Roundtable Discussion; The Future of Mineral Sands. Watch the video here.
Hi Fatalbert,
I am not sure how I have offended you? Please tell me. You asked a question and I took the time to reply, and to try, unlike some on this board, add factual information to support my answer. Please continue to ask questions as they are important, having spent so many years at sea I can try and help out with any nautical questions anyone has, and I am sure that the other fine members of the board will assist in others that are posted. I do apologise if there was anything that offended? Morning all fellow LTHs! Good luck in the coming weeks Q
Hi Fatalbert.
In reply to your question: she couldn't. Most ships only carry two anchors unless they are specialist. The length of an anchors cable is determined by multiple factors, such as moulded breadth, effective front projected area of the funnel, side projected area of the Hull and so on and so boring. The vessel isn't equipped to hold so much cable - take a look at her design: dykstra-na.nl/designs/rainbow-warrior-iii/ she only has two anchors which are certainly not designed for that depth of water. They would use different tactics
All the trackers use the information received from vessels, as it is transmitted by their AIS transponders. The information found in each AIS unit is either dynamic or static.
Static information is manually stored in the AIS unit by the crew. The vessels navigation officer (usually the second officer) is responsible for entering and/or correctly updating information related to the vessel or their voyage.
Dynamic information is automatically transmitted every two to ten seconds depending on the vessel’s speed and course while underway, and every six minutes while anchored from vessels equipped with Class A transponders. Not sure how often the static information will be sent but at a reasonable frequency. Could be someone pratting about on the bridge (may even be looking at this board and having a laugh). Key info is date and speed. Out of date and 0 knots, nothing to see here..
Ah right, will have to take a look :)
Hi Ross,
Apologies, long day in the 'virtual' office and brain dead... HUR?
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Too keen to push send... Wind predominantly easterly. 15mph is Beaufort scale 4 so about 2-3ft waves
Hey AB, just pulled out my old pilots guide, rain around 10% of the time and av wind speed is approx 15mph
Hi Afterburn,
As you can probably tell from my name, I spent many years driving ships. The Stenna Icemax is a dynamically positioned (DP) harsh environment class 3 drillship and is capable of drilling in 10,000ft of water. DP is a computer controlled system that automatically maintains position using propellors and thrusters. Propellors sit at the back & move you ahead/astern, thrusters are also propellors, but sit within tubes that run from port to starboard & push you sideways. The Icemax has 6, 5.5MW thrusters and some major DP kit. I can't find the info but suspect that she has two propellors and dual rudders. I was able to turn a ship with half that kit that on a pinhead. Hope that helps
Right ho hun. I may as well transfer the money today :)
My aim in this was to invite discussion around the previous successful drill and the free carry of another one and people's thoughts around why, with this in the BODS back pocket, we haven't heard a thing. We have a commercial find and there was supposed to to be more news on the way, a SPM was even mentioned. Seems odd that they have this in the bag (OK drill could get buggered up) and yet nothing is happening. Come on! decent analysis from someone?
Big Mike, can you say anything on this?
I believe so, anyone know anything to the contrary? Taken my eye off this for a bit
Fair enough Ross, I would have liked more of an explanation mind as to your reasoning mind. OK, so anyone else out there, there is commercial oil 40 % API there, I believe that we have a free carry with the drill, we seem to have more than sufficient bodies to deliver, why not drill as insurance against a duster? Be interested in any of the old cerp crowd's thoughts?
Btw, I know that I am going to loose, but it would be nice to stimulate some discussion on the find that we had, I can't believe that the BOD will just ignore it, your thoughts?
Hey Ross, yes, go on! I have been rather lax this year with my charitable donations, so name your charity. Btw, I think it was you who once said that none of us LTHs ever announce a sell. If you are still around Peter Knock 34,000 shares off my holding, not much I know, I did it several weeks ago and forgot to mention it
Go on Irene, I am up for a laugh, which charity for you hun? Keep safe x
Yup, I'm game! :) probably more like early next year, if charity wins I'm up for it. Keep safe
Hey Ross, my fellow ex-Cerpers and my BPO brothers and sisters. Ross, I really don't think that Cerp is a dead duck and should be relegated to the sidelines. How about a little wager. A hundred quid to a charity of your choice (mine is the RNLI) that we end up with news before Christmas of a second spud back into what we found earlier in the year and news on production? Keep safe all!
Harry, whist I don't wish to pick a fight with you, I had a sizable holding in Cerp and believed that it was far from a lame duck. Look at the last drilling results. If I were a betting man I would put a decent chunk on us hearing more news very soon about the rather sweet deposit we found just before our merger. I'll be lambasted by the usual lot no doubt...
Fantastic! Lol
We can try and use Belbin's 9 team types:
Resource Investigator....
Teamworker...
Co-ordinator. ...
Plant. ...
Monitor Evaluator. ...
Specialist. ...
Shaper. ...
Implementer.
I wonder which ones we are? Eh?