Random pics, next

[Ross 1]

Wifes marae up near Lake Waikaremoana

[bartaxr8]

Diary farm near Maffra, hope the dog has webbed feet

20211003_073725 by Chunga Gomez, on Flickr

[slowsnake]

And I thought that was the "outhouse"...your telling me that's the dog kennel!

[Loonar]

Laurel & Hardy leaving the U.K. after a tour in 1932..




and the last photo of them together in 1956..

[Loonar]

[five 7]

Originally Posted by Loonar

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Cool pic..

[slowsnake]

[slowsnake]

Zoom In.....



Motorbike frog, my neighbours front garden!

[jaydee]

On ya bike mate. Good pic.

[slowsnake]

Originally Posted by jaydee

On ya bike mate. Good pic.

My mate Brooke takes all the best pics I have seen on her phone, it's her work not mine, but both our cats were sitting looking at the flowers, on closer look she saw the frog camouflaged!

[jaydee]

Spotted this dugite while driving around my cousins farm today, looked brilliant in the full sun shining of his dark scales. About a metre and some long.

[slowsnake]

Originally Posted by jaydee

Spotted this dugite while driving around my cousins farm today, looked brilliant in the full sun shining of his dark scales. About a metre and some long.
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It's a beauty eh, I love em in their natural habitat, looks like it's been out of hibernation with his fattish body, looking for sex, its already had its feed by the looks of it, too cool!

[ford71V8]

Stumbled across this pic of Melb CBD 1988, with XD taxi

[DJR-351]

Some random pics from my last 5 week stint at sea, spent most of our time supplying the Jack-up Drill Rig V-107, also did our normal supply runs to the FPSO Montara Venture with a few trips to the WHP (Well Head Platform) The WHP ties in all the subsea Well Heads in the field then pipes the light crude to the FPSO.....The Valaris-107 is doing maintenance work on the 13 well heads.

Drifting in a flat calm and windless sea.





Sunrise.





The 'office' with both aft and forward control stations, you need lots off buttons, switches, levers, joysticks, computers, touch screens and annoying alarms to drive a ship these days, no room for a wheel though!

Aft control station.









Forward control station.







Working the Rig.







Working up close to the WHP.









Alongside the FPSO discharging 350m3 Diesel up to them..... This is an older FPSO and still needs regular fuel runs for it's generation plant, most of the new ones run of the gas coming up from the well.
Edit: Check out our newish shackle collection.







....next time out I'll grab some pics from below decks for the engineers amongst us.

[Citroënbender]

That really is like another planet. Amazing structures and “landscapes”, it’s clear by the way you take the pictures, it’s a job you enjoy.

…you need lots off buttons, switches, levers, joysticks, computers, touch screens and annoying alarms

Made me think of nurses’ stations, that description.

[DJR-351]

Originally Posted by Citroënbender

That really is like another planet. Amazing structures and “landscapes”, it’s clear by the way you take the pictures, it’s a job you enjoy.
Made me think of nurses’ stations, that description.

Definitely, plus I like to think I'm doing my part in delaying the EV onslaught

[slowsnake]

I know it's called random pics!...but it is a random pic, went to buy paper and walked in and the cat is fast asleep seemingly pushing away the back of his chair!....lol....

[ford71V8]

Great insight.....keep it coming DJR

[jaydee]

Thank DJR, great pics and a great insight into what goes on with these giants of the sea.
Be interested to know what that document is tucked in behind the skippers chair, 5th picture, "Tribal Knowledge and..."
Planning a trip ashore in PNG or something?

[DJR-351]

Originally Posted by jaydee

Thank DJR, great pics and a great insight into what goes on with these giants of the sea.
Be interested to know what that document is tucked in behind the skippers chair, 5th picture, "Tribal Knowledge and..."
Planning a trip ashore in PNG or something?

"Tribal Knowledge and Procedure Information" is just jargon terminology for information not normally found in the official documentation, in this case it's vessel specific information that's not common across all the vessels of this type, it's also a fluid document that is updated over the life of a vessel as systems and procedures change.

Only 10 of this vessel type were ever built and no two are the same, the TK document points out the main differences between this ship and the other 9 of the same type, the one in the chair is the bridge copy, there's another 6 or 7 for other areas on the vessel.

Skippers Chair.....I will have to let the rest of my deck officers know this, they obviously think it's anybody's as im always finding them using it

[wodahs]

Originally Posted by DJR-351

Only 10 of this vessel type were ever built and no two are the same, the TK document points out the main differences between this ship and the other 9 of the same type, the one in the chair is the bridge copy, there's another 6 or 7 for other areas on the vessel.

Originally Posted by DJR-351

there isn't a shipyard around that can build ten of these ships side by side at the same time so four were built in Japan, four in South Korea and three in Batam.

these changes are applied to the vessels throughout the build program so that #1 and #10 are worlds apart in some areas while on the surface appear to be the same.

my head hurts and no matter how many times i do the math the way i was taught 4 + 4 + 3 i keep having trouble getting 10 my head hurts from trying to make it work and i knew i was bumberer than others but didnt know i was this dumbere

[DJR-351]

Originally Posted by wodahs

my head hurts and no matter how many times i do the math the way i was taught 4 + 4 + 3 i keep having trouble getting 10 my head hurts from trying to make it work and i knew i was bumberer than others but didnt know i was this dumbere

Fixed

[wodahs]

Originally Posted by DJR-351

Fixed

knew it be something simple but sorry i couldnt resist and you know if i hadnt some one else tonz/jaydee would

not that im watching this thread or anything

[slowsnake]

Originally Posted by DJR-351

Skippers Chair.....I will have to let the rest of my deck officers know this, they obviously think it's anybody's as im always finding them using it

Was going to say " snob" but I'm guilty too, I also have a skippers chair, my nice leather computer chair, yes there was a mutiny aboard the good ship SS Slowsnake, lol, and now it's Captain Pussy-cats chair, I even fitted it with decorative white mice and a tiny yellow baby chick in the middle!......

[DJR-351]

Simpler times courtesy of the West Australian.....

[Tonz]

Only 10 of this vessel type were ever built and no two are the same, the TK document points out the main differences between this ship and the other 9 of the same type, the one in the chair is the bridge copy, there's another 6 or 7 for other areas on the vessel.

must have been built by government

[DJR-351]

Originally Posted by Tonz

Only 10 of this vessel type were ever built and no two are the same, the TK document points out the main differences between this ship and the other 9 of the same type, the one in the chair is the bridge copy, there's another 6 or 7 for other areas on the vessel.

must have been built by government

Nah not really, it's pretty standard world wide in shipbuilding.

The first and last vessel of this type/design (V Class) where built nearly six years apart, there isn't a shipyard around that can build ten of these ships side by side at the same time so four were built in Japan, three in South Korea and three in Batam.

The technological and engineering advances/changes that happen to the individual componentry in a vessel of this type in just six years are enormous, these changes are applied to the vessels throughout the build program so that #1 and #10 are worlds apart in some areas while on the surface appear to be the same.

[wodahs]

Originally Posted by TrVrPhiLpsiNdstrys

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it never seems to amaze me when a holden driver sees something on the side of the road and thinks "must be free" I'll just load it up on me Ute n take it home

[slowsnake]

On yer bike!......motorbike frogs sitting in my gas meter box


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