Comments: - - When I was younger, I use to fish 20ft from super tankers when they where off loading crude oil. Right by the prop. Imagine being 15 years old fishing in a 12 foot boat you build next to that ship! We never worried about the proximity, because they filled it full of seawater before they left for another crude run to Venezuela. Did you know that as they off load cargo the propeller is still turning super slow? The blades are almost entirely out of the water at that point. I don't quite remember, but ONE blade was about 18 feet. Olympic Life is not the biggest tanker. I was told back then, it was to keep the shaft lubricated.
Forgot. To give the tugboats credit the ships couldn't dock when they come into port to load...unload without them. Hats off to the tugs an their. Operators they make it happen.
I’m the captain of a small cargo ship (1200 tdw) my ship is just a few meters longer than the Olympic Life is wide…hahahaha An arrival takes me 15 minutes, 20 if complicated. For the Olympic Life an arrival takes all morning!
That command center is like thirty stories above sea level..would of enjoyed ship Captain and Tug Captions communications..
