24.09.09
To,Joint Secretary(ports),Ministry of Shipping,G oI,,New Delhi.
Kind Attention:Sri Rakesh Srivastava.
About Orissa Coastline Mess –up.
Sinking of Mongolian Ship M.V.Black Rose,with 900tons of fuel oil,on 09.09.09.
Why no representative of the Chief Surveyor from the DGShipping sent/gone there,other than the N.A.& POMMD Kolkata,Capt. Panda,both deck-officers?(as reported by TOI.).
On panic stations from Paradip port,the DGS sent the Nautical Advisor but no Engineer Surveyor,to see for himself the lackadaisical attitude of the engineering Surveyor,in charge,locally to have allowed such a rotten ship to come anywhere near the Indian coast for such a mishap to have taken place,endangering flora and fauna and the coastal populace(being extensively covered by the media.).The CS,other than getting his feed -back from the POMMD,Kolkata , should have promptly dispatched one of the senior surveyors or the deputy chiefs to coordinate,assess and supervise the exigency and find-out how come a ship like that was at all allowed on the coast.There is nothing extra ordinary about that,as for last twenty years,any ship attaining fifteen years of age,is just not allowed on the U.K.coast.What is stopping our administration from doing so?The office of the DG Shipping has been created for such requirements to be looked after.And the Office of the Chief Surveyor is to assist the DGS in these matters.But Surveyors and Deputy Chiefs are more interested in examining the engineers,a job we were told in revalidation classes , meant for the MMD under POMMD.Under secs. 76,78 and 79 of the M.S.Act,it is only the CS,who occupies the ornamental post of the Chief Surveyor,since the times of the British.But the rules made vide the Meta Manual have created ample scope of cushy cum bossy jobs in the headquarters of the DG Shipping and the MMD is virtually bereft of it,thanks may be mainly due to Dr. Mishra as I was told by a GM of the SCI. One does’nt know whether this needs a ratification and amendment in the Act.But the rule itself does need a looking- into for its efficacy in the above light of neglect of the problem on the Orissa coast,by the CS,in the aftermath of the tragedy.
2 I recall sailing on Tankers and of the SOPEP drills conducted there,regularly,using primitive devices for containg Oil-spreading technology with large encircling Oil-booms with oil absorbing saw-dust and mats or oil dispersants(which was on the verge of being banned) and eventually the oily water to be sucked-out of sea if a pump could be made available from shore-side with a vessel for collection of the same like in the case of the Orissa muck-up,presently. A report from a deputy chief Surveyor is the call of the day and high alert for the Chief Surveyor and battery of his able Surveyors to stop such ships from entering their territorial –jurisdictions on the long Indian coast of nearly 7500kms-plus.
Thanking you.
Yours Truly
Suresh Pratap Singh
Marine Chief Engineer
Ph.:022-27745804
Mob.09935398306
Email:singhsp65@yahoo.com
Singh.suresh99@gmail.com
To,Joint Secretary(ports),Ministry of Shipping,G oI,,New Delhi.
Kind Attention:Sri Rakesh Srivastava.
About Orissa Coastline Mess –up.
Sinking of Mongolian Ship M.V.Black Rose,with 900tons of fuel oil,on 09.09.09.
Why no representative of the Chief Surveyor from the DGShipping sent/gone there,other than the N.A.& POMMD Kolkata,Capt. Panda,both deck-officers?(as reported by TOI.).
On panic stations from Paradip port,the DGS sent the Nautical Advisor but no Engineer Surveyor,to see for himself the lackadaisical attitude of the engineering Surveyor,in charge,locally to have allowed such a rotten ship to come anywhere near the Indian coast for such a mishap to have taken place,endangering flora and fauna and the coastal populace(being extensively covered by the media.).The CS,other than getting his feed -back from the POMMD,Kolkata , should have promptly dispatched one of the senior surveyors or the deputy chiefs to coordinate,assess and supervise the exigency and find-out how come a ship like that was at all allowed on the coast.There is nothing extra ordinary about that,as for last twenty years,any ship attaining fifteen years of age,is just not allowed on the U.K.coast.What is stopping our administration from doing so?The office of the DG Shipping has been created for such requirements to be looked after.And the Office of the Chief Surveyor is to assist the DGS in these matters.But Surveyors and Deputy Chiefs are more interested in examining the engineers,a job we were told in revalidation classes , meant for the MMD under POMMD.Under secs. 76,78 and 79 of the M.S.Act,it is only the CS,who occupies the ornamental post of the Chief Surveyor,since the times of the British.But the rules made vide the Meta Manual have created ample scope of cushy cum bossy jobs in the headquarters of the DG Shipping and the MMD is virtually bereft of it,thanks may be mainly due to Dr. Mishra as I was told by a GM of the SCI. One does’nt know whether this needs a ratification and amendment in the Act.But the rule itself does need a looking- into for its efficacy in the above light of neglect of the problem on the Orissa coast,by the CS,in the aftermath of the tragedy.
2 I recall sailing on Tankers and of the SOPEP drills conducted there,regularly,using primitive devices for containg Oil-spreading technology with large encircling Oil-booms with oil absorbing saw-dust and mats or oil dispersants(which was on the verge of being banned) and eventually the oily water to be sucked-out of sea if a pump could be made available from shore-side with a vessel for collection of the same like in the case of the Orissa muck-up,presently. A report from a deputy chief Surveyor is the call of the day and high alert for the Chief Surveyor and battery of his able Surveyors to stop such ships from entering their territorial –jurisdictions on the long Indian coast of nearly 7500kms-plus.
Thanking you.
Yours Truly
Suresh Pratap Singh
Marine Chief Engineer
Ph.:022-27745804
Mob.09935398306
Email:singhsp65@yahoo.com
Singh.suresh99@gmail.com
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