Comments by "Zetectic" (@zetectic7968) on "Waterline Stories" channel.

  1. Many years ago I took a ferry (cars, lorries & passengers)from Zeebrugge, Belgium to Dover, UK. A storm worsened to force 8. A usual 4 hour journey turned into 9+ hours as it took 4 hours to get into port because of conditions & other vessels. About 75% of people got seasick & the smell was very bad & the toilets unusable. That is an experience I never want to repeat, I would rather be delayed by a day than take the risk on a ro-ro ferry they are death traps if something goes wrong.
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  2. What happens when you operate a vessel in an area outside its design parameters with poor modifications. Rule 1: never work as a deep-sea fisherman Rule 2: the high pay is never worth it if you are not alive to spend the money.
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  3.  @mattiOTX  Look up the Beaufort Scale. Been in use for nearly 200 years & used by mariners all over the globe
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  4. Another example of why it is foolish to try to recover a body from extreme depths - the risk to others lives is not worth it.
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  5. Its Crow-Hurst ( like the bird)
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  6. Cave diving takes a special kind of stupid: you have to ignore all the obvious risks & believe that luck is on your side, it is worse than sky-diving with only 1 parachute.
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  7. Profit before safety. That the Bosun could leave his station to sleep while the ship was not secure is shocking. Crew assuming actions had been done. There was understandable outrage when the court case collapse & that ferries were permitted to leave harbour with the bow doors open.
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  8. Flawed design: not fit for purpose. Like the loss of The Gaul they was delay & cover-up before revealing what happened.
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  9. It should be noted that diving in freshwater needs less weight than the sea about 2kg or 4lb at least.
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  10.  @rodkoehler  W⚓
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  11.  @suprlite  Incorrect! What happens if the dry-suit leak or the dump valve does. You get a suit with water in. You need a BCD to keep you afloat on the surface in the right attitude. No complexity if you are properly trained & have an automatic dump valve on the suit.
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  12. Outrageous that you see a fire on Piper Alpha but the 2 other platforms continue to pump gas to it because they are not authorised to shut down because money $$$. Documents kept in different places & no tags/warnings on control. Shift change, work not completed, no proper handover. The safety manual for the North Sea was written in blood.
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  13.  @351clevelandmodifiedmotor4  Nonsense!
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  14. BS-AC Advanced diver & dry-suit user here. I was criminal negligence to allow her to dive without a working inflator for her dry-suit & as part of the pre-dive check not to ascertain what weight either on her weight-belt or in her BCD she was using. In all my years of diving I have never known anyone to use 20kg of lead ( the max I have used with a dry-suit is 11kg) A gross oversight not do do a pre-dive check however experienced you are. One reason I would never use weights in a BCD is the ability to dump weight fast & to use one without quick release is beyond idiotic with an inexperience diver. There obviously wasn't a surface buoyancy check done as you should float with minimal effort on the surface without any or very little air in you BCD; if not you are carrying too much lead weight. All those involve should never be allowed to be diving instructor ever again.
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