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    Over the past couple of nights I have watched two very interesting documentaries on the Quest channel.
    The first one called "avoiding collision?" Showed how A.I.S helped the port of Rotterdam safely control shipping movements within its approaches and within the port, following a pilot bringing a massive container vessel into its berth safely with the use of two azimuth driven guys and then showing how some 3000 containers were loaded and discharged in 24 hours with containers being taken too and brought from the stacking areas by driverless vehicles all guided by GPS tracking of sensors embedded in the ground and a laser guide system fitted to the container cranes spreaders that gave the crane driver a constant indication of the position of his load but also to enable him to load or discharge a container hands free.
    The second one "disasters at sea"? Was all about the loss of the El Faro. Useing the VDR recording they were able to establish the cause of its loss but the most narrowing part was the use of actual voice recordings (spoken by actors) of the ships bridge and engineering crew right up to the very moment of capsizing.
    Well worth a view on catch up if you have the Quest channel on Freeview.
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    I listened to the actual recordings made by those on the bridge of 'El Faro' which were made available on G-Captain some months ago. As you say very harrowing, especially as they were real life recordings and being an ex seamen a situation you did not want to contemplate in your own career. I think that even when we were in hurricanes and typhoons ourselves we always thought that it would happen to the other ship, alas when we went to the aid of the 'Pamir' in 1957 we could not reach her in time, our own ship was being torn to pieces, a sad event and so many young lives lost, 79 cadets if I remember correctly

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    We don't get that program over here, to many Married at first sight and survival bullshit. But we did get a good program on the biggest ship in the Great Lakes, massive ore and coal carrier , showed it cutting through the thick ice, reminded me of going into St Johns pushing ice aside and hoping it didn't hole the rusty hulk we were on.
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    Interesting bit about containers being moved automatically, now being done in a number of countries I am informed.

    We now have a new company in Port Melbourne using the new equipment.
    Great for shipping companies but bad for employment.
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    Will check to see if it is available on catch up here somewhere.

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    Brisbane has had driverless straddle carriers for many years.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Colin Wood View Post
    Brisbane has had driverless straddle carriers for many years.

    Understandable being in Queeensland. LOL

    The beer is XXXX, wonder if they can spell?
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    Last night's episode was all about the ferry Norman Atlantic which caught fire on its voyage between Greece and Italy. Turned out that the cause of the fire was a diesel refrigerator unit on a truck being left running as they had loaded more refrigerator trucks than electric outlet's that would be used to power those refrigerator trucks whilst on board were available. Also when the initial alarm went off the crew failed to open all the needed valves for the vehicle decks drenching system.
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