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Didn't Graham say they were eating in specialty restaurants.

Problem is that the Oasis class , in the US , has had new terminals built to accommodate the number of passengers these ships carry. To get by this in the Med, they load half in one port and the other half in the other port.

Explorer repo to PC to make room for Quantum.

Every cruise takes some passengers from Barcelona and some from Civitavecchia on the same trip.

Only in Florida. Weatherman says we have a cold front coming through overnight. Now we have a bone numbing 72 degrees.

My sailing coming up in October on Freedom have the earliest MTD at 7:15. Rumors posted here talked about a third fixed time at 6:45.

But it is in the US.

Interesting. Funny that the displacement comes from a narrow bore and long stroke. I guess that reduces the weight of the piston itself and the rod over a wider bore and shorter stroke. Thanks.

I worked on gas turbines, no diesel engines. So I found this on youtube Dali has a 2 stroke low speed 9 cylinder MAN diesel .

Looks like a second crane is on site.

The point is, they come in all sizes, from automobiles to ships.

The camera does pan back and forth. At the bottom of the screen is a red line. You put your curser at the end of the line, you can pull the end and reveal what was recorded earlier. there is a number displayed showing the time difference from live in H:M:s format. Also a small window pops up showing the picture at that point in time. If you press play it will pay from the point it time.

Baltimore port webcam is streaming live on Youtube. I see 2 tugs with barges, one with a crane.

Oh, so it can rotate in either direction. Turbo chargers are not parasitic obviously , they get energy that would have been wasted, at by compressing inlet air improves power and efficiency (Cycle efficiency increases with higher pressure ). With a turbocharger the powerplant becomes a combined cycle powerplant.

@chengkp75 Let me give you a little background about myself . My degree is mechanical engineer. I worked 42 years at Pratt & Whitney as a performance engineer designing engine cycles for supersonic applications, both commercial (NASA contract) and military. I retire in 2008 at 65, but worked at outsourcing for another 6 years. Even at 80 years old, I continue to be curious how things work.

Doesn't that energy come from the generator? does that mean if you want to stop, the engine turns off, or is there a clutch between the engine and propellor shaft.

So there are no parasitic losses on the drive engine at all.

When I was in engineering school, there was a saying "them that can, do, them that can't , teach" , do I sense a little of that here with our purported "experts".

That is why I asked the question. Thank you. Now I know something I didn't before. Once an engineer, always an engineer. Am I correct that the generator powers the fuel pumps as well.

I wonder if they should have a bank of batteries , so if the generator goes off line, they would provide power to keep the engine control and steering alive till the generator restarts?

Ship simulator recreates moments leading up to bridge crash in U.S. | Watch (msn.com)

We are so lucky to have cheng here.

Is it possible there was a wind that could have pushed it out of the channel?

Story I heard was the police were on the way to tell them but it was too late.

Maybe they should have.