Gigantic Car Ferry Heavy Maintenance, Mega Pit Stops, Episode 5, Free Documentary

Mega Pit Stops Episode 5: The gigantic car ferry Peter Pan is cut in half and prolonged by a centersection. It is an almost impossible endeauvour: The Peter Pan, a gigantic car ferry shall become even bigger. It is lengthened from 190 to a mighty 220 metres How do the engineers do that They cut the ferry into two parts and insert a 30meterlong section in the middle, which is prefabricated in another shipyard, 200 kilometers away. All this in just 58 days. Because time is a crucial issue here, sixty workers already start preparing the ferry for her lengthening during its final crossing to the shipyard: German Dry Docks in Bremerhaven. The responsible engineers are nervous: to fit all the restrictions of the shipping company TTLine, they have to apply a very special cutting method, that has never been used before. And in fact: the first problems arise, when they try to pull the two halves of the ship apart each of them weighing several thousand tons. Some steel beams have snagg