Earnings

[noggythenog]

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.

Lew.......you've foccin trumped me there bud fair play....that's a foccin tale to tell........bloody harrowing.........perhaps there aint many folk that would hear it if things were otherwise i accept that............foc sake..........a perfect example of how all the theoretical systems in the world cant account for the human factor.........blimey...........so there was a clear divide back then regards above and below deck.....thats a real shit story honestly.....like the sort of shit we see on all those space movies...actually may i suggest you dont watch Gravity....or sunshine.........i can only imagine really coz ive never beeny in that place....i wonder is it actually more traumatic to you knowing now what that tosser was gonna do to you because surely at the time you were unaware and otherwise disposed...


But it still dont mean that our services dont do a bloody good job.......ok its 2 different worlds....but i bet if the services had the chance that they would have demonstrated a more robust commitment than that captain...but they wouldnt be under the same pressures as him as a sole man...whilst holding a watch and all the rest.....still not excusable coz he shouldnt have gone into that line of work....but....and i bet that it was his own fears and incapabilities and absolute cultural dis attachment in the end.....and ....I'm sure of that.........but at the ended of the day it is the cultures that are to blame....not the individuals......individuals who are weak just dont help.