World's Largest Floating Fish Factory - Part 2 | Sea Source | Free Documentary

[Music] [Music] floating ship has been operating here for several months the expedition also includes strollers they catch fish and fast reefer ships they deliver finished products ashore covering thousands of miles in a short time regardless of the weather and season seven loads of is a huge construction which is 179 meters long and has a displacement of more than 26 000 tons in size it's even bigger than the largest passenger aircraft a380 in a day the floating base can process about 600 tons of fish [Music] for nine long months it becomes not only a workplace for 435 crew members but also their home at sea we spent several weeks in the expedition and covered thousands of kilometers and all of this is to understand what it means to live at sea [Music] vladivostok dobra floats head office it's not just removed from the place where cevalo sibertsev operates it is even located near the waters of another sea the sea of japan nevertheless it is here where managers organize the work not only of the floating base the size of the winter palace in saint petersburg but of the entire expedition fishing vessels that catch fish take it to the floating base and thereby shorten the delivery time of fish products for processing the production occurs directly [Music] in addition to raw materials that is fish the functioning of the floating factory also requires containers spices equipment food for the crew all this is delivered by special vessels reefer ships they also pick up finished products one of these such vessels is gardamonia in four days the ship got ammonia crossed the sea of a coats diagonally and moored to the port side of cevalo sibert vladimir srizov the captain of garbonia and valeri velocin the captain director of the floating base mastered mooring in the sea successfully but the storm got in the way of planned unloading [Music] it's common practice the entire fleet both the fishing ships and the floating factory will most likely go to the magadan region to hide from the bad weather the weather it is rarely favorable especially in winter autumn and winter there are storms so you never leave the bridge the presence of the captain on the bridge during mooring is mandatory the reverse process also does not do without a high-ranking ship supervisor now the ships have to unmore in order to continue their joint work but now in the area safe from the storm in the shelting bay unloading can be carried out in sufficiently good weather so if the weather conditions worsen naturally we have to earn more [Music] once in the relatively calm waters of the shelting bay the captain srizov and velocin are moving closer again we are ready to moor over morning teams stand by for mooring the port side everything is happening as if in slow motion it seems that there is nothing dangerous in these maneuvers the speed is too low low by our land standards but ocean liners are objects with enormous masses and their inertia is huge so any mistake on board can have some real serious effects in the last minutes before the approach the morning scheme is again discussed the ends are the same four lateral ones from our bow four from our stern two spring ropes from your bow and well two from your stern over understood start bt bt is a bow thruster it's a powerful electric motor installed in the front of the ship which allows you to turn a huge machine without resorting to complex manipulations with the main engines and the rudder blade an irreplaceable thing when mooring at sea i'll turn left a little with the bt just a little okay great yes so that you won't have to turn go as you do [Music] the morning process is going on like clockwork and after several minutes the unloading can start again while the weather permits [Music] the shelting bay is like an emergency shelter for everyone who is caught in a storm in the northern part of the sea of occult usually it is quite deserted but now in this relatively small bay several dozen ships have gathered including the fishing trawlers that operate with tafseeva load submersive floating base a strong wind is blowing here too but the water is calm so got ammonia again moored to the shipping base to fill two of its three holds with products it's only two of the three because the third is still filled with what sailors call provisions or more precisely with packing materials and food both for the floating base and for the troller seiners the problem is that the russian legal system prohibits operations with similar cargos in territorial waters therefore as soon as the weather at sea improves the ships will part so that gardemonia will be able to moor beyond the territorial waters and only then the process of loading and unloading will continue drawler seiners are fishing ships they also need to wait out the storm and this means that the stock of raw materials on cevalo sibertsev are rapidly decreasing and in a few hours the conveyor belts of the factory ship will be empty if the equipment is operational and there is enough electricity supplied the factory can stop only for two reasons first the warehouse is full and second there is a lack of raw materials but regardless of the reasons after mandatory sanitation in such cases everything has to stop and the factory turns from a source of income into a generator of losses [Music] losses to put it mildly are serious each day of such a huge floating base being at sea costs about 1 million rubles but not only shareholders and managers are upset each employee of the enterprise in addition to a relatively modest salary also receives a bonus part or the share and the amount of this share depends on the quantity of products produced in the sailor's language it's called to earn from each talent the only thing the team on sibersiv is thinking about is how to resume work as soon as possible first of all we need fish first of all we see that we have free space we must go out with the fleet to fish and this must be done like to lead everyone for fishing but while the weather doesn't let the fishing expedition to sea the crew of cevaloid submersive will not lose time there is always a lot of work on a huge ship in addition to sanitation you need to deal with routine repairs and no one canceled