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I liked the first couple seasons

No but Spermworld sounds pretty gay.

Your TV is gayer than snowrider's transpeople.

Thats not my fair skinned, blue eyed, blond haired Republican Jebus! Thats an Arab!!

But fair skinned, blue eyed, blond haired republican jebus??

LoL I'll bet that got a bit heated at times! Admittedly the definition is a bit vague!

There is zero possibility the pricing structure for oil isn't rife with fraud! A bunch of lying cheats that industry is.

Thats fast!

I also think the warning given by the crew/Pilot, while admirable, its effects are being hyped up. I dont think they actually had enough time to really change much with the warning.

Back down hard with a fixed pitch wheel and the boat will yaw signigantly. This is a known handeling characteristic and often times its counted on for manuvering.

Most boats do crash stop testing or at least the marine architects calculate it. I wonder what the Dali's distance was for various displacements if she was tested?

Ive never sailed eith anything but a fixed wheel so I would t know from expirence but I have heard they(cpp) are nice. I just looked up the Dali's Wikipage and according to that she has a fixed pitch wheel. She also has 4 gensets for power and 3,000hp bow thruster.

The NTSB and USCG will almost certainly recomend that escort tugs be with ships until well clear of any hazzards. Also I bet the port inspections of forign ships will be increased as well. Depending on what specifically caused the dark ship situation, there will likely be some changes to the mechanical/electrical systems as well. Sadly many of these changes will seem to be obvious from the get go.

It sounds quite plausable to me. Pretty much all comercial vessels have multiple power sources and it makes sense that a ship that size would have 4 or 5. I was talking with my captain about just that this morning at watch handover. It'll be interesting to see what caused this power outage. The only thing I would add to the Chief's assesment is when you go hard astern on on a single screw you will introduce signifigant yaw into the equation. Actually with a single screw there is always yaw whenever there is throttle input. This yaw is definitely pronounced enough to turn the vessel, as it appears it did. In my opinion, other than the rudder, this had the most impact on the vessel's heading. JMO though. Edit: if it had a variable pitch prop that yaw wouldnt be as bad and possibly even counter act the thruster. Too many unknown to say with any certainty yet.

This is correct.

Yeah thats pretty much a given.

I will almost certainly write in my Buddy Rob for Pres. and this retarded guy Donnie for VP. Donnie was a regular at this dive bar I used to frequent before I was 21. We used to pay him a dollar to eat lit cigarettes.

Now that you mention it, that might be just for us in fuel delivery. I am fairly certain its for all ships though. I will have to look it up.

No its not harder. We are required to have the anchor ready for immediate deployment specificaly for such a case of loss of power or control of the vessel. The anchor would be made ready in all respects for freewheeling.

Looked on Twitter at a few threads about the bridge...holy fuckerballs! There are some dumb motherfuckers out there and suddenly they all fancy themselves a regular Jack Sparrow.

Spin and AFJ are Ham Radio guys? Whoda thunk it?

You absolutely can drop the anchor without power. We are required to have our anchor ready for immediate deployment when manuvering for just such a reason. It could, yes. Backing down hard, which now seems likely, would also have a profound effect on ships yaw.

For those of you interested in this, a guy on youtube, Sal Marcogliano runs a channel called "Whats Going On With Shipping". He does a great job breaking these incidents down. I havent had a chance to check yet but if he doesnt have a video up yet he will soon.

Either could be true although heavy throttle inpute would definitely be happening right about then.