first punch into google search --SINGLE HOOK FOR ENCLOSED LIFEBOATS-VADAKAYIL, to understand the background of the outrage at sea, towards our moronic law makers, who sit behind safe desks.
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From: XXXX MASTER
Date: XXXX 2011 18:47 +0100 Msg: A03153-44422
Subject: XXXXX / BACK UP SAFETY STROPS ON ENCL LIFEBOAT HOOKS
To: XXX TECH2 XXX
Cc: XXX MARINE
Cc: XXXX SQE
Cc: XXX GM
Cc: XXX VP
gentlemen,
pl check out the attachment first.
on XXX-- we use strong wire back up "safety strops" -- even if
the LB hooks have NOT been collapsed in a drill, while retrieving the
boat , even in SMOOTH dock water.
AN "OVERHAND KNOT" WILL BE PUT ON THE PREVENTER WIRE
STROP/ SNOTTER TO REMOVE THE SLACK AND CUSHION THE
JERK / JHATKA IN CASE THE HOOK FAILS. – OR THE WHOLE SYSTEM
WILL GET UPROOTED.
STROP/ SNOTTER TO REMOVE THE SLACK AND CUSHION THE
JERK / JHATKA IN CASE THE HOOK FAILS. – OR THE WHOLE SYSTEM
WILL GET UPROOTED.
these short (70 cm 20 mm) dia backup preventer strops are NOT the usual
longer " heavy weather retrieval strops " .
heavy weather stops are a 150 cm nylon strap and a 3 metres wire strop
-- in case an enclosed LB like ours has to be used as a rescue boat.
these hooks , prone to fractures can NEVER EVER be trusted.
to use a rigid hook -- all you have to do is to lift the yellow gravity
bridge with your forefinger.
our saviours in IMO are in fools' paradise. they live in ivory towers
safe and insulated from reality--
-- even 3 decades of never ending sailors' misery have NOT woken them
up.
if they had some conscience all of them in IMO would have done HARAKIRI
two decades ago. am i being cynical? -- NO! - this is just feedback
from the sea!!
what a disgrace -- we are stuck with these "IMO jokers", who cannot
visualise a single hook , single fall boat!
bottomline: i am including this in our march 2011 good practise , to be
promulgated fleetwide.
brgds
capt ajit vadakayil
master
mt XXXX
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29 years in command
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