If you don't like your job do yourself and your clients a favor and bail. There is no shortage of gypsy "captains" so the grumpy old farts won't...
Most of the problem here is that even license holders don't seem to know what they hold and what they have to do to renew. No wonder someone who...
Last time I added it up $360 or so wasn't anywhere near $1500. For most people it is a few hundred. If working as a Son of Magellan doesn't pay...
You can renew online, pay the CG fees online, and unless you have hearing or heart problems you don't need an audiometer or EKG. It really is...
License renewal and issue: $95 Drug test: $75 Drug test consortium membership $60 TWIC: $130 Holding a valid license: Priceless That adds up to...
Your idea of justice has been tried before ... look up the concept of "Sippenhaft" to get a glimpse of the kind of people you want to share your...
In my personal view, the land of reciprocating internal combustion engines is fertile ground for dreamers, schemers, hucksters and con artists of...
Considering that such an engine would be very heavy for its output, incredibly difficult to start and create more NOx than McDonalds makes burgers...
It sure sounds and looks like the spherical bearing style "little end" used on some Sulzer medium speed 4-stroke engines as a means to rotate the...
Most large ships use(d) an oil lubricated stern tube but they are very short and the shaft does not normally extend beyond the stern frame. I say...
Ah, a repeat of the old shaft in a tube discussion from 4 or 5 years ago. I'm curious why they keep going on about the Magnus effect when there...
ROVs pretty much put commercial manned submersibles out of business for most purposes. For years we surveyed and buried trans Atlantic telephone...
Viewports are an interesting component, failure is definitely not an option. All of our boats used domes and viewports made of "Plexiglas G"...
We had a very healthy respect for the environment, a great appreciation of the technology, and a young man's view of his own immortality. Funny...
Here is one of the other boats we used for deeper work (2000m), the view wasn't quite as panoramic. But, the dives were longer ... it took 90...
And even worse, it's the hottest spot in the windings which is normally buried somewhere only an imbedded TC can feel it.
Glad someone else said it first ... it doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that they were putting the mast in compression and every inch more...
Used to doze off behind this window once in a while when waiting for the topside world to do their thing.
Someone should write a book on the millions of uses for copper tubing, sort of like the duct tape tomes. :D Fins? Here's one source ... get one...
Those DC drive motors have peculiar ratings. There is a constant power rating where you can run it until the battery is dead, and a thermal rating...
