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Well I havent been posting in a while as I have been underway trying to avoid some typhoons. This put a damper on our internet while underway... At any rate I am back and in pain.
My day started at about 430 this morning. Doing the breakfast thing for the crew. I was cooking some eggs for one of my junior guys i got working for me and somehow i managed to rub my knuckles across a 350 degree grill. Let me tell you that worked better than any cup of coffee I have ever drank... That was just my wake up call. I should have never gotten up.
As we were pulling in we were going to tie up to our sister ship. There were no other slots open in the basin so we are doing the nesting thing. I don't know how many of you are familure with large ships and mooring lines but it isn't the safest thing in the world to be working with. Well we were crossing lines and had thrown our heaving balls over. The other ship was heaving on the lines (pulling it to take it in) on the aft end of the ship. The guy that threw the line over that is foreward of me (my line because we are crossing them) threw it to the wrong spot. I couldn't see that it had hit the wrong spot. I felt the line tug and fed out some slack so the guy could pull it across. The line goes dead in the water as he is trying to get the line to where it needs to be. As he is moving around it slacked the line. There was enough slack for the line to get sucked under the ship and wraped around the screws (the propellers). My line was on top of the other line so it got taken down with it. Two lines wrapped around the shaft isnt good. I was able to hold mine long enough to get some one to cut it.... In the end no one got hurt. We all steped up and got the situation back under controll and got tied up. There for about 10 mins we were in a hella unsafe enviornment... lines getting sucked in by screws, lines with extreamly unsafe tension on them (line snap back is no joke), new kids on the fantail that had no clue as to what is going on or what to do... It was a fucked up day. sorry just had to come back in style with a long rant...
My day started at about 430 this morning. Doing the breakfast thing for the crew. I was cooking some eggs for one of my junior guys i got working for me and somehow i managed to rub my knuckles across a 350 degree grill. Let me tell you that worked better than any cup of coffee I have ever drank... That was just my wake up call. I should have never gotten up.
As we were pulling in we were going to tie up to our sister ship. There were no other slots open in the basin so we are doing the nesting thing. I don't know how many of you are familure with large ships and mooring lines but it isn't the safest thing in the world to be working with. Well we were crossing lines and had thrown our heaving balls over. The other ship was heaving on the lines (pulling it to take it in) on the aft end of the ship. The guy that threw the line over that is foreward of me (my line because we are crossing them) threw it to the wrong spot. I couldn't see that it had hit the wrong spot. I felt the line tug and fed out some slack so the guy could pull it across. The line goes dead in the water as he is trying to get the line to where it needs to be. As he is moving around it slacked the line. There was enough slack for the line to get sucked under the ship and wraped around the screws (the propellers). My line was on top of the other line so it got taken down with it. Two lines wrapped around the shaft isnt good. I was able to hold mine long enough to get some one to cut it.... In the end no one got hurt. We all steped up and got the situation back under controll and got tied up. There for about 10 mins we were in a hella unsafe enviornment... lines getting sucked in by screws, lines with extreamly unsafe tension on them (line snap back is no joke), new kids on the fantail that had no clue as to what is going on or what to do... It was a fucked up day. sorry just had to come back in style with a long rant...