SEAFARERS’ MAGAZINE

SEAFARERS’ MAGAZINE

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As we are concerned about the health of our seafarers we are launching a Health Campaign in our Seafarers’ Magazine. This issue our topic will be: Physical exercise.

Physical activity or exercise can improve your health and reduce the risk of developing several diseases like type 2 diabetes, cancer and cardiovascular disease. Physical activity and exercise can have immediate and long-term health benefits. Most importantly, regular activity can improve your quality of life. A minimum of 30 minutes a day can allow you to enjoy these benefits.

Benefits of regular physical activity

If you are regularly physically active, you may:• reduce your risk of a heart attack• manage your weight better• have a lower blood cholesterol level• lower the risk of type 2 diabetes and some cancers• have lower blood pressure• have stronger bones, muscles and joints and lower the risk of osteoporosis• lower your risk of falls• recover better from period of hospitalization or bed rest• feel better – with more energy, a better mood, feel more relaxed and sleep better.

A healthier state of mind

A number of studies have found that exercise helps depression. There are many views as to how exercise helps people with depression. Exercise may block negative thoughts or distract people from daily worries. Exercising with others provides an opportunity for increased social contact. Increased fitness may lift your mood and improve sleep patterns. Exercise may also change levels of chemicals in your brain, such as serotonin, endorphins and stress hormones.

Aim for at least 30 minutes a day

To maintain health and reduce your risk of health problems, health professionals and researchers recommend a mini-mum of 30 minutes of moderate-intensity physical activity on most, preferably all, days.

HEALTH CAMPAIGN

PHYSICAL EXERCISE

Physical Activity Guidelines

• Doing any physical activity is better than doing none. If you currently do no physical activity, start by doing some, and gradually build up to the recommended amount.• Be active on most, preferably all, days every week.• Accumulate 150 to 300 minutes (2 ½ to 5 hours) of moderate intensity physical activity or 75 to 150 minutes (1 ¼ to 2 ½ hours) of vigorous intensity physical activity, or an equivalent combination of both moderate and vigorous activities, each week.• Do muscle strengthening activities on at least two days each week.

Things to remember

• Aim for at least 30 minutes of physical activity every day.• See everyday activities as a good opportunity to be active.• Try to find the time for some regular, vigorous exercise for extra health and fitness benefits.• Minimize the amount of time spent in prolonged sitting and break up long periods of sitting as often as possible.

FROM THE INDUSTRY

SafetySulfuric acid is very poisonous because of its acidity and corrosiveness. When it is mixed with sugar, it turns it into carbon. When it is dissolved in water, it becomes less harmful (does not make things black) but is still corrosive like normal acids. It reacts with metals to produce hydrogen and the metal sulfate. Some metals, such as tin, make sulfur dioxide and tin sulfate. It reacts with sodium chloride to make hydrogen chloride.

UsesSulfuric acid has many uses. Uses include ore processing, fertilizer manufacturing, oil refining, wastewater processing, lead acid batteries, and combining chemicals for scientific reasons. For example, phosphate rocks are reacted with sulfuric acid to produce soluble phosphates, useful in fertilizers. This reaction is also used to make phosphoric acid, useful in soda. Potassium compounds are dissolved in sulfuric acid to pro- duce potassium sulfate, useful in fertilizers. Ammonia is also reacted with sulfuric acid to produce ammonium sulfate. These three chemicals are solids and provide the three main minerals needed in plants. Lead acid batteries use sulfuric acid as their electrolyte.

A highly corrosive strong mineral acid with the molecular formula H2SO4

SULPHURIC ACID

CHEMICALS EXPLAINED

FROM THE INDUSTRY

NEAR MISSES

ASM MARITIME SAFETY LEAGUE

ASM MARITIME SAFETY LEAGUE

Safety League standings as of 1st of September 2017

NEAR MISSES REPORTED June 109

July 152

August 120

Near misses reported each month total for all vessels

Following crew members in the fleet received 1 flag for extraordinary Near Misses reporting (quantity and quality):

- C/O Chelenkov – White Diamond- 3/O Plop Marian – Chem Polaris- 2AE Natekar Subhash – Chem Sirius- D/C Mirian Abashidze – Chem Sirius- D/C Ankur Katiyar – Chem Singapore

Fire Hose Maintenance

CHEM HYDRABEST PRACTICE

Safety Line

Scupper Notice

Maintenance steps to follow:1. Take off the coupling the fire hose from the Foam bottle.2. Hot water produce into the taken fire hose and keep it for 15 minutes.3. Thereafter, drained the water inside hose and the fire hose will then be soften.4. After drained the water, the fire hose to be rolled with folding different way not to same as hose was folding before.

CHEM ALTAMIRABEST PRACTICE

Most of the fire hoses in the engine room get hard because the atmosphere in the engine room is high and dry condition.

