WEBVTT 00:32.867 --> 00:35.284 (horn blows) 00:49.887 --> 00:52.304 (horn blows) 01:49.314 --> 01:51.731 (horn blows) 02:51.865 --> 02:52.865 - [Man] Yep. 03:08.953 --> 03:11.370 (horn blows) 03:19.390 --> 03:21.807 (horn blows) 04:07.671 --> 04:10.149 - [Man] Have you (noise drowns out speech)? 04:10.149 --> 04:12.649 - [Man] When we start playing? 04:16.507 --> 04:20.674 - [Man] I'm excited about that, moving and (mumbles). 05:57.119 --> 05:58.702 - [Man] Tie it off. 06:23.855 --> 06:25.646 - [Man] Coming in at 90 degree 06:25.646 --> 06:29.813 (background noise drowns out speech). 09:26.366 --> 09:29.033 (whistle blows) 09:52.576 --> 09:56.743 (indistinct voices chatting on radio) 10:14.408 --> 10:17.967 - So today we dry docked the U.S.S. Fitzgerald 10:17.967 --> 10:21.050 and the purpose for dry docking is to 10:21.790 --> 10:23.979 do assessments and repairs to the ship 10:23.979 --> 10:26.159 that we can't do water borne. 10:26.159 --> 10:29.594 So dry docking is a process where we take the ship 10:29.594 --> 10:31.094 into the dry dock. 10:31.726 --> 10:35.796 We flood the dry dock up to the water level of the ocean 10:35.796 --> 10:38.775 and then we have a caisson, which is essentially a wall 10:38.775 --> 10:41.382 that we put in place in front of the caisson, 10:41.382 --> 10:44.747 or in front of the dock, once the ship is in. 10:44.747 --> 10:46.999 And we sink the caisson down to the dock floor 10:46.999 --> 10:50.049 and then we have pumps that start to dewater the dock. 10:50.049 --> 10:52.365 And as the water level comes down on the dock, 10:52.365 --> 10:53.840 the ship comes down with it. 10:53.840 --> 10:57.257 And beforehand we had built wooden blocks 10:57.983 --> 11:01.213 to support the ship once the water level would drain down 11:01.213 --> 11:03.816 sufficiently and the ship lands on the blocks. 11:03.816 --> 11:06.366 You're right, there are many organizations that participate 11:06.366 --> 11:08.449 in dry docking evolution. 11:09.557 --> 11:12.476 We pry have well over 100 people involved 11:12.476 --> 11:15.248 from beginning to end making sure the ship 11:15.248 --> 11:17.873 is in a safe condition to go into dock, 11:17.873 --> 11:21.199 and then also to actually bring the ship into dock, 11:21.199 --> 11:23.699 there's many parties involved. 11:24.611 --> 11:26.761 No, so there's quite an involved process 11:26.761 --> 11:29.106 prior going into dock first, like you mentioned, 11:29.106 --> 11:31.515 we'll take the fuel off and then we'll start 11:31.515 --> 11:33.421 to take the water off the ship. 11:33.421 --> 11:35.842 And while we're doing that, we're looking at the list 11:35.842 --> 11:38.667 and trim of the ship to put water in certain places 11:38.667 --> 11:42.575 in the ship so that we know that it's safe enough 11:42.575 --> 11:45.180 to cross into the dock, that we're not gonna hit 11:45.180 --> 11:47.726 the dock floor, and also so that the ship doesn't weigh 11:47.726 --> 11:49.810 too much when we land on the blocks, 11:49.810 --> 11:52.001 that we don't crush any blocks. 11:52.001 --> 11:54.264 So if we were to just straight dewater the dock, 11:54.264 --> 11:55.833 it would take us about three hours. 11:55.833 --> 11:57.442 But since we do have the ship in dock, 11:57.442 --> 12:01.214 we take our time to make sure that we're exactly 12:01.214 --> 12:02.603 where we need to be. 12:02.603 --> 12:05.446 Overall, the whole evolution to dewater the dock 12:05.446 --> 12:07.446 takes about seven hours. 12:07.857 --> 12:10.918 So once the dock is dry, myself and the dockmaster 12:10.918 --> 12:13.704 and the shop workers will go down and make sure 12:13.704 --> 12:17.440 that there's not abnormalities that we didn't expect. 12:17.440 --> 12:20.781 The ship's force will also do an inspection of the hull, 12:20.781 --> 12:22.360 make sure that there's nothing there 12:22.360 --> 12:23.895 that we don't expect to see. 12:23.895 --> 12:26.299 The shop will then start to wedge up any blocks 12:26.299 --> 12:29.217 in case we need to make a little bit more contact, 12:29.217 --> 12:31.998 but overall, we're just making an initial assessment 12:31.998 --> 12:33.785 that we landed safely on the blocks, 12:33.785 --> 12:35.767 and there's nothing there that don't expect to see. 12:35.767 --> 12:37.207 And then once that's complete, 12:37.207 --> 12:41.040 then the assessments and the repairs that come 12:41.465 --> 12:44.715 from those assessments can get started. 12:44.773 --> 12:46.761 So SRF stands for Ship Repair Facility. 12:46.761 --> 12:50.743 There's two locations, one here in Yokosuka, Japan, 12:50.743 --> 12:52.417 and then one in Sasebo. 12:52.417 --> 12:56.584 So it's a workforce made up of U.S. Navy, U.S.C.S. 12:56.994 --> 12:58.077 and Japanese. 12:58.971 --> 13:02.054 So the shop workers are all Japanese, 13:02.431 --> 13:04.602 and they're the ones that I work with. 13:04.602 --> 13:06.208 And the dock master's also Japanese 13:06.208 --> 13:08.560 and he and I work hand in hand to make sure 13:08.560 --> 13:10.926 that the ship comes in safely and lands safely 13:10.926 --> 13:12.843 when we come into dock.