And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
This is an anchor handling tug. The vessel is probably either running or recovering an anchor for a moored drilling rig. The cable on the deck is running from its winch through the shark jaws and towing pins to keep it centered on the deck, and from there, goes over the stern roller toward the anchor. It's the vessel's purpose to run the anchor out from the rig and set it on bottom, usually something like a mile from the rig. Once all are run out, the rig will tension up to set the anchors. At the end of the job, the vessel will chase out and recover the anchors, procedure in reverse. It's a fascinating process and one where you get to see really, really skillful boat handling with vessels that may have 15 - 30,000 hp at their disposal.
I may just be showing my ignorance here, but isn't the water supposed to be on the outside of the ship?
ReplyDeleteThat picture was on an oil rig collection, there was another one too, this may be what it does... https://www.pinterest.com/scarter0774/oil-rig/
ReplyDeleteThe deck is solid. Water runs right off. The crew would prefer it elsewhere, but that's part of the game for these things.
ReplyDeleteThis is an anchor handling tug. The vessel is probably either running or recovering an anchor for a moored drilling rig. The cable on the deck is running from its winch through the shark jaws and towing pins to keep it centered on the deck, and from there, goes over the stern roller toward the anchor. It's the vessel's purpose to run the anchor out from the rig and set it on bottom, usually something like a mile from the rig. Once all are run out, the rig will tension up to set the anchors. At the end of the job, the vessel will chase out and recover the anchors, procedure in reverse. It's a fascinating process and one where you get to see really, really skillful boat handling with vessels that may have 15 - 30,000 hp at their disposal.
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