[BITList] passenger ships -FMEA

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Hugh

obviously the problem with cruise ships losing all power is, as you say  -- incompetence in design, installation and supervision.

Those sounding pipes with weighted closure were quite tricky, but with a transducer – hell, a piece of cake.

[do they really still have sounding pipes, or are you pulling my leg?]

ct

From: HUGH 
Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2012 3:22 PM
To: BitList 
Subject: Re: [BITList] passenger ships -FMEA

Colin,

Among the causes of breakdowns and blackouts, how about incompetence in design, installation and supervision?  Though I've left the mar eng industry, I've ex-colleagues still in it, and they paint a dire picture of its present form, eg, the office joke now in charge, plumbers in charge of engineers, etc.

Our doorbell rang as I was typing the above - an ex-colleague has just left after a brief social call - he told me a tale. He recently overheard two fellow "draughtsmen" discussing a sounding pipe with a weighted cock. "So what's this for?" asked one.  Said the other, obviously an expert, "You lift this weight and the cock opens, then you drop down a cable with a transducer on the end to see how much oil is in the tank."

I see no reason why things should be any different elsewhere.

Hugh.


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