How Do You Stop a 100,000-Ton Cargo Ship? 🚢⚓

Added: 2026-05-26

[00:00:00]Ever wonder how you stop 100,000 [music] tons of steel? Ain't no brakes out here.

[00:00:04]First, you got to flip those massive propellers into reverse.

[00:00:08]That is reverse [music] thrust, shifting the tide to kill the momentum.

[00:00:12]Unlike a wagon on a trail, [music] this takes miles to reach a full halt.

[00:00:17]In a pinch, they drop the big guns, a chain weighing thousands of kilos.