These best practices will be implemented on our fleet

OFFICE BRIEFING

C/O MENDOZA

CPT KOKAREV AND CPT CHOI

CE YAROKHNO

C/O CASTILLO

C/O MOSKVIN

OFFICE BRIEFING

Picture by 3/O Amith Mohan Thottoli - Chem Hydra

FOR ENGINEERSDrawing Competition Reminder

My Dream Summer HolidayThis competition is arranged for the kids of our seafarers. The kids can express how

their Dream Summer Holiday looks like.

Who can participate: All children from 4 to 15 years old.The Rules: the drawing or painting should be on A4 format,

to be sent as a high quality scanned copy and should reflect the subject My Dream Summer Holiday

Time: the deadline for submitting your drawing isthe 1st of December 2017

You can send your drawing to our e-mail address: crew@asm-maritime.com

There will be a nice prize for the winner!

FOR ENGINEERS

10 Extremely Dangerous Engine Room accidents on ships

The ship’s engine room is the home to a variety of machinery and systems, which work together to move the ship from one port to another. Engine room professionals have to continuously work amidst such high temperature and pressure systems, which make an extremely hostile working environment.

In spite of taking all the precautions and safety measures while handling engine room machinery systems, accidents are bound of take place in the ship’s engine room. Many of these accidents are extremely dangerous not only to the ship’s properly but also the lives of seafarers. Mentioned below are ten such types of extremely dangerous engine room accidents that occur in ship’s engine room.

1. Crankcase Explosion of Ship’s Engine

Explosion of ship’s crankcase is one of the most dangerous accidents in the ship’s engine room which has led to devastating consequences, in-cluding loss of lives in the past.

In the engine crankcase, oil particles are churned into smaller particles of up to 200 micro meters in diameter. These small particles cannot ignite readily even with some naked flame. However, if a hot spot comes in contact with these small par-ticles, it reduces the size of the particles, resul-ting in the formation of mist, which can be readily ignited with a hot spot.

In the crankcase, all the three elements requi-red for fire are available – lubricating oil (fuel source), air, and heat from a hot spot. Coming together of all these three elements can lead to a major explosion that will not only damage the engine but also take lives of crew members.

2. Over-Speeding of Generators

This kind of accidents though rare have occurred in the past, causing heavy damage and loss of lives. When the ship’s generator starts, there are high changes of it to over-speed. If this occurs and the over-speed trip fails to work properly, the high RPM of the generator leads to failure of internal parts.

When such situation go out of control, the internal parts such as crank shaft, connecting rod, nut-bolts etc. become loose, get detached, and are thrown away because of the high speed. If crew members do not evacuate the surrounding place in time, the loosen parts can severely harm the crew members.

3. Boiler explosion

Everyone working on ships has heard about boiler explosion as one of the most deadly accidents in the ship’s engine room. A highly pressurized equipment on board ships, boiler has been attached to different kind of accidents as a result of mistakes while operating them. Boiler explosion is one such dangerous accident which is caused because of the following reasons:

– Fuel dripping inside the furnace of the boiler. If the dripping is more and the boiler is fired after an inter- val, it can lead to blowback and even explosion.– Misfiring– Overheating of boiler due to loss of water circulation– No pre and post purging– Exhaust gas boiler fire

4. Compressor Airline Explosion

Air compressor on ships is also a highly pressurized equipment that can cause deadly accidents. Compressor’s airline explosion is one accident everyone is afraid of. Such explosions usually occurs when during maintenance, the discharge air valve in the line is closed.There is also a common practice among seafarers to shut the discharge valve of the air compressor to minimize air leakage. But when this discharge valve is not opened again while starting the compressor and if the relief valves fail to operate, the airline gets over-pressurized and explodes.

5. High Pressure Fuel Line Bursting

All high pressurized lines and equipment on board ships are accident prone. The high temperature and pressure fuel line which supplies fuel to the combus-tion chamber of marine engines can explode if proper maintenance is not carried out. Also, if the lines are not adequately secured, they can burst due to continuous vibrations and friction. Fuel line bursting leads to severe burns, injury and even death of seafarers. As per regulations, all high pressurized pipes must be jacketed type to avoid chances of fuel leakages and sprays from the pipe joints.

