AMAZON NAVIGATION-- CAPT AJIT VADAKAYIL

AMAZON NAVIGATION-- CAPT AJIT VADAKAYIL

BEFORE NAVIGATING IN THE AMAZON YOU MUST FIRST DEVELOP A HEALTHY RESPECT FOR THE RIVER. LEST YOU RUE AT LEISURE LATER.

THE AMAZON RIVER IS 4000 MILES LONG JUST A HUNDRED MILES SHORTER THAN NILE --THE WORDS LONGEST RIVER. BUT IT MORE THAN MAKES UP BY ITS SHEER STRENGTH AND VOLUME--- AMAZON POURS 2000 TIMES MORE WATER THAN THE NILE . ONE BY FIFTH OF THE FRESH WATER THE WORLDS OCEANS RECEIVE IS FROM THE AMAZON.

IT FLOWS EASTWARDS FROM THE SNOW CAPPED ANDES INTO THE NORTH ALTANTIC AND IS NAVIGABLE ALMOST ITS ENTIRE LENGTH. IT DEPOSITS APPROX 70 TONS OF SEDIMENT EVERY MINUTE AT ITS DELTA WHICH IS 100 MILES WIDE AND LESS SALINE 200 MILES INTO THE OCEAN. SMALL SIZE SHIPS REACH IQUITOS IN PERU 2300 MILES UPRIVER. FROM IQUITOS TO OCEAN THE LAND FALLS ONLY 300 FEET. LARGE OCEAN LINERS REACH MANAUS 1000 MILES UPSTREAM.

THE TIDAL INFLUENCE IS FELT AS FAR AS OBIDOS. AT ATACOATIARA WHERE WE BERTHED THE RIVER FLOWS DOWN STREAM ONLY. THE MAIN RIVER IS BROWN AND BORING. BUT IT DOES HARBOUR THE PRARUCU WHICH AT 8 FEET LENGTH IS THE WORLD’S LARGEST FRESH WATER FISH. 

THE TRIBUTARIES ARE AMAZING WITH CLEAR WATER, 2 FEET LONG PIRANHAS WITH ORANGE BELLIES, ANACONDAS , MONKEYS AND OVERHANGING TREES. MOST OF THESE PIRANHAS ARE VEGETARIANS UNLESS YOU WANT TO OFFER A BLOODY FINGER.

WHEN THE RIVER IS FLOODED THE CREST IS 50 FEET ABOVE NORMAL , THE SPRING EBB TIDES IN RAINY SEASON NOV TO JUNE ARE 6 KNOTS WITH HUGE UPROOTED TREES FLOATING DOWN WHOM YOU MUST DODGE. IF CAUGHT ON THE BOWS IT REDUCES SHIPS SPEED , IF YOUR PROPELLER HITS A TREE TRUNK YOU CAN HAVE A PROBLEM.

WHEN THE COASTAL FEATURES ARE SUBMERGED LAND CANNOT NOT BE RECOGNISED EASILY. TALL GRASS WHICH GROWS OUT OF WATER CAN ADD TO THE CONFUSION. THE GPS IS THE BEST BET. THE WGS 84 CORRECTION IS NEGLIGIBLE. DURING FLOODS ALL THE SNAKES MIGRATE TO HIGH GROUND AND IF YOU LIKE TO GET BITTEN BY SNAKES WHO ARE SHORT OF PATIENCE THIS IS THE PLACE TO BE AT.

SOMETIMES IN SEPT OR MARCH YOU CAN SEE THE POROROCA OR THE SPECTACULAR TIDAL BORE LIKE WE HAVE IN THE HOOGHLY RIVER—ONLY DIFFERENCE IS THIS ONE IS ABOUT 5 METRES HIGH AND ITS CREST IS WHITE FOAM AS IT FORCES ITS WAY 400 MILES UPSTREAM AT 40 KNOTS. IT CAN BE UNNERVING IF YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT IT IS.

ALL TYPES ON INSECTS INVADE YOUR SHIP. SOME OF THEM ARE GOOD IN SELF DEFENCE. FOR EXAMPLE THERE IS A LARGE COCKROACH ABOUT 4 INCHES LONG WHICH IF YOU TRY TO TRAMPLE WILL SEND A SHARP QUILL THROUGH YOUR SAFETY SHOE SOLE INTO YOUR LEG. 

