Maritime General #2

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>>977847

>sugar barge

It's just going to dissolve, anon.

Got any good documentaries on big ships?

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>>977847
Top secret survey

how come there are now civilian submarines?

all they have are those piddly little submersible research craft.

>>977928
If you think reeeeaaal long and hard about this question, i think you will be able to figure it out on your own.

>>977932
a nuclear submarine could do sea floor research, drilling, and mining better than a surface ship dangling things on long cables.

>>977936
Even if this was true, which i doubt, would it be cost effective? The civilian world is all about muh bottomline.

>>977928
>>977941
Also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narco-submarine

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>>977868
Well as long as it doesn't dissolve before we get it out of the berth I couldnt care less

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>>977983

>>977985

Is this you, tug anon who just got the job?

>>977927

If you are surveying anywhere near the lesser Antilles I am going to fuck your ship up boy. These are my waters.

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>>977993
Yeah it's me, I should probably make a trip at some point

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>>977998
I'm safe then

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Rate my glass float

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>>978288
I really really really like sailboats

Studying to become a marine engineer. What are the based companies to apprenticeship at?

>>978586

Deep sea mooring?

>>978659
Engine Cadet-like.

>>978716

As much respect as I have for the "engineering" crew. They don't really do any engineering other than what you would require as part of a ghetto rig repair as it is generally maintaining someone else's design.

In my country a marine engineer is someone who designs and develops solutions for various marine issues and is a certified marine engineer. Not the ship's engineer

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I like the fact that i can visit this board every 1-2 months and still keep up with all the posts in this thread, it's ultra comfy

international shipping produces so much pollution. that it makes car emissions look insignificant.

the perfect way for a trade protectionist to get something through. is to disguise it as a environmental bill. tax the CO2 and particulate output of shipping. require ships to drastically improve emissions.

>>978843
They operate engines. Hence the name engineers. Engineers used to refer to the designers, and operators of siege engines. Ship engineers derive their engineer title from siege engine operators. Your engineer derives the title from the designers and planners of siege weapons.

>>979427
>international shipping produces so much pollution.

Compared to what? One ship produces less pollution that the 11,000 trucks it would take to carry each individual container.

It's gotten WAY better in recent years. Most ships use diesel fuel instead of bunker fuel, and all ships draw power from the docks instead of idling their engines when in port (at least they do here in LA/LB).

>>979415
I don't like the fact that I'm not drunk anymore.

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>>979663
Let's also not forget the increasingly more common LNG powered ships

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Some older pics I found in ship s comp

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>>979949

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>>979950

Awesome rig pictures. I'd love to visit a rig for a day at some point in my life.

I don't want to live on one mind you, just visit.

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Fresh OC
I'll post some dolphins pics. There are plenty here. But they just went away while taking pics

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>>980476
Do you guys get wifi out there?

Also adding some fresh OC

>>980555
These are fixed platforms somewhere near the shore. Aprox 50-60 nm from shore and they have gsp antennas on them I get 3g signal on the phone. Jut buy a local 10€ sim for 10gigs of internet. We also have vsat internet connected to a wifi router but speed sucks

>>979959
That looks exactly like the ship I was on; just not in swires livery

R class?

This thread makes me wish i hadnt turned down Webb institute.

I could be at sea instead of being a business analyst for a railroad

>>980837
What is this class? Had to look up ship's certificate of classification and google.

Didn't find anything
Google finds only swire classifying like this but no explanation given what it means

>>980903
lol I turned down webb institute as well and also kinda regret it now

where did you end up going? what was your degree in?

>>980975
Rolla

Bs econ
Bs engineering management

SLU
Ms finance

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We out here

>>983800

She visits our docks in kingstown, st.vincent and the grenadines

Where are you operating?

>>983899
Port of Palm beach, it's in and out usually twice a week, I'm pretty sure it's under charter for Tropical

>>984031

We receive containers from her, through tropical of course.

You are tug anon?

I'll snap a shot the next time I see her.

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>>984047
Yeah I'm the guy who works on the tug

>>979963

I have seen youtube videos of small ships picking up massive anchors like this.

Is this for anchor recovery or what?

