WeDon’tNoStinkin’W’s
PostModernPressVille
As someone who just paid $127.90 to bring my family of four across the waters from the Lower Mainland to Victoria, I have a question…..
Why isn’t the following paragraph, which was written by a marine engineering consultant company that carried out a ‘due diligence report’ for BC Ferries in 2007, known by every single British Columbian:
Again.
This was written by a consulting company working for BC Ferries that served them up a poop sandwich on the German-built ‘Coastal Celebration’ ferries more than four years ago.
And just in case you missed it, here is really stinky bit, some of which was likely smeared on the Duke Point dock last week, is stuck right in the middle:
“….The primary drawback is at the dock; when the nearly-feathered propeller is rotating at full RPM, any failure in pitch control could have severe consequences…”
So, given that, according to the most excellent ‘Tidal Station’ blog, this problem with ‘changing pitch’ has happened before, but far enough from the dock that it could be corrected manually, why isn’t every single proMedia outlet in this province screaming at BC Ferries asking how, exactly, this is being fixed and why, exactly, the other German built ferry that, presumably, also has the same propulsion system, is still running.
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Now.
Some may say I am being hyperbolic here.
To those, I would respond with the following….
First…. A consulting company working for BC Ferries identifies their propulsion design choice as being a potential problem…
Second…That design decision appears to contribute to a crash at a dock that injures people…
Third…The media does not scream long and hard at BC Ferries demanding to know what actually happened, second-by-second, and how they are actually fixing the propulsion problem…
This is pure lunacy.
Not to mention dangerous.
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*I called it a ‘crash’ above because I agree with Chris Montgomery that calling these things ‘hard landings’ when you destroy a dock, mash a door, and injure people is pure unadulterated bullshit (although Chris is much more polite with her language than I am).
In addition to ‘Tidal Station’ and Ms. Montgomery’s ‘On The Watefront’, Dave at The Galloping Beaver, who points out that the only reason you can read the consultant’s reported cited above is because it was rooted out by an FOI request, is also doing the job that the proMedia are not on this issue.
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