Malaysia’s non-sub submarine

KD Tunku Abdul Rahman

"Float! Float! Float!"

Malaysia’s first submarine is unfit to dive, what a shameful and truly pathetic thing to happen.

KD Tunku Abdul Rahman sailed in to a grand reception last year as the first of two of the same class of vessels commissioned for a total cost of RM3.4 billion (USS$1.4 billion).

Named after the country's first prime minister, it was hailed as an important acquisition for the RMN despite allegations of corruption made by Malaysian opposition parties.

Now it is ‘rosak’ already!!!!!

Read the stories, click HERE and HERE

Parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus

Mountains will be in labour, and an absurd mouse will be born.

(all that work and nothing to show for it)

ARRESTING / KILLING PIRATES IS ACCEPTABLE

Don't pay them ransoms, fill 'em with lead.

I fully agree with this sensible view as reported recently:

"Shooting pirates is OK – ex-judge

SHOOTING is an acceptable response to pirates, Thomas Mensah, former presiding judge at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, has declared.

He was taking part in discussion after an event last night organised by the London Shipping Law Centre and was responding to a question from the floor that proposed only two responses to pirates: “either pay them or shoot them.” Mensah said “paying them is out of the question” and offered a third option: arrest.

If that is not possible, then shooting them should be considered, if it can be done without harming the crew, he added.

It might also be considered even if there is a risk of “collateral damage” to the innocent, he suggested: “If you do it often enough, then the message will get out [to pirates] that you will be shot … and things will get a little better than now.”"

WELL SAID!

Who is telling the truth?

HDMS ABSALON

A recent photo of MISC Containership Bunga Seroja Satu

Photo source

MISC, or the Royal Danish Navy?

Must be the Royal Danish Navy, why would they lie?

Malaysian International Shipping Corporation (MISC) has denied that a third vessel from its fleet was attacked by pirates in the Gulf of Aden, as attempted hijackings by Somali Pirates continue on a daily basis.

The Royal Danish Navy were reported to have stated that on Sunday 7^th September 2008, one of their warships the HDMS Absalon, came to the assistance of the large MISC containership Bunga Seroja Satu (7,943 teu) in the Gulf of Aden as it was being chased by four pirate boats.

According to the Royal Danish Navy the HDMS Absalon responded to an emergency call had been received from the Bunga Seroja Satu, and that at the same time a helicopter the same warship was helping the Chevron owned tanker Front Voyager from being boarded by pirates.

A combination of manoeuvres involving rapid course changes made by Bunga Seroja Satu combined with the arrival of the HDMS Absalon the suspected pirates, soon gave up their attempt to board and retreated from the area.

See Lloyds List HERE

This question needs an answer.

Where are the Royal Malaysian Navy warships?

NSTP report of 8th September 2008, HERE

but two days later the story has changed HERE

The bog-standard Malaysia government misinformation continues

Veritas vincit

Truth conquers

The ferry Seagull Express 2 tragedy, court case postponed

The ferry Seagull Express 2

The Mersing to Pulau Tioman ferry
Seagull Express 2
on fire at sea, on 13th October 2007

Justice delayed is justice denied!

Court proceedings in Kota Tiggi, Johor, concerning the Mersing to Pulau Tioman ferry tragedy that killed seven people last year were postponed on 9th September 2008, as defence lawyers did not receive the necessary documents.

Out of the six people charged, five were represented while the sixth was unrepresented.

Lawyer S. Vijayaretnam who was representing four of the accused, requested that the case be postponed because most of the documents needed for the trials were still with the Mersing Marine Department, he informed the judge; furthermore he had only received some other documents on the morning of the first day of trial and did not have enough time to study them.

Judge Kunju Krisnan then fixed 7th & 8th January 2009 for the trials.

A total of five Seagull Express 2 company directors face three charges while the captain faces four charges following the ferry tragedy in October last year which claimed seven lives.

The ferry was carrying 106 people when it caught fire and sank at 12:30 near Pulau Tioman, the tragedy took place on 13th October 2007, and claimed seven lives.

All defendants were charged under Section 300 (1) of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance 1952 for sending an unseaworthy ship to sea, which carries a fine not exceeding RM20,000, or jail of not more than two years, or both.

They were also charged under Section 474 of the same ordinance for operating the ferry without a licence which has a penalty of a fine not exceeding RM1,000.

The directors were also charged under the Merchant Shipping (Medical examination) Rules1999 for employing two persons who did not have valid medical examination certifications with a maximum fine of RM10,000.

The captain faces additional charges under Section 235 of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance 1952, for sailing without a certificate of survey and under Section 233 of the same ordinance for departing without a passenger list.

Deputy Public Prosecutor Zulharry Abdul Rashid prosecuted the case.

Let us hope that there is not another postponement in January next year!!


Iustitia omnibus




Justice for all

Sunbeds, A Ship Captain and Sun Worshippers

Sunbeds

A Ship Captain

& Sun Worshippers

A British cruise ship captain and his wife were criticised recently after passengers who reserved sun loungers were berated for their "Germanic behaviour".

Captain Wells, 52, Master of the 77,000-ton passenger ship 'Oceana', caused more than a little controversy when he used the ship's PA system to ask passengers not to reserve sun loungers which they were not using.

'Oceania'

The captain, whose wife, Hedda, is German, is reported to have announced: "We don't want that kind of Germanic behaviour here!"

Captain Wells is understood to have apologised to Germans on board his ship during a 15-day P&O Caribbean cruise, now he faces an inquiry by the Equality and Human Rights Commission over whether his remarks were racist. More ridiculous over the top, far end of a fart, political correctness.

The row began a few days into the cruise, when some of the more than 2,000 passengers on board the ship complained about sun beds in prime spots being "reserved" with towels, novels and bags.

One female passenger said the crew had tried unsuccessfully to put a stop to the "bed bagging". "There were enough loungers for everyone, provided they were not reserved when not in use."

The complaints came to the attention of the Captain and he tried to defuse the situation by allowing other passengers to commandeer sunbeds that had remained vacant for 20 minutes.

This caused even more mayhem, as 'happy holiday makers' hovered over vacant sun beds with stopwatches, as though they were conducting time and motion studies, counting down the “20 minutes”, this then led to heated arguments and people nearly coming to blows, it was what may have turned in to 'The War of the Sun Beds'

Finally, Captain Wells used the ship's PA system to make his controversial announcement.

A spokesman for P&O said: "Captain Wells apologises unreservedly for any offence caused."

It was not reported what Captain Wells really said, but perhaps it was something like;

'If you don't like it, then bloody well lump it!'

Cruise lines have many ways of making their passengers happy and contented, they can do it well enough without outside interference!

Good for you Captain Wells, mutinies by passengers need to be dealt with firmly and any incidents must be nipped in the bud.

To hell with the Equality and Human Rights Commission, you acted correctly Captain.

Sail onwards, may the wind always be fair and at your back.

Navigare necesse est

- To sail is necessary