Preamble
This is a work about a maritime accident that occurred in the North Sea the early fall of 2007. In a chain of reactions, the accident harvested three lives; when it could have been prevented all from beginning and the normal operation could have gone through without me writing an assignment about it six and a half year later.
The abbreviation ERRV
The Viking Islay was, and still are (2014-01-24), a UK registered ship in the ERRV class. ERRV is an abbreviation of Emergency Rescue and Recovery Vessel. ERRV ships are at most times laying stand-by alongside to one offshore installation or a “community” of installations with main duty of rescuing/recovering people from the water and provide them with medical first aid. During accidents the ERRV ships are acting as an OSC (On Scene Coordinator) as well as they can act as an extra radio station if there is not possible to continue broadcast signals from the offshore installation. Further on the ERRV ships duties include to protect the installation, and therefore monitor the safety zone around the installation. The safety zone is a circular five hundred meters area where ships are not allowed to go in without permission from the installation. If any ship is proceeding towards the installation without permission the ERRV ship will act as a guard and make efforts to stop the threat.
The ships working hours
The Viking Islay is just one of these kind of ships, with a stand-by time of normally 28 days alongside the rig ENSCO 92, at the Amethyst gas field, 22 nautical miles off the East Yorkshire coast on the British sector of the North Sea. When the Viking Islay wasn’t at her stand-by position (e.g. at times it was crew change) a replacement had relieved her. Together they cove...
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...d call for help. Two members of the crew who heard and reacted on the alarm were the 1st mate and the 2nd mate who together with the AB ran forward to the foc’sle.
At the foc’sle the three people looked down into the compartment and saw two bodies laying on the bottom unconscious. They all returned to the accommodation and, together with the cook they found and gathered rescue equipment, BA (breathing apparatus) and EEBD (emergency escape breathing device).
At 1107 the ships general alarm was sounded by the captain, making the remaining crew to assemble on the designated muster point. The captain also established contact with the rig ENSCO 92 to inform them about the accident. ENSCO 92 made preparations and assembled their own crew to assist the Viking Islay. Together the crew who mustered on the aft muster station went all forward to the point of the accident.
Chapter 5: Mary Roach explains the deaths caused by aircraft crash disasters. After having discussions with injury analyst she gains knowledge and makes notes. She publishes a book for others to know human remains can be evidence theses disasters.
The Northwest Regular Crew number six was the first to be on the scene, there objective was
Stephen Crane’s short story, “The Open Boat” speaks directly to Jack London’s own story, “To Build A Fire” in their applications of naturalism and views on humanity. Both writers are pessimistic in their views of humanity and are acutely aware of the natural world. The representations of their characters show humans who believe that they are strong and can ably survive, but these characters many times overestimate themselves which can lead to an understanding of their own mortality as they face down death.
of the event. It seems that the ships crew and the lower class passengers were
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Thirdly, a few of the men decided to use giant fishing nets to tie up many of the pirates. It was not quite a challenge since they were neither smart, or strong. It didn't take long to wipe them all out. But the vikings decided after the attack to take more precautionary measures. The new plan for safety would take months, even years to construct. But it would be worth their safety. So 76 thursundays later, the viking tribe had a 400 ft. wall build around their beautiful island. They shut themselves away from the rest of the world. They no longer fished for the villages, or brought gifts of food. They did not help others like they once had and for the first time in a hundred years the village people realized how bad they needed the vikings. It’d been twelve years since any other islander laid eyes on a viking, they would occasionally see a viking ship sail past their barrier to fish, but they always returned back to the wall, and through a big metal gate into the island. And once a year, on Leif Erikson day, you could see strobe lights and hear music coming from the island. And the village people had to get off their lazy butts and stop waiting for handouts, and the vikings retired and lived happily ever
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On this leg of their long day, the captain was the flying pilot in control of the aircraft, and the first officer was the non-flying pilot, handling such things as navigation and the radios. After only 14 minutes in the air, 22:54, they received the fi...
...ure itself. Things began to turned back to as they were and the mariner was rescued, “But soon I heard the dash of oars, I heard the Pilot's cheer; my head was turned perforce away and I saw a boat appear” (135-137). He was very happy and fearful at the same time when they appeared, as he feared it may have been another sin coming upon him.
Philip said to the men on the skiff, “Go to the ship and ask for the captain of the boat. Tell him you come on the behalf of Philip, the Viking, who has sent you. Greet him and tell him we wish him peace. Tell him, I hear you have supplies. Yesterday we saved one of your fishermen from wrecking his boat. Now let Philip find favor in your eyes, for we come asking for supplies. Please give whatever you can spare.” At Erik’s boat Philip’s men do as instructed.
not, so as the ship became more capable and safe for traveling, Vikings explored and invaded regions
The Vikings began as a vast number of Scandinavians leaving their homelands seeking for fortunes elsewhere. Known for their raids, the Vikings terrorized the coasts of Europe between 800 and 1050 CE. The Viking longship proved to have ultimate operational flexibility from the strongly built overlapping planks that carried the structural load of the hull. Most of the their settlements were located in England and Normandy. However, some of the Viking traders penetrated the heartland of Russia by following the great rivers. The Scandinavian culture during this period was highly intriguing from their burial customs to the warfare and raids. Leif Eriksson also plays a part in the colonization Iceland and Greenland and the exploration of the North
As modern technology improves, the technology of exploration of the universe improves either. People had been wondering whether humans can live in Mars and Moon. NASA, the biggest organization in the world that examines about the universe. It had decided to make a shuttle to investigate the Mars.
It was the third day of the winter holidays when Anmol called us up to the jetty, it wasn’t normal to be out on the water at this time of year. The screeching winds tore over the horizon and collided with the small yachts tied in an uneven pattern all around us. The constant noise of clattering was annoying but quite memorising and the salt was already starting to
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