On the front of every tanker accomodation block you can see in huge letters “No Smoking” , there might even be some kind of rule that says you must have this text in letters so many metres high and wide. Not that it stops the smoking as this fine vessel was showing us today in Europoort. There are other messages too like safety first, and prevent pollution-save the environment..etc. The environment would most likely be a lot better off if there were no big dirty great oil tankers chucking out big black plumes of smoke.
But as the pilot said to me today, ” selling oil makes lots of money, saving the environment costs a lot of money..” maybe the COP15 crowd will come up with a way to get rid of the need for oil and keep all the Saudi Princes and the big huge Oil companies happy…..
Or maybe they won’t.
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Someone was really shoveling the coal in when you took that picture!
Happy Holidays……Great shot.
Very descriptive post Captain. I thought I was going to lose my Christmas dinner as you slid and skated onto the carpet there!
Actually its effects were worse than first thought as the above comment belongs elsewhere!
I had a little respect for deck officers until I saw this picture with no explanation for the difficulties involved in answering manuvering bells vis a vis constricted waters. Shove your plotter up the point of the last known contact.
There is always one who doesn’t quite get it, read the post again “fn’n not a mate” nothing to upset an engineer there, or were you on the ship in question? Then you should have blown your tubes at sea, and not at me. These days crews are too small for any kind of oil and water bullshit, I don’t engage in it because it’s a waste of time. Grow up and get a sense of humour, the picture is about the irony of all the shipping company mumbo jumbo like big huge No Smoking signs, not about bad engineers.