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  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,676 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tabnabs


    http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=0fe_1346053604

    Skip to about 1 minute 20 secs...

    text says "here you have to listen until the end"

    Voice at the end says
    "Did he get carried away or where is he?"


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,853 ✭✭✭Storm 10


    Forth Fisher Passing Between Aran Islands/Cliffs Of Moher And Taking A Beating On Empty Tanks Leaving Galway.

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  • Registered Users Posts: 16 niall100


    We were passing through the Straits of Gibraltar recently and spotted this ship.
    was just wondering does any one know what it is? What it would be transporting?


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,676 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tabnabs


    It's a car carrier, stuffed full with thousands of vehicles. Not the pretties thing afloat, but functional.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,493 ✭✭✭long range shooter


    Tabnabs wrote: »
    http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=0fe_1346053604

    Skip to about 1 minute 20 secs...

    text says "here you have to listen until the end"

    Voice at the end says
    "Did he get carried away or where is he?"

    Not the most clever seamanship i have seen:eek:


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  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,676 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tabnabs




    One of the contenders to supply the next generation of USGC OP vessels.


  • Registered Users Posts: 986 ✭✭✭Jambo


    One of Fred Olsens new Jack Ups - interesting to see her being "driven across the builders yard"



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,676 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tabnabs




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,195 ✭✭✭goldie fish


    Was felix whatshisname behind the helm?


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,676 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tabnabs


    One way to build a bridge

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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,035 ✭✭✭murphym7


    How cool is this yoke - the Seven Viking. Loving this one.

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  • Registered Users Posts: 10,003 ✭✭✭✭smurfjed


    This is the closest that I have ever gotten to one of these, extremely impressive :) The ship is Oosterdam of the Holland American Line.


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    smurfjed


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,035 ✭✭✭murphym7


    smurfjed wrote: »
    This is the closest that I have ever gotten to one of these, extremely impressive :) The ship is Oosterdam of the Holland American Line.


    8204703659_0d872c025b_c.jpg

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    smurfjed

    Had the pleasure of working out of Circular quay for a couple of years, back around 2000/2001. Its a great harbour to work in.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,195 ✭✭✭goldie fish


    You need to start visiting Cobh. That type of ship visits regularly during the summer, so much so that it's no longer a novelty.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,676 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tabnabs


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    Worker splicing 20″ hemp cable at HMC Dockyard in 1941 image courtesy Library and Archives Canada


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,428 ✭✭✭quietsailor


    smurfjed wrote: »
    This is the closest that I have ever gotten to one of these, extremely impressive :) The ship is Oosterdam of the Holland American Line.


    8204703659_0d872c025b_c.jpg

    I worked on her sistership the Veendam, a big big change from normal cargo vessels - they had a social life even :D. She's probably bunkering (fuelling) in that photo which was one of my jobs on board,


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,003 ✭✭✭✭smurfjed


    Quietsailor, why would they "bunker" from another ship and not landslide? Surely the cost of fuel is escalated by having to ship it?

    smurfjed


  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 6,854 Mod ✭✭✭✭mp22


    Generally there is not the necessary pipes on the piers,plus cargo and passengers moving on the pier side fuel on the other no delays.


  • Registered Users Posts: 713 ✭✭✭islanderre


    smurfjed,

    If its HFO (Heavy Fuel Oil) that its taken on, it would need to be heated to allow it to be pumped as its too thick otherwise; so pumping from heated tanks in a bunker barge like the one alongside the cruise ship is easier than having to heat trace a long pipeline.

    Islanderre


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,428 ✭✭✭quietsailor


    smurfjed wrote: »
    Quietsailor, why would they "bunker" from another ship and not landslide? Surely the cost of fuel is escalated by having to ship it?

    smurfjed

    They don't like having us dirty looking engineers been seen by the passengers so they stick us out the other side :D


    For the Tl;Dr-ers it's cheaper to use the bunkering ships

    like the others said it's mainly infrastructure, the ports abroad are huge - running to hundreds of Km of docks in some cases, imagine the capital costs of installing the pipework for the different types of oil needed now - Heavy Fuel Oil (HFO) Medium Gas Oil (MGO), Low sulphur HFO, Diesel, Kerosene, 2-3 types of lubricating oil.

    Then you'd have the yearly running costs;
    pumping oil all around,
    maintenance on the pumps, valves, pipes,
    heating the pipe network to get the oil flowing -- think of that in Canada in winter!!

    Finally they'd have several bunker companies in bigger ports and so lots of bunker barges/ships, so multiple levels of redundancy.


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  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,317 Mod ✭✭✭✭fergal.b


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  • Registered Users Posts: 6,716 ✭✭✭knucklehead6


    Ha. I like that!! ^^


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,784 ✭✭✭Alkers


    fergal.b wrote: »
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    That accurate?


