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Question 1. What is the length of a shackle of anchor cable? Answer: A shackle length is 15 fathoms, or 27.5 m (90 ft). Question 2. How would you break a Kenter, Lugless joining shackle? Answer: To break a Kenter joining shackle, ‘punch and drift’ the ‘spile pin’. Movement of the spile pin will push…
Important duties of a ship’s Chief Officer includes 1. Chief Officer is responsible for performing vessel navigation watch duties.2. He is responsible for the entire cargo operation in ports which includesloading, unloading, and cargo planning.3. He is the in-charge for maintenance of cargo gears and cargo carried onboard ship.4. One of the critical tasks performed…
Maximum outturn of a crude oil cargo at the discharge port can only be achieved by the correct implementation of a properly prepared crude oil washing (COW), plan. Each tanker which is fitted with a COW system must also have: 1.A crude oil washing operations and equipment manual and2.Personnel appropriately trained to assume overall charge…
REGULATIONS FOR THE PREVENTION OF POLLUTION BY OIL 1.0 DEFINITIONS : 1 OIL : means petroleum in any form including crude oil, fuel oil, sludge, oil refuse and refined products.( A list of such oils is given in Marpol annex 1) Note: Animal and Vegetable oil Fall under NLS Annex 2) Oil Rags are to…
Many of the changes in everyday life that have taken place during the last fifty years have resulted from developments in the chemical industry. A wide range of ordinary items are in fact derived from complex chemical processes, and are often derived from the by-products of the production of energy. The greatest advances made in…
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