How scary is it when.........

[cmakin]

But I am used to turning to 15 minutes before the start of my watch. . . Oh, no.......

[injunear]

.......with the emergency switchboard and stator lug junction box open, we were load testing system and thermal scans. As per JSA, the tankerman was standing by the emergency kill. During the process, a small piece of insulation fell between the stator lugs on the generator. I almost passed out as the tankerman, with coffee in one hand, reached in with his bare hand and extracted the insulation.

After I shut the system down and regained my composure, we measured the clearance between the lugs and his fist. He had 1/2 inch on each side!

[Jon]

.......with the emergency switchboard and stator lug junction box open, we were load testing system and thermal scans. As per JSA, the tankerman was standing by the emergency kill. During the process, a small piece of insulation fell between the stator lugs on the generator. I almost passed out as the tankerman, with coffee in one hand, reached in with his bare hand and extracted the insulation.

After I shut the system down and regained my composure, we measured the clearance between the lugs and his fist. He had 1/2 inch on each side!

Yikes!!!!!

[jmack383]

when you are rushing down a light bulk barge, and lose your footing on the pigeon holes and are hanging on for dear life and the mate is watching in the wheel house. Threw my shoulder out that day

[edchuckBB]

..........standing cargo watch with your relief (who has years of LPG experience) on an LNG ship, at the end of the watch, just before you make your way to the airport, he asks "oh one more thing.....what are we carrying in these tanks? ammonia?"

me - "umm......LNG....natural gas"

relief - "ohhh, ok....have a good vacation!"

[captbbrucato]

This one is a squeaker....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awVm6Lt6ONQ

[Ordinaryseaman]

Yikes!!!

[jthomas1600]

My company sent me to Brazil to work on a boat that had one mate who spoke broken English and Portuguese, one engineer who spoke broken English and Portuguese and the rest of the crew Portuguese and almost 0 English. My job being to run the boat to about a dozen offshore oil rigs where almost no English was spoken. I now have two mates who speak pretty good English and I've learned a bit of Portuguese, but it's been a pretty wild ride.

[domer]

When you hear a captain and pilot laughing their asses off reading lines from the gCaptain thread Funny Sh*t My Captain Says.