>>985620
I'm gonna assume supply vessels do this when they're gonna move a rig to a different location

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>>985756
They are called ahts
Anchor handling tug supply

Just met with a friend the other day. We moored next to his vsl.
Some pictures of his grain carrier loading holds

Empty

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>>986336
Full

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>>986338

>>986347

D..Diamond Dogs

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Not as large commercial or industrial maritime as most but here we got a training ship on the left and a few sein fishers on the right

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This is average sized fishing for my country

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Can't see the name properly yet. Maybe tomorrow.

Not a bad back yard view though

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Dem 30 minute sunsets

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Brought in this big bitch today

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>>977985
Hey, hey, fellow Moranfag.

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>>988709
I don't work for Moran, I work on a tractor tug for a company with three boats and six people
But hi fellow tugfag

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>>988830
Well that's a relief. I never wanted to have a conversation about 4chan in real life.

>Waiting to pick up an inbound container ship

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>>988863

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>>988867

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>>988863
Once I get my towing endorsement I'm gonna try and pick up a job with either Moran or Kirby
How is working for Moran?

>>988967

Very excellent. I'd say Moran is one of the best all-around companies in New York. I want to Maine Maritime, been with Moran through school and since I graduated. I'm in the New York fleet, pay is great, company is good about getting you off/on the boat +/- 1 day if not on the regular crew change day. Mix of a equipment, a lot of 70s and 80s era wire boats, but also brand new tractors and ATB units.

Company culture is a little weird. Excellent job security, I came in during the '08-09 downturn, and they never tied a single boat up while whole fleets were cold stacked. However, they're very slow to promote from within, opting to hire out for a new opening 75% of the time.

Can't say much about Kirby. Big corporate entity, has it's pros and cons. I can call the VP of the New York/Offshore fleet any time, he knows everybody by name.
If you're interested in getting into a new york fleet, which I recommend if only for the payscales, definitely throw an application at Moran for a mate position. If you come in as a deckhand hoping to move up the ranks, you'll be disappointed. If they don't offeryou a mate job, look to Bouchard, McAllister, Reinauer. The first two have a high turnover, so you could churn out a few years as a mate in the harbor and then try knockingon Moran's door again. Their pay is comparable (Bouchard's is highest) but the company cultures are pretty shitty (Especially Bouchard)

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Seven cranes working this whore. Fuck that.

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>>989021
I'll keep that in mind, I've still got a few years before I'll have enough seatime to be eligible for my 100 ton with towing endorsement

>>989437
Neato, is that one of the Triple E class boats?

>tfw hopefully going into the Merchant Navy

hope I get accepted

>>989652
I dunno. It's the maersk elba

http://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:712835/mmsi:538003576/imo:9458078/vessel:MAERSK_ELBA

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The tug life is a decent life. Great Lakes sailor in the house

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Anbody else hate how much gcaptain seems to be promoting Rolls Royce? Every time they put out a new press release about how they're going to take all our jobs away, gcaptain is right there spreading the word. They're never anywhere closer, they just want to stay in the headlines.

btw, MSCfag reporting in.

>>986338
indeed, this is a lot of grain

>>991159
ATB unit?

>>991159
Bunker barge?

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Rig at night
Shitty phone pic

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>>992500
Fishing contest

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>>992877

>>992877
They've managed to catch about 20kg of this.

Pretty tasty desu senpai

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>>992883
Forgot pic

Any US Mariners take the Chief Mate test recently? Impressions?

I'm getting signed up with MAMA now to try to squeeze all my classes in before Jan 1.

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>>992884
Do you guys have service out there? Or does your boat have wifi?

I took a pretty cool timelapse while we were heading into a rain shower the other day, I need to convert it to a webm and I'll upload it here

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Halifax photographer here, had this little offshore support vessel parked outfront of my place a month or so back. I'd really love to go out and take some boat pictures but I need a better tele lens... getting a boat to get closer might be cheaper

>>977847
I know at least two of some nigs here work in my city port, San Pedro...
But shit, I have some questions.
How did some of you get jobs on ships n stuff?
I'm three years out of high school and my only working experience is as a maintenance guy in a marsh reserve, nothing more. I love ships, and it'd be cool to work on/around them.

>>993155
American?

Maritime College

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>>993155
I got my ILWU casual card via an interest card lottery in 2004. Theryre gonna do another interest card lottery this year. Find someone who's ILWU and offer to buy their interest card or suck their dick for it. They'll probably do a public lottery too. Keep an eye out for that.