AND THERE IS THIS WORLD RECORD HOLDING 18 INCH HERMAPHRODITIC LEECH WITH A 6 INCH HYPODERMIC NEEDLE.  IMAGINE IT CAN HOLD 3 TIMES ITS OWN WEIGHT IN ONE FEEDING. IT BREATHES THROUGH ITS SKIN. AND ITS SALIVA CONTAINS ANTICOAGULANTS WHICH CAN BLEED YOU TO DEATH.

SOME BEETLES ARE ALLERGY CAUSING AND CAN SLAM SHUT YOUR EPIGLOTIS. I REMEMBER ONCE SAVING MY MATE’S LIFE WITH AN INSTANT SHOT OF CHLOR PHENERAMINE MALEATE INJECTION. BETTER TO HAVE ANTI MALARIA TABLETS. KEEP YOUR ACCOMODATION AND EVEN CARGO TANKS SHUT.

CLOUDS OF FIREFLIES AT NIGHT CAN BE SUCH A WONDERFUL SIGHT. OR DOZENS OF GREEN PARROTS DURING DAY. LIGHTNING IN THE SKY LOOKS LIKE ARTILLERY FIRE.

AT MANAUS RIO NEGRO HAS ITS CONFLUENCE WITH AMAZON AND STAINS IT WITH BLACK INKY ORGANIC MATTER. MALARIA , TYPHOID, HEPATITIS AND CHOLERA GERMS ARE WAITING TO TAKE YOU ON IN THIS NECK OF THE WOODS.

BUSINESS:

ENOUGH OF LORE. LETS GET TO BUSINESS. CROSS BARRANORTE OR THE NORTH BAR AT HIGH WATER ON A RISING TIDE. THE BOTTOM HERE IS SOFT MUD. BE CAREFUL IF THE SHIP IS POUNDING DUE TO SWELL IN WHICH CASE ALLOWANCES FOR UKC HAS TO BE MADE. 

 THE TIDE SETS HERE IN A SW/ NE DIRECTION. FROM THE BA ADMIRALTY TIDE TABLE CALCULATIONS FOR SECONDARY PORT BARRANORTE YOU MUST SUBTRACT 2HRS 36 MIN FOR HW AND 3HRS 20 MIN FOR LW. THE DEEPEST PART OF BAR HAS SHIFTED TO 4 MILES SOUTHWARDS OF THE LIGHT SHIP . IT TAKES 2 HOURS TO CROSS THE BAR.

AFTER CROSSING THE BAR INWARDS YOU REACH A BOTTLENECK CALLED CURUA CHANNEL. SUBTRACT ONE HOUR FROM BARRANORTE BA ATT TIMES TO GET CURUA CHANNEL TIDAL TIMES. THE BUOYS THERE ARE OUT OF POSITION MOST OF THE TIME. 

SO BEFORE ARRIVAL ASK THE AGENTS TO SEND YOU THE LATEST BUOY POSITION. IN THIS L ( LIMA SHAPED BEND ) KEEP TO THE GREEN BUOY SIDE OFF BUOYS 6 8 AND 10 AT 25 TO 75 RATIO. THIS IS BECAUSE THE RED BUOY SIDE IS GETTING SILTED EASTWARD INTO THE CHANNEL . THE RED BUOYS 5 7 AND 9 CAN BE TRUSTED AS THEY ARE DEEP ANCHORED IN SILT AND CANNOT BE KNOCKED OVER.

THE THUMB RULE IS KEEP TO THE OUTER SIDE OF RIVER BENDS WHICH ARE ARE SCOURED DEEPER. THE SAME IS THE CASE WITH CURUA CHANNEL.

