I heard that Harvey will be sending 3 boats up and a couple Chouest boats. Everything is on track
does the ardvark have any crew left, i heard they all left when a wave went over the deck and scared them?
At least they found out what surge gear is for so that should be one less error next time…
[QUOTE=Mikey;118836]I’m assuming it wasn’t there yet when Rob was there. That or if he missed it we’re going to have to take him out back and shoot him. We should check the dates…
http://gcaptain.com/yard-keppel-shipyard-images/[/QUOTE]
It’s been in Singapore since 2nd half of April or so. And not in a state to go anywhere so surprised Rob would’ve missed it. Unless there were no ‘visitors’ wanted in its vicinity maybe.
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Just found this pic on Instagram from keppel shipyard looks like she’s floating again.
Icebreaker Vladimir Ignatyuk is back from the other side of the world and was riding on anchor off Nome last week.
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Just found this pic on Instagram from keppel shipyard looks like she’s floating again.[/QUOTE]
but also still partly listing, it seems … That a very recent pic?
It was posted on Instagram feed of a guy I follow a week ago so I believe it to be within the last month.
and here’s another one from the 1st half of August. I came across it on FB.
Looks like they’ve got the cranes removed and were prepping up for repairs (looking at that scaffolding on its side).
Anyone who has worked in Alaska knows the diesel fuel up there is Arctic grade (low wax content for low temp.) and it needs lubricity added to it so injectors and pumps have lubricated moving parts. I worked on a boat/barge which carried both lubricated and unlubricated ULSD (ultra low sulphur diesel) for many fuel depots along the coast near Nome. If the towing vessel got some unlubricated diesel it could ruin all the engines. Some tankerman may have mixed a bad batch as there is a exact formula for proper lubrication of moving parts. Just my 2 cents worth.
[QUOTE=Too bad steam is gone;120744]Anyone who has worked in Alaska knows the diesel fuel up there is Arctic grade (low wax content for low temp.) and it needs lubricity added to it so injectors and pumps have lubricated moving parts. I worked on a boat/barge which carried both lubricated and unlubricated ULSD (ultra low sulphur diesel) for many fuel depots along the coast near Nome. If the towing vessel got some unlubricated diesel it could ruin all the engines. Some tankerman may have mixed a bad batch as there is a exact formula for proper lubrication of moving parts. Just my 2 cents worth.[/QUOTE]
new engines are designed to handle that but yes its a problem in older engines
[QUOTE=“Too bad steam is gone;120744”]Anyone who has worked in Alaska knows the diesel fuel up there is Arctic grade (low wax content for low temp.) and it needs lubricity added to it so injectors and pumps have lubricated moving parts. I worked on a boat/barge which carried both lubricated and unlubricated ULSD (ultra low sulphur diesel) for many fuel depots along the coast near Nome. If the towing vessel got some unlubricated diesel it could ruin all the engines. Some tankerman may have mixed a bad batch as there is a exact formula for proper lubrication of moving parts. Just my 2 cents worth.[/QUOTE]
Im new here how is it can I get a job up there as a foreign national tht holds a valid c1d visa wth 8yrs sea going experience along with documents to wrk as an oiler or deck hand
Bring on the pointy stick!!!
[QUOTE=kirt;120774]Im new here how is it can I get a job up there as a foreign national tht holds a valid c1d visa wth 8yrs sea going experience along with documents to wrk as an oiler or deck hand[/QUOTE]
You most certainly are a stoopid effing new guy here and have got to be joking! How on earth do you justify such a post in this thread? Next, now can you justify such a post at all? If you had done an ounce of homework and studied US immigration law and USCG regulations, you would already know that a c1d visa is worthless of ANY US flagged vessel! You need a minimum of resident worker (Green Card) status to get a USCG issued merchant mariner’s credential.
DO THE GODDAMNED RESEARCH FIRST BEFORE POSTING SUCH NONSENSE HERE!
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[QUOTE=Too bad steam is gone;120744]Anyone who has worked in Alaska knows the diesel fuel up there is Arctic grade (low wax content for low temp.) and it needs lubricity added to it so injectors and pumps have lubricated moving parts. I worked on a boat/barge which carried both lubricated and unlubricated ULSD (ultra low sulphur diesel) for many fuel depots along the coast near Nome. If the towing vessel got some unlubricated diesel it could ruin all the engines. Some tankerman may have mixed a bad batch as there is a exact formula for proper lubrication of moving parts. Just my 2 cents worth.[/QUOTE]
None of this had a single thing to do with AIVIQ’s going dead in the water in the Gulf of Alaska. They got WATER in the fuel…PERIOD!
That is the local story, the truth is out there>
None of this had a single thing to do with AIVIQ’s going dead in the water in the Gulf of Alaska. They got WATER in the fuel…PERIOD![/QUOTE]
I thought I saw the Aiviq under weigh again but the vessel in question turned out to be the Nordica, a 380’ Finish multi-purpose icebreaker owned by Artica Offshore. Her AIS history suggests that she has been Northbound up the West Coast and is currently bound for Tacoma. I don’t know who she is contracted to but somebody has serious plans up North.
The nordica and finnica are contracted with shell the other one has been roaming around Dutch and up north doing…?
They are charted by shell the other boat is the finnica and it has been in Dutch roaming around doing who knows what
[QUOTE=rshrew;121915]They are charted by shell the other boat is the finnica and it has been in Dutch roaming around doing who knows what[/QUOTE]
Fennica was out there dealing with geophysical work in the light of Shell’s 2013 Open Water Survey. Nordica did some checks atthe Burger prospect where they drilled last year + maintenance. Fennica arrived back at Dutch H. yesterday. Even if they are not drilling this year they are still somehow busy up north.
The Alaska Dispatch has an article about howShell is paying for HAZMAT Operator classes out in the villages of Western Alaska.
The alliance has been pushing aggressively to let oil companies as well as state and federal agencies know it’s available to provide such things as emergency response services or manpower for a cleanup, he said.
The group’s efforts will bear their first fruit early next week. Royal Dutch Shell agreed to sponsor a hazardous materials training workshop in Wales for 12 to 24 residents living in that village at the tip of the Bering Strait, said Ivanoff.
The Netherlands-based oil giant is also interested in providing the training in the six other villages that, along with Wales, launched the alliance in August, Ivanoff said.
Shell’s decision to pay for the three-day training could be a hopeful sign for Alaskans worried that the company will abandon the exploratory drilling they started in summer 2012, when Shell became the first company in two decades to punch into the U.S. Arctic Ocean seafloor.
[QUOTE=renoun;122395]The Alaska Dispatch has an article about howShell is paying for HAZMAT Operator classes out in the villages of Western Alaska.[/QUOTE]
interesting. More details would’ve been nice but all we got from Curtis Smith was a louzy statement ([I]“Leading up to quarterly earnings we generally like to keep a low profile on new stories so as not influence stock price one way or the other”[/I]). Yeah, right …