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>>993155
I went to the port website and looked through the page that lists every company that works in and around the port, then I annoyed the shipping companies only to be told that they only hire foreigners.
Then I found the tug company I work for now who's US flagged and annoyed the shit out of them until they hired me, or told me to fuck off.. Luckily I was hired

If you can't get a job on a boat, get a job on a dock at least, that way when you go to try and apply again, at least they'll know you've been around boats for a bit

You could also try dayworking on a yacht, even though yachts are gay af and you have to deal with rich cunts.

>>993096
See
>>980638

I,m the same guy

We are now in port, almost finished mobilization for divers.
Did a survey in july, supply until now. Now 58 days with divers if the weather permits. I hope it does
Tomorrow morning we should be at the rig so they can start servicing
Will post pics with the divers and rov

>>993420
Eu fag here. Us flagged ships that work in us waters don't hire foreigners if they don't have a green card or working visa. Moat of local offshore companies don't even have a passport requirement. They ask for your driver license.

>>993570
Yeah, due to the Jones Act (which is a good thing) US flagged ships have to have a certain percentage of US Citizens, which usually translates to "fuck it, we'll just hire Americans only then". Though I have seen foreigners. Plus I believe you must be a US citizen to get a USCG license (an officer). Add the fact that USCG doesn't recognize anyone else's training or licenses and it becomes a pain in the ass to get into the industry as a forgiegner. But I believe US Mariners are usually paid better than most anyone else. And living conditions are arguably the best.

>>993420
protip, if you crop your image before posting, it wont rotate.

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>>993570
Yeah that's what i was getting at, all of the companies that work out of my port all are foreign flagged, the tug company I work for is the only company that's based in our port with US flagged vessels
>>993620
Thanks famalam I'll remember that for next time

>>979951
Is that salt or ice?

>>993151
That is a wild looking boat, man!

>>993767
Definitely ice.

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>>977936
>a nuclear submarine could drill and mine better than a surface ship.
Not a chance. Undersea drilling and mining requires tons of equipment and large platforms to be cost effective. The beauty in pic related in Maersk Interceptor. She can drill 150 m depth year round in the harshest parts on the north sea. She also cost about $650 which is at or below unit cost on modern nuclear attack subs. Trying to sink things underwater, and make them work, is much more challenging and provides very few advantages over just letting them float.

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Wow, just saw this part of 4chan.

I didn't know there's a maritime thread somewhere in this shithole. I'm still an aspirant of the profession but I'm excited to learn a thing or two here.

GoPoor OC on our 4th engineer.
Shame it got capped by seawater many months ago. I could've got more cool operations in action.

>>994319
I don't see a lanyard clipped in anywhere...

>>994455
>lanyard
I believe he is sitting on a platform. Judging from the position on the ladder

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fresh oc

>>991407
Nope, traditional wire boat
>>991848
Just a heavy petroleum barge, not for bunkering ships.

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>>994825
Here's two ore boats meeting on the Lakes

>>994088
offshore noob question: wheres the drill? are the pipes in the far right "leg" operating it?

>>995214
Why would they be drilling at the dock?

>>995214
The tower with maersk written on it slides outside of the jack up and that's how it drills.
As you can see there is no hole in the hull of the jack up as opposed to semi submersible rigs or drilling ships

any good movies or documentaries about this stuff?

>>995533
Nice triple doubles
You can easily find them on yt
I don't know if there are any documentaries but there are a lot of cgi explanations with & without too many technical terms

>>994088
Jesus I had no clue Maersk was in the oil drilling business.

>>995533
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMnWK6apliQ

>>995564
They are the biggest shipping company, gotta diversify.

>>995564
I'm pretty sure maersk has their hand in pretty much every sector of the maritime industry

Kind of out there but do you guys know much about the GIS field?

I do it for my job mapping gas pipelines in utilities but always liked being out on a boat. Have you ever heard of oceanic mapping/GIS people onboard ships or anything of the sort?

So I recently gave up on becoming a sailor and decided to keep being a welder instead.
It's for the best but I still need my fix of botes and the ocean.

What are your favorite documentaries and TV shows about sailing?

Is this the slowest general on 4chan?

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>ywn work on a turn of the century fishing ship

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>>996388
You bet your sweet ass it is!

>>996388
Slower than a tug and barge doing 4kts STW against the gulf stream.

