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Re: Maritime Flags of Convenience Visualized

Tim — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 02:34:14 -0000

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.

Re: Pasha Bulker Incident Report - Nearly Unbelievable

Tim — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 05:30:50 -0000

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?

Re: Manned Models - An Unusual Training Device | gCaptain.com

Tim — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 16:58:27 -0000

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!

Re: Nautical Word of the Day - Allision | gCaptain.com

Tim — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 04:03:50 -0000

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

Re: Merry Christmas

Tim — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 05:17:34 -0000

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

Re: Was the titanic sunk by a small key?

Tim — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 03:40:55 -0000

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.......

Re: Maritime Monday 99 | gCaptain.com

Tim — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:23:54 -0000

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

Re: History’s 10 Most Famous Oil Spills

Tim — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:49:24 -0000

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

Re: Error In Navigation - Tracing Paper Blamed | gCaptain.com

Tim — Sun, 25 May 2008 16:31:06 -0000

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

Re: Nautical Star Tattoos

Tim — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:51:36 -0000

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/

Re: Interesting Ship of The Week - Brasil Maru

Tim — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 17:34:22 -0000

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.

Re: The Right Numbers

Tim — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 02:58:48 -0000

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.

Re: Open Invitation For All of You

Tim — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 09:05:01 -0000

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

Re: Building your twitter network

Tim — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 04:27:34 -0000

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