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Post by dutchstokie on Oct 28, 2013 15:40:36 GMT
Just got me thinking about the bad wind and rain today, I wouldnt want to be on one of these rigs out in the North Sea right now.....
Fair play if theres any offshore workers on here....
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Post by choc on Oct 28, 2013 16:16:51 GMT
I'd find working on one of the supply / emergency vessels much worse. I had to crawl along the floor back to the accommodation minus hat and glasses that had been ripped off due to the wind. We also had a typhoon where they evacuated the rig (Not in UK waters).
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Post by lawrieleslie on Oct 28, 2013 19:06:27 GMT
Having spent 34 years in Royal Navy many of them at sea I can say from experience it is safer for a large vessel to be "riding out the storm" by heading into it than trying to find safe anchorages around Coast lines in those conditions. Of course it is much more uncomfortable for the crew as Choc describes above. I have Boat Watch App and was watching traffic in the English Channel from Dover to Isles of Scilly last night and you would be shocked at the number of vessels that were underway in what was probably storm force 11 to hurricane force wind conditions. Honestly there were dozens if not hundreds.
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Post by Northy on Oct 28, 2013 20:05:57 GMT
Having spent 34 years in Royal Navy many of them at sea I can say from experience it is safer for a large vessel to be "riding out the storm" by heading into it than trying to find safe anchorages around Coast lines in those conditions. Of course it is much more uncomfortable for the crew as Choc describes above. I have Boat Watch App and was watching traffic in the English Channel from Dover to Isles of Scilly last night and you would be shocked at the number of vessels that were underway in what was probably storm force 11 to hurricane force wind conditions. Honestly there were dozens if not hundreds. Swing those lanterns and pull up a bollard  Agree, ships would be worse. Worst one I had was west of the Falklands, was on the middle watch and a wave was that big it crashed over the ship, came down the funnel, tripped the main engines and thermally cracked the funnel. OOW phoned down to me for a sitrep and admitted he thought we'd had it, the wave was huge. I've never seen anybody throw up so much as the squaddies we had on board, they never left their beds until South Georgia  |
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Post by lawrieleslie on Oct 28, 2013 20:30:52 GMT
Having spent 34 years in Royal Navy many of them at sea I can say from experience it is safer for a large vessel to be "riding out the storm" by heading into it than trying to find safe anchorages around Coast lines in those conditions. Of course it is much more uncomfortable for the crew as Choc describes above. I have Boat Watch App and was watching traffic in the English Channel from Dover to Isles of Scilly last night and you would be shocked at the number of vessels that were underway in what was probably storm force 11 to hurricane force wind conditions. Honestly there were dozens if not hundreds. Swing those lanterns and pull up a bollard Agree, ships would be worse. Worst one I had was west of the Falklands, was on the middle watch and a wave was that big it crashed over the ship, came down the funnel, tripped the main engines and thermally cracked the funnel. OOW phoned down to me for a sitrep and admitted he thought we'd had it, the wave was huge. I've never seen anybody throw up so much as the squaddies we had on board, they never left their beds until South Georgia Yes I well remember the Falkland Islands to South Georgia garrison monthly re-supply run when I was on Leeds Castle in 1990. That is without doubt the most treacherous 800 miles of open ocean anywhere on Earth. The castle Class FPVs were more than a match for those seas except they only had 3 genrators meaning very little or no redundancy if one went down. Which it did on one occasion when the mechanical over speed trip disintegrated. We rigged up a rope from the hand trip up to the control room and had one of the greenies on standby as the on watch over speed trip watch keeper if we had to use the generator. Unbelievably, when we got to Grytviken, we found an over speed trip unit in the Commandos store. It wasn't quite what was required but we managed to jury rig it to get us back to Falklands. Fuck knows what they do these days as there are no tiffs or mechs in the Navy anymore. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2013 21:27:05 GMT
Having spent 34 years in Royal Navy many of them at sea I can say from experience it is safer for a large vessel to be "riding out the storm" by heading into it than trying to find safe anchorages around Coast lines in those conditions. Of course it is much more uncomfortable for the crew as Choc describes above. I have Boat Watch App and was watching traffic in the English Channel from Dover to Isles of Scilly last night and you would be shocked at the number of vessels that were underway in what was probably storm force 11 to hurricane force wind conditions. Honestly there were dozens if not hundreds. Swing those lanterns and pull up a bollard Agree, ships would be worse. Worst one I had was west of the Falklands, was on the middle watch and a wave was that big it crashed over the ship, came down the funnel, tripped the main engines and thermally cracked the funnel. OOW phoned down to me for a sitrep and admitted he thought we'd had it, the wave was huge. I've never seen anybody throw up so much as the squaddies we had on board, they never left their beds until South Georgia pah, i have sailed the norfolk broads and some days we even had some rain  |
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Post by paulinespens on Oct 28, 2013 22:36:58 GMT
Didnt realise there was so many uncle Alberts on here. During the war............... Them crab trawlers on deadliest catch are fucking mad too. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2013 23:06:48 GMT
Didnt realise there was so many Uncle Alberts on here. During the war............... Them crab trawlers on deadliest catch are fucking mad too.  |
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Post by craig67 on Oct 29, 2013 1:17:36 GMT
I did a couple of years in my early 20's.
The worst bit for me was going from the heli onto the main rig-used to shit myself.
I worked in the kitchens so used to stay out of the worst of the weather,which I was glad about;but some of the weather used to be terrifying.
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Post by harryburrows on Oct 30, 2013 18:17:17 GMT
I did a couple of years in my early 20's. The worst bit for me was going from the heli onto the main rig-used to shit myself. I worked in the kitchens so used to stay out of the worst of the weather,which I was glad about;but some of the weather used to be terrifying. That you Steve ? |
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Post by britsabroad on Oct 31, 2013 5:14:14 GMT
Having spent 34 years in Royal Navy many of them at sea I can say from experience it is safer for a large vessel to be "riding out the storm" by heading into it than trying to find safe anchorages around Coast lines in those conditions. Of course it is much more uncomfortable for the crew as Choc describes above. I have Boat Watch App and was watching traffic in the English Channel from Dover to Isles of Scilly last night and you would be shocked at the number of vessels that were underway in what was probably storm force 11 to hurricane force wind conditions. Honestly there were dozens if not hundreds. Here they shift all the small/medium sized ships to anchor behind one of the islands when a typhoon comes through, luckily they almost always come from the same direction. The big ships all go out to sea where they're out of the way. |
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