I wonder if Foss or Crowley have any of their big Alaska boats heading that way? It would seem like a good idea in case the ECO boat losses power again.
Last time I looked, the Crowley tug Alert had Kodiak set as its destination in AIS.
[QUOTE=ZDriver;92259]Drains for the day tanks would have been nice.[/QUOTE]
Yes, and a solid fuel tank top, with a manhole cover and U-tube vent installed, might be a good idea.
Add a bead of silicone around that manhole cover will help. You never have contaminated fuel until you get in thirty foot seas. God Bless them merry gentlemen aboard that tug.
[QUOTE=Focscle;92271]Add a bead of silicone around that manhole cover will help. You never have contaminated fuel until you get in thirty foot seas.[/QUOTE]
Long before there was silicone, long before red hand, there was a product called “White Lead” but I may be a lonesome cowboy here on that one.
[QUOTE=Focscle;92271]God Bless them merry gentlemen aboard that tug.[/QUOTE]
INDEED, Focscle ~
We still use white lead think you cannot buy it anymore though
The Coast Guard says the crews of two towing vessels attached to a Shell drill ship continue to battle a fierce storm in the Gulf of Alaska.
The crews remain stationed with the drill rig Kulluk Sunday 20 miles from Alaska’s Kodiak Island as they wait in rough seas for another tug boat to arrive. The Coast Guard says the goal is to tow the Kulluk to a safe harbor and determine the next step.
Read more here: http://www.adn.com/2012/12/29/2737708/crews-tow-shell-drill-vessel-to.html#storylink=cpy
The third tug they are waiting for is the Alert.
K.C.
Forecast not favorable
400 PM AKST SUN DEC 30 2012
[B]Tonight: [/B]S wind 40 kt diminishing to 25 kt after midnight. Seas 28 ft subsiding to 18 ft after midnight. Rain and snow.
[B]Mon: [/B]SE wind 25 kt becoming E 50 kt in the afternoon. Seas 17 ft. Rain.
[B]Mon Night: [/B]SE wind 50 kt. Seas 27 ft. Rain.
[B]Tue: [/B]S wind 45 kt. Seas 28 ft.
[B]Tue Night: [/B]S wind 35 kt. Seas 20 ft.
[B]Wed: [/B]SE wind 35 kt. Seas 14 ft.
[B]Thu: [/B]S wind 25 kt. Seas 14 ft.
[B]Fri: [/B]S wind 30 kt. Seas 13 ft.
Looks like its a party!
[ATTACH]2745[/ATTACH]
[QUOTE=c.captain;92237]Then there is MASSIVE human error at play here[/QUOTE]
commercial pressure, quick refuel and go?
we making a story up around a made up scenario here but…
I remember getting some emails from our sister ship ( we were in the med and they were towing Sakhalin to Korea) and they were getting so much seawater in the fuel via the vents they couldn’t cope.
The vents were all down on the deck at waist height…( ABS ) must have been rough…
[QUOTE=Kennebec Captain;92283]The Coast Guard says the crews of two towing vessels attached to a Shell drill ship continue to battle a fierce storm in the Gulf of Alaska.
The crews remain stationed with the drill rig Kulluk Sunday 20 miles from Alaska’s Kodiak Island as they wait in rough seas for another tug boat to arrive. The Coast Guard says the goal is to tow the Kulluk to a safe harbor and determine the next step.
Read more here: http://www.adn.com/2012/12/29/2737708/crews-tow-shell-drill-vessel-to.html#storylink=cpy
The third tug they are waiting for is the Alert.
K.C.
Forecast not favorable
400 PM AKST SUN DEC 30 2012
[B]Tonight: [/B]S wind 40 kt diminishing to 25 kt after midnight. Seas 28 ft subsiding to 18 ft after midnight. Rain and snow.
[B]Mon: [/B]SE wind 25 kt becoming E 50 kt in the afternoon. Seas 17 ft. Rain.
[B]Mon Night: [/B]SE wind 50 kt. Seas 27 ft. Rain.
[B]Tue: [/B]S wind 45 kt. Seas 28 ft.
[B]Tue Night: [/B]S wind 35 kt. Seas 20 ft.
[B]Wed: [/B]SE wind 35 kt. Seas 14 ft.
[B]Thu: [/B]S wind 25 kt. Seas 14 ft.
[B]Fri: [/B]S wind 30 kt. Seas 13 ft.[/QUOTE]
Yazu Fucking Christe !!
[QUOTE=powerabout;92286]I remember getting some emails from our sister ship ( we were in the med and they were towing Sakhalin to Korea) and they were getting so much seawater in the fuel via the vents they couldn’t cope.
The vents were all down on the deck at waist height…( ABS ) must have been rough…[/QUOTE]
What the fuck !!!
Hello - Anyone in authority reading this shit !
[QUOTE=Sweat-n-Grease;92287]Yazu Fucking Christe !![/QUOTE]
Those poor miserable fucks out there ain’t gonna see a break for many days. All will end up ok as long as no wires part or “buckles” come undone! If they lose the tow again, then who the fuck knows what will be the outcome?
this is the 24hour forecast
and this is the 48
like I said…POOR MISERABLE FUX!
