Thread: Cook Strait Ferry

Originally Posted by No.3

There's a hell of a lot more inside a ship than a haul truck as well - not trying to be a dick with this statement but when you are looking at the amount of systems inside 30,000 tons of ferry it's not hard to miss things especially when the documentation from the manufacturer is sitting in a storage locker in some other country where you can't get to it and even if you could it's likely not in English...

A) a ship is a ship.... a collection of mechanical bits and irrespective of what information you have or have not... you build up your own TQM.... total quality maintenance package from the moment you take responsibility for her.
B) being a marine engineer, I think I know the difference between a ship and a haul truck.... the truck will not float, hence the barge.

Originally Posted by LBD

A) a ship is a ship.... a collection of mechanical bits and irrespective of what information you have or have not... you build up your own TQM.... total quality maintenance package from the moment you take responsibility for her.
B) being a marine engineer, I think I know the difference between a ship and a haul truck.... the truck will not float, hence the barge.

HAHAHA yeah well, I've seen a haul truck float - you'd be surprised how much bouyancy there is in the bloody great tub on the back. Probably be a different story with the tub loaded of course.

I've been around surveyed vessels for a long time as well, and come in after a few plans have been put together, class survey reviewed and signed off. That's about when you discover how many cockups there were in the plans. One of them had the fuel system to the auxiliary systems on that vessel completely wrong, I'm not sure how many people missed the error in the developed operational procedures and maintenance process documentation but what they had done was set the valves in the auxiliary operating procedure to run the main engine effectively off the auxiliary quarantine 'day tank' and returning the fuel from the main engine to the keel main storage tanks. Not ideal, and as I said not too sure how that many people looked at the system including developing CAD drawings of the fuel plumbing systems and still miss that. It does show that stuff can be missed and not picked up until the inevitable failure occurs.