No, I am saying the the longitudinal CG of any object - boat, aircraft, or any other object is unrelated to the medium in which it exists. If you...
I don't think so ... you might change the center of buoyancy (B) but adding the weight of the (aft) extension can only move the LCG aft. There is...
That is a neat trick ... adding weight aft moves the CG forward? How does that work?
http://www.mlit.go.jp/common/001029660.pdf The Ship was built using YP47 steel (yield stress: 460 N/mm2) in the hatch coaming to mitigate...
On the BP chartered tankers the strain and immersion gauges were connected to a computer console in the wheelhouse that looked like another radar...
Yeah, that started a whole new era of investigation into how bulkers were loaded and offloaded as well as how they were inspected. At that...
Yes, slow down, alter course, or both. I saw the movement shown in that video literally a thousand times and sometimes far more movement ... like...
When I look at the video I see what is seen on every large ship every day. The main deck was the last part of the ship to break. The fracture...
Having spent a few years on boxboats and tankers crossing the Pacific via the Bering Sea I don't have any qualms about sailing on them. That...
I was surprised at that as well. Firefighters have a saying, "put wet stuff on the red stuff" so they tend to squirt a lot of water. It is easy...
I don't think it is the oil companies, it is the ethanol producers. They lobby against having the pumps labeled because they believe people won't...
Because the people who died because of him are still dead. BINGO.
Is Costa responsible? In part, yes. The Concord stopped flying years ago so it is blameless. Costa bosses could face charges over disaster -...
No one is saying those "supposedly in charge" are let off the hook. They just share that hook with the those who are supposed to be looking over...
According to this site, DC is not required to label pumps: Ethanol Labeling Laws - State by State Guide. If you want to buy (or avoid) E85,...
The controversy over who is ultimately responsible for the condition of a vessel and the safety of its crew should not require much discussion...
Can't help but to think that if there were any reason other than captain's decision to go chase a hurricane it would have been used to help...
All of the above and bound together by peer pressure, probably. Most of the crew had spent a fair amount of time on the boat together and there...
You have probably nailed it. I believe the root cause of this was the captain's psychological makeup. Narcissism was probably a very large part of...
Along with complacency is the "God complex" inherent in some of those people. That is the reason for safety management systems that are rooted in...
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