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No, I'm not. I'm aware that in the USA a separate agency, the NOAA, runs hydrographic vessels. One should not fall into the trap of assuming that the way the USA does things is the way everyone else does them. In the UK hydrographic surveys are a Naval responsibility...

I don't know who wrote that, but someone should point out to him that a ship like the ACX Crystal doesn't HAVE "high speed". I'm not familiar with the ship itself, but such a vessel is probably no more than 16 or 17 knots full speed. Richard

One of the exceptions to the "Give way to the vessel to Starboard" rule is the requirement to defer to vessels "constrained in their ability to maneuver". In Merchant usage this usually means people like dredgers, fishing or survey vessels with gear out, deep-draft vessels in dredged channels...

Actually it was one of CMA's President class. That's all a matter of perspective. From THIS perspective, you can keep them...... :) CMA uses the MAN B&W with about 64,000kW at 110 RPM Richard

They would almost certainly have been on autopilot. There is virtually never anyone at the wheel of a merchant vessel except when maneuvering. Very lightly. I was on a 190,000T, 18,000 TEU ship the day before yesterday with 21 crew. He was ringing your bell :-) When the E/R is unmanned the...

Unfortunately, it's almost a truism that crews - or people in general - tend to rise to the occasion and perform magnificently when everything goes pear shaped and lives are on the line. It's when they are doing something routine they've done a hundred times before without incident that they get...

That's that union pushback I mentioned. I was already a Class surveyor by 2002, and for ships other than US flag ships in US waters, or with a Port State waiver if in other waters, lack of a functioning AIS was a mandatory PSC detention. Richard

20 years ago was 1997. The first AIS systems came out in 1992, although they were rare in the early years. USA flagged ships were among the last to install them due to resistance from the Unions, which saw the ability to record AIS data as being akin to the truckers opposition to tachygraphs as...