Fire On A Crude Oil Tanker Named- M.T. New Diamond
Fire is one of the fearsome enemies of the sailors. Although the ships are equipped with full gear for fighting fire and it is kept in state of readiness, and the ship’s crew is trained to handle the fire, yet the fires on ships occur at frightening regularity. Regular drills are carried to keep the…
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The Tragedy of Nagasaki Spirit
The Tragedy of Nagasaki Spirit One (dis)advantage of being on WhatsApp is that, you keep on getting added to new groups which keep coming up at a frightening regularity. I would say frightening because, becoming a part of another group means, encroachment of some more of your time by people who this far might have…
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The Shipping Trap
A sailor friend has shared a beautiful video from NASDAILY, highlighting the very basic problem of ownership of blame in the Shipping Industry. The video talks of two recent incidents two bring home the point. 1st incident that it speaks of is of a Japanese Ship M.V. WAKASHIO that has run aground near Mauritius. The…
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Salvaging A Car Carrier
This video was posted in our Whatsapp group by my friend Jagjit Randhawa
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Rhapsody In Blue
Recently I went to the sea for Sea Trial of another vessel. Here are some pictures for you. I have been rather busy since last two months. With short days and less time at hand, I haven’t been able to devote much time to writing. This project is now coming to an end and I…
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