6. High Pressure Steam Leakages

High pressurized steam lines are present in several parts of the ship’s engine room. These high temperature steam lines when burst or crack, lead to leakage of steam at extremely high pressure. Steam burns are extremely dangerous and can even cause instant death. Accidents due to steam leakages can occur because of following reasons:

• Failure of steam joints• Steam burns or scalding from opening of boiler mounting valves if not properly isolated or de-pressurized• Steam line bursting due to failure of material or crack from vibration or if not properly secured

7. Hydraulic High Pressure Components Bursting

Hydraulic high pressure equipment tools are used during overhauling of ship’s machinery and other important systems. If these high pressure systems are not properly tested before use, it can lead to bursting of their high pressurized parts and causing serious injury to the ship’s crew operating them. Some of the major types of hydraulic high pressure accidents are:

• Hydraulic jack oil seal leakage• Hydraulic jack oil pipe fracture resulting in high pressure jet of oil• Loose or worn-out connection between jack and pipe causing snapping of pipe which can harm the user

8. Turbo Charger Explosion

Turbo charger explosion on ships is caused when tur-bochargers are not cleaned for a long time. When the parts of turbo charger are not cleaned properly, the carbon depo-sits do not allow the parts to cool down properly. As a result, when the oil gets into the exhaust side of the turbo charger through the cracks, the heated parts and fuel source form the perfect combination of an explosion.

9. Electrical Shocks

Equipment and cables carrying high electrical power are extremely dangerous for people working on ships. If any kind of maintenance is carried out on such systems without isolating them properly, then there are high chances of getting electrical shocks. Moreover, accidental starting of electrical equipment during maintenance has also been a serious cause of seafarers deaths in the past. Electrical shocks frequently occur on board ships and therefore adequate precautions must be taken to prevent them.

10. Accidental CO2 Release

CO2 system is used to release CO2 in the ship’s engine room during fire emergencies only after all the crew has left the engine room. But accidental release of CO2, when the crew members are still present in the engine room, would lead to instant and tragic death of all. Cases of accidental CO2 release in the ship’s engine room has caused several deaths in the past.

Note: While testing engine room CO2 alarm, the CO2 pilot bottles should be properly isolated.

PICTURE THAT!

CHEM ALTAMIRABIRTHDAYS

CHEM AMSTERDAMBIRTHDAYS

Pictures by M/M Hanumanthu Nageswara Rao - Chem Lyra

E/Cdt Kassie Admassu

Bosun Choudhary Pranav C/O Karnaukh Oleksandr

CHEM LYRABIRTHDAYS

3AE Bojovic Ivan

OS Jangir Sunil

CHEM SINGAPORE BIRTHDAYS

CHEM SIRIUSBIRTHDAY PARTY

2AE Natekar Sadashiv, FTR Kondivkar Hussain and 3/O Arsene Vladut

(CONGRATULATIONS)

CONGRATULATIONS

C/O Nikolaj Demcenko joined ASM Maritime on December, 2015. Nikolaj has sailed on Chem Norma, Chem Altamira, Chem Rotterdam and Chem Amsterdam. Nikolaj proved to be a very professional, energetic and responsible officer, eager to learn and develop himself. Congratulations Nikolaj!

C/E Adam Omernik joined ASM Maritime on May, 2015. Adam completed 4 full contracts on board Chem Vega, Chem Houston and Chem Altamira. Throughout his contracts Adam showed great know-ledge and responsibility together with good leadership skills. Congratulations Adam!

PROMOTION OF C/O DEMCENKO

PROMOTION OFC/E OMERNIK

Promotions during 3rd Quarter2/O Demcenko Nikolaj to C/O on 19/07/20173/O Puthiyaveettilparambil to 2/O on 06/08/2017J/O Amit to 3/O on 13/08/2017J/O Ramjot Singh to 3/O on 09/07/2017D/C Prajapati Kishan to J/O on 13/09/2017A/B Quilon Victor to BSN on 11/08/2017A/B Joseph Abraham to BSN on 12/09/2017O/S Khokhiasvili Archil to A/B on 17/07/2017O/S Sharma Ratan to AB on 30/07/2017DTR Jena Abinash to O/S on 23/08/20171/AE Omernik Adam to C/E on 23/08/20173/AE Mihai Liviu Sebastian to 2/AE on 05/07/20173/AE Negi Pankaj to 2/AE on 18/07/20173/AE Jayaprakash Kathiroli to 2/E on 09/08/2017J/E Mulagalapalli Anil to 3/AE on 27/07/2017EEC Cherie Yared to E/E on 17/07/2017

Chem Amsterdam berthing in Baltimore

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10th of August

Crew changes in December and January

Herewith we would like to inform you about the company policy regarding crew changes in December and January. Due to the Christmas period we will not perform any crew changes between the 20th of December and the 10th of January.The reason for this is the fact that during and around Christmas and New Year’s Eve there are lots of extra difficulties in arranging a crew change, such as fully booked flights and hotels, closed embassies (so no possibility for visa application and immigration formalities), difficulty in communication with manning- and port agents and extremely high crew change expenses.

At the end of October we will include the month December in our plan. In case your contract ends in the above mentioned period, you will be informed well in advance whether you will be relieved before the 20th of December of after the 10th of January.

Uri WassermanCrew Manager