Earnings

[lew600fazer]

In my earlier post I never actually managed to say what I wanted to at the time of posting, re rescue , recovery etc!
I had my 1 year old Grand daughter crawling all over me and wanting to play wish her a happy birthday she was 1 today.

I was on a tanker a few years ago and we had a bad engine room fire. We were ordered to evacuate the engine room as we were going to seal the space and hit it with CO2, best option as the sooner we did that the less damage caused to equipment  and with luck we could get under way again if possible.
A strict rule is before you discharge CO2 is you do a head count. We were one man short, the old man told the C/eng to discharge the CO2, he refused until we found the missing man. Thankfully we found him within 10 minutes alive and well but disorinientated. We as a group had failed in our training and the buddy buddy system. The Captain wrote a shit report and tried to get the chief engineer sacked for refusing to discharge the CO2. Thankfully I never sailed with that Captain again. I was the missing man.