YOU MUST KNOW WHICH SIDE THE CURRENT/ WIND WILL SET YOU. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO PASS ANOTHER SHIP AT CURUA CHANNEL. HERE IT IS ONE SHIP AT A TIME AS THERE IS NO SEA ROOM AT THE L BEND, THE ACTUAL USABLE CHANNEL BEING ONLY 2,5 CABLES WIDE. THE BUOYS ARE ONE MILE APART. YOU CAN TRUST GPS POSITIONS IN THE CURUA CHANNEL. TREE TRUNKS AND WEED CLUMPS AT NIGHT CAN DISORIENT YOU ON RADAR.

AGENT CAN ALSO FAX YOU THE LOCAL TIDE TABLE PAGES . THE PASSAGE FROM BARRA NORTE TO FAZENDINHA OR MACAPA PILOT STATION IS NON COMPULSORY PILOTAGE. IF YOU WANT A PILOT BECAUSE YOU DO NOT HAVE PROPER CHARTS YOU CAN EMBARK A PILOT AT SALINOUPOULIS OR ESPADARTE PILOT STATIONS WHICH IS 170 MILES FROM BARRA NORTE. 

THE PILOTS IN THE AMAZON CAN BE TRUSTED. THEY VERY RARELY LOOK AT THE CHART. THEY USE RADAR VRM MARKER TO SET CLEARING DISTANCES. FROM MACAPA ONWARDS IT IS COMPULSORY PILOTAGE UPRIVER. SHIP HAS TO ANCHOR AT MACAPA TO CLEAR THE PORT AUTHORITIES. THE HARBOUR MASTER ALSO HAS A VISIT. IF YOU HAVE ANY DAMAGE ON YOUR BOWS HE WILL HOLD A PROPER ENQUIRY.

AT MACAPA WHEN DROPPING OUTWARD PILOT WITH TIDE FROM BEHIND , FULLY LOADED , LITTLE SEAROOM AND SMALL CRAFT AROUND---- BE CAREFUL. IF YOU HAVE TO WAIT , STEM THE TIDE SO THAT YOU CAN ANCHOR IF REQD . AFTER MACAPA INBOUND EVEN THE LARGE SCALE BRAZILIAN CHARTS ARE OF NO USE. ON PASSAGE FROM MACAPA TO ITACOATIARA TWICE WE FOUND OUR SHIP NAVIGATING HALF MILE DEEP INSIDE LAND . 

WHEN YOU WANT TO PASS ANOTHER SHIP IN THE RIVER BETTER CLARIFY ON VHF IN ADVANCE IF IT IS GOING TO BE RED TO RED OR GREEN TO GREEN.

WHEN YOU FINALLY COME OUT OF THE RIVER, AND HEAD INTO THE ATLANTIC OCEAN WILL BE A BIT TAKEN ABACK BY THE  LIMITED UKC INDICATED BY THE ECHOSOUNDER MACHINE , AND CLEAR CUM DISCOLOURED WATER SWIRLS ALONG THE SHIP SIDE.  

NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT, AS THIS HUGE MASS OF MUDDY WATER ORGINATES FROM THE SUBTERRANEAN UNDERWATER AMAZON RIVER .  THIS IS WHY THE WATER SALINITY IS VERY LOW AT THE MOUTH OF THE AMAZON,  EVEN IF YOUR SHIP IS TWO HUNDRED MILES AWAY INTO THE ALTANTIC OCEAN , WITHOUT SOLITON WAVE FORMATION-- MUCH AGAINST THE PROPERTIES OF WATER .

( IN BLACK SEA TOO THERE IS AN UNDERWATER STREAM FLOWING INTO BLACK SEA, WHILE THE SURFACE CURRENT IS OUTWARDS.)

KEEP THE ENGINE ROOM SEA SUCTIONS ON HIGH. USE BOWTHRUSTERS WITH CAUTION ESPECIALLY IF VSL IS ON LIGHT DRAFT. YOU MUST HAVE A RELIABLE ECHO SOUNDER. THIS WAY YOU CAN REDUCE SQUAT WHEN REQUIRED.

