Engineering, Transport & Making

Ships, submarines & maritime

Ships, submarines & maritime sits within Engineering, Transport & Making. Look at how a practical problem becomes a design, a process, or a working physical object. This selection contains 24 catalog videos from 21 distinct channels. The examples below offer specific entry points into the subject, with their own vocabulary and scope, rather than a prescribed sequence of lessons.

Recurring catalog topics include us navy, arctic, shipping, smarter every day, supply chain and world war ii. These tags describe overlapping directions within the collection; an individual video may connect several of them. Recorded formats include commentary, demo, documentary, explainer, interview, news, other, talk and tutorial. Use those differences to choose between approaches to the subject and to compare how different contributors frame related questions.

“How Do Nuclear Submarines Make Oxygen?- Smarter Every Day 251”, listed under SmarterEveryDay, is cataloged as explainer. A Smarter Every Day episode from aboard a nuclear submarine on how the crew makes breathable air. It covers oxygen generation from seawater, oxygen candles and CO2 scrubbing with amine.

“SHIPBREAKERS | Would you risk your life dismantling the world’s largest ships just to survive? |…”, listed under NFB, is cataloged as documentary. An NFB documentary about the shipbreaking yards of Alang, India, where about 40,000 people dismantle huge ships by hand in dangerous conditions.