Over six years ago, here was the last time I used this title. At 09:23 this morning, E. R. Denver was at Howland Hook as an outbound tanker eased by. E. R. seems to have been created by erasure from MaERsk.
. . . nine seconds later, it’s
Mount Everest.
This is serious, precision navigating,
with even less tolerance of errors because of the channel work, and
surrounding traffic, like Kristy Ann Reinauer and Paul Andrew and dredge units.
This short stretch of Arthur Kill, where serious dredging is enlarging the channel, were featured here and here (a blast!!) back last October. I’m not given to playing video games or using simulators, but if such a thing were available, I can imagine spending time playing “games” imitating professionals piloting different types of vessels through ports of the world in every sort of conditions. Hats off to the professionals.
All fotos today by Will Van Dorp.
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January 15, 2013 at 11:35 pm
Joe
No thanks on the games, it wasn’t too much fun in the notch of a 44,000 brl, Army Barge on the General Pickett. that corner current there is something to see. They were trying to minimize, I think the affect by hanging danger close on the starboard wall of the channel.
January 16, 2013 at 11:08 am
walt
Mount Everest in going around in a 2000′ diameter circle Near St George Staten Island, Looking @ her Plimsoll line, she’s empty?