Officer Bart is justly proud of his ship's propulsion and treatment operations in tip top shape. As the pictures show, I put on a hard hat and climbed down into the bowels of the ship where we walked and walked and walked.
starting with the control room - there were schematics for everything with an impressive set of redundant controls for a number of fire suppression systems--even breaking up the water molecules to make a better blanket of water to extinguish flames
then off to the engines which were mammouth--I was most interested in the stabilizers which act as their own gyros to counteract any wave action. They cause the loss of a knot of speed but sure are great..It is possible to see the engine pods's positions on a virtual screen--amazing....funny though---there is still a wrench in every engineer's had just to go about tightening all of the nuts and bolts that vibrate loose and can cause small leakages. It was really a spotless operation, even near the watse treatment facility which separates so effeciently that this ship of 2,000 plus people has only 4 bags of trash at the end of each day---what with bio-organisms, incineration and recyclying.
One big criticism though!! He let me play with the engine that makes seawater into drinking water BUT! he wouldn't share with me the machine that changes water into wine!!
Courtesy West Fries Museum-HOORN
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