In his latest video, Tom Scott visits this unique ferry design in Denmark. The Udbyhøj Cable Ferry across Randers Fjord is a cable ferry in the sense that motors pull the ship along an undersea cable back and forth between its destinations. But it’s also a cable ferry in that it’s powered by an electrical power cable that gradually unrolls on a drum mounted on the side of the ship.
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The ship carries 70,000 people per year with an average of 88 trips per day. Occasionally, it must stop to slacken the guide cables and allow deep-keeled traffic to pass–as all cable ferries must. But the electrical cable just rolls up on the ship.
Source: neatorama