Ship Simulator
English forum => Small talk => Topic started by: eviss on June 12, 2009, 18:34:32
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Hello all,
Just found a news article in the Dutch Newspaper AD:
Fairmount Marine is looking for the black boxes of the crashed Air France aircraft.
"A honorable task", says director Albert de Heer from Fairmount Marine.
http://www.ad.nl/buitenland/3283622/Rotterdamse_sleper_zoekt_zwarte_dozen.html
A new touch for the workhorse in our ShipSim game, isn't it? :thumbs:
vr. gr. / kind regards Erik
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Hi Erik, I hope they do well.
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Shame about that Accident indeed...I was only talking to some friends about the Black Box today, thinking what would be within it.
Didn't know Fairmount Marine were involved!
Hope the operation is a success.
Jack.
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Fairmount Marine could help find out how the planes crashed. Hope the operation to find the black boxes go well.
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Not the first time the Dutch are helping with a crashed airplane. The dredger 'Queen of the Netherlands' helped recovering pieces of the Swissair flight who crashed in the Atlantic ocean off the Nova Scotia coast.
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I wonder if any follow up missions will come, could be an exiting mission, if there was a hidden waypoint to find.
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cool sherpa to the rescue!
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I think it is because the Sherpa is the only Fairmount tug nearest.
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::) Fairmount Marine is the company that owns the Fairmount Sherpa! Fairmount Marine is not a Ship! ::) ::) :P :P
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I just changed the post of mine.
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Still doesnt make sense to me :P
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That is quite a coincidence, nice find Erik.
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We all know about this
::) Fairmount Marine is the company that owns the Fairmount Sherpa! Fairmount Marine is not a Ship! ::) ::) :P :P
But the article said:
Fairmount Marine is the company that has got the contract, because "one of their ships" is near the search area;
because of the large fuel-load she takes on for endurance and large storage-capacity for the sonar instruments.
The picture of the Fairmount Sherpa was added to the article; it is NOT stated that she is doing the job.
I guess, we all like to think that she will ! ;D
vr. gr. / kind regards Erik
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Yes ofcourse.
BTW: That quote was to Matt, he was saying that Fairmounr Marine was a ship.
Just to clear that up...
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I never said that! It is a tug duh
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No problem; just clearing things up, in translating something out of the article.
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Okay, and Capt. Matt, i was talking about Matt5674 ;)
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Well I didn't know alot about Fairmount ships and the company but I know about it now. Fairmount Marine is the company and Fairmount Sherpa is I think one of the Fairmount ships or the only ship looking for the planes' black boxes.
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ohhh hehe call me NY matt to keep things clear lol
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I think the Fairmount ships are Glacier and Expedition, not Sherpa.
Last I heard, Sherpa was in the Pacific for about 70 days towing SSDR Development Driller III from Singapore to the Texas Gulf.
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Hello Marty,
I think the Fairmount ships are Glacier and Expedition, not Sherpa.
Thank you for that updated info, adding the actual situation to the news-article.
Live AIS did not help me find out that info sofar.
vr. gr. / kind regards Erik
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Hmm if it is not a fairmount ship why is it called fairmount sherpa? Did they sell it?
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Hi Erik,
Alpine is also on a similar towing job from Indonesia to Trinidad. The 200 TBP of those two is not really necessary for that recovery work. The real value of the AHTs is their large clear deck space for labs and gear and ease of working over the stern. They would make good oceanographic research vessels on that score.
The fact that Fairmount Marine is a French-owned company should be a source of pride on that job.
Regards,
Marty
Capt. Matt: I did not say Sherpa was not a Fairmount ship. I said she was not part of the recovery effort.
And yes, they did sell Sherpa and the rest of the heavy tugs—along with the Fairmount Marine division— to Louis Dreyfus Armateurs.
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Hi Marty,
Thank you again.
The fact that Fairmount Marine is a French-owned company should be a source of pride on that job.
Quite right, anyone would be proud to add some help, to resolve the remaining questions and/or salvage remains, from such tragic occurance.
vr. gr. / kind regards Erik
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Heres the latest.
A Dutch ship towing a high-tech US Navy listening device is trawling the Atlantic for data and voice recorders that investigators say are key to determining what caused an Air France jet to crash with 228 people on board.
The navy device, called a Towed Pinger Locator, will try to detect emergency audio beacons, or pings, from Flight 447's black boxes, which could be lying thousands of feet below the ocean surface.
Without the recorders it may be impossible to know what caused the Airbus A330, which had five Britons aboard, to crash several hundred miles off Brazil's north-eastern coast.
The locator device is capable of searching to a depth of 20,000 feet. The first of two devices was towed in on Sunday by a Dutch ship contracted by France.
US Air Force colonel Willie Berges, commander of the American military forces supporting the search operation, said the locator device would start operating as soon as searchers were sure it would not interfere with a French nuclear submarine already searching for the black boxes.
Another Dutch ship carrying a second listening device will arrive later on Monday.
The ships will tow the locators in a grid pattern while 10-person teams watch for signals on computer screens.
The search area includes some of the deepest waters of the Atlantic and in two more weeks the boxes' signals will begin to fade.
In Paris, the head of Airbus's parent company said there was probably more than one reason for the crash.
"In such an accident there is not one cause," EADS chief executive Louis Gallois said. "It's the convergence of different causes creating such an accident. It's essential for everybody to know what happened and we know that it's not easy. I hope we will find the black box."
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I feel sorry for the families...Hopefully, they'll make some progress in finding the Black Box. At least then, maybe, it might bring some closure as to what happened.
Thanks for the update.
Jack.
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The black box of the Air France airliner is found according to a French newspaper!
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE55M0YX20090623
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Typical newspaper, I just read that it was a false alarm.
Lets just hope they find it soon.