Capt. Ajit Vadakayil

December 10, 2017 at 6:28 AM

SOMEONE ASKED ME TO EXPOUND HOW JEWS STEAL INTELLECTUAL RIGHTS AT US COLLEGES-- ESPECIALLY JEW ROTHSCHILDs OPIUM DRUG FOUNDED IVY LEAGUE UNIVERSITIES

LIKE HOW MARK ZUCKERBERG STOLE THE FACEBOOK IDEA FROM INDIAN GENIUS DIVYA NARENDRA AT HARVARD UNIVERISTY

THERE ARE JEW PROFESSORS IN SUCH UNIVERSITIES WHO ARE EMPLOYED BY THE COLLEGE KOSHER BOARD TO STEAL FROM NON-JEWS AND GIVE IT TO JEW STUDENTS

HERE IS A SIMPLE CASE BELOW-- WHEN A GENIUS IIT INDIAN STUDENT MAINAK SARKAR KILLED HIS JEW PROFESSOR WILLIAM KLUG FOR STEALING HIS INTELLECTUAL RIGHTS AND PASSING IT ON TO ANOTHER JEW STUDENT.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/IIT-Kharagpur-alumnus-kills-US-professor-at-UCLA-over-academic-spat/articleshow/52559222.cms

MOST INDIANS ARE PASSIVE --THEY SUCCUMB TO THREATS FROM JEW PROFESSORS --AND THEY KEEP QUIET HAPPY-- GLAD NOT BE TO DISMISSED FROM THE COLLEGE AND SEND BACK TO INDIA IN DISGRACE AS A THIEF OR DUFFER NO GOODER .

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED TO KERALA STUDENT ECG SUDARSHAN .

HIS WORK WAS GIVEN AWAY TO JEWS WHO WRANGLED NOBEL PRIZE -- ONE OF THEM A PAKISTANI CRYPTO JEW AHMEDDIYYA MUSLIM ADBUS SALAM.

http://ajitvadakayil.blogspot.in/2013/08/dr-ecg-sudarshan-denied-nobel-prize-for.html

WHEN PM MODI WENT TO ISRAEL--STANDING AT THE END OF THE RECEPTION LINE WAS THE HEAD OF AHMEDDIYA SECT IN ISRAEL--PERSONALLY INTRODUCED TO MODI BY BENJAMIN NETANYAHU.

I TOLD MY WIFE , WE WERE WATCHING LIVE -- THEY HAS TO BE AN AHMEDIYYA JEW PRETENDING TO BE A MUSLIM. SHE WAS VERY HAPPY WHEN I WAS VINDICATED

IN THE CASE OF GENIUS DIVYA NARENDRA , HIS SLEEING PARTNERS THE VINKLEVOSS TWINS HAD THE WHEREWITHAL TO SUE JEW MARK ZUCKERBERG --AND THEY CATAPULTED THEMSELVES TO FAME --USING A HOLLYWOOD MOVIE.

WHAT IS A SLEEPING PARTNER ?

AT CORNELL ONCE A KOREAN UNDERGRADUATE BOY TEAMED UP WITH MY ELDER SON ( MASTERS ) FOR A PROJECT IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

THEY DECIDED ON WHAT THEY WOULD DO.

THE KOREAN BOY THEN WROTE THE ENTIRE CODE "LIKE HOW HE WOULD WRITE A LETTER TO HIS FRIEND"-- THIS WAS WHAT MY SON TOLD ME AND MY WIFE ON SKYPE.

AT FREQUENT INTERVALS HE WOULD CRAVE THE INDULGENCE OF MY SON—IMPLORING "SIR, AM I RIGHT"

MY SON WAS SO EMBARRASSED -- THE KOREAN DID THE WHOLE PROJECT IN ONE FLOWING SHOT -- LITERALLY THANKFUL WHEN MY SON SAID-- " YES , CONTINUE" TO HIS " SIR- AM I RIGHT SO FAR ? "

WHEN THE CODE WAS WRITTEN AND TESTED -- MY ELDER SON TOLD HIM    "SO FAR YOU HAVE DONE EVERYTHING   -- I WILL WRITE THE FINAL PROJECT REPORT "

SO MY SON WROTE THE CODE PRESENTATION OVERNIGHT AND SHOWED IT TO THE KOREAN BOY THE NEXT DAY -- HE LOOKED ON MY SON AS AN ABSOLUTE HERO -- STARS IN HIS EYES AND CRIED " WOW— I COULD HAVE NEVER DONE THIS , SIR"

MY SON WAS A SLEEPING PARTNER IN THIS PROJECT. HE WAS HONEST TO ADMIT IT .

