I see these 2 x grey hulls almost every day here in the city since I live right near the East River. I hear she carries dried human feces from various loading locations around the 5 boroughs to someplace in da’Bronx where - in true NYC style - we sell that shit to the folks in Florida! Really?
Anyone have any real info on her?
The older vessel us a real beauty with a fine sheer and nice proportions.
[QUOTE=richard8000milesaway;71521]I see these 2 x grey hulls almost every day here in the city since I live right near the East River. I hear she carries dried human feces from various loading locations around the 5 boroughs to someplace in da’Bronx where - in true NYC style - we sell that shit to the folks in Florida! Really?
Anyone have any real info on her?
The older vessel us a real beauty with a fine sheer and nice proportions.[/QUOTE]
Those are NYC sewage tankers. I have a couple of friends who work as Captain on them. Not a bad jpb, they work a day on day off rotation and are home every night. They collect liquid sewage from the various NYC plants to be taken for dumping offshore. They have three of them, all fairly old, the “North River” “Newtown Creek” and “Owl’s Head” (named for two of the NYC sewage plants.
There’s more info than you want or need here: http://www.nyc.gov/html/dep/pdf/wwsystem.pdf
Actually there are two brand new ones. There ain’t no ‘dried out’ about it! Liquid gold.
Actually interesting side story to this. About 20 years ago they used 80k barges to transport the sludge offshore to dump. The barges were remote controlled by the tug wirelessly. During a bad storm the barge broke loose. It was missing for 2 or 3 weeks. NY kept looking for it. Finally somone found it almost at Bermuda. When the tug got to it they found huge scrape marks where a ship had come along side ( supposedly to pump off the valuable cargo). Only to realize it wasn’t fuel! Surprise, surprise, surprise!
Hahaha great sea story!!!
My understanding is that the sewage is taken to a plant in Sheepshead Bay, NY for “de-watering” and then shipped to a landfill. The sewage dumps off Sandy Hook have been closed for quite a few years.
The name of the lost barge was the Princess B., yes it was recovered. It belonged to the “Dragon Lady” Evelyn Frank and it was lost due to a parted 9" nylon hawser in very heavy weather. In a separate and final incident that same barge now sits in about 6000 feet of water due to a jammed ballast sea-chest valve and the resultant loss of reserve bouyancy. Their load of treated sewage was to be discharged on the 106 mile dumpsite, just past the continental shelf. The tankerman was airlifted by USCG SAR off the barge while her decks were nearly awash. The barge was one of two that Evelyn acquired and converted. Both barges were initially in oil but the PB was converted to handle sludge. The second barge was the Morris J. Berman was used exclusively for petroleum transport. That barge is infamous in Puerto Rico for running aground and spilling its load of black oil on the beach in front of the San Juan Hilton. It broke its towline the night before and the mate on watch wasn’t aware of the loss until he was notified by cell phone that his barge was ashore. The Master of the tug suffered the wrath of the USCG and was issued a huge fine and other indignities as the result of that grounding.
I read in Workboat that Halter is building a few new “honey” tankers fir NYC. They should be just anout done with them by now.
Years ago, I worked on one of the Dragon Lady’s Dump Tankers the Rebeca K. Now she was a classic. She was one of the original Honey Boats from N.Y.C. We used to run all the way out to the Chemical 120 mile dump and dump Poison. What a job that was!!!
How do you get a job on one of those?
Its a NYC civil service job. NYC has a website. nyc.gov or some such. The NYC unions also have a newspaper called the Chief.
Drilling for Oil vs. Transporting Poop.
[QUOTE=PDCMATE;71592]Drilling for Oil vs. Transporting Poop.[/QUOTE]
A friend had a converted mudboat hauling sludge out of Rockaway Inlet. His business card read “Your $hit is our bread and butter”. LOL!
[QUOTE=injunear;71594]A friend had a converted mudboat hauling sludge out of Rockaway Inlet. His business card read “Your $hit is our bread and butter”. LOL![/QUOTE]
Thats freakin hillarious! I would definitely get a business card, obviously the same color as poop brown with my title as “Poop Shipper” or “Poo Hauler” or “Poo Master” "or “Crap Logistical Coordinator”
It’s the Shit Ship.
[QUOTE=injunear;71594]A friend had a converted mudboat hauling sludge out of Rockaway Inlet. His business card read “Your $hit is our bread and butter”. LOL![/QUOTE]
There is a plumbing and septic tank company in Florida that used to run T.V. ads stating “In the #2 business were #1” I always used to laugh at the comericals.
Gives a new meaning to wiper.,.,
Very good.
[QUOTE=injunear;71594]A friend had a converted mudboat hauling sludge out of Rockaway Inlet. His business card read “Your $hit is our bread and butter”. LOL![/QUOTE]
Years ago, in my ABS days, I had a mud boat in the yard for Special Survey that had just finished hauling sludge up in that area. I am guessing it may be the same boat. I can’t recall if it went back to the same dooty or not. Had to be early to mid nineties. Lovely time doing tank internals. That said, as an engineer and a surveyor, dealing with human waste is not an uncommon occurrence.
[QUOTE=cmakin;71624]That said, as an engineer and a surveyor, dealing with human waste is not an uncommon occurrence.[/QUOTE]
Yes, but deck officers believe theirs don’t stink.
K.C.
[QUOTE=cmakin;71624]Years ago, in my ABS days, I had a mud boat in the yard for Special Survey that had just finished hauling sludge up in that area. I am guessing it may be the same boat. I can’t recall if it went back to the same dooty or not. Had to be early to mid nineties. Lovely time doing tank internals. That said, as an engineer and a surveyor, dealing with human waste is not an uncommon occurrence.[/QUOTE]
Hehehe. You said dooty.