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>>996510
tfw I know this feel all too well

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Sharky
Too bad the guys don't give a shit and after catching them they throw them on deck and leave them to die slowly.
I've asked them to at least kill them fast

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>>997053

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>>997053
I take it you guys cook a lot of fresh fish?

Pic from today, you can kind of see our small tug near the bow

>>997061
Yep. I'm not into fish ore marine food but most of the guys are and are fishing like crazy. This type of shark tastes like nothing. It's like you're eating plastic. The sauce is everything. But at this point you could eat the sauce with anything, the small ones are tasty as fuck.
I believe we haven't ordered any frozen fish for provisions since we have plenty fresh. It's a good thing. I remember when sailing in west africa on a tanker all the food was bought from there and was absolutely garbage. We passed every day fishermen who waved at us their catch. 1-1,5m tuna I suppose it was. But captain refused to stop and buy or trade some diesel or gasoline that we had plenty on board and nobody would notice 50-100liters missing for some fresh fish.
Everybody including him had to eat old frozen shit food. Some western ppl just don't understand how africa works

Anyone about that's done an Atlantic crossing under sail?
How was it?

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>>997392
There was a sail thread a few weeks ago, guess it 404'd

Pretty much everyone here is commercial so idk if anyone has experience with sail

>>997061
My company sent out a fleet wide notice a while back prohibiting us from eating fish caught on board because someone had eaten some poisonous ones and don't want to be bothered with doing crew changes because of it any more.

>>997663
Same here but I think that applies only in tropical zones irl. In colder climates I don't think there are many poisonous fishes

>>995533
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SPAHUK0TwTM

Just found this series

>>997781
Lots of big companies don't want the liability, period. If you can cook it on the DL, who cares, but if it's served in the mess and anything happens that could be a lawsuit.

>>997959
I know a lot of guys on the sugar barges we bring in always bitch about how they can't catch shit lol

Got any Channel 16 stories anons?

So, they've found the El Faro's VDR.

http://gcaptain.com/nstb-26-hours-of-information-recovered-from-el-faros-vdr/

What do you think is on it, /n/? How much is it going to swing the wrongful death trials?

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>>998122
Some annoying guy who I assume runs a tender tug at a construction project who's just in range of our radios never shuts the fuck up, and he's got this annoying as fuck smokers voice

Also in case anyone cares, here's a shitty pic from last night of our biggest tug, Frank M

Why are there no threads about leisure boats? Kayaks, Sailboats, runabouts?

>>998354
start one

>>998354
Like I said, there was a sail thread, but it 404'd

Also big ships tickle my autism much more than Boston whalers

>>998122
Some guy in Mediterranean sea shouted for 2/3 day Maria or Marien nonstop during his watch.
I suppose the ship was traveling same direction with our vsl. But the responses were super lulzy
Fuck your dumb bitch
Did your bitch fucked somebody else faggot?
I hope the bitch took all your money
Kill yourself
I.m gonna go home and fuck your bitch
Etc

Of course
Filipino monkey this is banana port control. Please prepare pilot ladder x side x m above the water. What you don't need ladder? Monkeys don't use ladders they jump directly on deck?

+ standard burping, arab/russian/whatever music, screeming

>>977847
Are you working for Spliethoff?

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>>998500
No I'm tug anon

Maintenance guys at my work just got themselves a little tugboat- pretty lol when my dept. can hardly get new uniform shirts.

Dunno if it's not blue-water enough for you dudes, but one of my dreams is to boat from NYC up to Montreal via the Hudson/Champlain/Chambly route. Doubt I'll ever be able to afford it though.

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>>998707
Pix of the tug

>>995591
>>997940

Thanks for posting these, interesting viewing. I have also watched most of Mighty Ships and its spin-off Mighty Cruise Ships, which I recommend. Most episodes are on youtube.

I feel like I have just about exhausted good maritime docos on youtube. Are there any other good series?

>>998780
Also are there any good movies involving commercial shipping apart from Captain Phillips?

>>998782
Action in the North Atlantic

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>>998782
Contraband.

>>998891
Is that you moranfag? Or is that the longshoreman in long beach?

998916

Different moranfag
Our tugs in Miami

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How come no one has a U Boat Yacht?

You think some rich fag would want to one up his fellow rich fags, with a submarine.

>>998982
>richfags
>ever wanting to be a sundodger

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>>998719
It's tied up in kind of an awkward spot, this is as close as I can get.

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>>998951
Ayyyy, how is it working down there? You guys stay busy I assume?

