Shipbucket

I never said it was clean and i never even swim there, but it is true texass gulf is just nasty the water is so freakin dark, and i have been to real beachs in europ and they where way better then texas gulf.
I really dont under stand what you are trying to say. im not from texas or from mexico. I AM ASIAN. <.<

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Work-list:
1.Candian JSS concept (needs more work on it)
2.Mary celeste (All most done 40% completed)
4.German CV europa (dont know if i should do it)

It's a joke. A Mexican Dog is a "Large Rat."

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Its about a family that took home a Mexican "dog" while on vacation only to find out it was a rat from the vet.

Most ship used to burn what was known as 'Bunkers fuel' which was so thick it was almost solid. Ships did not use diesel or any refined product, and so in fact usee their fuel tanks for ballast (a prime example was the idea behind the long endurance of the Leander class frigates of the RN, compared to the Type 12 class)

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"Never fear to try on something new. Remember that the Titanic was built by professionals, and the Ark by an amateur"

Trust me on this one. I work on aforementioned ships, I know all about heavy fuel.
There's some key differences between military and civilian ships. First off, military ships aren't restricted by IMO regulations, the same regulations that that require two-valve and ODM separation between any kind of oily water and the sea.
Additionally, when discharging oily water, a civilian ship has to do at least 5kts, be more than 12nm off shore and they're only allowed to discharge one liter of oil per nm sailed.
And since by and large the only time ships discharge ballast water is during cargo operations...
And what are they supposed to do if they're to be loaded to the limit, but their ballast tanks are filled to the brim with fuel. They can hardly dump it.

Secondly, they tend to run on highly refined light fuels such as diesel or Jet fuel. This means that any water in the tank will settle on the bottom, effectively separating it from the fuel.
Heavy fuel, as the name implies, is far heavier and has almost the same density as water. In order to separate the water and HFO you need to run it through centrifuges, and even the most effective ones can't handle more than 1.5% water.

And lastly, civilian ships really doesn't gain anything from it. Pretty much all ships build within the last twenty or thirty years has the range to cross the Atlantic, and there's rarely anything to gain by having more bunker than that.

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That which does not kill me has made a grave tactical error

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