"Joe" wrote in message
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Mud tanks have to be cleaned between different formulas of mud. You
could be sued for cargo loss if you containmate a mud batch. So you
have to suit up and go inside the tank with fire hoses and have any
traces washed out and sucked up on to a recovery truck. Now if the
people on the drilling rig care less about the boat they are likely to
vent mud & cement tanks onto the boat, it's a several hour scrub job
on a hot summer day to get all the mud off the boat, and can be a
total nightmare when cement is vented on a boat covered with morning
dew..

Cement is complety different, but the tanks have to be cleaned
between batches for the same reasons. It involves bucketing out by
hand all the cement that can not be blown off the boat. if you have a
good engineer most except the last 10 to 15 sacks can be blown over
while heading to the beach, vibrators need changing often, and if you
have a really really bad day (leaking hatch) nothing but jack hammers
and a weeks hard duty will fix the mess.

Are you so stupid as to think that they ever transferred mud or cement
by hand? Were talking 8000 sacks a trip Nellie, and up to 20,000
gallons of mud costing up to 16.00 a gallon in the late 90's.

Stick to stuff you read on the internet, thats the only way you can be
seen as knowledgeable in anything related to maritime activities.



Well, excuuuuse me. Your illiterate writing style made it sound like mud was
transferred by bucketing it out of tanks. Next time do a better job
explaining you were talking about *cleaning* the tanks. Duh! And, I bet
those idiot captains on these workboats know NOTHING about the laws and
federal regulations concerning enclosed spaces safety. I wonder how many of
them do the proper atmospheric testing and how many of them maintain the
required rescue harness, breathing apparatus etc.?

Wilbur Hubbard