the loading of the ship and now finally the waves in the open sea become lower one and a half meters and this means that senior trawlers can again go fishing and the head of production has to prepare to receive the catch gardamonia unmoored in order to moor to the floating base once again but now at open sea the work with the load will be finished later it would have been wiser for us let's say to stop yesterday and go fishing and catch fish and now as the weather calms down we'll work again we'll take supplies and then continue to unload it later one hold is empty we'll fill it special ships catch fish for the floating base they are marked by the abbreviation str there is some french reverse word order in the way it is deciphered senior trawler refrigerator the first two words mean that they can catch fish with different gear and the letter r and well the corresponding word are inherited from the soviet union now there are now refrigerators so when the net which is overboard is ascended to the platform i hope it will be full of proper herring the fish will be loaded into those tanks they are called folds the shelf life is very short even in winter just a few hours up to 12. so the work pace of str or fishing ships as they are called sometimes is very fast [Music] after delivering the first catch to the base after the storm sergey bova takes his kalinovka trawler to the place where other dobro floats fishing ships saw shoals of herring it takes four hours so the crew sees the dawn while sailing the straight eight-cylinder diesel engine has 1320 horsepower it's kind of a lot but kalinovka can't be called fast at a maximum speed of 13 knots we go to the fishing area at 10 knots this str kolonovka was built as a part of the project 503 it was one of the most popular in the soviet era with a length of just over 50 meters this ship belongs to the medium tonnage that is far from being the smallest but nevertheless in comparison with the floating base it is of course just a shell and only here you can understand what the real sway is everyday conditions for the crew are also difficult to describe as comfortable it's just small but nevertheless a team of 23 people will spend several months on this ship catching fish and this is not even a record one of the fishing ships that work with sibertsev has already been at sea for seven months and is not yet going back in the gdr alone nearly a thousand fishing vessels were commissioned by the soviet union in the first nine post-war years and built on average a ship was launched once in three days the ships were also commissioned in denmark finland greece japan but soviet shipbuilders kept up with it over 300 str's of the project 503 were built sergey bova hasn't been on the project 503 for a long time just a month ago he came from a smaller fishing ship between the answers to my questions he also manages to give commands to the officer on duty there is attention as if we are participating in an unspoken competition on trawler of herring however this assumption the captain rejected immediately 5.3 there were such situations but now the company distributes shares equally between the ships so that each vessel can earn and fewer people will flee from ships five and three just addressed to nikolaj is the propeller blade angle of attack like most strollers kalinovka is equipped with a so-called abp adjustable blade propeller this mechanism allows you to change the blade angle of attack changing the thrust without changing the engine speed by the way in addition to the main engine project 530 str's also have two side ones managing all this isn't a hard task for an experienced captain but the captain of a fishing vessel is also a skilled fisherman and this is just not being taught anywhere everything comes with experience well of course if anyone has experience then all this is written down in notebooks and eventually when you become a commander you open them and you read igor valeev is one of those who has seen a lot and absorbed enough knowledge to take the position of a chief fishing master he is also called the trawler master this is not the executive officer nor the captain's immediate assistant but the importance of this position on a ship is hard to overestimate it is he who knows all the details of setting up a troll it's something without which fishing is not possible trolls are different they are let's say we're working with 107 now the trolls pattern is well different here so you need to set hdd correctly so that it will open load the bottom for the trial to open and work normally well the same is with the net so that more fish will get into it obviously and eager yorovich gave a simplified version after all in fact everything is much more complicated the sdr is equipped with the so-called different depth draw this snare is intended for catching fish in the pelagic zone that is in the water layer where the herring lives the troll 107 dobra float's development is called so because of the length of the upper and lower sets they are in simple terms steel ropes holding the trolls wings whose task is to catch fish and send it to the net to the tail part of the tackle the upper set has bobbers they are called fishing floats and the lower set has a weight system well hdd is a hydrodynamic device a system of troll boards and plates which ensure the correct horizontal opening and position of the troll in the water layer the troll is connected to the ship with wires or steel ropes and all this needs to be adjusted and managed by the team [Music] well let's say no need to reinvent the wheel they used to fish before sometimes you introduce some novelty so but in general the setting of the troll is described in the theory yet in practice you use some of your own methods something's wrong you do it at this time the captain is sitting in a compartment with screens of sonars and therefore it's like the workplace of an aviation navigator or to a flight control center only now it's not a satellite in orbit that is flying but a troll in the waters of the sea of akhoats right now it is clearly visible there is a shoal of herring in our course and we're trying to pursue the shoal on it we can't determine the show's density in our course but if the color is red then it should be dense the troll