@mercoglianos
A USCG inspector on my ship told me "Regulations are written in blood and oil" during my COI last year. I think you are very much correct about this.
It's Thanksgiving in the US, and I'm thankful for the Marine Engineers out there. Not only do they keep the ships moving, they also keep the lights on, the AC or heat pumping, and the water flowing. Cheers to all the Engineers!
@rsanderlin
My family was high class, my dad installed a water fountain to the outside hose spigot. So we had room temperature tap water without the rubber taste.
Command at sea: It's hard to explain. It's simultaneously empowering, daunting, and lonely. Everyone looks to you in times of trouble, and help is at best hours, but usually days away. Your decisions are the nexus where lives, the environment, and property hang in the balance.
It's Christmas Eve here, and Christmas Day elsewhere; and my thoughts are drawn to all of the sailors and mariners who are on ships at sea today, away from friends and loved ones. So here's to you those at sea, thank you for crewing the ships; fair winds and following seas!
@cdrsalamander
I do love it when a typo completely changes the meaning of a statement. That being said, I think I saw this scene in the latest Mad Max film.
@il0venostalgia
You forgot to tell them to drink from the water hose if they get thirsty. Protip: let it run a few minutes to reduce the rubber taste and lower the temperature. 🤣
@JohnHanselman
@mercoglianos
There are a number of security companies, so who you get depends on which company you hire. I had Brits and South Africans on my ship.
Today marks 25 years since the FCC issued my amateur radio license. Coincidentally, it also marks 25 years to the day since they issued a random 1x3 call sign.
MARITIME ALERT 2024-001B provides recommendations for U.S. flag and U.S. owned commercial vessels transiting the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. MARAD, DOT, and DOD continue to coordinate with other interagency partners and US shipping companies. Read more
@mwfoutch1
These tuners are used with channelized radio systems so each memory channel has a tuner setting so there is rapid recall for tuning. They are used with ALE systems.
Inside the tuner are toroid coils and caps switched in and out by relays. Think remote auto tuner.
@AncientSubHunt
@johnkonrad
@aniemyer
@mercoglianos
The US mariner pool isn't big enough to do the job now, let alone after casualties. What they need to do is build partnerships with allies like the Philippines as
@johnkonrad
has recently been pushing, to at least be able to crew ships they can scrounge up.
UPDATE: the alleged hijacked M/V RUEN is sailing along the north coast of Puntland, Somalia. The
#EUNAVFOR
flagship ESPS
#VICTORIA
is currently monitoring the incident and coordinating with local authorities on further action. The situation on board the M/V is unknown.
@GiledP
I guess in my mind, China doesn't need speed; just the will to win and overwhelming logistical support over a 97nm wide strait to outlast any US kinetic opposition that has a 5,600 nm supply line.
@johnkonrad
They flag heavy lifts in and out of US registry as needed, mostly for inport/export bank project cargos.
@hqSDDC
sometimes has voyage charters available. They used to have 2 of them in the prepo fleets, but no more.
@johnkonrad
MV SSG EDWARD A CATER JR
Containership,
50,000 MT displacement
38,000 Shaft HP
I've been on larger ships, but as an engineer, so didn't "drive" them.
@AK8CW
@HamRadioOutlet
I think it's a natural law that says that no battery takes longer to charge than the one needed to power up your new radio for the first time. 😆
@hagerstrom
@johnkonrad
I'm part of that force am not a CIVMAR. In fact, they are only 2 CIVMAR ships in those squadrons. The remaining ships are crewed by contract mariners. Several of the ships are even privately owned.
As a merchant mariner I've been places, seen some things. 🇦🇨🇦🇪🇦🇬🇦🇼🇧🇧🇧🇩🇧🇪🇧🇭🇧🇶🇧🇷🇧🇸🇧🇿🇨🇦🇨🇬🇨🇮🇨🇲🇨🇷🇨🇺🇨🇼🇩🇪🇩🇯🇩🇴🇪🇬🇪🇸🇫🇷🇬🇧🇬🇮🇬🇳🇬🇹🇬🇺🇭🇳🇮🇨🇮🇩🇮🇪🇮🇱🇮🇳🇮🇴🇯🇵🇰🇪🇰🇷🇱🇷🇲🇬🇲🇵🇲🇿🇲🇽🇳🇮🇳🇱🇴🇲🇵🇦🇵🇭🇷🇴🇶🇦🇵🇷🏴🇸🇴🇸🇳🇸🇱🇸🇬🇸🇻🇹🇭🇹🇬🇹🇹🇹🇿🇺🇸🇻🇬🇻🇮🇿🇦🇾🇪
@piper4missouri
Same strategy as abortion limits. No outright ban right away, just keep adding restrictions until it's a de facto ban. Specific gun restrictions include geographic limits, hardware limits like magazine sizes/gun types, increased licensing and registration, storage requirements.
