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To: BlueMondaySkipper

I watched the video’s at the time. That was a very very dangerous undertaking to lift people off the ship in that storm.

They were very fortunate that the entire ship and passengers were not lost. The anchors held or it would have happened. Very iffy event. And it was silenced very quickly after the tugs helped them. The crew really did a good job of getting it partially back under power. The generators and steering the pod drives were the issue. More computer controlled issues.


27 posted on 06/29/2021 7:19:46 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Texas Fossil

“ The generators and steering the pod drives were the issue. More computer controlled issues.”

I seem to remember that the issue was the maintenance protocol for the engines. The protocol called for maintaining the engine oil at a certain level between “full” and “add”. Well, in heavy seas, the oil level sensors thought that the oil was low and shut the engines down to protect them. The company subsequently changed the protocol to keep them fuller, so the rocking of the boat wouldn’t trip the sensor and cause shutdown.


28 posted on 06/29/2021 7:57:44 AM PDT by BlueMondaySkipper (Involuntarily subsidizing the parasite class since 1981)
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