disappeared into the cold water and now the captain keeps track of the fish entering the net there shouldn't be too many otherwise the tender herring will simply crumble but of course the crew wouldn't like to take out an empty net this is a troll control device everything's kind of simple here the bottom is red that's where the trawl is then there is the trolls opening this is the fish the process of trawling demands increased attention and trained accuracy surfacing shouldn't be allowed or the troll will pass by the fish touching the bottom is also prohibited for environmental reasons moreover it can tear the troll well if it's torn it's torn nothing to do there you've got to repair it depending on the size of the tear you can repair it for an hour or four hours well sometimes you tear the troll then you just roll it up and take a new one like that one cannot be repaired well to terra trawl isn't so easy it was hard for our ancestors they could forecast the weather only by beliefs now the storm cannot actually catch the sailors off guard when approaching the base in 10 15 miles away there is internet access we update there is such a program as grib it's pretty much applied to this area we look at the wind wave wave height well plus we take japanese maps this is all difficult to understand a trawler built in 1985 an abundance of color monitors and the internet here in the middle of the cold sea nine time zones away from moscow but there it is and i even clearly see that the trawler works it catches fish there is a young but experienced captain who cares more about people than electronics i look at people well when i come here i already when the ship is working you have some working situations and this is month after month despite the weather the duration of the expedition and your own mood no emotions never change the only thing is that everything is familiar here it's just psychologically hard as they say a confined space the crew how many people do we have several like 25 people let's say the same people all the time and by the end of the expedition you get bored with it but anyway you get used to everything the trawler has been in the water for two hours and the captain discontentedly says that the flow of fish has almost dried out how much there is in the net is impossible to determine here and the captain struggles with the temptation to take a reverse course to troll this shoal again but nevertheless decides to pick up the tackle jacob take in sail after the wires were chosen and the load thundered across the deck multi-colored trawls wings appear but here comes a problem the cable of one of the sensors is tangled and doesn't let us continue together we eliminate the problem and finally the net appears from the water the net tightly packed with pacific herring fishermen are happy there are more than 80 tons take in sail stop wires of course there is some kind of inner joy that there is a full net of fish naturally when it is empty well somehow boring and then there is already excitement of some kind i want to put it in there again catch more fish easily performs acrobatic tricks on the tightly filled net finding enough time to give orders to other sailors this work is for experienced fishermen and the best that i can do for them is just not to interfere and at the same time to think how soon i as a person who spent most of my life on the shore will want to be if not on the shore but on a ship a little bit bigger and doesn't the captain want this no i still don't want to because i'm excited about fishing therefore i want to be a fisherman with double [Music] chicken [Music] [Music] [Music] well fishing which at first did not impress proved to be very successful on board there are more than 80 tons of herring the folds are filled and now kalinovka is waiting for its turn to moor to the floating base and unload the catch onto the factory of course i wasn't allowed to real fishing acrobatics to manipulate with the filled trawler but instead i managed to participate in untangling the gear back up the sailors and saw my hands in the sea of a hoax in general i felt a sense of belonging but most importantly i know that here under several layers of clothing i have a key the key is to the warm cabin at the floating base of ceva godzilla that is to such a place which is spacious cozy does not swing where there is heat and wireless internet and even a sauna and very soon i will be there and these guys will continue to work here and they will work for more than one more month [Music] it took only three hours to set up the trawl to its ascent to the deck during this time the floating base has already managed to get closer to the fishing ship and in less than an hour kalinovka will take place in the line for the delivery of the catch the captain has a rare opportunity to sleep but after four and a half hours in the darkness he took his place at the control panel of the thruster propellers and moored to the starboard side of cevalodzibirssen the unloading of raw materials begins [Music] [Music] the factory revived again herring is sorted and sent to different shops bigger fish is for freezing smaller fish is for canned food but regardless of the fish size it first gets processed by the way for a 21st century person there seems to be a lot of manual work however this is the only way to achieve the necessary flexibility of production machines take up a lot of free space and even on such a ship it is not enough and it's easier to teach a person than reprogram a machine there are plenty of people but people are going to make money without realizing until the end that it will be necessary to make great efforts in the sea before making money the second it seems is more important than the first because you can imagine how for several hours in raw you do the same manipulations over and over but you can't know the state of your mind will change during nine months far from your family from your friends for that you've got to have a lot of experience or a really developed imagination not everyone will cope here they've got to be ready to come be assigned to certain tasks and get started of course a master will teach them how to do that for example how to clean or operate a machine this is necessary and everything else depends on