DISQUS

I'm just getting into the social media scene, I'm into photography and blogging. Great idea Jim!

Good video Chris, very honest. See you around some place!

heavy question Chris. The numbers are what everything is about if you look deep enough. But the right numbers are not as focused upon as the wrong numbers. Maybe the focus should be changed.

Bigger ships, more efficiency....haven't we heard this somewhere before with oil tankers?

The bigger the ship, the bigger the problems. I don't doubt that it is worthy of the Japanese Naval Architects award, but they never have to sail the ships.

The tradition of getting a tattoo lives on, one of my cadets had this one on his arm. http://ruttledge.se/2008/04/08/tattoo/

£5m will buy plenty of charts. The tracing paper while saving the chart cost more than it saved.

The Torrey Canyon deserves a mention also, not just for the spill, but the balls up of a clean up operation involving chemicals and firebombing. It was the spill that helped create the CLC 1969. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torrey_Canyon

Lookin' good on gcaptain Fred, congrats on 99 Maritime Mondays, looking forward to more.

Good story, never heard it before. Interestingly enough we have a "key routine" here onboard for handovers between myself and the other skipper, to avoid having the master key taken ashore, along with the safe key and more importantly the slop chest key.
It's not complicted just a matter of sticking to the routine, failing that are the gas axe and angle grinder approach and not to mention the zillion spare keys.......

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, and best of luck for 2008.

Allision is a good word, not used in it's correct context very often! Not to be confused with Allusion!

Hi John, I was at the Marchwood course a good few years ago,it was very realistic despite the fact that the ducks were bigger than the tugs!

This is a great story, the Captain is eating breakfast in the galley as his ship is heading for a lee shore, in the newspaper report he even "invites" the Chief Engineer for breakfast. Cue the Monty Python music and the Black Knight with no arms and no legs saying "it's only a scratch".
I don't believe that his breakfast was the deciding factor if we can even believe that a Master in such a situation would leave the ship to the junior officers, his problems started long before breakfast time when he should have been doing something about it, maybe he was in bed when he should have been reading the weather?

Very clever bubble visualisation! I worked in LNG ships registered in Liberia and Bermuda, both operated by BP. The professionalism of the operation was never in any jeopardy despite the FOC flying from the stern, I wonder can the same be said today with the explosion(pardon the metaphor) in the LNG trade.