aja8888
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Hot dog!!! AT LAST you have decent internet. You sure have been waiting long enough.
Look for tons more posts going forward from "you know who"!
Hot dog!!! AT LAST you have decent internet. You sure have been waiting long enough.
Colonoscopy day for me today .... Yay!!!
Got the house trim to tackle but will do that later in the Spring.
Wonderful! You'll enjoy having that car long after you have forgotten the finance guy at that dealership forever. After reading your post I looked at that model online, and it looks like a great choice. Congratulations.But we love the car
Any large ship would have two engines. I wonder how the Viking Sky got both engines disabled...
Lars Alvestad, the head of Norway's Maritime Authority, said Wednesday that low oil levels were the "direct cause" of the engine failure that stranded the Viking Sky on Saturday.
I got my answer. Somebody did not check the engine oil. Heads are gonna roll.
I have had a couple of experiences where we went dead in the water, but NOT during a storm. On one the geniuses were feeding both engines from one tank. The tank had water in it, so they had to blow all the fuel lines clear to get the engines going again.I read about that—they did say (perhaps elsewhere) that the oil levels were in the acceptable level range but the rocking and rolling from the stormy seas sloshed it back and forth in the tanks so it wasn’t consistently reaching the valves (all would have been fine in smooth seas, sounds like), so the engines all shut down. I also read the experienced captain decided to continue the route into the coming storm—I’d put the blame there. I do predict some great sales (if not sails haha) coming from the cruise companies!
F wants to go by Good Will with our donations today or tomorrow, so I have mine piled up at the door. It's amazing how much stuff we have but don't need.
Any large ship would have two engines. I wonder how the Viking Sky got both engines disabled.
I got my answer. Somebody did not check the engine oil. Heads are gonna roll.
I find this strange. Two separate engines for security but only one shared tank for engine oil? The extra cost of having two oil tanks could not have been that huge when already forking out for two separate engine systems?
I read about that—they did say (perhaps elsewhere) that the oil levels were in the acceptable level range but the rocking and rolling from the stormy seas sloshed it back and forth in the tanks so it wasn’t consistently reaching the valves (all would have been fine in smooth seas, sounds like), so the engines all shut down. I also read the experienced captain decided to continue the route into the coming storm—I’d put the blame there. I do predict some great sales (if not sails haha) coming from the cruise companies!
The fault then is not with the mechanics for overlooking the engine maintenance.
But who would design/build a ship that can only sail in an indoor pool?
But who would design/build a ship that can only sail in an indoor pool?
PS. The captain of the ship can now join this ER forum.