the person before getting on board of the ship future factory workers are in the training center in the village of yusuno morskoy here 1500 people every year get knowledge and skills necessary for everyone in the fleet here they are taught to extinguish fires and save products from combustion gases for example everyone must be able to put on a red rescue suit quickly without it you cannot survive in the cold water and to make sure of this there is let's say a swift descent into the sea of occults with the subsequent application of a storm ladder don't do this like a cat don't climb here you grasp the rope and put this hand as high as possible and also grasp the rope yes but that's not all after a jump into the water and a short rest on the life raft an imitation of rescue with a helicopter is to be done an electric winch is like an aircraft so well what can i say in a sense to be rescued isn't easier than to rescue you [Music] is not just a floating base its design is well thought out thus living quarters are located in the bow and stern superstructures moreover cabins can be compared to cozy hotel rooms in addition to the gym there is a cinema saunas a swimming pool and even a hospital the vast majority of ships have medical facilities and doctors but when there are over 400 people on board and they are on the same ship for nine months the likelihood of someone getting sick is inevitably approaching one hundred percent therefore there is not just a medical unit on but an entire onboard clinic [Applause] [Music] it's not just about the crew like mechanical workshops cevillo sibertsev's medical facilities should serve the entire expedition that is if the ship's doctor for example on the trawler can't cope with the severe trauma the victim is transported to the shipping base and thus sometimes a life is saved well in general harsh conditions at sea don't have many positive effects on one's health [Music] permanent living in damp conditions in cold conditions is perfect for the development and flaring up of chronic diseases [Music] is it really so hard to work on the floating base it's time to check out for myself having dressed in the necessary overalls i'm going to take my place at the conveyor belt now i am a factory worker you get used to the smell loudly enough pretty quickly but something which is hard to get used to at least for me is this noise which makes you want to run away immediately covering your ears with some headphones for example with classical music it seems to me that something something impressionistic would suit for example but definitely not the little mermaid no after training i moved to another site by the way changes here are constant this allows to bring in at least some diversity in this generally very monotonous activity i would gladly tell you something very exciting about this process in fact nothing exciting is here although there are lots of tricks and experienced handlers clean the fish in general in two movements but if i start doing this i can easily cut one of my necessary fingers and secondly responsibility is a pressure for me because i'm cleaning fish for the first time and i understand perfectly that someone will eat the herring cleaned by me maybe even me [Applause] [Music] [Applause] and finally for all the apparent simplicity of these operations i personally do not understand how this can be done for 12 hours in a row every day even if with short breaks i can hardly imagine what kind of motivation is needed to endure all this for nine months i'm starting to understand those who return to shore before the end of the contract [Music] even though there are let's say a gym and the internet but still people are in a confined space [Music] [Music] by the standards of the fishing fleet conditions on floating bases are considered to be comfortable and cevalo sabirsiv is thought of as the most comfortable of all the ships most of the crew here live in double cabins on all residential decks there is a wi-fi network with internet access at least here it is simply spacious but if you can't imagine your life without a personal shower in your private cabin then you have nothing to do in the fishing fleet natalia came to primordia from ufa since 2011 she's been going to sea had time to work on short expeditions and eventually decided on a long one i'd say that living conditions in this company aren't bad i also worked in a mini-based capital ephraim also belonging to the same company in 2011 by the way it was my first ship same conditions and meals are good is one of those so-called mini-bases built for the project kamchatzki's shelf these vessels have a length of 126 meters and a displacement of about nine thousand tons modest indicators by the standards of severlud sabirsif in total six such bases were built between 1990 and 1995. before cevalot sibertsev appeared it was the small floating bases that were the main marine production complexes of dobro float it was on such floating bases that the business processes and interaction of fish processing ships with fishing ships were worked out and it was here that the 6-6 schedule was worked out according to which all those who were engaged in processing the catch in the open seas lived and worked that is after a six-hour shift the sailor received the same amount of rest time after which the cycle was repeated it is not easy to get used to such a schedule there are such moments sometimes when people foreign to the sea don't get used to the fact that the ship rolls that it influences the health somehow they can't get used to that they become seasick [Music] we have to look for some compromises in any case people must adapt themselves to the work of the ship not the ship to the people so they get used to this way they get used to the sway of life the mode of operation which has proved itself at small floating bases turned out to be unsuitable for a large factory ship that leaves the dock for most of the year we of course worked all this time six on six off but many simply couldn't stand it they resigned they left and it was difficult not only for ordinary factory workers but also for those who are responsible for organizing the whole process for example yuri arshinin the head of the save-a-load subversive production does not consider the 6-6 