Recent content by Navy_Pete

lol, depends on the situation, but I every immersion suit/floater suit etc I've seen has been either yellow, red or bright orange with reflective strips and usually flashing lights for max visibility in the water. Something with a high contrast colour with reflective tape would be good for low...

I guess, but on the other hand, at the moment Trump is actively burning through all US soft power and damaging the US economy, while his cabinet and friends is actively on gutting the military while the Republican controlled congress and Senate stand by, so unless there is some kind of double...

Ah, right, see the earlier stories now. Was on holiday for a bit and saw this when I came back. FWIW, things like this always get investigated, especially when it's obviously at least negligent, but there are plenty of single ship collision/allision incidents that make incompetence still pretty...

I'll have to dig up the story, but someone looked at it's track history and this was it's standard autopilot course that it had done a lot. 12 knots gives you a lot of time to notice a big, giant ship at anchor, so going with drunken incompetent Russian crew had it on autopilot and didn't...

The thing I don't get is that you can buy off the shelf coveralls sized to fit individuals with high vis stripes that are FR and meant for getting oily from all the oil field suppliers, and they are an absolutely awsome working garment. There is literally no reason why people in the MSE...

I don't know about that; it's definitely less prevalent, but there are some NWOs who would sell their BFF's firstborn to get ahead. At least a few of them made it to CO and higher before self-combusting in rather specatacular fashion, but they did that same things as BWKs, D levels, OpsOs and...

But we had to wait a few cycles for a number of people to retire after that as well, even after it was obvious that we went with what was supposed to be the 'terrible COA for reference' COA that is supposed to show the cons and make the recommendation look even better. It's cool though, they...

Thanks, I ended up finding a place with some really lightweight ones from Kodiak at a reasonable price. Not Canadian made, but at least a Canadian company, and both of them weigh about the same as one of my sea boots. I don't think anyone cares, but made sure they met CSA grade 1, but that was...

Me neither, but that seemed to be the thing people latched onto for kiling stewards, and missed that the stuff they actually do means frees up already distressed trades. 🤷‍♂️

The RN one was a lot more relevant; we had our trades, watchkeeping structure and department structured identical to what they did, and they had already done basically MARTECH, with getting rid of HTs, then bringing them back. They told us this before we did it, and recommended we just go to...

The RCN had one green trade; they killed it (stewards). Not to worry, the other trades that will backfill those positions are uh...red. It's okay, we'll transfer those stewards into those trades and er... no I guess we won't, well er... OFFICERS CAN MAKE THEIR OWN BEDS.

So they are addressing the personnel shortage by...giving everyone an extra month off, thus making the personnel shortage worse, and not changing any of the opsched and SWP issues that are killing the people left? That's wild. Good intentions I guess, but people picking up more slack while...

Random anecdote, so YMMV, but just did a quick grocery run and universally anything labeled as from the USA was not even touched, and a lot of things (like oranges) which are normally from the USA were sourced elsewhere. Two different Starbucks I went by were also dead, which is unusual for...

And there is a huge unmet demand for just fixing existing buildings to bring them up to code, and having things like working heating, domestic water, mold/asbestos remediation etc. That's all commercial stuff with a lot of capacity, and a great way to inject work into the economy across the...

Thanks, I can smell that hood now lol! It's hilarious how much of an afterthought those hoods and gloves are for anti-flash when the old NCDs worked really well. There was a test video being used for training that basically had a dummy wearing them getting blasted with 4 flamethrowers fora 4...