John,
The ship to shore lines are each 175 feet long and the on board lines are standard 50 foot lengths of 2 inch hose, it takes some putting together, but believe it or not the set up time is only around 45 minutes.
Derek,
We drop a rope and pull the ship to shores up the side of the ship. Spinach required
Shaun,
I'd love a crack at Oasis of the Seas, she's a monster. At 220,000 tons she's almost twice the size of Ventura, though no taller, just longer and a lot wider.
Robert,
On extremely high jobs like this we have to allow around 25 feet of slack in the lines to cater for the wind effect you get at the aft end of such a big structure and then another 10 or so feet for the contraction of the lines as they come under load during cleaning and then some for the changes in the tide during our time alongside, all of these things have to be considered so that breaking strain cannot be reached. The lines are double tied to the ship with an extra safety tether midway. It's as safe as it gets when operating that high.
Richie,
They are straight hose runs that cannot kink once set up. We've had 1,100 feet of hoses running triple RX20's and have now developed the system to run four of them if and when required.
Simon