schedule as universal i think that six six is ineffective 12 12 here is more and the productivity will be better and you can demand from people because they sleep they have eight hours of continuous sleep let's say food is good there is personal hygiene the cabin is in order and so on however a 12 hour shift means a longer stay in the standing position and often in the not most health-friendly conditions and then there may be questions from doctors already how does this work schedule with 12-hour shifts affect the health of the crew when a prolonged static stress in a required position influences the health [Music] so that's what dobra floats managers have to keep in mind all the time being between scilla of workflow processes and carried this of workers health after all people are a resource for the company no less valuable than unique vessels of course it would be possible to adopt the shift schedule adopted in the military fleet at the time of peter the first the ships still have a duration of four hours and breaks between them are eight hours long undoubtedly there are also so-called extra shift duties for military seamen but on the whole this schedule seems more convenient however in order to make the work in three shifts possible it would be necessary to increase the number of workers by one and a half times and this is not in any way applicable to the size of even such a huge factory ship as sevegot siberta nor to the parameters of the business plan however the sailors knew what they signed up for of course if the person can't take it anymore can't get used to this way to the conditions on board there are such cases we can send the person often the only incentive to adapt is the financial one natalia for example doesn't even bother herself with comparing salaries at sea and onshore she understands that you cannot earn for your own accommodation on shore [Music] you work on the shore you still spend that money right and let's say there's no opportunity to save up some money for example to have your own plans some goals and when you are in the sea you return from the expedition and you get all your earnings but you've still got to work to get all your earnings that is to work till the end of the expedition and it's not so easy even for those who understand what they got into even for them the schedule is sometimes unbearable however it's not that easy to decide on the early termination of the contract not only will you not get your full salary you will also experience some financial losses work at the floating base never stops if there are no raw materials there is an overload of supply or finished products save a load spiritsif has already left the territorial waters and is now in the exclusively economic zone of russia now nothing prevents the overload of supplies and one of the ships that provide the connection of the expedition with the shore gardenia gives the cargo not only to the shipping base but also to fishing vessels in order to capture three time zones at once it is not necessary to get to a low earth orbit you just need to find the moment when the supply from the carryaway ship here it is garmonia is in the middle is being unloaded both onto the floating base and a fishing ship garmonia's time is set as in blood of a stalk it corresponds to the home port and the location of the company's head office therefore it's 13 30 now on the ship the fishing ship has the time zone of the region where it operates so now it's two hours later on it 15 30. and the floating base is between those two time zones therefore here the ship's clock is set in accordance with the time zone which is called utc plus 11 that is 11 hours ahead of greenwich and ate more than in moscow as the head of the production promised the unloading was quick and just in a day garbonia is filling cargo hatches to set to the return course towards nakotka leaving vessel of sibertsev behind this huge factory ship a part of the rich soviet legacy not all such vessels have found a place in the recent history of the russian fleet it would have been just easier to declare fish processing factory ships a soviet relic turn a couple of them into museums and junk the rest but these vessels are also jobs that is life for many hundreds and thousands of people who have chosen such work for themselves a job that is very difficult to separate from life itself but still i couldn't help but ask our heroes where is real life for them at sea or on shore real life let's say the ship is the second home of course [Music] family is the first home ship is the second of course on the shore i just work here i make money and that's it definitely in the sea i've been a captain for 30 years there aren't many vacations life is like that just a few vacations so i'm at sea real life is on shore here it is work of course on the shore no doubt family is waiting relatives they're my grandchildren so life is better on shore i think at sea but you move them over there firstly i personally know everything at sea at sea there are no questions from which it would be necessary problems from which it would be necessary to escape hide flee somehow there are no such things at sea real life is of course unsure here it's kind of work there is nostalgia a wish to return if there's been a long period like three to four months it's time to work catch fish of course the sea is exciting first it is the very process yes it is very difficult at sea but to be honest sometimes there is no time to sleep but days go by very quickly it's real everywhere both here and on shore so there will be another day and it will be january 1st they will celebrate modestly and already at 10 minutes after midnight roman will take his place at the crane natalya at the conveyors yuri vasilievich will supervise so that the production goes without failures vladimir pedrovich srizzo will confirm the navigation course to najorka and valeri mikhailovic velocin will take farewell of his colleague with a lingering signal sergey bova will give an order to set the trawler controlled by eager value and all of them will wait for the most important holiday for sailors the day of their return to home then again they'll go to the sea [Music] you

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Published: Tue Sep 29 2020