No crew on board

[John Arton]

Japan is planning to trial a autonomous cargo ship in its waters.
Rgds
J.A.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/j...crew-v80sqbkdd

[happy daze john in oz]

It is the next step in shipping, but will kit do as they assume.
Time will tell and how do you fix a broken piston??

[Tony Taylor]

It is the next step in shipping, but will kit do as they assume.
Time will tell and how do you fix a broken piston??

as well as, ruptured fuel line, leaking water pipe, failed bilge pumps with water p-ssing in, might sound far fetched but I (and most everyone on here) have seen these things happen, I saw three boiler feed pumps fail one after the other in minutes of each other. Cascades of failures leading to blackouts on vessels not supposed to blackout etc. etc. Again these bright ideas from folks who have no experience or perception about what can happen.

[j.sabourn]

#3 your ship with no crew and a failure to function is going to be open to any salvor , maritime laws will have to be changed , the first will be the Lloyds open form. Nobody on the ship and nobody to negotiate , a persons presence on a ship makes that the property of the owner. No one there and it’s yours for the taking. All legal and above board . JS...

[Fouro]

Are lignum vitae water lubricated prop shaft bearings still fitted on modern ships?.
If they are, then, if the bilges pumps fail to work at least there will be no lives lost when the ship becomes flooded and sinks.

Regards from
Fouro.

[j.sabourn]

Mans intelligence for scientific advancement knows no bounds. Alas his knowledge for common sense would get a C minus in the Common Sense category. There are millions dying through other causes in the world and he concentrates of making the situation worse, by making millions redundant and surplus to requirements. He gets cheered on by people who should know better even governments who cant see the wood for the trees. Billions being sent to the scrap heap they hope, to satisfy the vanity of a few, and much richer of course. I wonder how passengers of liners of the future, if there are any , will take to by being served by Robots ? JS

[Des Taff Jenkins]

I haven't counted the months Literally that I spent drifting while the engineers fixed the engines, one trip we reached NZ three week late, got a lot of shark fishing in.
Des

[happy daze john in oz]

JS has a valid point there.

Half the world still lives in poverty, limited medical services, poor quality food, water shortages constant threat of war.

The other half amuses it's self with new technology al which will make for some amounts of money they could never spend but could fix half of the worlds problems such as the other half have.

There is an unhealth obsession with these people to always be at the top of the tree, but for what?

Yes medical advances have been made by some and the conversion to renewable forms of energy is acceptable.
But how far can technology go?

In 1919 when the Spanish Flu took hold the global population was about 2 billion, kit is now close to 8 with medical science keeping us alive much longer
We are using natural resources at an unsustainable rate, what happens when it is all gone?

Finding new ways to make life better for all is great, but this obsession with greed will destroy man in the end.

[Keith at Tregenna]

There will be no pistons on Electric powered ships Wind powered charging /Solar power etc!!! they will get there in a limited way.

Much sounds like Sc-Fi, go back 50 years and the then Sc-Fi is near the norm today.

K.

[j.sabourn]

#10 There is one consolation in all of this for Worker’s J/O with no income there is no paying of taxes , So the total that the government will get will be their own and the brains trust contribution to run the country , also the payments for living a life of no work for the rest of us. Believe it or not the workers of the world may at last of century’s of keeping countries in a stable condition and be finally united and rewarded for all their past hard labour’s . All theory and wild dreaming just as the unmanned ships of the world sailing International waters , any other waters any country with any sense would bar them. Don’t think Star Trek days are anywhere near for a lot of generations yet ,if ever . Cheers JS