Solong, and thanks for all the fish.
Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2025 8:06 pm
Looks like a complete fuck-up. Hopefully the damage will be limited.
As an aside, I visited Adam’s grave on Sunday and paid my respects.
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Re: Solong, and thanks for all the fish.
Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2025 8:05 am
Re: Solong, and thanks for all the fish.
Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2025 10:12 am
Highgate cemetery is epic, absolutely loved that place when I was going through a depressed perdod a few years agodinny_g wrote: Tue Mar 11, 2025 8:05 am As an aside, I visited Adam’s grave on Sunday and paid my respects.
Re: Solong, and thanks for all the fish.
Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2025 10:19 am
Oh no, never do people on watch go down for dinner, or fall asleep, or end up in a drunken coma at the bottom of the stairs from the bridge.
I’m only surprised it doesn’t happen more, luckily the ocean is reallllkkky big.
Dave!
I’m only surprised it doesn’t happen more, luckily the ocean is reallllkkky big.
Dave!
Re: Solong, and thanks for all the fish.
Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2025 10:34 am
I do love a nice cemetery, for reasons I can’t fathom
Highgate and a couple in Paris are great.
Re: Solong, and thanks for all the fish.
Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2025 10:47 am
There'll be worse to come from pollution but at least last night it sounded like all the bods were safe.
He would have been seventy three today.dinny_g wrote: Tue Mar 11, 2025 8:05 am As an aside, I visited Adam’s grave on Sunday and paid my respects.
Do you dig graves?
Aye, but what about all the non-human stuff? We need a seafaring IanF.V8Granite wrote: Tue Mar 11, 2025 10:19 am Oh no, never do people on watch go down for dinner, or fall asleep, or end up in a drunken coma at the bottom of the stairs from the bridge.
I’m only surprised it doesn’t happen more, luckily the ocean is reallllkkky big.
Dave!
Re: Solong, and thanks for all the fish.
Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2025 10:52 am
Apparently, as it's Aviation fuel, it's much lighter than heavy crude and evaporates a lot easier. Fingers crossed this makes a differencenuttinnew wrote: Tue Mar 11, 2025 10:47 am There'll be worse to come from pollution but at least last night it sounded like all the bods were safe.
It was an amazing day and the weather made it all the more special, light flickering through the trees etc.Gavster wrote: Tue Mar 11, 2025 10:12 am Highgate cemetery is epic, absolutely loved that place when I was going through a depressed perdod a few years ago
Partner and I went on a bit of a pilgrimage to see George Michael's grave as she had understood, until recently, that it was in a private section and NOT open to the public.
Re: Solong, and thanks for all the fish.
Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2025 11:34 am
Apart from the voodoo that is Dynamic Positioning I don’t think there will s anything that physically steers a ship away from danger ?
Apart from a blackout disabling the rudder, propulsion and all auxiliary generators, I don’t see that it can be anything but human error ?
You can run thrusters etc from auxiliary generators but you need to configure the switchboard to do that. Which can be a bit of a job with a good crew onboard.
Some crews are absolute professionals and have great chief engineers, first and second engineers etc. some are utterly hopeless and shouldn’t be allowed to run a lawnmower.
Dave!
Apart from a blackout disabling the rudder, propulsion and all auxiliary generators, I don’t see that it can be anything but human error ?
You can run thrusters etc from auxiliary generators but you need to configure the switchboard to do that. Which can be a bit of a job with a good crew onboard.
Some crews are absolute professionals and have great chief engineers, first and second engineers etc. some are utterly hopeless and shouldn’t be allowed to run a lawnmower.
Dave!
Re: Solong, and thanks for all the fish.
Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2025 11:54 am
V8Granite wrote: Tue Mar 11, 2025 11:34 am Apart from the voodoo that is Dynamic Positioning I don’t think there will s anything that physically steers a ship away from danger ?
Apart from a blackout disabling the rudder, propulsion and all auxiliary generators, I don’t see that it can be anything but human error ?
You can run thrusters etc from auxiliary generators but you need to configure the switchboard to do that. Which can be a bit of a job with a good crew onboard.
Some crews are absolute professionals and have great chief engineers, first and second engineers etc. some are utterly hopeless and shouldn’t be allowed to run a lawnmower.
Dave!
That sounds familiar, I think you said exactly the same with the bridge strike the other year, honed by years of poor experiences
I was thinking of just/at least something like a terrain/pull up type alarm to try and make someone pay attention, but these things can be ignored or overcome.
Re: Solong, and thanks for all the fish.
Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2025 1:34 pm
They normally jam a matchstick down the side of button to silence the alarm 
Dave!
Dave!
Re: Solong, and thanks for all the fish.
Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2025 2:28 pm
Reports that the ship continued powering into the anchored vessel for 8 or 9 minutes after the initial collision!
Re: Solong, and thanks for all the fish.
Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2025 2:30 pm
Is this like speed 2 ?
No way to shutdown the engine, apart from the various emergency stop buttons, pneumatic stops, overspeed stops, fuel valves, or even a hammer on the fuel pipe.
Dave!
No way to shutdown the engine, apart from the various emergency stop buttons, pneumatic stops, overspeed stops, fuel valves, or even a hammer on the fuel pipe.
Dave!
Re: Solong, and thanks for all the fish.
Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2025 10:27 am
Captain of the cargo ship that hit the tanker carrying US fuel was Russian... 
Dons tinfoil hat - the plot thickens...
Dons tinfoil hat - the plot thickens...
Re: Solong, and thanks for all the fish.
Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2025 5:32 pm
Considering no-one decided to de-clutch, to alter pitch or do anything at all, I’d say the tinfoil ht was infact shiny chrome and carried a gold star.
Dave!
Dave!
Re: Solong, and thanks for all the fish.
Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2025 6:04 pm
And people think that self driving cars could be a problem for safetyintegrale_evo wrote: Tue Mar 11, 2025 2:28 pm Reports that the ship continued powering into the anchored vessel for 8 or 9 minutes after the initial collision!