  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,317 Mod ✭✭✭✭fergal.b


    The Oasis of the Seas is 361 meters long and 66 meters wide at its widest point and, at the highest, it rises 72 meters above the sea level. The gross tonnage is 225,000. At the best, the vessel can accommodate 6,360 passengers and 2,100 crew members. The ship features 16 passenger decks and 2,704 staterooms. The total power output of the ship's engines is 97,000 kW and the cruise speed is 22.6 knots this makes her about 5 times bigger than the Titanic so I'd say the photo is pretty close but I cant be 100 percent :D

    The R.M.S. Titanic - Specifications
    Length: 882 feet, 8 inches (268 meters)
    Beam: 92.5 feet (28 meters)
    Height: 60.5 feet waterline to Boat Deck, 175 feet keel to top of funnels
    Draft: 59.5 feet
    Gross Tonnage: 46,328 tons
    Net Tonnage: 24,900 tons
    Top Speed: 23 knots
    Total Capacity: 3547 passengers and crew
    Decks: 9 in all (including the Orlop Deck)- the Boat Deck, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, and boiler rooms below G.
    Engines: 2 reciprocating 4 cylinder, triple expansion, direct- acting, inverted engines: 30,000 hp, 77 rpm. 1 low pressure Parsons turbine: 16,000 hp, 165 rpm
    Fuel Requirement: 825 tons of coal per day
    Propellers: 3- Center turbine: 17 feet, Left/right wings: 23 feet, 6 inches
    Boilers: 29 (24 double ended boilers and 5 single ended boilers)
    Furnaces: 159 providing a total heating surface of 144,142 sq. feet
    Steam pressure: 215 P.S.I.
    Watertight compartments: 16, extending up to F deck
    Lifeboats: 20 total as follows:
    14 wood lifeboats, each 30 feet x 9 feet 1 inch, by 4 feet deep, with a carrying capacity of 65 persons each; 2 wood cutters, each 25 feet 2 inches, x 7 feet 2 inches, by 3 feet deep, with a carrying capacity of 40 persons each; 4 Englehardt collapsible boats, each 27 feet x 8 feet, by 3 feet deep, with a carrying capacity of 47 persons each
    Lifeboat Total Rated Capacity: 1,179 persons
    Personal floatation devices: 3,560 life jackets and 49 life buoys


  • Registered Users Posts: 952 ✭✭✭hytrogen


    fergal.b wrote: »
    The Oasis of the Seas is 361 meters long and 66 meters wide at its widest point and, at the highest, it rises 72 meters above the sea level. The gross tonnage is 225,000. At the best, the vessel can accommodate 6,360 passengers and 2,100 crew members. The ship features 16 passenger decks and 2,704 staterooms. The total power output of the ship's engines is 97,000 kW and the cruise speed is 22.6 knots this makes her about 5 times bigger than the Titanic so I'd say the photo is pretty close but I cant be 100 percent :D

    The R.M.S. Titanic - Specifications
    Length: 882 feet, 8 inches (268 meters)
    Beam: 92.5 feet (28 meters)
    Height: 60.5 feet waterline to Boat Deck, 175 feet keel to top of funnels
    Draft: 59.5 feet
    Gross Tonnage: 46,328 tons
    Net Tonnage: 24,900 tons
    Top Speed: 23 knots
    Total Capacity: 3547 passengers and crew
    Decks: 9 in all (including the Orlop Deck)- the Boat Deck, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, and boiler rooms below G.
    Engines: 2 reciprocating 4 cylinder, triple expansion, direct- acting, inverted engines: 30,000 hp, 77 rpm. 1 low pressure Parsons turbine: 16,000 hp, 165 rpm
    Fuel Requirement: 825 tons of coal per day
    Propellers: 3- Center turbine: 17 feet, Left/right wings: 23 feet, 6 inches
    Boilers: 29 (24 double ended boilers and 5 single ended boilers)
    Furnaces: 159 providing a total heating surface of 144,142 sq. feet
    Steam pressure: 215 P.S.I.
    Watertight compartments: 16, extending up to F deck
    Lifeboats: 20 total as follows:
    14 wood lifeboats, each 30 feet x 9 feet 1 inch, by 4 feet deep, with a carrying capacity of 65 persons each; 2 wood cutters, each 25 feet 2 inches, x 7 feet 2 inches, by 3 feet deep, with a carrying capacity of 40 persons each; 4 Englehardt collapsible boats, each 27 feet x 8 feet, by 3 feet deep, with a carrying capacity of 47 persons each
    Lifeboat Total Rated Capacity: 1,179 persons
    Personal floatation devices: 3,560 life jackets and 49 life buoys

    Actually add a couple hundred more to those stats of pax & crew & your more accurate, last world record round was about 8574 total onboard sometime in August just gone..
    AIS regs had to be altered to accommodate our capacity after delivery so that even if it reads like 8139 OB as a max figure we can still carry more. Also 19 pools & jacuzzi's, a parkland with real shrubbery, the only ship with a carracel (apart from Allure of course) two flo-rider machines, zip line, mini golf course, two rock climbing walls, rising tide bar, but to name just a few cool features to my office :D oh & full ibs! I can go on listing as well

    Love the bragging rights too


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,429 ✭✭✭Cedrus


    Tabnabs wrote: »
    One way to build a bridge

    Is that the Tsing Ma Bridge in Hong Kong?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,659 ✭✭✭✭dahamsta


    Just a quick note from an outsider to say thanks for this thread, it's without a shadow of a doubt the best thing I've seen on Boards in absolute yonks!


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,676 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tabnabs


    Cedrus wrote: »
    Is that the Tsing Ma Bridge in Hong Kong?

    No the Hardangerbrua, in Norway.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,493 ✭✭✭long range shooter


    Cedrus wrote: »
    Is that the Tsing Ma Bridge in Hong Kong?

    This one

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardanger_Bridge


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 105 ✭✭elhal


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