Awww come on Steamer, mistakes are made everyday. I came by mine legitimately. You’ve never made a mistake…I understand. I’m sure since Truth is what you are all about, you are just aching for Biden/Harris. LOL
If you want some laughs come on over to Twitter.
Coming from you a Guy who never made an error in his life Steamer…
I see your Pig and raise you a Camel
In 1998, when Damon Chouest and Kodiak II were chartered to BP and working with Ocean America in Mississippi Canyon, the two AHTS vessels were tasked to deliver, over time, one million gallons of diesel fuel to GSF Explorer, also on BP charter, prior to the drillship departing the GOM for West Africa. I was mate on Damon Chouest and one afternoon, while moored alongside Explorer and transferring fuel, I talked via VHF radio to the Chief Engineer aboard Explorer. When I asked about fuel consumption, the Chief told me on average the ship consumed 16,000-18,000 gal/day while on DP. However, he said during a recent strong norther, with all thrusters ramped high for most of a 24 hour period, the ship burned 25,000 gallons. In those days that was a lot of fuel!
Had to put in tonnes to figure it out. Approximately 95 tonnes per day would be considered economical down here.
Just must horn in here about Hughes and the Goose! Went to McMinnville, OR a few years ago to see Evergreen’s museum and the immense Spruce Goose. Bought a video there with several cuts on it about Hughes, his history, his airplanes and Congressional Investigation of him because of accusations concerning the goverment’s money and the Goose. It was extremely satisfying to see Hughes getting fed up with the whole investigation nonsense and him pretty well telling the good senators to shove it and leaving!
Hopefully Transocean didn’t cut them too much of a discount. I was a young and naive third mate on there when Global SantaFe was running her and was tasked (along with much of the deck crew) with removing asbestos floor tiles and overhead insulation up in the forward house. Makes me cringe every time I see commercials about mesothelioma now. Dust masks were probably not the right ppe for that job…
Lost my dad at an advanced age to mesothelioma. The doctors said that although he hadn’t been around asbestos for several decades, his exposure to it while working in shipyards in his youth was the cause.
No dust masks don’t work and GSF had to know that so keep records of your time on board. What recourse you may have is a good question as GSF was absorbed by RIG and who knows what will happen to them. Asbestos can be safely removed but you have to have a HEPA filter for breathing and or water mist to hold down the dust particles. I know that later GSF had the asbestos insulation in the engine room sprayed with a material that was supposed to “encapsulate” the asbestos. Basically it was just a clear spray that was said to keep the particles from being airborne. Of course if the insulation were cut the warranty would be void, I am sure.
Asbestos is scary stuff but I know people that were exposed for years with no problems. You’ll likely be fine as your exposure wasn’t long.
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I am sorry about your Dad. At that time people just didn’t know about the long term effects of asbestos, it is amazing more people didn’t die from it. I had a bout with cancer a few years back and once it was confirmed they asked me if I would answer a series of questions so the results could be submitted to various cancer research organizations. I said sure why not? Some of the questions I was asked besides the normal, "have you ever smoked tobacco? Were have you been exposed to asbestos, coal dust, smoke from fires, engine exhaust, oil fumes, lived in confined spaces for a long time etc? I told about half way thru the questions that I probably was not a good representative sample for their study. They agreed.
I don’t think many of us, particularly those of us fossils, would be good candidates for that survey. When I think of the asbestos plaster in boiler rooms and engine rooms and the living conditions enjoyed onboard warships with copious supplies of tobacco as well. I was too late for coal smoke although there was plenty around, we had steam locomotives up until the mid 1950’s.
Mind you I have attended the funeral of more than a few of my contemporaries .
I worked on the conversion of the rig when Global Marine was breaking her back out if the Mothball fleet. Have some great memories but had no idea of the history of it at the time.