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Shipping News and information / Re: New shipspotting.com site almost ready

« on: April 27, 2010, 03:29:34 PM »

Hi
Just to to toss in another variable. None of the above are used on naval vessels. What is interesting there is displacement.

Best regards
Bjarne Pettersen

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Shipping News and information / Re: German Gepard Class

« on: March 29, 2010, 04:48:18 PM »

I see what you are talking about, but I do believe it is the same on all three. I think it might be the perspective that's making it appear that way, but I am not an expert on Otos
Maybe there are others that know them better here.

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Shipping News and information / Re: German Gepard Class

« on: March 28, 2010, 11:21:01 AM »

Hi
I've looked at the two, but I fail to see the difference. It seems like the same OTO shield to me, just from different angles and aspect.

You might have a keener eye than me, what is it that is different?

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Shipping News and information / Re: German Gepard Class

« on: March 27, 2010, 04:56:05 PM »

Could you please put in a link to the two different ones?

It'll be easier to see what you're asking about :-)

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Shipping News and information / Re: Superferry 9 sinks in the Philippines, 3 dead, 88 missing

« on: September 07, 2009, 06:13:54 AM »

If you look closely at the different pictures you'll notice that all but two of the rafts have been released. In addidition there were several other vessels present to aid in the rescue.

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Shipping News and information / Re: Full City

« on: August 10, 2009, 10:51:12 PM »

Hi
Try this http://www.kystverket.no/?did=9908780

There are more info in Norwegian on the same site

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Shipping News and information / Re: Crane collapses after being hit by the ZHEN HUA

« on: March 07, 2008, 09:57:09 AM »

Two questions come to mind regarding the moorings;

Were the moorings protected against chafing?

Were the moorings laid in such a fashion that the doubles had proper loadsharing. If two lines are laid a pair and they take unequal strain you might as well have a single line there.

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Shipping News and information / Re: ship-collision outside Norway

« on: October 13, 2007, 01:24:27 PM »

Am not 100 pst sure but believe it to be a Selfa Arctic '35

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Shipping News and information / Re: ship-collision outside Norway

« on: October 12, 2007, 07:39:30 PM »

Well, it would be miracle if he was still alive, but I don't see that as very likely.

He is still missing to my knowledge.

He was actually a survivor of the Tsunami, I think in Thailand......

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Shipping News and information / Re: ship-collision outside Norway

« on: October 12, 2007, 12:16:37 PM »

During the hearings today it was established that the fishingvessel had the right of way.

I will attempt to translate the transcriptions fra the VHF log  of the Coastal radiostation receiving the calls (Flor

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Shipping News and information / Re: ship-collision outside Norway

« on: October 10, 2007, 11:43:10 AM »

As a matter of coincidence HNoMS Tyr is actually a "controlled minelayer", but is equipped with ROV's and has over the later years been frequently used in search of missing persons in incidents like this. Likewise she has been used in the investigations of wrecks.

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Shipping News and information / Re: ship-collision outside Norway

« on: October 10, 2007, 08:04:36 AM »

For Norwegian speakers hers is an article from this morning it also shows a map and pictures of the two boats involved.

http://www.tk.no/nyheter/article3048271.ece

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Shipping News and information / Re: ship-collision outside Norway

« on: October 09, 2007, 09:41:19 PM »

There is many factors playing into this and it's to early to say for sure.

Just remember that according to the rules of the road the fishingvessel has the right of way when fishing. To complicate  things further, many small fishingvessels actually don't man the wheelhouse all the time 'cause they have to help out working on deck preparing the catch on their way in.

And in the end you always have the fact that in many of these cases you have a small fishing boat of wood or fiberglass in relatively heavy seas. This makes it a har "target" to sea for  radars (especially newer ones with a lot of fancy clutter functions and videoprsessing) and the small fishingboats don't have AIS.

A further cause for this might be a watchstander problem on the tanker with problems ranging from not vigilant enough (or present) lookouts, fatigue, training, work ethics, work load on the mates or a combination of all of the above.

This is all to early to say anyhting about it, except for that it is a tragic accident for all involved.  :-(

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Shipping News and information / Re: ship-collision outside Norway

« on: October 09, 2007, 07:55:54 PM »

Sorry to hear Tomas. This is happening more and more often unfortunatly.

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Shipping News and information / Hurtigruten group sells M/S Lyngen

« on: September 04, 2007, 10:54:06 AM »

Hurtigruten Group has sold M/S Lyngen for 8,6 mill USD. She was bought by Lindblad Expedition.

This is a part of the restructure after the merger between OVDS and TFDS.

been having problems posting. I apologize if it comes more than once