[nanduchitnis]

GAS FLARING OPERATIONS BOMBAY HIGH OILFIELD


Captain Nandu Chitnis
Master Mariner
ONGC/SCI

[Swanand Inamdar]

What a wonderful thread, this. Some lovely pictures out there too.

Amit: That makes the two of us. Dont see myself going to sea, anytime soon, except for maybe a cruise liner, which BTW is also a longshot!.

Capt. Nandu: Good to see you back. About time we met again! With your kinda experiance at sea, there would be tonnes of pics to upload. Literally!

[nanduchitnis]

@Swanand

Oh yes I do have many pics majorly Offshore Operations in Bombay High Oilfields of ONGC. And yes amazing photographs of Sunrise/Sunset and Clouds !

[nanduchitnis]

RADAR PICTURE SHOT AT NIGHT

TROPICAL REVOLVING STORM (CYCLONE) IN THE ARABIAN SEA

Captain Nandu Chitnis
Master Mariner

[deky]

I have worked on cruise liners for little more than 5 years, hence I would like to call my self a sailor too

Here are some pics of my cruise ship

My ship docked at the port of Flam (Norway)


A ferry ferrying humans, car's busses etc etc in the Norwegian Fjords. A very common sight


My ship (far end) and some other cruise ships anchored off the coast of Geiranger town. We had to take small tenders to come ashore


My ship entering one of the narrowest of the fjords "the Troll Fjord" Here you can see the forward mooring deck on the bow of the ship


Passengers on the open deck


At some Catalina beach in the Caribbean. My ship is in the back ground



Rest you can read and have a look at pics here

There are also some videos, that you may like to see

This is when our ship hit a reef and broke a propeller. So we had to go for dry dock in Alabama. Infact the ship here also crashed in the peer!!

alabama-drydock.wmv - YouTube

This is the oil slick that our ship caused after breaking the propeller

oil leak-cozumel.wmv - YouTube

This is how the staff celebrate Xmas on the ship

xmas party.wmv - YouTube

Regards

[plimsollmark]

Originally Posted by khoj

Interesting thread plimsollmark, will look forward to sailing the high seas through your and your fellow mariners viewfinders.

Originally Posted by akshay4587

Nice pics.
post more and your experiences too

@SOS anupmathur sir,please share your collection here

Originally Posted by esteem_lover

Fantastic pics plimsollmark, stuff we normal people will never get to see in our lives. Thanks.

Originally Posted by amitwlele

Thanks plimsollmark for starting this thread. Great initial shots.

It would be great viewing for folks like me who might never get a chance to explore the sea - unless i save enough and go for some cruise on some exotic liner.

Would be nice to hear about the experiences as well of all the sailors.

Originally Posted by Swanand Inamdar

What a wonderful thread, this. Some lovely pictures out there too.

Amit: That makes the two of us. Dont see myself going to sea, anytime soon, except for maybe a cruise liner, which BTW is also a longshot!.

Capt. Nandu: Good to see you back. About time we met again! With your kinda experiance at sea, there would be tonnes of pics to upload. Literally!

Thanks guys, appreciate the wonderful community that we have here. Shall surely try and post diverse pics in this thread. I feel just one diverse thread is better than starting a seperate thread for each and every topic and believe me, I could think of at least fifty such marine topics.

[plimsollmark]

Originally Posted by deky

I have worked on cruise liners for little more than 5 years, hence I would like to call my self a sailor too

Rest you can read and have a look at pics here

Regards

Deky, my friend, You can definitely call yourself a Sailor. Apart from the people who work out at sea, any person who enjoys being on a boat and does so regularly is, in my opinion a Sailor.

Went through your thread, what a harrowing experience it must have been. I too have seen a couple of serious fires on board but thankfully none that bad to make us abandon ship.

Shall try and put up more pics as and when time permits.

Cheers.

[Rehaan]

Two more maritime threads :

Yachts & boats

Swimming with the Dolphins

cya
R

[ariesonu]

Here are few from my day-to-day job:

There is nothing wrong with this pic or ship.


INS Viraat crossing my ship.


Floating crane, Capt Nandu should know something about this.


I would have zillion of ship related pics, now let me sort the one's that fit in here.

Raab Rakha.

[deepaktpatil]

Hi ariesonu,
Whats the reason for ship bending this way. Would be interesting to know.

Originally Posted by ariesonu

Here are few from my day-to-day job:

There is nothing wrong with this pic or ship.
Attachment 845868

[khoj]

Fish eye lens I think but let ariesonu elaborate.

[Rehaan]

Speaking of the Viraat, here are some pics i took :

more here

Originally Posted by deepaktpatil

Whats the reason for ship bending this way. Would be interesting to know.

Its caused by "rolling shutter" of digital cameras.

cya
R

[selfdrive]

Great pics everyone! I am in the same boat as Swanand and Amit; which is unfortunately not going anywhere near water anytime soon. I look forward to seeing more of a life which we hear of, but rarely see.

Originally Posted by nanduchitnis

Oh yes I do have many pics majorly Offshore Operations in Bombay High Oilfields of ONGC. And yes amazing photographs of Sunrise/Sunset and Clouds !

Oh cloud pics would be perfect. I always wanted to (still want to I guess!) have a career which had something to do with clouds. Unfortunately I am not working on the real ones at all!

[ariesonu]

Originally Posted by Swanand Inamdar

What a wonderful thread, this. Some lovely pictures out there too.

Amit: That makes the two of us. Dont see myself going to sea, anytime soon, except for maybe a cruise liner, which BTW is also a longshot!.

@ Swanand/Amit/Selfdrive
In case you guys are in Mumbai & have day to spare then shoot me a PM & I promise to take you inside the Mumbai port. If you guys are lucky enough then onboard a ship too. The latter only in condition that I'm surveying or my office is attending some business on that ship, but definately up, close & personal to ships.

Originally Posted by deepaktpatil

Hi ariesonu,
Whats the reason for ship bending this way. Would be interesting to know.

Nah buddy, Its just Nokia 5233 cam. I myself cannot understand the reason of this fish eye shot.
May be our camera gurus like Rudra can explain.

Raab Rakha.

[Mad Monkey]

A picture showing an oil platform being transported on land . It is going to be rolled on to a heavy lift dumb barge and than taken out to sea .