It's videos like this that get me wishing I was super rich. If I was Warren Buffet, I'm pretty sure I would have a miniature seaport filled with these tiny vessels.
Years ago I was in the US Navy. When our ship sailed to another country Navy officers conned the helm all the way until we put to port. Once my ship, the USS Canopus, put in to Lisbon, Portugal. We awaited the arrival of the Lisbon harbor pilot to guide us in. He arrived on a small boat, no more than 20 feet, and turned out to be a wrinkled and sun-burnt Portuguese gentleman in loose pants and a button-down shirt who looked like your image of your grandfather. He nodded to the assembled officers--of the greatest maritime power in history---took command and directed the helmsman to our slip without one extra word. Job done, he nodded again, and departed. I learned a lesson about authority and, well... authority.
politician is not meant to be a profession, once one begins to make money off of politics, they become corrupt. Take for instance, the net worth of Obama from when he first entered office, some several hundred thousand, to when he left office, tens of millions.
When I was at college, they had a building specifically for maritime training. They have everything from the classroom level all the way up to a full size lifeboat simulator. They also have a replica ship bridge with about 320 degrees of surround projection. It takes up an entire room and requires a whole sever room to power it. I studied computer networking but we got the chance to play in the simulator as part of our course on severs and distributed computing. It was pretty cool.
Reminds me of the Navy Shiphandling school at Little Creek VA back in the 70s. It was a huge indoor pool with a whole scale modeled harbor complex and radio controlled models of every type of ship the Navy had at the time. I took my training as a harbor tug master there.
I think every sailor stands in awe of the professionalism of the Pilots. Their skill and instinct is vital. Further the fact that most people don't know of them as it is one of the professions where mistakes are that are known.
And well, just in case the worst happens, I made this video. Here I explain the hydrostatics behind the mid-deck oil tanker ship design and why it should have been legislated instead of the multi-hull mandate. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-N_W-OuGoUz0.html
My friend worked on a tug boat for years, then he quit. He was making really good money but, never had anytime to spend it/enjoy it. It didn’t help that he was always on call too.
Best part about this is that I live not even 10 minutes from where they train on the smaller scale boats. It’s actually in Bush, LA. Just north of Covington out in the country.
LMAO! Does anyone remember the scene from naked gun with oil tanker school with the go cart tankers in the parking lot? Someone must have got the idea from that for this school
