1:37:04 Tim in Mississippi, thanks for holding a ship captain. What type of ship captain are you and what's your take? Hey Alex first time caller man so little bit nervous here but I'm trying to keep it rational when a ship is underway It has to have only navigation lights. So from watching the video this morning, you could see the light To me that's going to be emergency deck lights for evacuation which automatically comes on when you lose power Like Joe said man I'm following up he really knows what he's talking about He got a lot of it down There is about 2 minute delay on your generators When that kicks back some of them have 3 The ones i ran offshore had two
1:37:49 It was a redundant system. You're saying it's not fast? It, it's not what? It's not fast. No, it's not fast on the transfer is not fast. It's not instantaneous like a lot of people say there is a backup system on the steering that's what your emergency generator system does. It activates certain lights That's for evacuation and it'd be an ownership like that on the Solis class. It's going to have probably three I've never worked on those size ships, I've only worked like the 350 foot supply boats offshore now i've had to deal with this going into the port of New Orleans a lot um
1:38:31 It's a miracle on a day-to-day basis of how many catastrophes this probably avoid. And not long ago, we had one that come under the bridge and he lost steering and the first thing a pilot does at Harbor Pass, pilot would say is drop your anchors as soon as he knows that he can't have control He's going to drop anchor That's your last resort The one in New Orleans caught, it kind of swung it out a little bit back into the river and hit the wharf. And actually saved a lot of lives that guy done everything right? In this situation when you see that ship turn its possibility he had already dropped his anchors if he's underway He is only going to have tugs that are going to guide him The only lights that your gonna see if he's under way which is a Coast Guard law
1:39:26 You have to have all of your lights off. No deck lights, nothing has to be navigation lights only you're going to see a green uh your mass light support light and so forth When a ship is in the dark, the darker the better. It's crazy how that works but that ship should look just like a black Lego block coming under that bridge and you'll another ship or only see his navigation lights and that's it! That's to decide which way he's going what direction Everything if you see just a solid red, you know that he's coming at you on the court side and you agree ships Agree now my thing is when I seen it and all the lights are known That's telling me that he had problems to start with when the lights go off It's actually gonna be backwards of what everybody's thinking. Got it. Well, that's why you're the expert got it So yeah window so when the lights come back on
1:40:24 What happens is that's actually your emergency light. So when it goes into the dark, it actually... The generator was kicking back on and was under power because all you could see was just navigation lights. Amazing! Okay? So what gets me is I'm not worried about the fact he didn't have tugs He would have if he was underway on his power It would take a little while for tug to actually come out there and rescue him And it's the same old Murphy's Law. If crap happens, it happens at the worst spot. It happened to me. I've had it happen three or four times and it takes about two minutes for that generator to actually kick on and transfer everything to emergency power
1:41:11 And it worked. I mean if everybody does... Are modes like that hooked up to the GPS internet? Could it be a hack? It does, yeah you have Inversat, you have a whole lot of different emergency systems now my thing is what I'm gonna say Is you have backup on radio and it was like I think Johnny from Tennessee was saying Your pilot meets you when you get into state waters. A pilot gets on the ship, he'll handle that ship. He's in command of it to a certain point. Now, a helmsman is an AB, what's called able-bodied seaman. He is just the helmsman. It's just a regular deck guy
1:41:57 And so the pilot communicates through them. The pilot will tell him an order of what needs to be done to port starboard, you know full reverse or whatever So the AD has to be fluent in English if he's using English and so forth right? Well that's what a captain is there for The captain will communicate with that guy Now, as far as nationality these ships use Seafarers Union Maritime. So these guys are from all over the world I've worked with Africans, I've worked with Brazilians, I work from people that you know just amazing groups of people know what they're doing but they're also from different countries and there will be a language barrier in that
1:42:42 It's like I said, there are so many times that things can go wrong and when it does it is always in the wrong spot. And I'm trying to be rational on this. Until this I'm gonna tell you from all the experts calling in it sounds like it probably wasn't hacking or tear and I think I would I'm going with the way that the lights were and And though you had all of these white lights on and you can see it coming toward that Stanchion, and when then all of a sudden the light came back home to me when it goes to black. That means it's a normal operation so evidently and my just my perception of this is
1:43:19 is what we saw in the video, in the white lights all of the white deck lights were actually emergency lights and then when the generator kicks on and switches back over then it's going to go to navigation mode. But was a second light okay thank you so much sir really amazing points thank you Last caller on this subject, because I've got other huge news. This is important though to drill into things and show people how complex the world is because I've done quite a bit of studying on this it's fascinating you notice I know like 1% of what these actual naval professionals know and that's why we've got such a brain trust of civilization and we're losing with the dumbing down folks Thomas in Louisiana you're on the air go ahead Hey Alex how are you doing? Good your commercial diver do you want to give us your take