as for playing bumper cars with ships in th e paciffic----big news.. they fired the admiral of the fleet for the colision of our navy ship with a huge tanker...-- boy i don't understand that logic...
in our vast cp community we do have a marine expert.. here is a comment from our ocean trained expert -- #1 steve
You are absolutely correct, the officers of naval vessels that have collisions should be xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
When maneuvering in shipping channels the bridge of a vessel should at a minimum have three QUALIFIED maneuvering officers, and a couple of non- commissioned seamen.
Radar systems are CONSTANTLY active, and there goes another group of incompetents.
steve went on to question where they had gone to school... which made me wonder where you have to go to school to learn to watch out for big things that might run over you...seems to me... the chain of command had little to do with the chain of responsibility.. if indeed there was to be 3 maneuvering officers did the couple seamen have some way of waking up the captain and asking if they could be promoted to officer status so they would have some proticol for reporting oncoming large objects.
maybe teh accident was actually caused by the fact that they all were otherwise occupied with food poisoning caused by seaman janitor who was to clean out the regftrigerator and overlooked an old jar of mayonase.
and who tripped over the extension cord which unplugged teh radar...
there are sooooo many questions-- was this admiral who got fired anywheres near the pacific ocean-- or was he mired in some swamp on the mainland.. how as he to know about the mayonase...
congress will work on it ... i am sure.
remember.... for want of a nail the shoe was lost
for want of a shoe the horse was lost..., then the officer, then the battle,,then the war, then the kingdom all for want of a nail....
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there is - even around here a huge tendency ... if things have always worked A to B to C then that is what will happen and i don't even have to consider the possibility of A to B to K... i can not tell you how many times i can ask something like "were the water buckets filled?" and get the answer " yes --i am sure they were" from a person no where near the actual bucket.
how much paper does it take to legislate common sense? our friends at ADI ( assisance dog international 's accreditation committee) certainly try..
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bucket filling... i bet you folk don'tknow that we get kids who are to do community service dfor some infractio of the rules-- and we have one lately SAM-- was to spent 10 hours here.. 8 to 1 for 2 days-- he was already a no show once-- and the district atorney showed up one dy just to look us over and be sure we were a place they could send people.. the DA was very pleased... and left me her number.. SAM showed up on monday and wss given the job of filling the water buckets... but since they all had some water in them he figured he didn't have to do anything... luckily one of the purple shirted people noticed and we solved that quickly.. so i had this guy SAM... big strong 18 year old - load a bunch of rails that were in the wrong place... and i could sit in the a/c tractor and watch-- a perfectly legitimate job for some kid who did enough wrong to involve the da's office... well it apparently did him is... because he did not stay til noon.. and he did not show yesterday at all... so i have lefgt word at teh da's office as i was requested to do.. he apparently will be picked up and put behind bars...
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Sunday was a hot one and I wanted to take Ned to Paint Creek Park in the Cherokee National Forest where it's shady and cool. I used to go there often but in recent years have only driven through to enjoy the mountains but didn't try to navigate walking on the uneven terrain.
Ned hasn't been around water yet and I didn't expect he would want to go in but knew there would be interesting things for him to explore. My niece and her family decided to make it a day and go with us. I started by sitting on a rock at the edge while the children played in the water and boulders in the middle of the steam. Ned wanted to go in but would hesitate after dipping a foot in the water. After about 40 minutes he couldn't stand it anymore and bravely waded into the water (with a little encouragement). He LOVED it! He bounced and jumped and splashed through the water then ran up and down the banks of the stream having a wonderful time. With my balance issues I didn't expect to get beyond the banks but having my big strong Ned there gave me the confidence to wade out to the boulders too. You can't know how wonderful it was to do something I love but thought I'd never be able to do again with my Sweet Ned there! I'm amazed over and over at how solid it feels to walk with him. I'd have never considered trying that with a cane!
I can't thank you and all the CP's who support SDP enough. You change lives every day!
