Model Boat Mayhem
Mess Deck: General Section => Full Scale Ships => Topic started by: BarryM on October 14, 2009, 10:57:15 pm
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One running light and one loaded with cement. Both in the Aegean near the Dardanelles and someone or both ignoring the Rules of the Road. Surprisingly the one underneath continued to float after they were separated.
Barry M
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OK - try Again
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"The vessel with the other on her own starboard side shall give way". Says it all, really. And here was me thinking all bridge personnel were reading from the same book. How niaive. BY.
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I don't know where the Marti Princess (the one underneath) was taken but I suspect it was a very careful tow while waiting for the ship to fold in the middle.
Barry M
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The word "oops" springs to mind...
Rich
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I suspect something stronger was used...
Barry M
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I feel a caption competition coming on!
"The mating ritual of shippus maritimus often results in unconventional mounting".
Roger in France
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I had a small bet with myself that it would not be long before somebody brought sex into it.
Barry M
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"The vessel with the other on her own starboard side shall give way". Says it all, really. And here was me thinking all bridge personnel were reading from the same book. How niaive. BY.
Up that neck of the woods they have a song sheet all of their own O0 Usually accompanied by loud shouting on 16 ending with what sounds like 'malacca' (It makes you blind %) %) )
Mike
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Seriously, good job they weren't both running loaded or their waterlines would have been the same and possible loss of life...!!!
'worse things happen at sea' comes to mind.
Greg
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Some very scary things going on at sea nowadays....
Looks like Rule 17 is out of the window as well .... 'When, from any cause, the vessel required to keep her course and speed finds herself so close that collision cannot be avoided by the action of the give-way vessel alone, they shall take such action as will best aid to avoid collision.'
There's too many people at sea without a proper understanding of the Rules, and that is scary. What is more scary are the people who believe they know what they are talking about and blatantly don't!
Ash
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I've maintaned for a good while now that the English Channel is a BIG accident waiting to happen with the standard of seamanship - and that was the standard when I packed in in '98 I don't think it will have improved up to now - has it ? :((
Mike
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I blame the so called 'whitelist' of approved nations providing qualified seamen. It is still possible to buy a CoC in many of these people, and I know of people who have experienced this first hand in their home countries.
I sailed earlier this year with 2 European Deck Officers, and was quite frankly shocked by the practices. At one point I arrived on the Bridge to take the watch, to find the ship a couple of cables off the Horsburgh Lighthouse in Singapore heading towards the extremity of the TSS, with no positions since departure, and the guy I was relieving on the internet... Needless to say I wouldn't take the con until things had been done to my liking...
Ash