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English forum => Small talk => Topic started by: Stuart2007 on September 06, 2011, 16:00:04

Title: Spambot goes swimming on DFDS Princess Seaways - in the big outside pool
Post by: Stuart2007 on September 06, 2011, 16:00:04: Quite an interesting piece of film of RAF Search & Rescue teams trying to find a missing passenger who went overboard.

Top marks to the crew at DFDS who executed a brilliant search, which recovered her with a fast launch.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14806805
Title: Re: Spambot goes swimming on DFDS Princess Seaways - in the big outside pool
Post by: IRI5HJ4CK on September 06, 2011, 16:17:05: Great to hear she was recovered safely :thumbs:
Title: Re: Spambot goes swimming on DFDS Princess Seaways - in the big outside pool
Post by: danny on September 06, 2011, 21:23:58: No matter what anyone says, both crew, RAF and the RNLI did there job, and damn well at that!
I never knew DFDS has A huge outside pool on there ships, must have missed :doh:
Title: Re: Spambot goes swimming on DFDS Princess Seaways - in the big outside pool
Post by: Traddles on September 06, 2011, 22:44:41: You are joking, aren't you Danny. :doh:
Title: Re: Spambot goes swimming on DFDS Princess Seaways - in the big outside pool
Post by: Ballast on September 06, 2011, 22:46:47: Quote from: danny on September 06, 2011, 21:23:58
No matter what anyone says, both crew, RAF and the RNLI did there job, and damn well at that!
I never knew DFDS has A huge outside pool on there ships, must have missed :doh:

DFDS calls it a pool. We call it hold #3 where we store everything that we don't need in the future :thumbs:
Title: Re: Spambot goes swimming on DFDS Princess Seaways - in the big outside pool
Post by: Traddles on September 06, 2011, 22:49:06: When I was at sea we called it the "big locker". ::)
Title: Re: Spambot goes swimming on DFDS Princess Seaways - in the big outside pool
Post by: Ballast on September 06, 2011, 22:56:42: A few weeks ago we got an inpection from the German shipping police and they were moaning that our garbage management manual (yes even for that we have a manual!) didn't had a plan with the location of the garbage containers on it. So the Master took a piece of paper, quickly drew a few lines to represent the ship and drew the location of the garbarge containers outside the ship. The police agents were baffled ;D
Title: Re: Spambot goes swimming on DFDS Princess Seaways - in the big outside pool
Post by: Stuart2007 on September 12, 2011, 17:25:01: Bless our efficient German friends- they do indeed like to have everything ordered "just so".

Thank god we have them as the driving force for the eu. I DO LOVE having everything planned in minute detail. THere is nothing quite like spending more time doing the report than there is actually doing the job.
Title: Re: Spambot goes swimming on DFDS Princess Seaways - in the big outside pool
Post by: Ballast on September 12, 2011, 19:05:57: Ah yes, I have plenty of stories to tell about the German 'pÃ¼nktlichkeit' that their police has. Some of them even ended up in lawsuits because they have a different interpretetion of the word 'enroute' in the international MARPOL law then most other flagstates.. :doh:
Title: Re: Spambot goes swimming on DFDS Princess Seaways - in the big outside pool
Post by: Stuart2007 on September 13, 2011, 14:57:02: I have a very great respect for the German people- hardworking, efficient, polite etc... But as for their governmental system of bureaucracy- it is NEARLY as bad as here in Britain.