yes, rather a sinking feeling considering the fact, right until I got on the plane on crewchange, I was going as a watchkeeper

I agree with Martin, swapping of compressors\prime movers and some pulley arrangement. It will be interesting to see what the rest of the story is though. Several years ago we discussed running the emergency genrators on a load bank once a year to make sure they would load up but never got further t...

I was Senior/2nd when one of those fires occurred. The electrician and I are at the board tracing a ground when the phone rings....the old man. We have a fire in the radio room, I'll get back to you. I am left holding the phone and wondering what the hell was going on. What was going on was our grou...

This is a very interesting problem BP. It makes you think. A very similar situation happened 20 years ago on a ship a friend of mine was mate on. In their case, they were on the Banks with a tow in extremely bad weather (I was in the N.Atlantic on another ship, so I can certainly agree on the weathe...

Newbie, I posted the new job poster for the college on here. The link is there for the website to apply. I have heard that they are ramping up the amount of cadets they will be taking in, makes sense due to the amount of people due to retire and the new ships that are going to be built over the next...

I just reread my last post and realized that it sounded like the turbo had failed completely, which is not the case. Everything was running fine, only the engine wouldn't take a load without the temperatures climbing. It was only when I took the air filter off and reached in and wiggled the turbo ro...

You find these power bars in everyone's house with the PC plugged into it. Good for there, not so good onboard. I know of two fires caused by these onboard, luckily the fire detection system alarmed and it was dealt with immediately. Common domestic type, plastic enclosed, power bars, intended for s...

Martin, it is obvious you never dealt with the Water Witch on the East coast!!

The only time I run into overheating in a Cat, it was caused by the turbo cartridge failing. The engine would not carry any load and only ran a few moments before the temperature started going up. I have found Cats to be very reliable as long as the Mfrs manual is followed scrupously. It should have...

Or the
"What is the most important nut on a ship"

The answer is the loose one. Which, is not one you have listed, of course.

You mean Non-potable water tanks, eh Martin? Surprising that they have gotten away with that situation. I dealt with a ship that has a cross-connect between the sanitary water and potable water system. They remembered what the valve was for, after it was opened and contaminated the entire potable wa...

Or, as in my case, you always manage to find what you were looking for last time, not what you are looking for now!

I had been mulling this over and not getting anywhere with it. I figured it was something to do with a funky setup somewhere in the engineroom. We had an engineer pump slops into the sump of a running DA, through the sump drain valve. That was an expensive little mishap. Still not quite sure how it ...

Would that be the golden one?

Oh, I just got it...good one!

This question has been asked on here, several times. This bulletin has just landed on my desk and I thought I'd post it here and the direct link. Hope it helps a bit. http://www.tc.gc.ca/marinesafety/bulletins/2009/02-eng.htm Subject: Assessment Of A Foreign Training Certificate As An Equivalent To ...