Building a Gigantic Cruise Ship
Follow 2,500 workers at Saint-Nazaire as they assemble an 80,000-ton cruise ship designed to carry more than 7,000 people.
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Documentary overview
Follow 2,500 workers at Saint-Nazaire as they assemble an 80,000-ton cruise ship designed to carry more than 7,000 people.
This full-length film is available through the official YouTube player supplied by Free Documentary - Engineering. Its listed runtime is 52 minutes.
Engineering documentaries reveal how constraints become design decisions. Follow the relationship between planning, materials, specialist labor, safety, cost and schedule, especially when the project operates at unusual scale.
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- How does the publisher’s framing influence the story?
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