>>999008
That's an adorable little guy.

Where is that? USS Intrepid?

>>995533
This popped up on my YouTube today
http://youtu.be/ggIDaBMbhUE

>>999219
Yeah, I work on the tourism side of things there.

>>999593
What could they possibly need a tug for? It's not like they move the intrepid much.

>>991336
Shit, I was on the prototype for those boats. I'm so sorry. Has your from fallen off yet?

>>999609
That's exactly what we're all wondering. The ship's been moved only once since it opened as a museum in the 80s, and they could never move it with a tug that tiny anyway.

>>999620
Were you on the Westpac, Hawaii Superferries, Swift, or Joint Venture?

Not yet, but they did have their bows strengthened after the fact. They may or may not have used cardboard/cardboard derivatives.

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>>999644
Westpac, we lost our bow door at one point, and I heard the stbd stack started to go right after I left.

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so we ran out of black paint, and needed to cover up some bare metal from rust that we chipped earlier

>>999644
Cool. I've done a tour of her. I know one of the 3/Ms and went to school with one of the 2A/Es.

They're doing a hull swap with the Guam soon.

She's an old girl for her line of work.

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>>998916
I'm the longshoreman in long beach and that isnt my pic. In fact you can read "port of miami" on the cranes.

RIP in peace

http://fortune.com/2016/08/31/hanjin-shipping-receivership/

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A couple from this week

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>>1001082
>>1001082

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Saw this boat while in port canaveral with the pilot. Didn't have my camera with me so I didn't get any pictures. Apparently they're doing some sort of specialized work for SpaceX. Also saw some sort of Peruvian sub in port.

>>1000603
How has Hanjin's bankruptcy affected operations at LA-LB? Doesn't Hanjin have a terminal there? are their ships still being unloaded?

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>>1002265
There are 4 hanjin vessels anchored outside LA/LB. They do own a majority stake in the terminal. I havent really kept up with the story. From what I understand the ports won't let them in cause they dont think they'll get paid, and they cant order workers cause they cant pay the workers.

http://www.dailybreeze.com/business/20160831/why-big-ships-are-being-turned-away-from-ports-of-los-angeles-and-long-beach

http://www.dailybreeze.com/business/20160904/federal-officials-plea-for-intervention-in-hanjin-bankruptcy-to-save-jobs

I'm sure eventually the ships will come in and get discharged. Just gotta wait for the lawyers and politicians hash it out.

pic related is why hanjin ran out of money. They do dumb shit like order 11 drivers for a crane when you only need 8.

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>>1001926
They probs have it to toe barges and for recovery of rockets and shit

NASA had two boats during the shuttle program that they used for tracking and recovery of the boosters

>pic related

>>1002519
One of those sits in Little Creek now, I think.

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Bump

>>978586
European companies. Overall more knowledgeable crew, better ships (us flagged ships are old as fuck because of the jones act) and everyone is fluent in english.

Then again i dont know what possibilities US based marine academies offer to cadets in terms of apprenticeships. If possible, choose the old country.

>>978586
Nationality?

Not American I'd assume, because it doesn't work like that here.

>>1005713
>everyone fluent in English
No they are not
I was speaking almost fluent english when finished school. Went on board and found tarzan speaking English europeans. Tried to be articulate and shit only to end up fucking my english up and improving my body language speaking skills

They all understand english but talking not so much. I mean you can have a conversation but expect the worst grammar ever
I pray to end up on ships with english or belgian/dutch ppl just so I can improve again. Scots not so much as most of the time the only thing I understand from a phrase is "m8" which they use like every fucking sentence. Fun thing. Me, 2 english and one scot. The scot comes to us and says something in "english". I dont understand a fucking word. He leaves. I ask the english what he said? We don't know we don't understand him either

>>1005713

American ships all speak spic.

>>1006343
>"I've never been on a ship", the post

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>>1006343
Strange, i work on an American ship and I don't recall being fluent in Spanish

>>1005713
>implying the El Faro isn't going to see all those old ships scrapped

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>wanted to get a mate's job on the SS Badger on Lake Michigan despite not going to Great Lakes Maritime
>Great Lakes Maritime cadets graduate with First Class Lake Pilotage in addition to their Third Mate's license

JUST

>>1006800
Go to bed Nate.

