Safe ?? My Backside

[Doc Vernon]

Your mention of 'pumping rates' made me wonder about the sewerage systems on these people-laden ships....there must be many tonnes of 'treated' stuff pumped over the side - and who's regulations cover standards of treatment of it all ?
Sorry about such a shitty query, but it has me wondering!
Mike.

My Backside

Sorry about such a shitty query, but it has me wondering!

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Recently they have been finding balls of cooking oil sewage and other bits and pieces all rolled neatly together littering Sydney beaches, maybe that could be the answer to the toilet system on these huge ships, they could give them to the passengers free to play tennis or deck golf, then drop them off i in the Gulf of America to get picked up by the next storm, like one big flush.
Des

[happy daze john in oz]

The inner workings of these cruise ships is something to admire.
The contents of the dunny's are treated with chemicals and when pure are discharged.
Waste water from showers etc is also treated before being evacuated.
Most make some water with desal but still take some on board in most ports.

Garbage is one item the care about.
All the ships rubbish is sorted and packed in various manners and taken of on docking day.

Waste from the galley is minced in a giant mincer and fed to the fish.

Walk on walk off is true in reality, as you leave on last day your tag is scanned, you are gone and the name on cabin door will change as quick as the scanner scans your tag.

The crew do not like such days, it is a pure work up doing up to 13 hours.
Normal max they are allowed to do is now 11.5 hours per day.

As to P&O, now gone from Oz, Carnival the parent company pissed them off from here. More Carnival ships will replace them.
P&O had gone down the gurgler at a rate of knots over the years, to the extent bloods numbers were in serious decline.
Food and entertainment was not so good, more Noro Virus than any other company, they were really only interested in the 18 to 35 who would spend all day in the bar, money to be made there.

Only did one with them, cruise from hell.

[James Curry]

BP were a company that frequently interupted your voyage leave to send you on training courses.
A favourite was to send you on a course run by Hamworthy (Now Wartsila) sewage treament systems.
On one such course the guy doing the instruction on how to use there latest designed,jobby weeker said the water after treatment could be used for drinking water. He was asked had he ever tried drinking their treated water?
Yes I have !!! and any side effects? Well shall we say I always carry Imodium since then

[Tony Taylor]

BP were a company that frequently interupted your voyage leave to send you on training courses.
A favourite was to send you on a course run by Hamworthy (Now Wartsila) sewage treament systems.
On one such course the guy doing the instruction on how to use there latest designed,jobby weeker said the water after treatment could be used for drinking water. He was asked had he ever tried drinking their treated water?
Yes I have !!! and any side effects? Well shall we say I always carry Imodium since then

I sailed with one on ajob running up the lakes. No training course, just, that kit comes under your remit so carry on. I had to learn myself and with the help of the useless makers instructions managed to keep it running. The handyest tool as donated by the chief cook who gave me a longhandled scoop utensil for skimming various detritous which escaped maceration and floated on top of the tank. There were numerous occasions where the unit had to be shut down and pipe work opened up to remove blackages to orifices etc. due to fag ends, matchsticks, bits of carrot etc;
The midships holding tank had to be pumped out daily (juniors job after 12-4) but if forgotten or left due to other priorities caused an awful stink in the midships accommodation.
Never had any volunteers to sample the treated water, which was heavily chlorinated (if that part of the kit worked properly).

[Ivan Cloherty]

Hope you washed the soupscoop before giving it back to the galley!

[j.sabourn]

#25 . The first time up the lakes I was on a vessel with no sanitation tanks and had to get chemical toilets for ship , this was in 1968 and no sanitary discharges were allowed and huge fines were incurred if found doing so.
These toilets were run off a 24 volt battery and were guaranteed 100 uses per toilet . Coming out of the lakes these toilets had to be emptied and returned to the company who hied these chemical toilets out . Fortuanetly we had two of the untouchables on board as Was Indian crewed , one for the engine room and one for the deck, and it was their job to get them cleaned out, I learned then that was one of the reasons they were called untouchable ? Cheers JS

[Des Taff Jenkins]

John
You would have no trouble now getting untouchables Trump has around 5 million you can have.
Des

[happy daze john in oz]

Of course now it is the 'E Vac' system similar to that used on aircraft.
Just make sure you stand well clear before pushing the button.

[John Arton]

Re#20
Sewage systems on board fall under MARPOL regulations, (marine pollution) and are subjected to annual inspection under SOLAS regulations.
Rgds
J.A