Why do we have an Emergency Bilge Suction AND a Direct Bilge Suction?

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Hello chiefs engineers of reddit. 4E on tankers btw, would sound like a stupid question but I'm asking it anyway

It seems redundant to me seeing how they seem to serve basically the same purpose, which is to pump out huge volumes of water in an engine room flooding, but the emergency bilge suction is slightly more elevated compared to the direct bilge suction. Plus the pumps driving these suctions are different as well. For what reason do we have these two distinct pumping arrangements together onboard?

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u/samurai_cop_enjoyer — 8 days ago

Played Dota on the Dubai servers recently

Mapa baha, lindol, sunog or giyera, dota pa rin talaga hahaha

Was playing turbo when a couple of players in the game got disconnected all at the same time. One reported that may attacks na naman sa area nila.

To our gaming kabayans in the middle east right now, ingat kayo palagi

u/samurai_cop_enjoyer — 19 days ago

I finally pulled the trigger (or the shifter, I guess?)

After days of mulling it over and researching from since when I made my earlier post, I finally went with what you see here now.

I'm really excited to go home and assemble it soon.

u/samurai_cop_enjoyer — 29 days ago

Is this what I think it is?

I was mindlessly scrolling through facebook when I came across this. "Paid subscription". "Accessible via Telegram". "ALAM NYO NA TO".

what the fuck do you mean "alam niyo na to"??? Coupled with AI art of kids??? Kinukutuban talaga ako dito na this might be CP being shamelessly advertised on social media.

Am I overreacting or am I right to overreact here?

u/samurai_cop_enjoyer — 2 months ago

The only time AI made a huge positive difference in a video game...

...was when OpenAI made their Dota 2 1v1 and 5v5 bots. It's like having Stockfish for Chess play against itself a million games, BUT not your usual 2D chess.

It was an interesting concept when it came out, being able to observe how the AI developed their own strategies that seemed counter intuitive to how the meta was played then by the game's world top ranked players; evenly distributing networth among its 5 heroes as opposed to the usual pos. 1-5 structure of gold allocation by top players, the hyper aggressive plays it made with perfect synchronization, the instant buybacks that are normally associated to griefing is considered a legit move by it.

It would have been great to have as a permanent feature in the game, since not everyone likes to play with other human players. I was bummed out to know na after that amazing throwdown with what was arguably The peak OG lineup and a brief public run with other players, they just stopped since they were happy with the results already.

Is there any way to get bots this strong in the game these days? I have custom bots na are just artificially strong by the way of inflated gold and exp rates, and even tier 2 neutral items at level 1 and insane response times to dodge projectiles (manta dodge, insta-hex/silence etc), but they eventually bug out and stay in base mid-end game till they choke themselves out. I can't exactly play online because I have bad internet.

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u/samurai_cop_enjoyer — 2 months ago

Looking for an exit

Kamusta mga sirs? Naisipan ko na ayoko na talaga tumagal sa pag babarko and would rather work a shore job, pero inaalala ko if meron ba ako malilipatan na work na readily transferrable ang skills? Less than 1 year exp as 4E, since 2018 nag start sa international. Max 1 year more na lang talaga kaya ko siguro, and would honestly stop immediately kung pupwede lang

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u/samurai_cop_enjoyer — 2 months ago

Volcano Incinerator - atomizing air problem

Hey guys. Just recently took over duties on another ship. Offsigning 4E says the incinerator works well. After a day or two I asked one of my juniors to show me how to run the incinerator and we immediately ran into a problem: there wasn't enough atomizing air. We need 2.5 bar but it could barely reach 2.0

The said junior says it only started having this problem about 2 weeks ago when last 4E cleaned the burner. I had a look and the burner seemed okay, cross checked it with the drawings on the manual. Set the air reducer to maximum but it couldn't maintain pressure. Changed that reducer to a new spare and still same result so I figured the reducer isn't the problem. Tried bypassing the alarm and the flame quality isn't so good to the point that we had unburned sludge in the furnace. Checked if my supply air isn't enough and there sure is plenty.

I'm considering removing the reducer altogether and changing it for a valve and gauge to try and throttle it from there.

Is there anything else I should consider checking?

u/samurai_cop_enjoyer — 2 months ago