I saw the denial of blackout...I'm not buying it. I've spent years at sea in engine-rooms....ship happens. I've done it myself many years ago....blacked out the entire vessel with a single injudicious tweak of a shifter on a dripping 3/4 inch pipe union, what you'd call an adjustable wrench....lights out, steering gone, propulsion gone.....tooling along at 18 knots and hoping not to hit anything before losing all way. We were lucky.
Wow, sounds like quite an 'adventure'. c.
Important life lesson learned - be discerning about which leaks you should nip up to stop, and which leaks you should just leave the hell alone and let them drip, or put another way, pick your battles wisely.
It was the feed from fuel filters to a pressure gauge which would tell us the state of the filters....simple little copper pipe to a gauge...dripping fuel oil at the union.
I gave it a tweak...it carried on dripping but not as fast....I gave it a firmer tweak...blasted thing sheared right off...high pressure heavy oil at 125 degrees C spraying everywhere...fuel pressure dropped....one engine shut down on low fuel pressure trip (9 cylinder Sulzer 2 stroke turbocharged diesel bore 990mm stroke about 1900mm 23000hp @ 117 rpm).
To save fuel we were running alternators driven through an epicyclic gearbox off the forward end of the main engine shafting.....no diesel gensets running at all....so the one engine that tripped pushed the second alternator on the other engine to trip on overload....which shut down the second engine and everything else.......total blackness, total deadship until the emergency lighting genset came on...just drifting along without steering within sight of the lights along the coast It took about an hour to get the pipe fixed because it was the one size union we didn't have onboard which was why everyone else hadn't touched it.......4th eng made up shit on the lathe and we got stuff up and running again. It took the reefer eng about 4 hours to get the reefer temps stabilised correctly....I wasn't popular with him.
Well, I wasn't popular with anyone for a while but particularly with him. It cost me many rounds to reingratiate myself with everyone else, to redeem myself.
19 years old, thinking only about chasing women to get my leg over or alternatively just drinking rum until I fell over.....wakey, wakey, sonnyboy....ship happens.
The thing is aground on a sandbar in part of the canal that's one lane traffic.
The bow bulb is actually jammed into the dirt wall of the canal, under the compacted surface. So it's not going to float free without cutting the boat or the canal. Edit: Looks like they're cutting the canal.
I saw the denial of blackout...I'm not buying it. I've spent years at sea in engine-rooms....ship happens. I've done it myself many years ago....blacked out the entire vessel with a single injudicious tweak of a shifter on a dripping 3/4 inch pipe union, what you'd call an adjustable wrench....lights out, steering gone, propulsion gone.....tooling along at 18 knots and hoping not to hit anything before losing all way. We were lucky.
Suez Canal blocked for a bit...some engineer down below touched something he shouldn't have....blackout...no steerage whilst still running with some way on.....high wind...vessel aground......ooops!
Ship owner is denying a blackout, and blaming wind. Probably the same nasty wind that knocked Joe over on the airstairs the other day.
The thing is aground on a sandbar in part of the canal that's one lane traffic. Gotta wonder why they don't keep better care to remove sandbars from the narrow bits.
I think if it hasn't been shifted yet it likely ain't gonna happen for a while. Keep an eye on oil price...it would be interesting to see if it spikes. Global supply chains are so fragile.
This suddenly makes the Cape of Good Hope and South Africa falling becoming a Chinese vassal state an interesting scenario.....Suez is like a tiny capillary in the brain that keeps the body functioning and breathing....a little incident and ship happens...
I saw the denial of blackout...I'm not buying it. I've spent years at sea in engine-rooms....ship happens. I've done it myself many years ago....blacked out the entire vessel with a single injudicious tweak of a shifter on a dripping 3/4 inch pipe union, what you'd call an adjustable wrench....lights out, steering gone, propulsion gone.....tooling along at 18 knots and hoping not to hit anything before losing all way. We were lucky.
Gonna be massive for insurance underwriters....I think insurance is why the blackout story is being supressed....bad weather = insurance payout, but if negligence can be proven to have caused a blackout then insurers will try to dodge the payout. It happens when ship happens.
I read that Smit Salvage have been called in to sort it out, and Boskalis are voluntarily also on their way to assist. Dutch salvage operators really are the very best in the world at it, often operate on a no cure no pay basis.
But if they cure, know you are gonna pay...bigly.
I'm surprised nobody has set up a video livestream yet of what is unfolding. I'd subscribe and like.....
