Farooq, the starboard [unclear] is engaged already, right?
Is the engine ready?
Okay Farooq you can go ahead
and you can start picking up the starboard anchor.
If at any time you need my assistance,
you need the assistance of the engine, let me know
I'll give it a short kick.
So, today we've got a bit of a situation
and I just wanted to show you what we do in such situations.
I showed you a video.
In it, I told you that we were moving, and we encountered a storm.
And when we encountered the storm,
we took some precautions and finally we were able to evade that one.
But it hasn't always been this way.
It's not always like we're moving, and a storm is moving with us,
and our paths are intersecting sometimes.
It doesn't happen like that.
For example, this time, we have nothing to do with the storm's path.
We were just at anchor.
But this time, a storm is approaching us.
Okay, the name of the TRS is Bavi and it looks something like this.
This is the storm's centre,
and the winds at the centre are 101 knots.
And this "yellow sea" you see, is the Yellow Sea.
This is Korea, this is China.
We're somewhere here. We can't get out.
If we do, we won't have anywhere to go since there's a storm ahead.
So we cannot obviously go in this direction
but we have traced the storm's path.
The storm's predicted path looks somewhat like this.
The blue circles you see here make up the storm's path.
It's going to hit Korea tomorrow.
A vessel at anchor is quite a safe vessel, but, not always.
When a storm comes,
it has the potential to exert forces on a ship
i.e., wind, waves, swells. All of those are different things. Currents too, of course.
The forces exerted on a ship can damage its anchor.
Remember, as I told you in my anchoring video.
An anchor is a small object compared to the ship it's with.
And when so many forces are being exerted on said ship,
the ship can practically break away from its chain,
damage its anchor, and that will be a big loss.
And primarily, if we don't talk about money,
it's going to be the loss of the ship's anchor.
3 'o'clock, moderate stay, coming easily, right?
If your ship loses an anchor, it means you're already handicapped.
You don't want that, nobody does.
And definitely, we can't escape this one, we're already surrounded.
What can we do?
What we're doing is, we're somewhere here.
We'll keep moving north or south,
we'll keep the swell at our bow or quarter.
What this will do is: we won't be affected by the storm directly.
We will get winds and waves, water on the ship, too.
But it won't be as damaging,
if water from a swell hits our ship, that will be very, very dangerous.
First, we'll retract our anchor because we don't want our ship tied to the ground,
We want to heave up our anchor so we can have secure it.
Then we'll use the main engine.
The main engine comes in handy in many situations.
Of course, it's used to operate the ship too.
But this is one very important situation
where the main engine comes into use.
- Yes sir, the cable we're leading is 3 o'clock [unclear].
- Okay we're giving a short kick ahead.
Okay Lloyd, dead slow ahead.
- Dead slow ahead.
- Farooq, let me know when the weight eases off.
3 o'clock moderate, okay.
So, this is one of those situations when your engine is very helpful to you.
You can perform manoeuvres with the help of an engine.
You have to encounter swells, waves, winds,
swell being the most important.
Because it's originating from the TRS.
The swell is not necessarily coming from the same direction as the wind.
Because the swell is originating from the TRS' centre
not because of the winds and the waves.
If you don't counter the swell,
the ship will roll, pitch, heave, sway, yaw,
i.e., all the kinds of motions a ship does.
And obviously, there's panting and pounding as well.
So, a swell is an important thing to counter.
- Seven on deck.
The cable is reading a 3 o'clock moderate.
- Seven on deck, and 3 o'clock moderate.
If you want to see what the outside looks like,
There's a slight rolling. Towards the starboard and port side.
And by the way, the wind is around 17-17.5 knots,
and it's going to increase
it shows 20-24 knots.
But it's going to increase up to approx. 40 knots in the evening.
The heading is almost towards the northeast.
Let's make a circle of approx. 5 nodules.
It's pouring.
- [Unclear]
I've stopped now, I've stopped now. I'll let the weight ease off.
[unclear].
- There are so many of them altogether.
But, what are these?!
Such strange colours!
It's raining and they've all gathered.
Alright Farooq, the cable is almost up and down.
What do you think? Has it left the ground?
Where are all these seagulls coming from?
There's so many of them!
So many.
Farooq, once you have a sight of the anchor,
please let me know.
The sight of the anchor, or seeing the anchor is very important.
We've been anchored here for the past 20-25 days.
So we have to see if the anchor is still in good shape,
and God forbid if it has suffered any damage.
We're keeping it at the water level just to clear it out.
- Yes, that is correct sir. That is correct.
- Okay, I'll start the engine and start moving a little bit.
It's been 15-20 minutes, anyway.
... so the mud is cleared quickly.
- Okay sir, okay.
Dead slow ahead.
Colonel, maintain the same [unclear].
So the first part of our thing is already over.
We've lifted our anchor, we're already underway.
I've already marked a circle
for the duty officer's reference, to stay in.
