Posted on 03/28/2019 7:36:36 PM PDT by Texas Fossil
The “direct cause” of the ship’s problems was an insufficient amount of lubricating oil reaching its engines, Lars Alvestad, the acting director general of the Norwegian Maritime Authority, said, according to The Associated Press.
“The heavy seas probably caused movements in the tanks so large that the supply to the lubricating oil pumps stopped,” Alvestad said. “This triggered an alarm indicating a low level of lubrication oil, which in turn, shortly thereafter, caused an automatic shutdown of the engines.”
The rescue operation ended Sunday when the engines restarted after 479 passengers had been airlifted to land. The ship traveled under its own power to a Norwegian port with nearly 900 passengers and crew members remaining onboard.
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Automatic shutdown, without over ride is very very bad programming. Who could foresee such conditions.
The crew needs to be given great credit for being able to anchor the ship long enough to get one of the engines running again. That saved many lives.
Yikes. Engine lube system not designed for rough seas? WTH? What sort of seas WAS it designed to handle?
Well the sensors sure saved the engines. Screw the humans, save the motor. This is the future of automation and robots.
These are the decisions the ‘brains’ in self driving cars will have to make. Decide to hit a person rather than impact a telephone pole.
Obviously driven by a woman.
They set out with ‘relatively low’ levels.
This one had 27 ft. swells.
In shallow water that is prescription for disaster.
God acted to prevent it. The crew does deserve credit for doing their part.
Like Boeing 737 ?
Some things need to have human intervention.
What I’ve read did not indicate the oil level was outside design levels, the issue was the terribly rough sea caused the sensor to indicate low oil level and that brought automatic shutdown of engine.
I don’t think the engines were in any danger of being destroyed, real levels were correct, engines were shutdown by automatic system because sensors gave false alarm, not real conditions because of extreme ship movement.
The oil level was not low, it appeared low to the sensors because of rough seas.
Poor planning by the chief engineer. He should have refused to leave port with such a low amount of oil.
only a few hundred gallons low
“Like Boeing 737 ?”
Make that “737 MAX”. Boeing and the airlines wanted to call it a 737 in order to avoid retraining every pilot who knows how to fly a 737. But the MAX is different and that contributed to the crash.
“These are the decisions the ‘brains’ in self driving cars will have to make. Decide to hit a person rather than impact a telephone pole”.
That’s an excellent point.
Well, at least whatever it decides, it will make that decision 10,000 times faster than you or me. 😂
seriously, who really wants a self driving car?
Shoulda used some of that ‘Green’ oil.
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