[TheForge] Quesiton about a weird event

[James Binnion]

A shipmate of mine was in maneuvering (reactor / power plant control  
room) when the shaft parted, he said he knew something was really  
wrong when water started coming out of vent duct grill outside  
maneuvering. As I said it did not pull all the way out but it did rip  
the seals out. Only some real fast thinking and heroic efforts saved  
the boat. The engine room lower level watch had reported finding sand  
in the bilge a few days before the incident, the Engineer said it  
must have been brought on board by some of the crew when they were in  
port as it could not possibly be coming from the shaft, he lost his  
job. Rob must have been pretty early in his career when he saw this  
as this happened thirty years ago, it was the mid seventies when I  
was but a nub in Uncle Sam's yacht club.

Jim

On Jun 7, 2006, at 7:27 PM, marilyn traber 011221 wrote:

>
> According to Rob, the one in the Med, shaft didn't pull completely  
> out,
> although it pulled back to the shaft seal housing and did damage,  
> but wasn't
> destroyed- was able to be dealt with with emergency repairs. Was at a
> coupling, not the shaft itself- he saw it. Looked distincly odd  
> when it got
> back to the Orion, but got back under its own power.
>
>
> Phlip

James Binnion
jbin at well.com