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Moran's three newest ASD tugs tied up alongside. Fucking annoying when they do that, our yard isn't wide enough.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peNdy5kisv8

CNBC video on Hanjin

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>>1006925
Those are some big girls
What's the horsepower on them

>>1007619
6,000 HP. The ships keep getting bigger and deeper, and the pilots are even complaining that those tugs aren't enough.

PS, whenever I want to know more about a tug, I check out tugboatinformation.com
Whoever runs that site has an autistic fascination with tugs, I've never tried looking up a tug and not found it on there, he even has records for boats long ago scrapped.

>>1008073
>tugboatinformation.com
holy shit that is truly autistic.
our company isn't listed tho :^)

also 6000HP is crazy, our biggest boat is only about 3500HP.

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Howdy from the 00-08 mate on watch. Best inport watch by far

>>1008295
Car carrier?

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>>1008306
MSC Fleet Oiler

>>1008073
>>1008103

I came back from Hamburg a couple weeks ago and apparently they had a pair of 7,000hp tugs there.

Also I saw a completely chinese vessel flying my countries flag even though we don't have the capability to offload or even dock such a vessel.

What is up with that?

>>1008501
They're trying to get around some law or regulation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_convenience

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>>1008310
>military

>>1008706
Hey man, I'm in it for the sea time and the travel, I'm not gonna make a career with this damn company

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>>1008699

Holy shit. We are right there.

Paris blacklist and everything.

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>>1008712
Didn't you post in the last thread?
I could have sworn there was an MSCfag on an oiler in here at one point

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>>1008904
I did post last thread, but I was on one of the tugs at that point

I just started at a maritime college. If all goes according to plan, I'll be a (green) officer in four years. I'm pretty excited.
What kind of positions do you anons have?

>>1008947
Which college, anon? And what're you majoring in?

Fresh deck officer here, gotta say life's pretty good all things considered

>>998782
The Finest Hour, The Sea Chase, The African Queen depending on how loose of a definition you're going for

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>>1009117
Because being an officer is easy as fuck

>>1009117
Willem Barentsz institute in the Netherlands, don't know if you've ever heard of it. I'm doing a bachelor 'maritime officer', which basically means I'll be qualified both as ship officer and marine engineer. I'll probably have to pick a position when I apply for a job, though, and I favour being a deck officer.

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>>996400
Those are small potatoes, anon. Very, very small ones.

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Found this pic on /biz/. 4 tugs seems unnecessary here.

>>1008295
>>1008310
>>1008712
Are you on the Patuxent?
T-AO 200 > T-AO 201

>>1006800
The Badger sucks. Lowest paying AMO job there is. Doesn't even operate all year.

>>1009701
Could be a dead ship move

>>1009224
Being a deck officer is tempting, I understand fully. If I were to go back to the Academy as a kid, I'd choose Engineering. Engineers are always in demand, and have a skillset that lends more easily to shifting shoreside when you want a job that lets you go home at night

>>1009914
I still have four more years to go, and provided I manage to get my certification for both deck officer and engineer, I could always try to get a job as engineer.

how is it in port, can people leave the ship or do everyone have to be on it when they load containers on/off?

>>1010015
You stand cargo watches like navigation watches. Different mates take responsibility for monitoring the longshormen at different times of day. Other than that, it depends on the port and how long you're in it if the captain lets you off. Container ships don't typically get that much time in port while bulkers spend weeks at the dock unloading.

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>>1010086
According to my boss, back in the 80s and 90s sometimes he'd have to go pick up crew members from the sugar barges at the local bars and bring them back to their tug before they were about to leave without them

He called us a "full service tugboat company," I keked

>pic unrelated but it's one of our boats that they got rid of back in 1991 when they got the boat in >>1008904

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>>996325
Deep water

>>996400
I swear I read that there's an oyster farm in SE Asia where they only use sail power.

>yfw day 1 of a full restoration and refit
Thank god it's just a 20ft sloop.

>>1010098
where is that?

>>1010356
We work in the port of palm beach, FL
I dunno where the picture was taken tho

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From this morning

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>the city of hanjin

>page 9

Anyone have any experiences with cadets on their vessels? Good, bad, funny, weird.. I wanna hear 'em.

