I’m guessing they’re gonna “Double Buckle” the jewelry, or at least not use Chinese Ratingless Available Products…
They may even tight line the tow wire so that they can swing it around the turns faster.
[QUOTE=Oil_Is_Evil;160887]I’m guessing they’re gonna “Double Buckle” the jewelry, or at least not use Chinese Ratingless Available Products…[/QUOTE]
I am guessing that IF allowed to tow it will be one of the most over examined safest tows in recent history.
Yeah, rumor has it they moved the fuel vents to the galley… Nothing like throwing a couple thousand tons of tripped out Nanuk into the mix… http://youtu.be/kk75WNVKW3s
Coasties cut the Video just as Nanuk spun out… Why?
For what it is worth she’s heading back into Seattle without a tow.
[QUOTE=renoun;160939]For what it is worth she’s heading back into Seattle without a tow.[/QUOTE]
very possible too. Not the longest distance and she’s getting new thrusters these days. And they’ll definitely need to be tested so what’s better than a little trip towards that Seattle terminal.
looks like the Aiviq will spend its time all alone in Seattle at Terminal 5. Bummer for Shell!
Mayor: Port needs new permit to host oil-drilling fleet
Seattle Times - May 4, 2015 at 9:14 am
The Port of Seattle must apply for a new land-use permit in order to serve as a hub starting this summer for an offshore Arctic oil-drilling fleet, Seattle Mayor Ed Murray said Monday morning.
“After talking to the port about its plans at Terminal 5 and after reviewing the 20-year-old permit for the operation of the cargo terminal, (Seattle’s Department of Planning and Development) has found and I concur that the long-term moorage and maintenance of Arctic drilling equipment falls outside the current permit,” Murray said, drawing applause at a downtown Seattle fundraising breakfast for Climate Solutions, a “clean-energy economy” nonprofit.
“(The department) has determined that the Port’s proposed use is not a cargo terminal and therefore the Port must apply for a new permit,” the mayor added. “I expect the Port to obtain all required city permits before any moorage or work begins at Terminal 5 on Shell’s oil and drilling equipment.”
The Port’s plans to host Royal Dutch Shell rigs and support vessels under a two-year lease have drawn fierce criticism from environment activists opposed to the drilling because of fears about Arctic oil spills about climate change.
The rigs and support vessels are on their way through Puget Sound but some activists intend to block them on May 18 in Seattle with a flotilla of kayaks.
“While requiring a permit may not stop the port’s plans, it does give the port an opportunity to pause, an opportunity to rethink the issue,” Murray said. “This is an opportunity, I believe, for the port and all of us to make a bold statement about how oil companies contribute to climate change, oil spills and other environmental disasters and reject this short-term lease.”
The mayor spoke about the port’s permit in the context of calling for an “economy of the future.”
“To prevent the full force of climate change, we need not continue with the past,” he said. “It’s time to turn the page. Things like oil trains and coal trains and oil-drilling rigs are the past. It’s time to focus on the economy of the future. Clean energy, electric cars and transit, green homes and an environmentally-progressive business community.”
[QUOTE=Drill Bill;161422]looks like the Aiviq will spend its time all alone in Seattle at Terminal 5. Bummer for Shell![/QUOTE]
it was stoopid for Shell and Foss to think that Seattle would just be ok with allowing rigs to sit at Terminal 5. The citizens of the city are NOT ok with arctic drilling and the opposition was strong against letting them base there. Shortsighted and narrow minded yes, but you have to understand Seattle is a “modern” city which has lost its industrial roots as has San Francisco. They love companies like Amazon, Google and Amgen which are clean businesses but don’t abide anything which they consider dirty. Everett on the otherhand is still a city which embraces industry and oil and I was very perplexed at the decision to rebase to a place where they knew they would not be wanted. Black eye for Foss to be sure but they too have a hardtime reading political winds in appears.
Either that or the local longshoremans union made a beef. The nerve of the deck crew stepping onto the dock and catching their own lines.
Well, I see a bunch of factory trawlers moored at the Seattle ‘Cruise Ship’ terminal. Is that a violation of that permit? Greenpeace has a beef with the factory trawlers as well as the oil industry.
Once this is seen as a successful tactic, one can expect all permit processes to be subordinated for indirect association and vocal minorities.
[QUOTE=Fraqrat;161425]Either that or the local longshoremans union made a beef. The nerve of the deck crew stepping onto the dock and catching their own lines.[/QUOTE]
I wonder if all the pierside labor was going to have to be union? If they are then I can see some issues with non union vessels coming to berth there. Vessels don’t have to be by Port rules but the terminal is and that could cause a bit of friction on the dock. Might even get bloody with Shell/ECO hired goons going head to head with ILWU goons. You know the media would take the side of the ILWU and it would be another blackeye for Shell’s PR campaign.
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[QUOTE=Jamesbrown;161426]Well, I see a bunch of factory trawlers moored at the Seattle ‘Cruise Ship’ terminal. Is that a violation of that permit? Greenpeace has a beef with the factory trawlers as well as the oil industry.
Once this is seen as a successful tactic, one can expect all permit processes to be subordinated for indirect association and vocal minorities.[/QUOTE]
Those trawlers have been there for many decades…that is old news now.
[QUOTE=c.captain;161428]I wonder if all the pierside labor was going to have to be union? If they are then I can see some issues with non union vessels coming to berth there. Vessels don’t have to be by Port rules but the terminal is and that could cause a bit of friction on the dock. Might even get bloody with Shell/ECO hired goons going head to head with ILWU goons. You know the media would take the side of the ILWU and it would be another blackeye for Shell’s PR campaign.[/QUOTE]
The terminal in Everett they used in 2013 was ILWU. They went through the learning curve then and should remember what can and can not be done. This includes the use of line handlers.
but Foss just carries on …
Just because the mayor proclaims its a land use violation that does not mean that it is. A court will have to decide that question. The Shell fleet will have sailed for Alaska long before the court decides that question.
There is a beach they can anchor off of up near Dutch. The disco didn’t have any land use problems last time it was there!
They have a permit already for several dedicated mooring locations off Dutch. Let’s see if they manage to properly secure the giant anchors and stay in place.
Polar Pioneer will be leaving from Port Angeles to Seattle this week too, it seems - http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20150511/NEWS/305119962/breaking-news-8212-oil-rig-polar-pioneer-to-exit-port-angeles-this
Aviq is Northbound from Seattle now with PA listed as her destination on AIS.
Looks like the Nobel Discoverer is Southbound in Admiralty Inlet with a gaggle of Foss tugs now too. Hopefully they’ll be close enough for me to photograph while we’ve got enough daylight.
In an unexpected turn Nobel Discoverer is now headed into Everett. Guess I won’t be getting photos.