they read the words, "USS Ronald Reagan ?"
Posted on 01/27/2006 12:23:44 AM PST by naturalman1975
BTW welcome aboard!
As long as it just involves the strainers and not the sea chests, it's no biggie and gives the nubs something to do. If you have to actually send a diver over the side to clear the sea chests, however... still no biggie.
Another Enterprise squid on board.
So a bunch of spineless creatures created a minor disturbance and temporarily delayed operations until they were flushed away. This is perfectly analogous to how Reagan handled the Democrats in Congress.
Dangerous Australia ping
The nuclear-powered ship suffered a similar problem in June 2004 when a main condenser was fouled with several hundred squid and octopi following a four day port visit to Valparaiso, Chile.This kind of crap in the morning gives me a headache.
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The Ronald Reagan left San Diego on January 4 and is on its maiden deployment. Brisbane is its first foreign port of call.
Not any more. The Marine Detachments came off of carriers years ago, when the nukes were taken ashore.
Perhaps in the old days but now it is a closed loop system. There aren't too many old style scuttlebutts left. Most are not commercial style units with water chillers built into the unit. The chill water is almost exclusively used for air conditioning. Refrigeration for food and medical supplies is, of course, done with compressed gas refrigerant systems but much of the air cooling is still done with chill water.
Other than not tapping the chill water for drinking, still as I recall it. I was on the Midway in the 70's, a good boat but not state of the art even then.
Sounds like a good excuse for extended shore leave.
In terms of pure lethality there are creatures that rank higher, however the thing that makes this jellyfish so dangerous is that it can be quite abundant. To be stung by the Stone fish one needs to step on it, and for the blue-ringed octopus the most common (if not the only, for humans that is) way people get bitten is when they pick it up in their hands (which they do since it is extremely pretty). However for this jellyfish all some one needs to do is be swimming, and if things go wrong he/she can wander into a swarm of them. Or if the person is wearing something shiny they can be drawn to that. Thus the chances of stepping on the Stone fish are quite slim, and to get bitten by the blue-ringed requires a lot of booze/ignorance/star-alignment, however to swim into a bunch of irikandji just requires a spot of bad luck.
Interesting on the anti-freeze. I've worked with chillers in civilian life for years also till I retired and hadn't seen that one.
Hopefully then nobody tapped the wrong line for potable water though. I spend weeks in my spare time trying to track down our loop loss. Sometimes it would be stable for several days and sometimes several hundred gallons could disappear in a matter of minutes. I suspect EO Divisions heat exchangers may have had something to do with it. We had 2 guys TAD up there and they may have been opening a wrong valve. That added to some likely bad coils in the fan rooms.
On the sea water leak do you mean the de-sal plants or the chillers? Neither is good news but I can't understand sea water in the CW loop at all. That would take really bad piping configurations somewhere.
Huh?!?!?!
I thought there were already some 5000 squids living aboard the carrier!
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Love that stuff. Some joker(s) from the NROTC unit at one of the universities I attended used to throw that stuff in the campus fountain (in front of the student union). Turned it a beautiful green colour ... quite striking when lit up at night. University admin were not amused.
Two different systems. Chill Water was the Main A/C loops that fed the fan rooms from the chillers. We had 10 chillers running an open loop around the ship rather than isolating it into two or three loops.
Drinking {Potable} water came from the Chill Drinking Water system. Each unit was probably on most carriers in 3 & 4 pump rooms. We did away with using it in early 78 and installed regular water fountains. They were more efficient. But as of our 1980 overhaul I believe the machinery for the old system was still in place on our ship. Even back then it wasn't wise to drink from the A/C chiller loop as it had too much crud in it. It was supposed to be a closed system.
BTW, ever have any problems with a chaff fodded flight deck?
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