Assalam,
Tuesday 15th November 2011
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Chief Engineer Gordon at his desk next to it is his room |
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Chief Engineer Gordon with SSP - talking about the budget, Refit |
Pagi ini bersarapan dengan mee goreng mata lemba, tomato omelete dan sausage, jus mangga dan teh. Chief cook nya bila memberi kita makan, waduh...banyak sekali. Tak abis. Kita minta sikit, masih juga banyak. Bila kita duduk makan dengan captain dan officers nya, mereka akan menghabiskan makanan mereka. Dari cerita Chief cook, rata rata mereka yang makan di sini mesti licin pingan nya. Walau pun mereka pernah mempunyai captain perempuan, masih juga licin pingan tu. Barangkali penat bekerja....
Today, we have session with the chief enginner Gordon in the morning at 0900. we finished at 1000. He is basically the person in charge of the ship budget, maintenance of the bridge deck, spare parts, fuel oil. On a monthly basis he will make order for the ship requirements. They have agents who help them with the ordering of spare parts and consumables both in Japan and Lumut as well as to transport people on shore leave. They have the PTW being discussed in the daily workplan before execution of the work.
During the voyage lumut-Japan-Lumut, the ship uses about 2% to 3% of boil of gas. Only when loading and off loading they use 50/50 i.e. boil of gas and bunker fuel. The tank of B class can hold 75000m3 of gas. On reaching Japan, while off loading; seawater will be pumped into the ballast tanks to ensure the tanker does not tilted. On the way back to Lumut, they have about 1000m3 of gas to cool the tanks. The measurement at Lumut was called gaging. One measurement was taken before loading and another one after loading to determine how much quantity is in the cargo tank. From Lumut to Japan it takes 2400miles.
Afternoon around 1330 we go to the engine rooms with chief engineer from Flat 3 to bottom (that is 4 floors). We were brought to Deck 1 first to see the inspection work activity done by the crew on the lifeboat. The lifeboat can accommodate 45 crew. The inspection is done weekly and every three months the lifeboat will be lowered to the sea. We then went to the engine control room at Flat 3. Here we were briefed that the ship needed 10tons of water for domestic used e.g. drinking, shower, toilets, galley etc. The ship also requires 13tons of distilled water for the turbines to run electricity for the ship. All waters for ship are from the sea and processed accordingly on the ship. We went to see the boilers, worshop, furnance, rudder, burners, steering gear which is attached to rudder. We come to know that the B Class are built by France in 1975 and were called the G ship. Belanak was called Gauldia. From 1986 till present, they become the B Class.
We also heard from C/E that there was a test run at full speed i.e. at 100rpm (revaluation per minute) from 1100 to 1300 Tue.
1520 hours we gathered at the bridge for the "Abandon ship drill". We then moved to upper deck to our muster point. We had to wear full PPE with life jacket and brought the immersion suit with us. At 1530 hours, we heard the alarm with 7 shorts and 1 long. The C/O (chief officer) proceed with the drill by instructing some of the crews who has the duties to lower the liftboat halfway. Then they restore it back to original position. All new joiners like us were to put on the immersion suit so that we know what to do when the real abandon ship occurs. Unfortunately, as upper deck is outside, we can't take pictures. We did take some at the accommodation on deck 4. We finished the drill by 1600.
From 0800 Tuesday, we were still passing through the Luzon island of the Phillippines.