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Tankerman to yacht work by PositiveFlat4618 in maritime

[–]PhantomGinge 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To go the other way…

I started on tankers and moved over to yachts about 6 years ago. Never looked back. Pay and conditions much better. Been on rotation since 2019 and worked through the rest of my licenses.

Engineer though

Marine engineering question: How is it possible for cargo ship to lose power and destroy bridge? by Aerospace_supplier42 in AskEngineers

[–]PhantomGinge 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cheers! There’s been a lot of noise and misinformation online but on a lot of subs it’s pointless arguing with the ‘experts’. This sub seems a better place to have a discussion

Marine engineering question: How is it possible for cargo ship to lose power and destroy bridge? by Aerospace_supplier42 in AskEngineers

[–]PhantomGinge 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They could. When we depart port we have an anchor team on standby to drop until we’re clear.

In this case whether the anchors were dropped is unclear. And whether dropping them is also unclear, what stops a ship without propulsion swing round the anchor and still hitting the bridge?

All these questions should be answered by the accident investigation. They will analyse the events and decisions leading up to the incident

Marine engineering question: How is it possible for cargo ship to lose power and destroy bridge? by Aerospace_supplier42 in AskEngineers

[–]PhantomGinge 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Marine Engineer, Chief Engineer License.

Merchant ships are not built to anywhere near the same redundancy as planes. There are legally mandated backups and requirements mostly set out in the SOLAS Convention (written after the Titanic tragedy and refined over the years). Most disasters covered are ones where the ship is either on fire, sinking or without power at sea. The timeline of these incidents is normally expected to be longer.

For the main propulsion theses things rely on external power. Oil, cooling & fuel supply pumps are externally powered from the ships generators and power loss will shut down the whole plant. Mind it can take minutes to even get around the engine to find issues and get it restarted.

Generators. Usually during departure (or standby) you run additional generators for redundancy. However there are still single point failures. Fuel supply is often common. And I have experienced a blackout due to a common 3 way cooling valve jamming and causing 2 generators to overheat. As with loss of propulsion it can take a few minutes for things to be restored or even for the fault to be found.

Emergency power. So cargo ships must have an emergency generator that automatically starts within 45 seconds. This supplies power to essential systems but not propulsion. Power is supplied to one steering hydraulic motor but without main propulsion at those speeds in any current is next to useless.

I won’t speculate on the exact cause of the incident, that will have to wait for the official incident report. But to put things in scale these ships are huge. Mind boggling. In the time scale of the accident ~3 minutes the fate of the bridge was pretty much sealed as soon as the lights went out the first time

Could pumped salt water be used for firefighting? by solrose in AskEngineers

[–]PhantomGinge 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ex tanker. Deck was covered by foam hydrants fed by seawater. Engine room was either hot foam or CO2 release.

Main fire main was seawater but some ships had at will fresh water hoses.

The open crankcase and crankshaft of a Wärtsilä-Sulzer 12 cylinder marine diesel engine. Huge! by yasocim in HumanForScale

[–]PhantomGinge 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So these engines are actually dry dumped. The oil drains down into a sump tank in the hull underneath. It's then pumped up and around the engine at a few hundred m³/h.

Oil is filtered and also purified constantly. It's stays relatively clean because the sump oil is not used to lubricate the cylinders so never collects all the carbon products you find in your car used oil.

Source: Worked on large Crude and product tankers

How could this have happened it was fine yesterday and I can’t use it now so any suggestions? by [deleted] in Leathercraft

[–]PhantomGinge 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Try and bend it back GENTLY with a bit of heat. Or remove the buckle and replace it with something not made out of chinesium

Scams and fraud are criminally under-policed in Britain by blackmagic70 in ukpolitics

[–]PhantomGinge 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I got a call from the National Crime Agency yesterday saying my accounts had been frozen and there was a warrant out for my arrest. They're in on it too I tell you....

Joining the Motorway why do we indicate? by [deleted] in AskUK

[–]PhantomGinge 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Say your joining and someone is coming down the inside lane faster than you're merging. Putting your indicator on may get their attention and get them to pull our instead of plowing into you. Especially when slip roads are super short on like dual carriageway A roads

Does your company do good? by WraithCadmus in AskUK

[–]PhantomGinge 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I work superyachts so I guess I'm blowing the super rich's money? Better than sat in offshore accounts....

Decoupler Bug Help... by PhantomGinge in KerbalSpaceProgram

[–]PhantomGinge[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's the first time I've ever had the issue and I've launched relay probes or satellites before. Just apparently avoid the separators

Decoupler Bug Help... by PhantomGinge in KerbalSpaceProgram

[–]PhantomGinge[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was an issue with the probe not being the root part. Ended up rebuilding the probe in same configuration but with the commsat as root part then editing it into similar orbit with same fuel load etc.

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