Power Relays – The Electromagnetic Switches

The major plight of doubts for Engineer officers onboard a merchant ship is to tackle with electrical problems which, for most, go beyond the understanding.  It’s not always practical to look forward to the presence of Electrical Engineer to solve the minutest of these. It’s imperative for an engineer to understand the basic and simple understanding of the most common parts of an electrical circuit to head-start the fault finding in correct direction.

Power Relays – The Electromagnetic Switches

Ballast Water Management – Guarding the Bio-invasion

Ballast water is filled into the ballast tanks of the ships to maintain stability and improve the handling and manoeuvrability of the ship. Ballasting maintains a safe operating condition throughout the voyage by reducing hull stress, improving propulsion and, in the meantime, also compensating for any weight change in various scenarios of fuel and water consumption. Pumping in the sea water to be used as ballast is the most economical practice with the above mentioned advantages but it comes at a cost.

Ballast Water Management

Trails of a Lone Rider - Rajasthan calling

We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us

Prologue

1st September 2017
My phone has been silent since today morning. No calls, messages or notifications received. That’s quite unusual. 
Seems to me the Silence before the Storm

1800 hrs.
Phone sprangs to life:    (tring tring), (tring tring)
Notification:                    1 Message received
Message:                        Hi Mr. Prateek. You will be required to join onboard ship MT Kourion, around the second week of the next month(0ctober 2017). Please prepare yourself accordingly. Wish you a Happy Sailing.