I've already told them to (if required) move north and south.
The engine room is already manned.
The engine is ready,
and we're running it. We'll keep running it whenever it's needed.
We'll shut it down from time to time, too.
So, the first part is over. Now we have to wait for the evening to
because that's usually when things tend to go south.
And Mr Lloyd added a circle here.
So, we'll try to keep on moving like this, and this. Let's see.
I'll keep on shooting the video throughout the night
and in the morning as well.
I mean, not always. Whenever something important actually happens.
We'll see how things go. In sha ALLAH.
Well, the storm is still there.
It's not gone yet. But it's significantly weaker.
There was a bit of rolling and pitching during the night,
but I was busy doing something else.
Passing 3-0-0, okay. Rate of turn, 10 degrees?
Okay, ease to 10.
There was a bit of rolling, but nothing more than that, really.
Because we were drifting, the ship kept auto-adjusting its heading,
so it wasn't much of a concern.
The height of the swell has been reduced significantly,
It's around 1.1 meters now.
Its period is around 5 seconds now. It's quite better.
It's slowly going down, so I think it's the right time to drop the anchor again.
And thankfully, by the grace of ALLAH,
it wasn't just us, it was so many other vessels.
They were drifting along with us.
So let's just have a turn and then-
3-3-0. Okay. The rate of turn is reduced.
Starboard, 20.
Forward bridge,
radio check.
- Loud and clear, sir.
How many degrees is it rolling?
560.
Lloyd, have a look at that ship, at the back.
How she's heading, how the aspect's looking.
Doing well clear.
The aspect looks good.
1.2, 5 seconds, [unclear].
After another 2 hours.
I had the plan to anchor now but looking at the swell, and the ship's rolling,
Lloyd recommended we don't do that yet.
I also had a discussion with Farooq. The Chief Officer,
he also said that the coast isn't clear yet.
So we have delayed the operation for 4 more hours.
4 hours later at 4 o'clock, we'll try again.
We'll see how things go.
Yes, forward.
- Commence walking backward anchor.
- Roger, commence walking backward anchor.
Turn on the anchor lights.
Change its status on the AIS. Change it everywhere.
So the weather has finally improved.
The swell was a little high in the afternoon,
so we couldn't drop the anchor,
but now the swell is quite okay.
Yes, forward?
One on deck, up and down, correct?
But now, all looks good. The weather is also okay,
and I think it's the right time to drop the anchor.
So if we look at the SPOS as well,
we're right around here.
The TRS has crossed over and it has already hit Korea and Russia.
It's called Bavi.
So things are looking good, I think it's the right time to drop the anchor now.
Thankfully, all went well.
A lot of tossing during the night.
The morning as well.
Actually, I did think the weather would improve around noon.
And it actually did.
No waves, no wind,
but the swell was still there.
And it was causing the ship to keep rolling.
And when I saw the length of the swell,
the interval was about 5 seconds.
So if we count that interval, its length,
was around 120-140 meters.
The height wasn't much, it was about 1.2 meters.
But if the swell is 120 meters
it's still not good,
it's not practical, or advisable to drop the anchor.
So that's why we abandoned in the afternoon
but now things look good.
Yes, forward?
- There's a 5-1 right now, up and down, holding on.
- Roger, let me know when the anchor develops a lead.
- So, basically, the theory is
we're holding the anchor chain [unclear] because
so that the ship heads toward the swell.
The swell is the factor that's affecting the vessel the most at this moment.
So what I want to see now is
how a ship behaves when it heads toward a swell.
Because I don't want
the swell to keep coming at the ship
while we have the anchor down. We'd have to lift it again.
Okay, roger that, stopping at 8 in the water.
Secure the anchor, now.
Let's watch for some time. Let's see
if some lead is developed. Then we should get finished with the chain as well.
- Okay, copy that.
As they always say, all's well that ends well,
thankfully, by the grace of ALLAH,
this also ended well.
Okay Farooq, thank you very much,
the anchor is on the break and barge
I'll just need 5 more minutes with you to
monitor the chain and that should be it.
- [Unclear] up and down.
- Roger.
And the 5 shackles I dropped, I told you earlier that I will see
the vessel behaves. She behaved very nicely, very smoothly.
Very nicely.
Then I decided we should drop the rest of the shackles as well,
and then let's finish with the story.
So that's it.
And thankfully, we have avoided one more storm.
It's a long list of storms, in fact.
We even got stuck in a couple of instances.
Back then I didn't use to make videos,
because I didn't know how. Now I do.
If God forbid, you get stuck somewhere-
you must be enjoying listening to this,
it isn't as fun when you're the one stuck in a storm like that.
And if God forbid, it happens again,
and we're unable to avoid it, you'll see.
You'll see what we do at that time.
So this was today's video,
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Take good care of yourselves,
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This is Orange Shots,
I am Zahid Nisar.
Stay happy, and stay safe.
Assalamualaikum, and ALLAH Hafiz.