I reckon they'll bring one or two floating cranes alongside, discharge cargo onto standby vessels to lighten ship, and if that doesn't work they'll possibly cut the bow off just forward of the forward collision bulkhead and float it away, swing the vessel and tow to drydock. Possible rudder, propeller and shaft damage so it most likely is not going to press on towards Rotterdam.
Supply chain chaos everywhere.....some of the Dutch I read are calling it a global shipping crisis.
I think it'll take weeks to clear...
I heard the stairs incident was the fault of Orange man? Or an earthquake maybe?
Suez Canal blocked for a bit...some engineer down below touched something he shouldn't have....blackout...no steerage whilst still running with some way on.....high wind...vessel aground......ooops!
Ship owner is denying a blackout, and blaming wind. Probably the same nasty wind that knocked Joe over on the airstairs the other day.
The thing is aground on a sandbar in part of the canal that's one lane traffic. Gotta wonder why they don't keep better care to remove sandbars from the narrow bits.
I think if it hasn't been shifted yet it likely ain't gonna happen for a while. Keep an eye on oil price...it would be interesting to see if it spikes. Global supply chains are so fragile.
This suddenly makes the Cape of Good Hope and South Africa falling becoming a Chinese vassal state an interesting scenario.....Suez is like a tiny capillary in the brain that keeps the body functioning and breathing....a little incident and ship happens...
I saw the denial of blackout...I'm not buying it. I've spent years at sea in engine-rooms....ship happens. I've done it myself many years ago....blacked out the entire vessel with a single injudicious tweak of a shifter on a dripping 3/4 inch pipe union, what you'd call an adjustable wrench....lights out, steering gone, propulsion gone.....tooling along at 18 knots and hoping not to hit anything before losing all way. We were lucky.
Suez Canal blocked for a bit...some engineer down below touched something he shouldn't have....blackout...no steerage whilst still running with some way on.....high wind...vessel aground......ooops!
Suez Canal blocked for a bit...some engineer down below touched something he shouldn't have....blackout...no steerage whilst still running with some way on.....high wind...vessel aground......ooops!
Ship owner is denying a blackout, and blaming wind. Probably the same nasty wind that knocked Joe over on the airstairs the other day.
The thing is aground on a sandbar in part of the canal that's one lane traffic. Gotta wonder why they don't keep better care to remove sandbars from the narrow bits.
I think if it hasn't been shifted yet it likely ain't gonna happen for a while. Keep an eye on oil price...it would be interesting to see if it spikes. Global supply chains are so fragile.
This suddenly makes the Cape of Good Hope and South Africa falling becoming a Chinese vassal state an interesting scenario.....Suez is like a tiny capillary in the brain that keeps the body functioning and breathing....a little incident and ship happens...
I saw the denial of blackout...I'm not buying it. I've spent years at sea in engine-rooms....ship happens. I've done it myself many years ago....blacked out the entire vessel with a single injudicious tweak of a shifter on a dripping 3/4 inch pipe union, what you'd call an adjustable wrench....lights out, steering gone, propulsion gone.....tooling along at 18 knots and hoping not to hit anything before losing all way. We were lucky.
Suez Canal blocked for a bit...some engineer down below touched something he shouldn't have....blackout...no steerage whilst still running with some way on.....high wind...vessel aground......ooops!
Ship owner is denying a blackout, and blaming wind. Probably the same nasty wind that knocked Joe over on the airstairs the other day.
The thing is aground on a sandbar in part of the canal that's one lane traffic. Gotta wonder why they don't keep better care to remove sandbars from the narrow bits.
Suez Canal blocked for a bit...some engineer down below touched something he shouldn't have....blackout...no steerage whilst still running with some way on.....high wind...vessel aground......ooops!
I'm a label reader. Don't take me to Costco and expect me to get out without finding out about about at least one item of clothing, one electronic device, what's new in the cheese aisle...
So anyway, I distinctly remember cans of shaving cream used to have instructions spelled out: "Wash face with soap and the hottest water possible. Leave wet." But for the last few decades, it's been either glyphs/graphics showing a guy washing his face, or it says something like "Wash face, leave wet." So now I have to conclude that along about 1988, some guy attempted to wash his face with boiling water. And then: Lawyers.
I'm a label reader. Don't take me to Costco and expect me to get out without finding out about about at least one item of clothing, one electronic device, what's new in the cheese aisle...
So anyway, I distinctly remember cans of shaving cream used to have instructions spelled out: "Wash face with soap and the hottest water possible. Leave wet." But for the last few decades, it's been either glyphs/graphics showing a guy washing his face, or it says something like "Wash face, leave wet." So now I have to conclude that along about 1988, some guy attempted to wash his face with boiling water. And then: Lawyers.
