Is Leslie Philips is alive and well, and serving in the Royal New Zealand Navy?

[Frank Holden]

I had to chuckle at this:

"there continues to be "no trace" of oil washing up onshore.

Samoan officials said it was believed that most of the ship's fuel had burnt off during the fire onboard"

It's like the famous Clarke and Dawe sketch. "Good news no oil spill.... ...because the fire burned off all the oil. "

I thought it was the actual statement made by Senator Bob Collins in the actual interview that the sketch was based on.
The statement? 'The oil is now outside the environment'.

 

[mainsail1]

Major surveying instruments such as swath bathymetry can only be mounted on large vessels. Also, there will be requirements for ancillary measurements again requiring big ship resources (e.g. CTD profiling).

I think the crew of HMS Magpie might disagree with you. They are a very small coastal survey vessel in the Royal Navy. Hydrographic survey of a reef would be right up their street.

 

[KeithMD]

This?
HMS Magpie | Royal Navy

 

[trapper guy]

'came into trouble about one nautical mile from the island of Upolu on Saturday night local time, while conducting a survey of a reef.'

the mision was considered a success, as it is now confirmed that the reef is in fact where it is.

 

[Serin]

It was like a joke , but upon reflection it was one woman sticking up for another

Silly, childish and offensive. Grow up.

 

[doug748]

Left hand down a bit......

Of four newly promoted RNZN Captains pictured in 2023 in celebration; one has had the misfortune to lose a ship. One has hit a dock causing topside damage putting the ship out of service and one is off work pending an investigation. Cor lummie.

Still, onward and upward, there is a policy:

https://www.nzdf.mil.nz/assets/Uploads/DocumentLibrary/NZDF-LGBTTIQ+-Inclusion-Plan.pdf

No doubt all will be revealed.

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[Frank Holden]

Of four newly promoted RNZN Captains pictured in 2023 in celebration; one has had the misfortune to lose a ship. One has hit a dock causing topside damage putting the ship out of service and one is off work pending an investigation. Cor lummie.

Still, onward and upward, there is a policy:

https://www.nzdf.mil.nz/assets/Uploads/DocumentLibrary/NZDF-LGBTTIQ+-Inclusion-Plan.pdf

No doubt all will be revealed.

.

Did their 'Chief People Officer' write that?

 

[trapper guy]

i dont get all the lgbtq stuff, there are men that sleep with women, there are men that sleep with men, there are women that sleep with men, and there are women that sleep with women, thats it, there are no further computations, unless you get into animals, which is still illegal, i think....for now at least

 

[KevinV]

i dont get all the lgbtq stuff, there are men that sleep with women, there are men that sleep with men, there are women that sleep with men, and there are women that sleep with women, thats it, there are no further computations, unless you get into animals, which is still illegal, i think....for now at least

I'm sure there will be red faces all round in the lgbt+ community now you've explained it to them - why didn't you say something sooner?

 

[DanTribe]

Starboard lookout, Able seaman Taffy Goldstein speaking. There's a load of coconut trees dead ahead.

 

[Stemar]

We can only speculate, and have a bit of fun doing it, but as a highly qualified armchair expert (I have several comfy armchairs), ISTM that a poorly charted reef coming up from a consistent 50m depth to just shallow enough to rip the bottom out of a ship in a few metres may well present a problem to a surveying vessel whose instruments are some distance aft from the bow. I also seem to remember an RN ship that was badly damaged in much the same way and in the same part of the world a few years back. Sorry to disappoint the lovers of women drivers jokes, but that one was captained by a male officer.

 

[Mark-1]

We can only speculate, and have a bit of fun doing it, but as a highly qualified armchair expert (I have several comfy armchairs), ISTM that a poorly charted reef coming up from a consistent 50m depth to just shallow enough to rip the bottom out of a ship in a few metres may well present a problem to a surveying vessel whose instruments are some distance aft from the bow.

I see what you're saying, but surely they must have thought of that?

 

[AntarcticPilot]

We can only speculate, and have a bit of fun doing it, but as a highly qualified armchair expert (I have several comfy armchairs), ISTM that a poorly charted reef coming up from a consistent 50m depth to just shallow enough to rip the bottom out of a ship in a few metres may well present a problem to a surveying vessel whose instruments are some distance aft from the bow. I also seem to remember an RN ship that was badly damaged in much the same way and in the same part of the world a few years back. Sorry to disappoint the lovers of women drivers jokes, but that one was captained by a male officer.

In Antarctica, a large number of rocks are named after the vessel that "found" them the hard way! Also, things like "Fullastern Rock"!

 

[capnsensible]

Starboard lookout, Able seaman Taffy Goldstein speaking. There's a load of coconut trees dead ahead.

That's kinda the first thing you see when making a landfall on some of the Pacific Atolls. Quite difficult when it's raining.

 

[Frank Holden]

....... I also seem to remember an RN ship that was badly damaged in much the same way and in the same part of the world a few years back. Sorry to disappoint the lovers of women drivers jokes, but that one was captained by a male officer.

That was HMS Nottingham at Lord Howe Island. Wolf Rock is not only well charted it is also awash. Returning from ashore the commander hadn't quite made it to the bridge when the X/O bounced her off the hard bits. I seem to recall that someone had put an annotation on the chart which obscured the rock.
I also recall the commander saying on Australian TV - paraphrasing here - how quickly a very nice day could end up with a courts marshall.