During
the discharge operations, a work incident happened were the Pump room was
flooded with oil coming from a defective cargo pump. The whole oil leak was not
a problem but it got complicated when excess water from the ballast got mixed
up and added to the flooding in the pump. If the flooding was only just Oil
then the whole mess would just be isolated and controlled.
Having
a mix of oil and water going around on the bowels of the Pump room, made the
problem complicated and out of just bad luck , the vetting inspector went
inside the Pump room in the middle of us cleaning the said spill . For now its no my problem on what will be Vetting
inspectors remarks (but for them , its their problem) . Most of my time
during discharge operations was spent cleaning up the oil mess , I did clean a
significant area , but since the oil had spread to a very large floor area of
the Pump room , it would be impossible for me to clean this alone.
Then
on the last days of the discharge operations (took three whole days) ., when
the leak was nearly cleaned and about 3/4 of the whole floor area was cleaned ,
Disaster struck once again as there another ballast water spill again and
flooded once more the bottom area of the pump room - Basically starting again
back to scratch in cleaning the whole area.
As
soon as the ship went unmoored from the SBM and went on a voyage again , work resumed in the
cleanup. When I got there the following day , the water has already been
drained and the only thing left was the film of sludge. The probably have used
an "eductor' from the bilge to remove all the water along most of the oil
floating around.
Clean
up work is still ongoing up to now , and I'm expecting that this will keep me busy for a couple of days.
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| The whole floor area of the Pump room is littered with sludge oil |
