They're has not been much more talk about the incident, other than then the official press release which points to human error, yet again. Those damn pesky semi autonomous employees. Ever notice how its never the systems in place that are to blame - mmmmmmm. I will keep my ears open as I am sure the...

I am not sure what you guys have in that water in Poland, but its nice to see that creativity's not dead. Your website looks good too.

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To summarize.... The MV Northern Adventure has 2x MaK 16M32C four stroke engines, 750 rpm for an output of 8,000kW driving single reduction gear box into a CPP Additionally it has... 4x generating sets producing a total of 3800 kW, I would imagine there are MaK 6M28 or the likes (?). Well over time ...

Mot to mention down time....
cost of flying passenger and gear home...

continued bad publicity

I was just making a posting on The Monitor about BC Ferries latest woes. This time with the MV northern Adventure when I found myself severely short on engine room details. I have found that it has (a - ?) MaK 16M32 engine putting out 16,000 kW. But I think that mean it only has one engine, and one ...

It seems every boat on the west coast always has "Hum Bug" kit. It detects bacteria in your fuel. Its available here ... http://www.paulsenindustries.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13&Itemid=27 Unfortunately you learned the hard way, what poor management of fuel ...

Well I always thought that the US was the "land where irony comes from", so I am a little surprised by what your saying. But I dont think you gave us enough information about the program to understand its aims. When I took my Marine Engine Room Resource management course, the one thing tha...

Mark Wilson - "the voice of maritime skills shortage in Canada" - writes this piece for Canadian Sailings Magazine issue of Sept 2006. Marine industry examines future labour needs. Regional differences in Canada are as persistent as the solar wind and a lot more boisterous. But it may be a...

Athens, Greece, June 2-6 2008 Your welcome to the heart of Greek Shipping ... Every two years the Greek shipowners welcome the international shipping community to Posidonia and extend their celebrated hospitality that makes participation a real pleasure. But exhibitors should be ready for serious di...

Funny thing about this article, I said this about two years ago in my HR Babble article. Don Sutherland followed up with his views in another article with the same subtext. (both found in the Ship's Library) Duh. What did the companies expect! They have been boiling all the reasons for not doing thi...

Dear Sirs, My name is Mutu Wong from Singapore. I'm currently looking for overseas partnership business that will be able to supply Diesel Engines Spare parts (DETROIT DIESEL, CUMMINS, CATERPILLAR, YANMAR, BOSCH) I have visited your web store today and observed that your company carrying for perform...

I split this post from the original thread because I believe it warranted its own discussion; so if it feels a bit lumpy to read at first, just read on and you will get the drift. Martin - February 04, 2008 _____________________________ Hello Dieseldame, great to see you participating in the forum. ...

I am not sure what you have tried, but I have many links on the Job Page of the main site, especially to most cruise companies. From my experience they do work, thats how I wound up working on cruise ships at differing companies. The cruise lines' HR Dept are notorious for being a big black hole ful...

Engineering Science by Hughes & Hughes is another text I have use and continue to use for studying.