>be me in Diego Garcia
>MSC vessel
>cadet on my ship prints out dollar bills
>goes to strip club later
>makes counterfeit money rain
>gets caught and ass kicked

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>>1012869
Topkek

I'm the new guy at my company but I could tell you stories of how my coworker is apiece of shit

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Brought in an oil barge today and holy shit that is a big tug

Any of you folks have cruise ship experience? The gf works for Disney and just found out they supposedly have openings for mates. She's got it in her had that we're gonna be a sea couple. Im not super opposed to the idea, but I don't like dealing with that many people and MSC is super comfy.

>>1012869
I've got 4 KP chicks on here right now and they're all real fuckin hot. I'd try to bang one, but I think I like having a job more

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>>1013019
Didney warld cruises are foreign flagged aren't they? I assume they'd hire a philipino just because they can pay them less

>>1013019
Not to give you any ideas but shit that goes out on cruise shops is not for family guys. Absolute degeneracy. It take a special kind of mind set to resist. And most ppl don't have it.
If your gf is working on one I hate to bring this to you but prob she ran/is running a duck carousel every voyage. I have more than a dozen friends and colleagues that confirm this. Regardless of company. Happens on all cruise ships
just take the job go there see for yourself

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guys,

I learn more about ships.
where do i start ?
is there a book I can read ?

I want to know how these things work and what kind of ships there are and all that.

>>1013254
Check out The American Merchant Seaman's manual. If you want to learn navigation further in detail check out Dutton's (easier to read than Bowditch) if you want to read up on history read two years before the mast.

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Guys I'm gonna be on the tugboat when we get hit by a hurricane Wat do

>>1014033
Two part your dock lines, shitpost on 4chan, get paid

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I hope floridabro is ok.

>>994825
Karen Andrie?

I keep up on Great Lakes stuff via Boatnerd, but my only contribution is building models.

>>991159
You didnt chose the tug life, the tug life chose you.

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>>1014173
>>1014769
All good here on the Frank famalam
Commencing dump of pics from earlier

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>>1015081
The tuglife is the life for me

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>>1015114

Real estate in Sydney is so ridiculous I often think about having a barge with solar electric motors and batteries that just move it around enough to not be considered moored and not have to pay mooring fees. They've probably already banned it though.

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>>1015205
Update, we didn't die

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b u m p

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>>1016517
Stupid fucking image didn't rotate

>>1015246

Good job

Some of these container ships a really tall. I wonder if they have elevators?

>>1013005
When was the last time you saw a monthly tugboat?

>>1016602
Hit or miss.

>>1016621
wut

Loving these tugboat pictures, makes me want to but a camera, head down to my city's harbor and take some photos of my own.

>>979433
Wrong. One engineer comes from the word "engine" while the other comes from the word "ingenuity"

Be safe out there. I didn't know this girl personally, but my good friend was on the barge when it happened. He was never the same.


http://articles.latimes.com/2007/jun/18/business/fi-piper18

This is a better article about what actually happened.

http://www.professionalmariner.com/May-2007/Tugboat-deck-hand-killed-during-a-barge-transfer-in-California/

>>1016859
Was hearing fog signals in downtown Norfolk today. The epitome of comfy tbqhwyf.

>>1017316
I fucking hate when the foghorn goes off here in LA. It was going ham the other night and woke me up. Every vessel has gps and radar, they dont need that shit.

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>>1017338

One of my bosses responds to commands from the pilots with the horn to piss them off sometimes

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Is there any other ships being made similar to the Boeing Jetfoil?

>>1017338

>Every vessel has gps and radar

So you think

>>1017338
>every vessel has gps and radar

And both of those can easily fail. They can also be looked over or improperly used (see Cosco Busan vs San Francisco bay bridge). Imagine a small recreational boat with nothing but a set of eyes and ears on board, lost in a fog bank with a ship bearing down on it. You have to consider these things.

>>1016602
A lot of them do. One of my teacher told me a bit of a horror story about those elevators. On board of one of those ships the crew lost their captain when he was doing a inspection of the ship. They looked everywhere, but couldn't find him. He went to check on a malfunctioning bilge pump after an alarm on the bridge went off. One of the compartments of the ship had already been flooded, and it just so happened to flood the lower part of the elevator shaft as well. The elevator dipped below the water, flooded, and the lift's engine was unable to lift the now flooded cage up again when the captain frantically tried to press the button to go up again. The captain drowned like a rat in a water trap.

>>1017820
>using the stairs instead of elevator in case of emergency
I feel sorry for him, but it was his fault.

