O well, chose the wrong answer. Hopefully will do better tomorrow, my score keeps dropping🤨🤔

All the anchors I fit on my models are the old ones! Another one wrong, I looked at the DEA ones afterwards as I have never heard of them, but they seem to be for off shore rigs rather than carried around by large vessels?
Roy

They are usually carried and maneuvered by anchor handling vessels...

Had forgotten that the DEA had pretty much replaced the Stockless, which is on my brain these days because of my Sterling C-2 kit.
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"I think the answer was in the question."
I agree Martin👍

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Mainly used to anchor off shore platforms, oil installations etc. When I got it wrong a had a look on the web and found the above...

For those who have never seen a DEA - this is what they look like.

I've never heard of a DEA anchor, that's what this quiz is all about - learning.

I think the answer was in the question. At least I got it right.😀

Wow me too
Rick

Wow I got this one correct, lucky guess. I really do not know this stuff🤪

Now I know you are all bursting to know the phone number!!!!!????
It is 252!
When I was in, there were just 2 numbers you needed to know the first was F1250 this was your identity card and the other was if you were put on a charge, (being a bit naughty for those not having served) this was a 252 and was always the Guardroom phone number.
Usually a smack on the wrist got you put on 'Jankers'. You had to report twice a day in your best uniform and be inspected. This is where you find out who your friends are, as they help with the 'dressing up'.

More trivia for when you are trying to learn something and so something else has to go to make room!

I wonder what the Solas Maritime Safety Committee requirement is for avoiding icebergs? Solas 00PS/?/never saw that coming...

Roy

Lucky guess I picked the one with the most # and got it right
Rick

Luckiest guess of all time.
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I looked this one up as it is really tooooo obscure!

What about this for an obscure question!
On an RAF air-field / station, what is the phone number of the RAF Police office?

I rest my case.
Roy

That was tough, but then I do not do any research, just work on logic or my own knowledge - I treat the quiz this quiz as any other, and try to answer without any extrenal help - just depends on how necessary it is to be at the top of the league.

I took a stab and got it right. However, I had a brief look on t'internet, that regulation deals with water level sensors in multi hold cargo ships...

At that time, I was in Dover working at P&O. They had just taken over from Townsend Thoresen. It wasn't a good time in their history.. 🤔

That was lucky. I just picked the longest one.😀

Funny how the mind works. When I first read the question, I thought, what has "Solar Regulation" got to do with boating. Then I read it again 😁

Arrg my first wrong one, no clue so random guess

Got this wrong today, picked “C” and not “B”. Just a wild guess as I do not know much about solas regulations. Did not want to look things up as anyone can do this. Now have 5 wrong and never missed a day of questions. Hope to do better tomorrow😊

My post yesterday suffered from auto correct it was meant to say The answer is easy if you have watched star trek 4

H,
Part of the answer to that is given in the explanations😉
You can add whales to the list.

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It's easy to answer that if you have watched started 4😀

I got it

Next question, what is a cetacean?
Do most people know?

Hi Martin,
Was a while back now, but I believe it was a NatGeo team working with the National Marine Fisheries Service. A subdivision of NOAA.
Also with contributions from Department of Natural Resources or Fish and Wildlife of various US States, amongst others.
Cheers, Doug😎
PS An interesting point!
Net illumination has relatively little effect on cetaceans (whales and dolphins) as in the question.
Because they rely on echo-lot rather than vision to detect obstacles, i.e. nets.

I only knew this one because one of my daughter‘s best friends was with Green Peace for a while.

Hi Doug.

I have not seen the documentary but got my information from a research paper. You might find it interesting. Who did the documentary?

Cheers,
Martin

Hi SimpleSailor
Re "They have had similar success using green LED lamps attached to the nets."
As far as I remember from the docu; This is to make the nets visible to birds, to reduce the number of diving birds getting caught in the nets.
It has no known effect on numbers of unintended whale & dolphin catches.
Ciao, Doug😎

Another 'shout out' for National Geographic documentaries😉

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Nick, "ya learn summat new every day" - so true.. And there are days when you simply just have to guess!!

Well ya learn summat new every day! Incidentally I got it wrong..

Answer has now come up!
Beam me up Scotty!
Roy

System has gone wrong today and what a weird question too! I am down as having answered already but still have 1 question unanswered. Never found out what the answer is as well.
Roy

Interesting question today, which I managed to get right. On the subject of Gillnets which probably should be banned in favour of other fishing gear. They have had similar success using green LED lamps attached to the nets.

If they have any colour co-ordination, they will be the same black as all the other black boxes; ... ORANGE! 🤔

I think water ingress is a leak that you can't see, while a leak is water ingress you can see.

When reporting Navy style these technicalities are important. Although water ingress might be a touch terminal and go unreported.

As a point of interest do submarines have airplane style black-boxes recording on-board events? I wonder what colour black the Navy uses?

Roy

Yes, water ingress will get you everytime. Is that the same as a leak?

Hard question today. It took a while to completely read the question then to choose an answer. Got it correct😊

I am starting to feel like the crew of DAS BOOT, slowing rising up. . .

A whole row Bryan?😮
Are you building a harbour for your boats?
Green sounds nice.
Pics pics pics please😉
Cheers, Doug😎

I'm pretty happy with my row of green ones

Yes Roy I had twigged that when they appeared.
New results appear at far left, old ones eventually drop off the far right.
grey dashes indicate questions not answered.

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All I can say to you Bryan is - MULBERRY😉

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I thought they were just random lines until I read your explanation of the coding

Hi all has anyone noticed the interrupted lines under each name? They show a red colour to indicate wrong answers, and when they occured out of the 30 dashes that the scores are calculated on. If you hold your cursor on a dash it will give you a date.

You can see when your score will lose a wrong answer and so predict a %, assuming you get the current answer right.
Doug, you have a fortnight to wait!
Roy

Answer in the question again...

Yay my knowledge of d day helped with today's question

I do not agree with todays answer as far as I remember the “correct” answer applies to waves hitting shallower water. Squat calculations are based on Bernoullis Theorem
But this is only my humble opinion🤔