@ailuropanda_m
@mercoglianos
@MarineTraffic
@equasis_news
Liability avoidance. Remember Exxon Valdez? That cost Exxon Corp $5B. Make the ship a company by itself, and then flag it in some random country with no effective government, and the only thing they can seize after an accident is a worthless ship.
@johnkonrad
In no particular order, cleaning:
the MSD tank
the fire side of a boiler
Scavenging air box
Any tank with oil
Mucking under the manger
Punching the tubes on a condenser
As of Sept 1st I have 5,000 days aboard ships. It started as a deck hand on HMS Bounty in 1993. 3,917 days on deck, 1,083 days in the engine room. 1,989 days in command.
@offshoremayor
@mercoglianos
@22
Most ships now have power limiters due to the EEXI regulations, so are maxed out quite a bit down their burn curves. Those 24 knot ships are probably doing 18-20 now. ULCC e.g. Emma Maersk with 80MW engines max out at 250 MT/day.
@RiaJairam
Stop calling it "ham" radio. Call it "amateur radio" or come up with another, somewhat modern term. "Ham" is terrible marketing for the 21st century.
@dxsignal
I'll do QSL cards for vhf for even repeater contacts for new hams getting their first QSO to mark the special occasion, even if it doesn't count for awards.
@K3TripleR
Before we start filling the air with faster modes, it is worth noting that the new rule goes into effect 30 days after it appears in the Federal Register.
@TxLxS
@K3TripleR
I literally have 2 chairs in my shack to combat this problem. People think it's for guests, but they are wrong. If the cat is on one chair, I can use the other and still operate.
@WarshipCam
It's a steam ship, so likely having a boiler issue. Black smoke indicates a host of possible issues from burners to forced draft fans to refractory.
Spud has a great reference book on signaling between ship and shore. It emphasized Canadian signaling, but also showed how ship-to-shore comms grew. I am glad he got his researched published before passing. 73 Spud!
Spud Roscoe VE1BC Silent Key Dec. 28, 2023.
Hi DAVE,
Spud passed away this evening. HE went to Emerg this morning, they did an x-ray his left lung was full of pneumonia and the bacteria was going through his body. He will be missed.
Joan
This is Raytheon's High Energy Laser (HEL) fitted to the Stryker DE M-SHORAD. Its 50 kW laser can shoot down Class I, II, and III drones at ranges > 5 km. This means small, medium and large UAS flying at altitudes of up to 30,000 ft. It can perform a C-RAM role against rockets,
@mercoglianos
@johnkonrad
I know from personal experience that MSC time chartered and SDDC voyage charters ships don't wait either, or at least have not in the past.
PAC fuel supply idea: 1) build moderate sized tank farms on US/allied controlled Pacific islands. 2) build several OPDS ships and PrePo them to service tankers as required.
@johnkonrad
Risk assessment: likelihood of getting a 2nd missile is lower than fire going out of control. Both have high consequences. Verdict: fight the fire, but start zig zags.
Let's talk additional BMP's for the Red Sea ships. 1) go dark, turn off all AIS/Sat-C/DSC radios that can be polled 2) DC drills with emphasis on a compromised fire main 3) review damaged stability 4) sandbag your flying bridge 5) Razor wire on your open decks 1/
@johnkonrad
Reminds me of when I bought my 1st Bowditch. The guy ahead of me in line say "Bowditch huh? There's stuff in there even _I_ don't know." He then proceeded to tell me that he had a 100-ton license. I just nodded and smiled.
@VE6LK
@VE6AB
I would work him on HF APRS while I was in the Atlantic and he was in his truck somewhere in the NW. I was always looking for him on APRS.
@JJFilson
@mercoglianos
Class societies are the maritime sector's vehicle for quasi self regulation. This company bypassed even that fairly low bar. Also, don't forget the power of insurance companies in industry regulation.
If you’ve ever wondered what was meant by Minimum Detectable Signal, or what the S-meter indicated, the Boltzmann constant can help!
Find out how in the Sept.
#QST
article, “Understanding the Boltzmann Constant,” by Adrian Ryan, 5B4AIY.
👉Available in digital edition or print!
@johnkonrad
The demise of the former HSV-2 hit us pretty hard. The company I work for owned her, and I knew most of the people who crewed it when it was US flag. It demonstrated to me how a runabout with a missile can devastate an aluminum hull.
@MikeScherr1
@johnkonrad
My take: 1) not at 100%. Too large an area, too few assets 2) This a well organized and equipped proxy actor, not a pirate. 3) Until a US asset is hit, there is no political will to do it.
@johnkonrad
My personal opinion is
@DOTMARAD
should put together a presentation that active mariners can use at local high schools to aid in recuitment.