Stena Immaculate Mariners Rise to the Occasion “I poked my head up and was able to see a vessel coming straight at us,” Griffin said. “Straight at me and my tank. All I could see was something big and blue heading toward us. I immediately knew, it’s not going to miss us. It was going fast. I was f…

Yeah it’s a shorthand for using something like a Altair 5x or Qrae to check the levels in a tank prior to tank entry. No one is actually sniffing with their nose. Just a long ass hose and a very expensive gadget that is a pain in the ass to calibrate. Likely in this case because the crew would need…

“Sniffing” is just the American slang word for enclosed space atmospheric gas measurement.

[image] ombugge: I don’t know how usual it is to carry 2 x 3rd mates on tankers of the type and size of the Stena Immaculate in normal operation and trade. If in coastal trade, with short sea voyages between port call I can see this being the case, but she was not in that kind of trade. It’s…

I know my tanker time was a long time ago and was almost all in crude oil cargos. We had a C/M , 2nd mate and 3rd mate. All went well because hours of work were never monitored, the mate was watch on stop on, and we worked 6 on 6 off. Then came crude oil washing, inert gas systems and cargo control …

While some are sniffing, peeking , poking, searching and digging into the mystery behind the total silence about the time frame prior collision , the others are glorifying and sugar coating brave & heroic actions of the officers and crew after the brutal ramming. As far as I am concerned all crew…

[image] NWWaterman: To get even more specific, that’s the standard on every Crowley tanker I’ve ever been on. Sure , sure. But sometimes , some Crowley tankers abandon their strict standards, when their ships are bound to carry " table wine " instead of jet fuel . [THE MAGNIFICENT FIFE] …

Matthew 7:7 “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. ” But it is in human nature to seek the truth.

Oh Lordy that nerds line got me :rofl:

[image] Hogsnort: I know my tanker time was a long time ago and was almost all in crude oil cargos. We had a C/M , 2nd mate and 3rd mate. All went well because hours of work were never monitored, My experience was initially that US tankers carried 2 Thirds, but that went away in the early 80s…

The article says 2 officers were trapped forward. It does not specify deck or engine. Nor does it say they were sniffing.

Stena Immaculate Mariners Rise to the Occasion - SIU Newsletter - #35 by Kennebec_Captain - Marine Incidents

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