About 10 hours before leaving port, the container ship, Dali, experienced a blackout during maintenance when a crewmember accidentally closed an inline engine exhaust damper. This blocked the engine’s exhaust from exiting the vessel and stalled the engine, the report states. Crewmembers restored po…

Spo Pain in the butt for the engine room when the vessel is trimmed by the head. All the drains from the spill containments are usually located aft. So leaks splash around and make a mess with the rolling onto the deck outside the containments. Mostly DG containments. Not to mention outlets from…

Exactly .That is what I reported to Greek Owners after interrogating in depth the Ukr.Cheng .We listed all the problems , including measurement of liquids in all the tanks including sump tank. Manual measurements were not a problem as tables had trim correction to 1.5 mtr by the head but all ele…

According to report pretty much even keel

Why did the vessel drift to starboard? I don’t know. I’ve never been on a ship of any type which steered straight with 0 deg rudder for an extended period. Some have better directional stability than others. Even two sister ships will have a slightly different steering tendency. The same ship wil…

Yes, my mistake. You’ve not included any calculation of block coefficient. Articles about parametric rolling often use values less the 0.7 for containerships, 0,65 perhpas being typically. In the case of the Dali the actual value is not known.

That is funny as we were both thinking abt it at the same time . :wink: As I was just about to give You another answer :wink: It is not about mine or your mistake as we both speculate trying to understand Dali phenomenon of loosing steering at abt 8 kts. As per available literature with her Lp…

:joy: :rofl: :joy: That is all me.You cut my head off and i will still try to bite your ankles :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: addendum. Besides some “friendlies” here call me AI chatbot without realising they are paying me a great complement . In a certain way I am working in a similar way but …

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