Shrimping Question

[inchspinner]

my 2 cents, do your part and bring your trash home or dispose of it at the provided cans at the launch, thats all u can do.

[Ray]

My center console is full of trash after I get home.
All trash goes in there. None can fly out.

[Finfeatherfur]

Originally Posted by Ray

MMS/BOEMRE will write you an INC if a super sack is not tied off to something sturdy.
THey also don't like to see them tied off to a handrail close to the edge of the platform.
We have trash compactors for regular trash, food grinders that have to grind food smaller than 1 cubic inch and we recycle cardboard, paper, aluminum and plastic bottles in super sacks that are either tied off or in containers. The only thing we keep in open top 4 X 8 baskets is scrap metals.
We have special baskets for empty 5 gal. water bottles too.

Everything that can fly off the platform has to have the block number on it, in some kind of permanent lettering or sticker. If not, that can result in an INC also.

That's where I was going w/ it Ray. If he didn't know what a super-sack was, no need to explain the cost and labor involved with disposing of trash from a rig/platform. We spend literally hundreds of thousands a year just on trash compactors and their upkeep. Nothing worse than having a crew upset becasue they have to deal w/ 2 things:
1)-Trash compactor and super sacks
2)-Malfunctioning sewer plant

Worst calls of my day!

[Ray]

We have 2 trash compactors, one on deck 1 and one on deck 4.

We have 3 food grinders, one outside the main quarters galley and 2 spares, just in case. We cannot let the food go overboard unless it is ground up. So, broke grinder, we have to store it somewhere. We have between 150 and 160 POB. That would be bad to store all that food waste on board.

We have an electric corn grinder/macerator and an electric turn burner. It uses the macerator to make grits outta the turds and then passes thru the turd burner to kill any bacteria, then sends overboard.
When not working, we still have to macerate, but then pass thru chlorine bath to kill bacteria. When doing this, someone has to take cholorine residual test to make sure the right amount of chlorine is found in the overboard discharge to kill all bacteria. A record of the chlorine residual test has to be done every 12 hours and has to be sent in with the NPDES reports to the gov't every month. If no test is done when the turd burner goes out, again, we get INC'ed.

[Feesherman]

Originally Posted by Ray

We have 2 trash compactors, one on deck 1 and one on deck 4.

We have 3 food grinders, one outside the main quarters galley and 2 spares, just in case. We cannot let the food go overboard unless it is ground up. So, broke grinder, we have to store it somewhere. We have between 150 and 160 POB. That would be bad to store all that food waste on board.

We have an electric corn grinder/macerator and an electric turn burner. It uses the macerator to make grits outta the turds and then passes thru the turd burner to kill any bacteria, then sends overboard.
When not working, we still have to macerate, but then pass thru chlorine bath to kill bacteria. When doing this, someone has to take cholorine residual test to make sure the right amount of chlorine is found in the overboard discharge to kill all bacteria. A record of the chlorine residual test has to be done every 12 hours and has to be sent in with the NPDES reports to the gov't every month. If no test is done when the turd burner goes out, again, we get INC'ed.

Wow, things have sure changed since I been offshore. They would just chunk all da food over the side. This was in the mid to late 90's.

[booyagasha]

and everybody offshore is always on their p's and q's and nothing wrong ever happens and its a grand ole time.It's funny how you mention hundreds and thousands of dollars being spent on proper waste disposal yet ,they're not always used/ used properly. and if you really think it does, better crawl out that arse crack of yours

[Finfeatherfur]

Originally Posted by booyagasha

and everybody offshore is always on their p's and q's and nothing wrong ever happens and its a grand ole time.It's funny how you mention hundreds and thousands of dollars being spent on proper waste disposal yet ,they're not always used/ used properly. and if you really think it does, better crawl out that arse crack of yours

A wise old man once told me:
"It's better to sit there and look stupid, than open your mouth and confirm everyone's suspicions".

Have a good day sir, becasue you are not worth my time!:*****:

[booyagasha]

Originally Posted by Finfeatherfur

A wise old man once told me:
"It's better to sit there and look stupid, than open your mouth and confirm everyone's suspicions".

Have a good day sir, becasue you are not worth my time!:*****:

Young piece of leather, but damned well put together.I bite my tongue for no one..it doesnt even pay..this board is soo biased....I just wish for the day I'm blessed to actually meet some of you in person...:-)

PS tell my long lost homeboy Wayne Toups I said wassup.its been years since I've saw him

[southern151]

Originally Posted by booyagasha

and everybody offshore is always on their p's and q's and nothing wrong ever happens and its a grand ole time.It's funny how you mention hundreds and thousands of dollars being spent on proper waste disposal yet ,they're not always used/ used properly. and if you really think it does, better crawl out that arse crack of yours

Yeah, every construction hand I've EVER worked with was a shining example of society's elite crowd!

I applaud the efforts of the oil companies and I really believe they try to do right, most of the time but, they aren't able to monitor what every individual is doing 24/7. I think that's what you were getting at.

[Hydro]

Originally Posted by booyagasha

Trash comes from everybody..the gulf is America's toilet. Truthfully, I think the biggest contributer to offshore pollution is Big Oil.

Geeze, "Big Oil" ???

I have spent lots of time offshore on "big oil's" platforms back in the day.... Conoco, LLE, Nerco, ect. back in the 90's and can assure you that nobody dumped anything overboard except for waste food, which we looked fwd to cuz thats when dem big black snappas' would come to the surface (SS198G was the fashiz, GC 52 was DEEPWATER)!!!

Just cuz everything runs into the gulf doesnt make it a toilet, it just makes it a diverse ecosystem which all of us enjoy

Chill bro, go snag a Tripletail beneath a hardhat !!!

Hydro

[booyagasha]

Apparently super sacks and sand bags are one in the same...

[downsouth]

You CAN NOT blame one certain group of people. It's a combination of everyone, Trawlers, crabbers, fishermen, offshore, beach people and who ever elese I left out. It is a dam shame this happens but when 100 different people do it everyday it does pile up big time. I'm from down here and I see it all the tim. Go take a walk on the bridge that everyone fishes from, the garbage can are filled to the top so they just pile it up all over. It get nasty some times. Last summer I met a lady going from TX to Fl along the coast taking picture and talking to locals, she was writing a book about the gulf coast. Her first question was why are the LA coast and roads so littered with trash. She said it's very noticable from TX, AL, MS, and Fl. I'm guessing either no one care about LA or the law aint strick enough, who knows but the way it sounded people like throwing garbage out in LA the most..

[Ray]

I'm gonna crawl out my arse and say you are way off on this one.
I think it all depends on the company and the platform, platform management and training.
Most big oil companies spend a lot of time and money on reputation management. Pollution is the last thing they want to have to deal with.
Where I work, if you drop anything overboard accidently, you have to report it and it goes into the deck log. If the weather is good, it will be retrieved, if it floats.
If you throw something overboard on purpose, you won't be doing it again.

[southern151]

Consider some of what I've seen. In the area I live in, people think that behind the MS River levee is a dump! Anything from tv's, furniture, old garage doors, and one crew barge that I have personally witnessed offloading their trash onto land and burning it! Yes, I've called em in to the levee board, WLF and state police but nothing is ever done.

All of this washes out into the GOM. If I were a betting man, I'd put money on the idea that "my" area isn't the only one guilty of actions like these. Litter hits the GOM from as far north as Minnesota or and as far south as in the GOM itself.

Even my dad has passed comment as to how trashy some of the people are here! It's sad to see such beautiful land get treated with such little respect!