350+ m long tanker or container ship or huge cruise ship and you feel so small. Then you approach a port or a lock and suddenly you think if you can fit in. At the open ocean I used to walk out onto the ship's bow. You feel soooooo small. Then you walk back to the wheelhouse and suddenly you have this huge 200m + long metal monster in front of you...until you meet an ultra large crude carrier

 

[petrochemist]

Thanks . Yup, perspectives can be so crazy. I used to work on ships like these. You see the ship at sea but you never get really close to them, so they look kinda small. Then you approach them to board and they look huge. These are about 200-250m long. Then you sail by a 350+ m long tanker or container ship or huge cruise ship and you feel so small. Then you approach a port or a lock and suddenly you think if you can fit in. At the open ocean I used to walk out onto the ship's bow. You feel soooooo small. Then you walk back to the wheelhouse and suddenly you have this huge 200m + long metal monster in front of you...until you meet an ultra large crude carrier

Nice set.
I consider 250m to be reasonable small for shipping, though when out sailing even that seems huge.
I've not seen many ULCC but the container ships docking locally are also BIG (this wasn't the biggest but still didn't fit in the frame from across the harbour)