MY SON INSISTED AND WROTE THE KOREAN BOYs NAME FIRST FOLLOWED BY HIS NAME-- THROUGH COLLEGE RULES REQUIRED THE MASTERs STUDENTS NAME FIRST AND THEN THE UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTs NAME

JEW ALBERT EINSTEIN WAS A MEDIOCRE BRAIN—HE WAS ABSOLUTE DISGRACE IN MATH—EINSTEIN DID NOT HAVE A MATHEMATICAL BRAIN-- HE OUTSOURCED ALL HIS MATH..

ALL HIS AWARD WINNING IDEAS OF EINSTEIN IS STOLEN FROM FROM VEDAS AND SECONDARY ONES -- STOLEN FROM AN INTELLECTUAL PATENT POOL OF WHICH HE WAS CLEVERLY PLACED AS THE GUARDIAN CLERK BY JEW ROTHSCHILD

SRINIVASAN RAMANUJAN THE INDIAN MATH GENIUS --LOST HIS DIARY, IN WHICH HE HAD RECORDED ALL HIS PRICELESS FINDINGS . THE JEW BASTARDS STOLE IT. AFTER THAT RAMANUJAN USED TO DO HIS WORK ON A SLATE , RUB IT OFF AND RETAIN RESULTS INSIDE HIS HEAD

SRINIVASAN RAMANUJAN WAS POISONED –

HIS YOUNG WIFE STARTED CRYING BITTERLY ( SHE WAS NOT THE CRYING TYPE ) AS SOON AS THE PYRE WAS LIT AND FEL INTO A FAINT -- WHEN WELL WISHERS PRESSED HER, SHE REVEALED THE TRUTH ABOUT THE "LOST DIARY"..

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EVERY TIME RAMANUJAN MADE A BREAK THROUGH DISCOVERY IN MATH , AFTER TWO WEEKS A WHITE JEW PROFESSOR WOULD COME AND ASK HIM "SRINIVASAN , DO YOU KNOW THIS JEW MATH NERD FROM POLAND --BECAUSE HE FOUND OUT THE SAME THREE WEEKS BEFORE YOU DID "

http://ajitvadakayil.blogspot.in/2011/11/fractal-mind-of-srinivasa-ramanujan.html

IN THE COMPUTER INDUSTRY MAXIMUM STARTUPS ARE BY WHITE JEWS..

NONE OF THESE ARE THEIR OWN IDEAS . IDEAS AND THE WHOLE SOLVED PROJECT IS GIVEN TO THEM .. THE WHOLE IDEA IS TO PROVE TO THE WORLD “ WE JEWS HAVE THE BEST BRAINS “

WHEN THE JEW STUDENT CREATES A STARTUP, ONE JEW MONEYBAG WOULD BUY THE STARTUP FOR A FEW MILLION DOLLARS

WHAT I WRITE IN MY BLOG POSTS IS STOLEN LEFT RIGHT AND CENTRE.

ONE WEE EXAMPLE?

THE "HAMZA RIVER" SHOULD REALLY BE "VADAKAYIL RIVER"

HAMZA IS A MUSLIM FROM CALICUT --WHO DISCOVERED (SIC) THE UNDERGROUND COMPONENT OF AMAZON RIVER

DID HE HAVE THE WHEREWITHAL ? 100%--- NO NO NO.

DID CAPT AJIT VADAKAYIL WHO FOUND THIS SEVERAL YEARS BEFORE HIM HAVE THE WHEREWITHAL? 100% ---YES YES YES

I STOPPED MY SHIP 200 MILES OFF THE AMAZON RIVER MOUTH IN THE SALTY OCEAN-- TOOK A BUCKET MYSELF AND DREW UP UPWELLING MUDDY WATER FROM MIDST OF A CLEAR BLUE OCEAN.

