Salad Fingers
23-11-2012, 09:35 AM
Think you’re having a tough day on the ‘water’?
Spare a thought for these lads. Thought some of you guys might appreciate this – I hope this isn’t a repost here but I couldn’t find anything.
$1.7mil new pilot boat commissioned to assist with our new oil and gas project in the harbour. Totally inexcusable if you ask me – it’s an obvious shallow spot on the charts and they were operating on a 7m tide (ie, more than 1m/hr of movement). For a boat with a 1m draught you’d have to be mad to go over the top of that section of the harbour on those tides.
You can see the massive hole they dug with the two props in the rubble bottom trying to get out of it.
I believe the two props are in serious need of repair, shafts are bent, possibly transmission problems and loads of gouges on the bottom of the brand new hull.
http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2012/11/16/315185_ntnews.html (http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2012/11/16/315185_ntnews.html)
http://www.ntnews.com.au/images/uploadedfiles/editorial/pictures/2012/11/16/pilot-boat-650.jpg
http://video.au.msn.com/watch/video/red-faces-after-boating-blunder/xkopo5i
video here - http://video.au.msn.com/watch/video/red-faces-after-boating-blunder/xkopo5i
Spare a thought for these lads. Thought some of you guys might appreciate this – I hope this isn’t a repost here but I couldn’t find anything.
$1.7mil new pilot boat commissioned to assist with our new oil and gas project in the harbour. Totally inexcusable if you ask me – it’s an obvious shallow spot on the charts and they were operating on a 7m tide (ie, more than 1m/hr of movement). For a boat with a 1m draught you’d have to be mad to go over the top of that section of the harbour on those tides.
You can see the massive hole they dug with the two props in the rubble bottom trying to get out of it.
I believe the two props are in serious need of repair, shafts are bent, possibly transmission problems and loads of gouges on the bottom of the brand new hull.
http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2012/11/16/315185_ntnews.html (http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2012/11/16/315185_ntnews.html)
http://www.ntnews.com.au/images/uploadedfiles/editorial/pictures/2012/11/16/pilot-boat-650.jpg
http://video.au.msn.com/watch/video/red-faces-after-boating-blunder/xkopo5i
video here - http://video.au.msn.com/watch/video/red-faces-after-boating-blunder/xkopo5i