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Site related news, functions and modules / Re: What Image Editing Program Do You Use?

« on: August 02, 2015, 08:41:42 PM »

Adobe Photoshop CS5, I think.

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Shipping News and information / Re: Ice Management Tug Fennica forced back to Dutch Harbor

« on: July 21, 2015, 06:15:01 AM »

First of all, it's a capping stack and not a blowout preventer. Secondly, Shell is allowed to start drilling as long as the drillbit does not reach potentially oil and gas bearing depths.

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Shipping News and information / Re: Ice Management Tug Fennica forced back to Dutch Harbor

« on: July 20, 2015, 06:35:27 AM »

Then reassign them as secondary ice management vessels. I admit I'm not familiar with offshore operations, but isn't anchor-handling something that happens largely before and after the actual drilling operation? What are the other icebreakers - Aiviq and Tor Viking - doing in the meantime?

In this operation, strict adherence to "the Plan" is paramount. The pawns are not interchangeable as you suggest.

I wonder how many operations have failed because of this kind of mindset.

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Shipping News and information / Re: Ice Management Tug Fennica forced back to Dutch Harbor

« on: July 19, 2015, 08:10:32 PM »

Well, they have Aiviq...

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Shipping News and information / Re: What do the interiors of freight roro ferries look like?

« on: June 29, 2015, 09:33:41 PM »

I should have a lot of photographs from Finnlines's Antares, which is a 12 pax ro-ro ship. I see if I can get some scanned later this week. The passenger facilities in that were quite fancy.

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Shipping News and information / Re: Current largest capacity container carrier @ 19,870 teu. in service

« on: June 27, 2015, 08:24:24 AM »

This is the first container ship with a recorded length overall of 400 metres. I have to update the list of the world's longest ships in Wikipedia AGAIN! >_<

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Site related news, functions and modules / Re: Photographs on this site

« on: May 20, 2015, 04:14:39 AM »

in the whole mail is nothing stated that it is a NO-REPLY mail,,is it ?

To me, it looks like a standard delivery failure notification, albeit with slightly different wording.

That would be the first e-mail address I've ever seen with "www." in the domain.

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Site related news, functions and modules / Re: Photographs on this site

« on: May 19, 2015, 09:23:15 PM »

If you call the wrong number, don't expect the right person to answer.

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Shipping News and information / Re: Drill Ship Noble Discoverer retreat?

« on: May 13, 2015, 10:59:39 AM »

Looks like the rig is now safely in Everett.

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Site related news, functions and modules / Re: Photographs on this site

« on: May 11, 2015, 07:26:21 PM »

There's a Facebook group for ships built on a particular shipyard. Every day, one member posts a photograph of a particular ship arriving in a particular port.

Every. Freaking. Day.

Let's not make Shipspotting.com like that.

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Shipping News and information / Re: Drill Ship Novle Discoverer retreat?

« on: May 10, 2015, 11:19:28 AM »

Perhaps they are not in a hurry to reach port. Fennica and Nordica are still underway, having just passed the Panama Canal.

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Shipping News and information / Re: South Korea plans feasibility study for Sewol salvage

« on: April 24, 2015, 05:25:43 AM »

I guess the driving force is different between airplane crashes and shipwrecks. In case of the former, the investigators want to know what caused the crash and how to prevent it from the future. After all, we don't know why the plane disappeared. While we know why Sewol capsized and there isn't probably much to learn from raising the wreck, the ship itself poses a threat to shipping and environment and thus should be removed or at least emptied of anything potentially hazardous to the marine life. In case of Sewol, the ship is not even in deep water, so it could be raised by using the same method that they used to chop down Tricolor a few years back.

Sure, it's always possible to find bigger problems and you could use the hungry children of Africa as an argument against any spending anywhere in the world. When you bought a new camera to take photographs of ships, didn't it even cross your mind that there are children in Africa who don't have food...

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Shipping News and information / Re: Pieter Schelte

« on: February 07, 2015, 06:07:45 PM »

I think Eduard should just name the ship after himself. "Well, you didn't accept my father's name, so..."

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Shipping News and information / Re: ships sold for scrap

« on: February 07, 2015, 06:06:24 PM »

Tanker Menelaus (former Kiisla IMO 9267558), Chittagong

IMO 7347500

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Shipping News and information / Re: Pieter Schelte

« on: January 17, 2015, 08:31:15 PM »

Wikipedia is by far the most reliable source of information on the internet, for sure.

Making such statements shows how little you know about Wikipedia and how it works. The quoted chapter was cited from an USA Today article about the naming controversy as clearly indicated by the inline citation (number in brackets) in Peter's post. Here is an excerpt from that article:

Hagelstein said Heerema joined the Nazis out of opposition to communism rather than enthusiasm for national socialism. He said he then switched sides and joined the resistance in 1943 "as he could no longer associate himself with the ideas of the Nazis."

He noted that Heerema was tried and released shortly after the war, which shows he "cannot have been seriously delinquent."

The respected Netherlands Institute for War Documentation said that's technically accurate. Heerema was sentenced by a Dutch court to three years in prison but quickly released, the courts having recognized his unspecified but "very important" services to the resistance between August 1943 and March 1944.

Taking into consideration that this is a somewhat "hot" topic at the moment, I'm sure that the article is watched by a large number of users who would quickly revert controversial edits.