CaryC
Has No Life - Lives on TB
Imagine how the Bismarck felt. Referencing because of the lack of steerage.Having been driving a ship that went dark ship unintentionally while underway the most likely scenario to me is:
Generator failure
Emergency generator automatically kicks in
Emergency generator fails
Bang
Most likely causes in my experience
A> Contaminated fuel
B> Improper fuel valve alignment in engine room
C> Something automated shutting fuel valves
There are very few more helpless feelings than loosing power and propulsion while underway. Fortunately when it happened to me we were in the middle of the Gulf with no platforms around to hit. If we would have been in close proximity to anything we probably would have hit it. There's really nothing you can do without steerage other than drop an anchor, which they did.
I would bet my paycheck it's legit accident. IF it was sabotage I'd look at the fuel. Wonder if they bunkered (took on fuel) in Baltimore. There would be potential for sabotaging the fuel at that point. Other than that I'd chalk it up to the capricious nature of the sea.
YMMV
Anyway very bad deal. With the info we got I suspect you are right.
Question: If the ship took on fuel, and it was bad,......doesn't that mean it came from some kind of tank or holding blab, blab, and therefore it is possible that other ships might experience the same problem?
Kind of like cars getting the same gas from a pump with water in it, they all have problems.
I don't know, I'm just spit balling as Benji Dunn would say.