[QUOTE=rshrew;92282]We still use white lead think you cannot buy it anymore though[/QUOTE]
Yea, it was banned decades ago. I’m surprised it still can be found. It worked. I used it a lot, plastered all over my hands. I’m 72 and very healthy but who knows, perhaps some mice died. I’m not saying it shouldn’t be banned, it’s lead, you understand. But hey, I didn’t eat it. I never ate paint either.
[QUOTE=c.captain;92291]Those poor miserable fucks out there ain’t gonna see a break for many days. All will end up ok as long as no wires part or “buckles” come undone! If they lose the tow again, then who the fuck knows what will be the outcome? [/QUOTE]
I hope some Big Shots are reading this thread.
[QUOTE=Sweat-n-Grease;92293]I hope some Big Shots are reading this thread.[/QUOTE]
don’t count on any from Shell Alaska…they are the best and the brightest maritime minds on the entire planet and are incapable of error!
if I were at Royal Dutch/Shell HQ in the Netherlands, I would be demanding anyone and everyone responsible for the entire Alaska embarrassment to be summarily tried and shot at sunrise for gross incompetence!
kirby paint out of mass makes the read lead…and they MIGHT have white lead-though not for sale to californians…
Not one word about this on National News, but there was an article I watched tonight about a high school girl and her controversial “poem.”
The poem wasn’t about us.
TOW LINES PARTED AGAIN ----- KULLUK ADRIFT — just in from from Alaska Daily News
Shell drill rig adrift again in Gulf of Alaska
Published: December 30, 2012 Updated 5 minutes ago
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A Coast Guard HC-130 Hercules aircraft from Air Station Kodiak overflies the tugs Aiviq and Nanuq tandem towing the mobile drilling unit Kulluk 116 miles southwest of Kodiak City, Alaska, Sunday, Dec. 30, 2012. The tug Alert from Prince William Sound and the Coast Guard Cutter Alex Haley from Kodiak are en route to assist.
Petty Officer 2nd Class Chris Usher — U.S. Coast Guard
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By LISA DEMER — ldemer@adn.com
An unmanned mobile oil drilling rig owned by Royal Dutch Shell is adrift – again – south of Kodiak Island after it lost towlines Sunday afternoon from two vessels trying to hold it in place against what have been pummeling winds and high seas, according to incident management leaders.
A team of 250 people from the Coast Guard, the state of Alaska, Royal Dutch Shell, and one of its contractors was hunkered down Sunday, mainly in Midtown Anchorage’s Frontier Building, trying to resolve an ongoing crisis with the Shell-owned drilling rig, the Kulluk.
Before the latest turn for the worse, representatives of the Coast Guard, Shell and the state Department of Environmental Conversation told reporters in a briefing Sunday that the situation was critical, but under control.
Then tow lines from the Aiviq and a second support vessel, the Nanuq “separated,” the joint command team said in a statement sent out at about 4:30 p.m.
A third vessel, the tug Alert, has arrived to the scene from Prince William Sound.
“The crew is evaluating all options for reconnecting with the Kulluk,” the command team said.
The incident team also must find a safe harbor for the Aiviq, as well as the Kulluk, to undergo inspections and possible repairs before heading south to Everett, Wash., where the Kulluk had been headed for off-season maintenance.
The Kulluk is a conical-shaped mobile rig that began drilling a single exploratory well in the Beaufort Sea this year. But it cannot propel itself and, to borrow from the children’s fictional character Lemony Snicket, a series of unfortunate events involving the rig began on Thursday during a stormy Gulf of Alaska crossing.
The Kulluk lost its towline from the Aiviq initially on Thursday. While a second tow line was attached, early Friday all four engines on the Aiviq failed.
The towline mishaps and the engine failures are under investigation, Sean Churchfield, Shell’s incident commander and the company’s operations manager for Alaska, told reporters.
The Aiviq is a new ship commissioned by Shell for its Arctic work and built and owned by Louisiana-based maritime company Edison Chouest Offshore.
On Saturday, the Kulluk’s 18-person crew was safely evacuated to Kodiak, the Aiviq’s engines were repaired with new fuel injectors, and a second tow vessel under contract to Shell, the Nanuq, also put a towline on the Kulluk. The Aiviq then was running off two engines at a time, as a precaution, officials said.
But now with no towlines securing it in place, the crew-less Kulluk is drifting about 20 miles south of Sitkinak Island, near Kodiak
Initial reports suggested that contaminated fuel might have caused the engines to malfunction, but that hasn’t been confirmed through fuel analysis, Churchfield said.
However, the fuel now being used is from a different tank than that in use when the engines failed, said Shell spokesman Curtis Smith.
Two crew members on the Aiviq suffered minor injuries at some point, but both are back at work, Churchfield said.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
Reach Lisa Demer at ldemer@adn.com or 257-4390.
Read more here: http://www.adn.com/2012/12/30/2738222/shell-drill-rig-adrift-again-in.html#storylink=botprev#storylink=cpy
[QUOTE=c.captain;92295]don’t count on any from Shell Alaska…they are the best and the brightest maritime minds on the entire planet and are incapable of error!
if I were at Royal Dutch/Shell HQ in the Netherlands, I would be demanding anyone and everyone responsible for the entire Alaska embarrassment to be summarily tried and shot at sunrise for gross incompetence![/QUOTE]
My thanks button went missing again - THANKS, Captain.