MY WHOLE CREW WAS WATCHING -- AS I TASTED THE WATER I TOLD THEM "THIS IS THE EXACT WAY MAGELLAN FOUND OUT ABOUT THE MIGHTY RIO DE LA PLATA ( RIVER ) AT NIGHT. HE PERSONALLY DREW A BUCKET OF WATER AND TASTED IT - AND FOUND WATER TO BE SWEET"

http://ajitvadakayil.blogspot.in/2009/07/amazon-navigation-capt-ajit-vadakayil.html

LET ANY OF THESE GENIUS JEWS AGREE TO A SIMPLE IQ TEST --LIVE --ON INDIAN TV--WHERE I WILL PIT THEM AGAINST A 15 YEAR OLD CHAIWALLAH BOY FROM MUMBAI OR CALCUTTA -- I WILL SHOW THEM WATER THEIR KOSHER BRAINS ARE WORTH

IN OPEN COMPETITION A JEW IN NOWHERE --AS LONG AS THE QUESTION PAPER IS SET BY A NON-JEW AND THE ANSWER SHEET IS CORRECTED BY A NON-JEW

BUT HEY, JEWS MONOPOLIZE ALL NOBEL PRIZES--LIKE HOW THEY MONOPOLIZE HOLLYWOOD ROLES WITH THEIR WEIRD TYPE KOSHER LOOKS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lN17c2v2Vgk

ALL HOLLYWOOD ACTORS WERE AFRAID TO SUPPORT DONALD TRUMP--AS ROTHSCHILD WANTED HILLARY CLINTON TO BE PRESIDENT.

THE BRIEFCASE OF JC BOSE WAS STOLEN AT HIS HOTEL BY JEW MARCONI

http://ajitvadakayil.blogspot.in/2011/11/jagadish-chandra-bose-nobel-prize-and.html

THOUGH YELLAPRAGADAs WORK WAS STOLEN --HE WAS HAPPY NOT TO BE DEPORTED TO INDIA IN DISGRACE

http://ajitvadakayil.blogspot.in/2014/08/yellapragada-subbarow-nobel-prize-and.html

WE ASK MODI-- SHUT DOWN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES AND LANGUAGE DEPTS OF JNU . THIS UNIVERSITY HAS PRODUCED TOO MANY UNWASHED UNCOUTH TRAITORS .

http://ajitvadakayil.blogspot.in/2010/11/my-son-at-cornell-university-capt-ajit_25.html

capt ajit vadakayil

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1. ThyagaFebruary 25, 2019 at 8:43 PM

   Dear Captain ji,
   
   You are the first one to reveal unknown facts about Amazon river in your Amazon river navigation post. Here is a mainstream news
   
   https://www.ndtv.com/offbeat/36-foot-whale-found-dead-in-the-middle-of-amazon-jungle-1998777?pfrom=home-featured 
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      Capt. Ajit VadakayilFebruary 25, 2019 at 9:05 PM

      http://ajitvadakayil.blogspot.com/2009/07/amazon-navigation-capt-ajit-vadakayil.html
      
      FOR A SAILOR WHO IS AN EXPERT OF AMAZON RIVER--THIS IS NORMAL..
      
      THE WHALE FOUND ITS WAY INLAND ( 48 FEET FROM THE SEA ) ON 22ND FEB 2019 SPRING TIDES ( 3 DAYS AFTER FULL MOON )..
      
      END FEB IS HEAVY RAINY SEASON DUE TO EL NINO .. THE TIDES HOLD THE RAINWATER WATER AND THE WHOLE AREA LOOKS LIKE A HUGE LAKE..
      
      http://ajitvadakayil.blogspot.com/2016/10/amavasya-poornima-ekadashi-fasting.html
      
      capt ajit vadakayil
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   Capt. Ajit VadakayilFebruary 25, 2019 at 9:45 PM

   http://ajitvadakayil.blogspot.com/2016/01/point-break-movie-review-capt-ajit.html
   
   EXTRACT FROM POST ABOVE--
   
   QUOTE: One of my readers asked me to give one more example of an incident where I showed HUMAN SPIRIT at sea by breaking “long established rules”
   
   Well!-- OK, a WEE one !!!
   
   There was this time , my ship was coming out of a narrow tributary of mighty river Amazon. We were timed to cross a shallow bar at high water.
   
