Already finished checking out the isolation valves for COW IGS butter wash machines together with the new pump man and now I'm cutting out gaskets again on the Teflon sheets.
On the crew mess, I received and signed up the memo I got from Captain Igors Slabada about the specific duties of an Ordinary Seaman. I think this memo is based on the company SMS of career and not just pure made up rules imposed as there is a document number and reference number as well.
This is what is written on the memo
1. He has the required certification and qualification for the position he is employed for particularly with regard to the bridge watch keeping and tanker operation. His department head is the chief officer - latter will allocate the day to day work.
2. He will be engage with engaged with bridge watch keeping and assist the OOW with the lookout and steering and all other task that might arise
3. He is a member of the deck crew and participates in the safe operation of the vessel during cargo handling, mooring, preparations for sea and port, and etc.
4. He takes part in the maintenance of the deck department and any repairs of deck machinery and also when required in the other departments
5. He observes the safety regulations that apply and reports immediately any irregularity concerned to the safe operation of the vessel to the chief officer or to the OOW.
6. He has to make himself familiar with all the safety equipment and its handling. He has to know his duties in case of emergency and if any questions arise he will ask the safety officer, the department head.
7. He takes part n the safety training / drills and attends the viewing of the various training CD's and passing tests.
8. He must observe and strictly follow the pollution and prevention regulations in order to comply with MARPOL requirements and never dumps anything overboard without permission of the chief officer.
9. He attends on the job training and further information given by the Safety Officer regarding the safety Failure File.
10. He keeps his cabin clean and tidy and maintains cleanliness in all public rooms, in the storerooms and workshops and elsewhere on deck and accommodation.
11. He observes that no stores, spares or provision is wasted and that equipment and stores are handled with care.
12. When on duty he wears protective clothing that should be clean and tidy and handled with care.
13. During security emergency to obey SSO orders.
14. He must strictly follow the SMOKING regulations and pays attention that other crew member and visitors do the same.
15. He keeps a true and correct record of his overtimes and STCW working / rest hours and hands it over to the Chief Officer at the end of week for verification or when required
16. All other duties ordered by Chief Officer and Master.
Some of these rules are a bit exaggerated and just let your logic and practical thinking do the rest, some of the rules of course makes sense. Overall all these rules point only on Deck Maintenance - nothing more, nothing less
Anyway in other matters around the crew mess, the bond store recently gave out a box of can coca cola soft drinks and a box of Gatorade orange. The main reason of course is that it's already near expiration date, but when I looked over the coca cola can I noticed that it's still not on the expiry date and the date it will expire is still next year 2014.
In other news…
At the deck there is rumor, that this ship will not be berthing to Houston but will be on somewhere on Louisiana on the 26th, I haven't confirmed this yet at all and the details of course is subjected to change every now and then. Aside from that rumor there is also rumor that this will berth in Valenzuela (down south of Houston, way south and farther than Mexico), as this ship is still not scheduled yet to hit the dry docks. The only thing I can confirmed at is that this is the last loading and unloading operations for Cape Tallin before it gets repaired in the shipyard - the exact country that this ship will dry dock is also not yet confirmed as well.
July 19 2013 Friday….
Been helping out the new Pump man for a few days now , mostly his work consist of checking out the COW IGS machines and the latest was that we had to check isolations valves from 2 wings area of this ship, for now the isolation valves for 1 to 3 wings (out of 6 wings) have already been inspected and check, the remaining isolation valves and Cow IGS valves will be check out on the latter days.
Some of the crew were busy, entering the ballast tank and check it out if there's no leak , the new chief mate came in personally to check and found out that there is a small leak and apparently its dripping oil to the ballast water. I heard from them that for now they're going to remedy the situation by putting in a sealant for now until complete repairs will be made on the dry dock.
In the late afternoon after work, I was in the locker room along with A.B. "Patrick" and A.B. "Bryan" (the new A.B. that replaced Ronald) when BOSUN AMICAN came around and said that before I should came in to the locker room first I should ask permission first from him and not even the chief mate could enter the locker room without his permission or even relieve me from my work. I didn't like the tone of his voice and his arrogance; well for me he shouldn't wave his rank like that and showing off his arrogance because one day people could throw him overboard. Aside from that he shouldn't brag that he's more "Superior" to the chief mate. Well if he has the balls then why not tell that to the chief mate himself and let see who gets sent home first. Bastard son of a bitch!!! A.B. "Patrick" didn't like also what he said and gave me an advice on how to counter that bastard.
In other news, I'm back again scavenging for supplies on the deck whenever (or during at work) I have the free time. For the moment I got a few leather gloves during my rounds on the forward and aft of the ship, and I'd wash them later on secretly via the washing machine. Speaking of which I already figured out what's the main reason why the leather gloves and working equipment are a scarcity here onboard , Believe it or not from what I discovered it's not the CSM management , nor the captain or the chief mate. Its BOSUN AMICAN who's hoarding off the working supplies, yes that's what I found out - explains it all why there was a working supplies provision that came around in Amsterdam and yet there is still up to now no working supplies yet coming on the circulation and I myself haven't received any new gloves at all. (See blog entry "calm before the storm" June or July 2013 entry)
That fucking bastard! He's holding off the supplies like a blockade, Hard to believe but there are still greedy people out there onboard and worst part is that he's a Filipino - these kind of people makes me sick. Bloody fucking cruel of him letting his own men scurrying for supplies on deck and him hoarding off the supplies meant for the crew, probably this depriving monster thinks he owns the supplies eh?? Fuck! Worst part is that he thinks he's more "Superior" to other people even to the chief mate! Bah!
Oh well it's amazing that these sleazy bastard lasted for years in the working in and out on different ships without someone attempting to smack his face. He's been here for only two months and yet a lot people have been complaining about him and I myself including on his shitty behavior. Let's hope he doesn't make any more serious offenses or else retaliation on him will be much more serious. For now he makes an antagonist impression on me and sad to say I'd have my hands full dealing with him for the next 6 months since he came onboard along with me two months ago. A complication I have to deal with.
