I have eagerly awaited this report, both because it is a fascinating study in organizational failure and because I personally know people involved. I have some private thoughts about why it took five years to prepare the report. Suffice it to say that there are political sensitivities involved. I…

Viking Sky was less than a ship length from running aground in harsh weather and cold waters with more than 1,300 persons on board. [image] In the 10 seconds immediately following the blackout, a total of approximately 1,000 alarms went off in the IAS. Recovery from a blackout without a stand…

Sounds like another case of too many alarms, and not enough engineers.

From an article by TV2 in Norway: Source: Rapport fra havarikommisjonen: Viking Sky burde aldri gått fra kai

[image] ombugge: recovery from the blackout was time-consuming, and it took 39 minutes to get both propulsion engines operating I’ve second-hand knowledge of two serious cases of black-outs. In one with the Emergency Diesel Generator (EDG) operating and a second case without the EDG. In the …

Viking Sky is Diesel-Electric, with 4 x Diesel generators as her “main engines” and 2 x electric driven “Azipods” as main propulsion. She has SRtP class, so total blackout should not be possible. But apparently it can, when one of the generators are out of order and put off-line. Let us hope that …

We used to do full blackout recovery testing between wells on the semi sub, 45 seconds and your back on DP. I guess a ferry only has passengers so of less value than drill pipe and slap ya mum’s chilli powder and cheetos, so built to a lower standard.

Evidently there was a latent error with the documentation of the lube oil system. None of the vessels in the fleet of five sister vessels had been provided with instructions on correct lube oil sump tank filling levels or alarm setpoints. In June 2016, the engineers working on board the sister…

[image] powerabout: We used to do full blackout recovery testing between wells on the semi sub, 45 seconds and your back on DP. I guess a ferry only has passengers so of less value than drill pipe and slap ya mum’s chilli powder and cheetos, so built to a lower standard. We used to do the s…

If your blackout recovery is reliant on a single edg I would say the process is flawed Where are your UPS’s

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Chief_Seadog March 19, 2024, 10:39pm 7

Agree with K.C. I can only imagine the chaos when the lights went out. I don’t know what the standard is, but I thought 39 minutes from blackout to getting engines back online to be pretty admirable.

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