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Created by JonE JonE  > 9 months ago, 11 Mar 2025
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JonE
JonE

VIC

566 posts

11 Mar 2025 10:21pm
In the UK a container ship carrying (among other things) 2 containers of sodium cyanide has t-boned a ship doing on charter to the US navy carrying wait for it.... Jet fuel. It went boom. Not good.
Jolene
Jolene

WA

1622 posts

11 Mar 2025 9:11pm
But trump,, but trump, but trump????lol
Yara
Yara

NSW

1314 posts

12 Mar 2025 1:32pm
Probably on autopilot and deck officer looking at social media or other, ehem, sites....
JonE
JonE

VIC

566 posts

12 Mar 2025 3:42pm
"Beating to windward"?
garymalmgren
garymalmgren

1365 posts

12 Mar 2025 2:58pm
When I was a port engineer in Singapore I collected stories from the captains and crew.
Driving a tug with a train of fuel barges up the Mekong River, a rocket propelled grenade entered the open door on the port side. bounced off the mess table and exited the open door on the starboard side.


Relevant to this recent collision.
The first officer on a North Sea oilrig supply vessel had a good look around, checked the radar and went one deck below the bridge to make a coffee. As he walked up the stairway with a coffee in his hand he looked across to see another supply vessel 15 yards away on the opposite course. On that vessel a bloke was walking up the stairs with a coffee in his hand.
FabulousPhill
FabulousPhill

VIC

321 posts

12 Mar 2025 6:52pm
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garymalmgren said.....l had a good look around, checked the radar and went one deck below ...... he looked across to see another supply vessel 15 yards away on the opposite course. On that vessel a bloke was walking up the stairs with a coffee in his hand.


So, radars do not work? And eyes? What was at fault here?
garymalmgren
garymalmgren

1365 posts

12 Mar 2025 4:45pm
What was at fault here?

Both watch officers!
Human error strikes again.
lydia
lydia

1927 posts

12 Mar 2025 11:46pm
It is the Col Regs so that is the starting point.
Vessels don't have rights only obligations.
Yara
Yara

NSW

1314 posts

13 Mar 2025 4:41pm
Skipper is a Russian! Great conspiracy fodder for social media.
Jethrow
Jethrow

NSW

1275 posts

13 Mar 2025 4:41pm
Obligations under ColRegs are quite minimal when anchored, as one of these boats was...
JonE
JonE

VIC

566 posts

13 Mar 2025 5:35pm
Hope he likes porridge.
D3
D3

D3

WA

1516 posts

14 Mar 2025 5:12am
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Yara said..
Skipper is a Russian! Great conspiracy fodder for social media.


There's already some claiming it was deliberate.

I'll leave that for the heavy weather forum.

In cases like this, until we get mor information (result of investigation) I'm generally more comfortable attributing the actions to the multitude of human errors that can occur on a bridge rather than malice
garymalmgren
garymalmgren

1365 posts

14 Mar 2025 6:28am
A bit more detail.
JonE
JonE

VIC

566 posts

14 Mar 2025 9:35am
Wow - 2 minutes in - it literally went bang the moment it got hit.
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