There really isn’t.
If you’ve ever prepared or let go an anchor on a major vessel?
You know accident is bullshit.
Please please please tell me how you drop the pick unintentionally, fail to notice, and drag the fucking thing for miles. Because I was a forecastle hand for a long time.
If you’ve ever prepared or let go an anchor on a major vessel?
You know accident is bullshit.
Please please please tell me how you drop the pick unintentionally, fail to notice, and drag the fucking thing for miles. Because I was a forecastle hand for a long time.
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Marine ins. companies recognice this possibility based on their actual cases.
A number of captains have told to their Finnish colleagues in public about these kinds of insidents
Let me explain why.
Securing an anchor doesn’t depend on one safety feature. Not a brilliant all encompassing example but there are FIVE preventers here. Five independent means of securing an anchor.
See the issue.?
You’ll hear it.
You’ll see uncontrolled run even from the bridge.
You’ll feel it as the anchor and cable start to bounce.
Alarms will be sounding.
Steering will be affected.
You can’t.
https://bsky.app/profile/tuomorusila.bsky.social/post/3li3fmg6dy22o
Denying this is usually seen as part of problem, not as solution.
Seriously.
You don’t drag an anchor, for miles, alter course and speed, and dont know.
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Help me out here.
https://bsky.app/profile/tuomorusila.bsky.social/post/3lgr5iwsbak2w
Yeah dude. This was my thing back in the day.
Yeah, I’ve dragged an anchor. HMS Illustrious. Falmouth roadstead 1994. At midnight. By torch.
I was cable party for both. I have prepared, let go, and brought in anchors on destroyers, a carrier and OPV. I know my riding slips from Blake’s, and have unscrewed more bottles than drank from them. I can make up a lugless joining shackle in the dark /1
Leaves us at 1 in 10-100k years.