Or someone else? ;-)
Uh-huh...Few thousand workers aboard the "Ford" Aircraft Carrier. 750 toilets aboard. Any one [1] toilet clogged = ALL toilets can no longer be used - until - a $400,000 per toilet-clog acid-cleanout is completed. Who the F designed that mess and who in H gave final stamp of approval to have that septic nightmare on the Ford?
See 7:30 thru 7:50 on – from post # 12341…
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/navy-just-deployed-13-billion-022218318.html
Uh-huh...
Sure...
Sounds like a case of "it's on the internet so it must be true".
I did find it interesting that Yahoo still exists though.
(Ex US Navy A-ganger)
Crows nests and canoe sterns - gotta love it! Beautiful styling on the exterior, but the interior feels very cramped and compartmented. Or is that just the photos making it look that way?
Few thousand workers aboard the "Ford" Aircraft Carrier. 750 toilets aboard. Any one [1] toilet clogged = ALL toilets can no longer be used - until - a $400,000 per toilet-clog acid-cleanout is completed. Who the F designed that mess and who in H gave final stamp of approval to have that septic nightmare on the Ford?
See 7:30 thru 7:50 on – from post # 12341…
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/navy-just-deployed-13-billion-022218318.html
Art if you'd read the article Simi posted, (yours didn't even MENTION toilets), as well as others readily available on the internet you'd have noted that the $400,000 price tag was PER USE (described as treating the entire system), not PER TOILET. So as outrageous as the cost/situation is, there was no need to inflate the cost by 750 times as you did when you stated PER TOILET. (the per use 400k is to treat the entire system, NOT per toilet)
Just my $15.00 worth ($0.02 inflated 750 times)
Either I explained it confusingly or you did not understand what I said/meant. As I recall... According to the video... if one toilet gets clogged then no toilet can work any longer until the entire system is cleared. Therefore, the $400K mentioned on the video to fix a clog affects all 750 toilets... not $400K per toilet. But - who gives a shat... pun intended!!
Azamara recently told us the same thing. Clog your toilet and you are screwing up the entire line.
Uh-huh...
Sure...
Sounds like a case of "it's on the internet so it must be true".
I did find it interesting that Yahoo still exists though.
(Ex US Navy A-ganger)
Giving the lie to the old adage "Two heads are better than one".Azamara recently told us the same thing. Clog your toilet and you are screwing up the entire line.
I just spent 5 weeks in Alaska as chief mate on an interesting vessel. She was built for crab service in 1968, went through a government buyout program and then converted to a 12-passenger expedition vessel doing 7 to 10 day trips. The COD specifically prohibits fishing from the vessel, in any form, even for recreation.
She's 130 FT LOA, draws nearly 14 FT and has a single 12 Cylinder Mitsubishi diesel that cruises at 1100 RPM. The crane is a carryover from crab fishing and is used to launch and retrieve the RIB, kayaks and aluminum rescue boat. The anchor weighs 1,500 pounds, with two shots of 6 inch chain and a wire for the rest of the length.
Operationally, we anchored everywhere we went (usually in 50 to 100 feet of water), since most places were in the wilderness and there were no docks. Lots of running at night and anchoring with no other vessels around. On turnaround days, the passengers were brought out in the RIB. Food, garbage, supplies were all handled the same way. She has enormous fuel tanks, so we didn't add any fuel in the 2,500 miles we travelled.
The 6 cabins and the salon in the middle are awkward looking in profile, but their utility is awesome. Windows give a 300 degree view.
I've been around boats all my life, but converting a boat like this for passenger service just never occurred to me. Personally, the combination of standing watches and managing the boat side of shore excursions was hard work, but I learned a lot. Sergius Narrows at midnight in the rain on a 350-ton single screw vessel is no joke. Glaciers and small icebergs are awesome. Brown bears, sea lions and Dall's porpoises abound, and it was great to see them.
I'm not promoting anything - just thought you might like to see something different that had a big impact on me.
Welcome to the USS North Carolina...
Yeah. Like that times 5 without partitions.
Ada Hardy
60ft Timber converted Taswegian Cray boat
Been around the world
MASSIVE 8L3B Gardner in her belly - 8L3B is 24 litres vs 8LXB at 13.5 litres
Spotted her on AIS up the Fitzroy river at a prospective boat yard
Watched her come down and into Moreton bay
Would love to hear from the owner as to what that boat yard is like
Webpage for her here
https://www.trawlertraveller.com/