   While we were crossing the bar , I got a frantic call from Chief Engineer—all temperatures of sea water cooled machinery ( main engines/ generators etc ) were rising rapidly –with the added information that we are on HIGH sea suction which is nearly 4 metres above the ship’s bottom LOW sea suction.
   
   This meant that river mud had ingressed the seawater inlet pipes.
   
   Chief Engineer arbitrarily informed that he wants to shut down the main engines and generators--lest the pistons get seized in the cylinders .
   
   I firmly commanded him—“ You cannot stop any machinery till I order you to do it . Go to manual override . This is an emergency and I now control the ship’s response “
   
   Immediately I told the Brazilian river pilot—I now have taken over your pilotage under Master’s authority.
   
   I quickly consulted the chart and literally power waded the ship to a deep sliver of water. Meanwhile I had the anchors ready.
   
   As soon as I dropped anchor, I raced to the engine room. The ENTIRE engineers were there white faced with all sorts of alarms beeping.
   
   I quickly got the ship’s fresh water tank hooked on to the generators using the “international shore coupling” and fire hose after knocking off a flange . The best part was that only I knew the pipelines—I traced it then and there .
   
   The cooling water starved generators gasped back to life.
   
   I got the LOW sea suction opened up and got clean river water into the cooling systems.
   
   To cut a long story short we now had the mud cleared out and main engines and generators all running smooth.
   
   When I went back to the bridge the pilot said that we cant do night navigation in the tributary as per rules.
   
   I told him, we cant remain there for daylight as at the next turn of tide , the ships rudder would hit the river bank and then my brand new ship is history.
   
   I told him—“I WILL TAKE THE SHIP OUT IN DARKNESS . I KNOW THE RIVER BENDS , THE DEEPS AND SILTED AREAS . I WILL COMMIT IN WRITING”
   
   Anyways , I got search lights out at the forecastle and we started our trip in absolute darkness with river bank trees almost brushing the ship at certain areas.
   
   The entire river tribals had taken out fire torches are were whistling and clapping as we whooshed past at terrific speed beating the fall of tide depth.
   
   Finally , as we exited the tributary and entered the mighty Amazon, the young pilot remarked that he was confident that I would do it. But if we had run aground , polluted and blocked the tributary, we both would have been in a Brazilian jail.
   
   The rest of my stunned crew could only say “ CAPTAIN DELIVERED AGAINST ALL ODDS-- AS USUAL “.
   
   The grapevine had spread the engine crew has spread the world of how captain TOOK OVER TECHNICAL OPERATIONAL COMMAND OF THE ENGINE ROOM and how every order was followed without demur ..
   
   What I have said above is a tour de force.
   
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   1. Capt. Ajit VadakayilFebruary 25, 2019 at 9:46 PM

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      It far exceeds the extreme sport efforts of the incidents in the movie , where the stake is only life or limb. The loaded ship cannot be stopped like a motor bike , ice skate or surfing board.
      
      Since this happened on a El Nino year 1997 , I have got up thrice at night reliving this incident in a deep sweat.
      
      No, it was NOT a nightmare, but “reliving “ the incident in a vivid dream where my body succumbed to faster heartbeats, hyperventilation and sweat.. while in REAL life I was cool .
      
      Or was it a dream ?
      
      -- the waving torches held by half naked tribals, the whistling , the clapping , the WHOOSH sound of river bank trees showing up at the last moment to bright searchlights on the bow on a moonless night
      
      Total silence on the navigating bridge except my con orders and the repeating of orders by my helmsman and Chief Mate.
      
      http://ajitvadakayil.blogspot.in/2009/07/amazon-navigation-capt-ajit-vadakayil.html
      
      UNQUOTE --
      
      WHEN CUNTS BOAST ABOUT THEIR GREAT EXPLOITS-- I JUST LAUGH WITHIN..
      
      WHAT DO THEY KNOW !
      
      THE HUAMN SPIRIT SHOWS UP ONLY DURING TIMES OF GREAT CONFLICT..
      
      http://ajitvadakayil.blogspot.com/2010/12/super-typhoon-bart-perfect-storm-capt.html
      
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