>>1017821
I got the impression he just went to check on a standard warning of a pump not working any more. I'm pretty sure I'm never going to use an elevator when there's any kind of alarm, though.

>>1017820
If elevators on ship are same as those on land then there should have a door/cover on top of it.

>>1017837
Those are meant to be difficult to find and use for non-maintenance people.

>>1017824

It probably wasnt even an alarm. Just a "fault" marker.

Like avoiding using an elevator because you know there is a car outside with a blown taillight

>>1017847
But I recall they're supposed for emergency use?

>>1017900
Yes, for emergency service personnel rescuing people from the outside. And I've seen multiple elevators without any kind of access hatch, including the one at my work. Granted, that one only covers four floors. But a hatch is not standard, especially not on small elevators.

>just applied for deckhand school

oh buoy

Been extremely interested in Merchant Marine ever since i learned about it about half a year ago.

Been looking at applying to SUNY Maritime for deck officer. I've got some questions senpai

1. Overall, is the career worth it?
2. Avg pay per month?
3. Should i just become a deckhand, and say fuck the academies?
4. How much sea time before people get promoted to 2nd mate? 1st?
5. Should i be an engineer instead?

Thanks anons <3

>>1017588
There are a few hydrofoil fast ferries, but it's not economical for big ships.

>>1018146
yes
depends, I made around $90k as a third mate.
no
roughly a year of sea time is needed for each license, so count on at least 2 years, depending on schedule. A higher license doesn't guarantee getting a job as that position either.
depends. what interests you about the job to begin with?

>>1018411
thanks senpai

I want a job that doesnt involve me being a cubicle wageslave. Like the idea of working for months at a time, with long breaks in between. Money situation sounds great, food and no rent is a big plus. Want to go around the world, even just to say that ive been there. Want to make big things move in a control room.

Any advice or other knowledge?

>>987041
>image.jpg

>>1010098
o hai mark

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>he brags that he is the captain of a ship
>it isn't even a reefer

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>>1018522

found this
https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=7492
thought of you guys.

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>>1018510
Apparently it was barely afloat when they sold it

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Anyone have suggestions for boat names that will appeal to tourists?

>>1019364
Make poll on the internet asking for a boat name
¿
Profit

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/03/21/world/name-our-ship-boaty-mcboatface/

>>1019379
the more popular the better, only plebs would charter it anyway

You guys seen this video before?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d01nPplXC_U

>>1019364

What boat?

We got names around here like

>Just add water
>Phat shag
>Bacchanal
>Red Panty
>Sky Flirt
>Beep Beep
>Turn me on (coast guard)
>Shipwreck

And so on. Any boat that has a normal name is an obvious foreign boat.

>>1019364
Pussy wrecker 69 XXL

>>1019460
maybe a goofy, inane one would be worth it

its a small cat like in the pic

>>1019560

Rolly polly would be fun but not for tourists.

Small cat? Call it "meow"

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he tugg me

hey shipfags, anyone here get seasick on small seagoing boats?
if so, do you get seasick on cruise ships?
a buddy of mine invited me on a cruise from New England down to Bermuda next April, but if I'm just going to be puking my guts out the whole time I'll probably want to pass
I'm fine on river boats, I can sail for hours with no trouble, it's just motorboats in slightly choppy water that kills me
I've been whale watching on one of those big catamarans and I was fine then until I went inside

tl;dr, are big cruise boats still enough to make you seasick?

Taking the ferry from china to hong kong

https://youtu.be/n8SaT2Eg72g?t=1s

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Cold layup jackup

>>1019800
>tl;dr, are big cruise boats still enough to make you seasick?
No. Theyre fucking huge and dont even move during the day. They mostly only move at night.

What line is it? Carnival is trash.

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>mfw the NOAA officer corps is starting to call to me despite how much of a pay cut it would be over sailing commercially

I'd be making the pay of a newly commissioned officer in the military, but I'll be damned if it isn't the only way you can actually still go exploring these days. It's not like MSC is hiring either.

Does anyone have any experience sailing with them?

>>1020658
>they're considered not civilians
Sounds insane. I wouldn't do it just for the legal problems.

>>1020675
>legal problems

What legal problems? The ships are unarmed, and you're doing shit under the auspices of the US government.

>>1021167
>>1021167
>>1021167
NEW THREAD >>1021167

>>1017338

>they dont need that shit
i'm a stoopid cadet the post