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Did anyone have the experience of being told in the early days of Radar to keep so many feet away from the scanner. Believe there may have been notices up to this effect. It was said by some probably the sparky to put the s...s up everyone that it would cause impotency. It was funny thinking back to see grown men with their hands over their private parts when working in the vicinity of the monkey island. Dont think there was any ever such insurance claims like there was for asbestotis or maybe some may have been too embarrassed to claim. Cheers John Sabourn
Hi John. I remember when radar was thought to be a bit unhealthy for the male jewels, maybe it was because of all the precautions about x-rays where the nurses used to and still do hide behind heavy lead shields, I never heard whether radar affected anyone. I had three months radio therapy, I've been searching for them ever since. Cheers Des Birthday card233.jpg
Sarah and Jake in deep reaches of the souther states had tried for a long time to have kids but no luck. Sarah told Jake he must go and see the doc about it, so off he went. That night Sarah comes home to see Jake sitting in his best chair wearing a suit, bow tie and black boots. 'Jake, why is yo dressed up like that'? Jake replied, 'The doc says I is impotent, and if I is impotent I has to look impotent'.
Happy daze John in Oz. Life is too short to blend in. John Strange R737787 World Traveller
Glad I sailed with BSL they took the radar of them for a while and those where the ones I was on. Maybe why I do not look or act so impotent like some hey John LOL
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How many of you BF men loaded Octel in drums outbound in Birkenhead. Stowed on the Port after well deck.? You are no doubt aware now what that can do to your health. Bill
Whats Octel Bill.? Maybe know it under a different name? John Sabourn
John, It's an Anti Knock (additive) compound produced at the time in Ellesmere Port. Amazing the way the poor unsuspecting sailors were scraping and chipping in close proximity to to such a toxic product. Bill
John, Just an afterthought. There are now, or were in the 80s, small dedicated ships carrying this dangerous product all over the world. I recall one I was talking to, Jebel Dhanna/Ruwais in the early 80s. She was a very small tanker of about 12,000 tonnes which left Houston with a full cargo and dropped off small parcels of approx 500 tonnes to a everywhere and anywhere ending up in Japan and thence ballasting back to Houston. So, you can imagine the profit. 20 odd drops and the ballast leg. The cleanliness regime those Norwegian crew lived under was unbelievable. Bill
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In Lamports in the middle 60s, we carried the stuff in both drums and in the deep tanks. It was loaded in Liverpool for discharge in Rio de Janeiro. Hell of smell to it, never had a cold while that stuff was aboard, it was like breathing acetone or ether if you got near a spillage. Chris.
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Bill, I remember loading Octel in Birkenhead,both on deck and in the tweendecks. Associated Octel always sent a man to supervise the stowing and tomming off. Associated Octel had Deep seaTankers specially built for this trade, one that was regular at E/Port was the ESSIE FLORA.
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