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#8. John in all the years I worked offshore which was very American oriented in the vernacular I still persisted in calling a bottle screw a bottle screw and not a turning buckle , also not for me right and left in giving helm orders, $tarboard is starboard and port is port and evermore shall be so, I do think though that larboard could have been better named , a name some blame for the sinking of the Titanic. JS.
#10 Well it just shows how keen he was to demonstrate procedures by demonstrating getting into a lifeboat first and risking life and limb by doing so , that’s his argument and he’s sticking by it. Cheers JS
Hi John
There is only one thing I can say and that's when someone says they only sail in the Caribbean, have they watched the tornadoes and storms that come through there? Have a look at all those towns destroyed by the last one, with huge trucks being flung through the air, that ship? would end up in New Orleans.
PS. And most of them are not even predicted.
Des
I always thought Livestock carriers were as ugly as sin, but looking at that Tower block of the seas!!!!Quote:
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Expect there is not a great deal of difference in loading or going ashore for a day trip.
Yes I know there is a copy right on one of the photos feel free to remove. But I am curious what gives a company the right to claim that photo as theirs . Has the owner of the photo sold the image to that company.
Doc I have tried to send you a PM about removing this last photo, but it will not send and freezes the site.
But look at the logistics if such a ship.
9000 bloods means 18000 pieces of luggage to be unloaded at voyage end.
Docking at 0600 hours by 0700 hours all luggage will be ashore in lines based on tag color.
All ships garbage will be unloaded and store begin to load along with fuel and water.
By about 0715 hours first bloods off, all off by 0930 hours.
Then by 1130 hours the buffet will be set intime for lunch.
By noon all cabins ready and bloods begin to board.
By 1400 hours all luggage delivered to cabins.
1800 ours set sail.
The amount of work done in those 12 hours is amazing to say the lerast.
Biggest ship for us has been about 2750 bloods and i know the difficulty with that number so who knows what it is like with 9000.
I imagine it could be like a large tanker, where many port facilities were not geared up to take the maximum pumping rate the ships were capable of thereby increasing turnround times.Quote:
Originally Posted by happy daze john in oz
A bit of an error regarding number of luggage's taken of.
Should have read 10,000 not the 18,000 I wrote.
One case per blood plus other bits which have to be treated as luggage.
They really should renamed WA-WO ships ( walk on , walk off ) , similar to Ro-RO.
I wonder when we will see Tim Martin launch his first Booze cruise ship the J D Weteherspoon. That would be a WALK ON (WO) CARRY OFF) CO.
The Symphony of the Seas can accommodate up to 6,680 passengers and 2,200 crew members. Hope the galleys and food preparation areas of the highest standards, that is an awful lot of people to end up with the trots.
P&O cruises have not got a great reputation for food hygene. There next new ship should be called M/V Norovirus:rolleyes:
Your mention of 'pumping rates' made me wonder about the sewerage systems on these people-laden ships....there must be many tonnes of 'treated' stuff pumped over the side - and who's regulations cover standards of treatment of it all ?
Sorry about such a shitty query, but it has me wondering!
Mike.