Some where on here I think I posted once before, I lightened a Kuwaiti oil tanker with only 18 crew, they could not muster fore and aft mooring parties, had to do fore end first then run (some of them anyway) down aft.
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When you consider that really safely to carry out emergency duties and everything else I would suggest you need for deck officers and for engineer officers at least six deckhands had at least two in the catering department I think 18 men should be the minimum crew and I would wonder if you had a fire at sea if 18 men could safely navigate the ship and fight the fire at the same time. I've heard all these wonderful theories before hello not enamoured by any of them
I guess that most of us will be pushing up daisies long before that scenario becomes the norm. Considering the average life of a ship is 25-30 years and shipyards are churning out "normal" ships that require some personnel to operate them and to date I have only seen two experimental autonomous ships, think the guy who wrote that article has rose tinted glasses on, or is a politician and we all know they always speak the truth, don't we.
Rgds
J.A.
I think the people who think up these schemes only see it all on paper or in theory and most likely have never actually experienced the power
that mother nature can whip up in the seas, nothing is infallible, look at the cockpit computer problems Boing has experienced recently, if it
had happened on an unmanned flight it would have been a disaster, maybe they'll get there one day but not for a long time yet.
The only seamans jobs available these days are to those who are prepared to work for a pittance.
Although I 'swallowed the anchor' (because I saw the writing on the bulkhead) 26 years before it finally happened, technology has already erased my 'profession', Radio Officer (or if you prefer 'dot dash mechanic' or 'sparks')
As the item says, an absolute gift for pirates, i think box boats already are pushing the limits with crew. i have heard, don't know if true, that *tie up* and let go crews have to join the ship outside harbour, kt
Hi Keith
We started to do that in the 70s and 80s on our tankers,
reduced crews on the ocean passage from the Gulf round the Cape and pick up extra men, Mates and ABs at Las Palmas for the passage through the Channel to the discharge port, discharge, then take it back to Las Palmas and fly off to join another inward bound tanker.
cheers
Brian
Keith ... The way the technology is taking over our lives ( some good some bad ) it will soon be doing the worse onerous chore that man & woman has to do for themselves every day or two ... then they will come up with the technology to not have to wash our own hands after that onerous chore ... you all must get my drift , I am sure :( :)
Agree there Norm, on sale now is small robotic hoovers, you switch them on when going to bed, and they trundle round all night cleaning the room, when finished, they rehouse themselves and recharge, i kid you not, available on line, kt