Ship aground in Falmouth bay

[j.sabourn]

We all have principles , but are forced through circunmstances to bend them to suit others . One time I have put this on before and have no fear of repercussions as away from all the what I would call politics of the shipping world. I refused point blank to take a ship to sea out of Lerwick with only one deck crew member. The ch. eng. Who lived near me did go back as he didn’t have time to get his 72 hours notice in. I saw him back home about 5 days later. And his story was he had all the E,R bilges full of oil on joining, ordered a tanker to pump ashore, the company refused, he sailed had an ER. Fire , set the Halyon system off to put out, the ship came back in on one engine, she was a converted supply vessel. He was told if he took responsibility for the fire and engine failure they would give him a good reference for his next job. Fortuanetly I took him with me on my next ship different and better company.. some jobs you have to have no principles what so ever. I’m afraid i could not live like that. You would be surprised how many had no choice though. JS....

[Ken Norton]

Unfortunately John this is so true, when it came down to cost the squirming and worming was sometimes unreal. Ashore it could be much the same, thank God for E mails, once it was recorded it gave less room for the slippery to manipulate although once risk assessments came in it gave them once again "Room for manouvere." Money always speaks volumes.Was on a suction dredger many years ago that it was impossible to ballast, the only way to put a stop on operations was to get a prohibition order from M.C.A. Health and Safety Quote "It is a no blame culture" not so nice when everyone has lost their jobs, but much better than losing their lives She had broken her back and when going down through the ceilings in the holds she had pulled a foot apart + on the kielson forward to aft and much the same port to stbd. Happy days.