Trouble in the Gulf of Oman

[YM-Mundrabilla]

Two tankers apparently hit by explosions.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-48619771

[Sparks69.5]

Double Hulled ?
Crew Numbers ?

[BobClay]

I'm getting a sense of Déjà vu.

[Tomvart]

Dejavu indeed Bob.......very effective way of making a point, I can remember the bloody chaos it caused last time?
What really galls me is the fact that Mr Corbyn always seems to publicly fall off the fence - on the wrong side, why on earth would a member of the Privy Council take the side of a hostile nation against the advice of his own intelligence services?

[BobClay]

You'd be better asking that of Donald Trump.

[Pilot24]

Originally Posted by Tomvart

Dejavu indeed Bob.......very effective way of making a point, I can remember the bloody chaos it caused last time?
What really galls me is the fact that Mr Corbyn always seems to publicly fall off the fence - on the wrong side, why on earth would a member of the Privy Council take the side of a hostile nation against the advice of his own intelligence services?

Because he's a "Richard Cranium?"

[Tomvart]

Originally Posted by Pilot24

Because he's a "Richard Cranium?"

You took the words out of my mouth!

[BobClay]

Don’t worry lads, we have a new saviour in the offing. BJ.

No, not Blow Job.

Errr .... come to think of it ... perhaps that is right.

[Tomvart]

God forbid Bob.....BJ as the saviour!!! I Just watched this evenings 'debate', featuring 'BJ'....Not surprisingly he didn't cover himself in glory........why on earth is he so popular within his party.......is it the old school tie perhaps?

[BobClay]

Further proof methinks of my 'alien spaceship hiding in the asteroid belt aiming an insanity beam at the Earth' theory.
Even the most hardened sceptics can doubt that now ……

[Jolly Jack]

Originally Posted by BobClay

Further proof methinks of my 'alien spaceship hiding in the asteroid belt aiming an insanity beam at the Earth' theory.
Even the most hardened sceptics can doubt that now ……

Oh dear!!!! Grow up Roberto!


JJ.

[BobClay]

What ? … and end up like you ?

No thanks.

[Engine Serang]

Now, Now, Boys.

In my day Trouble in the Gulf of Oman was started by rising sea water temperatures, main engine has to be pulled back, second generator on the board and the air conditioning refusing to play its part.
Add to this the chance of water rationing and having to go on the piss before the Bond is locked prior to arrival in Dammam. Life was miserable. Add a Mad Mullah or two and the mix is really on the downward curve.

Decision: get job with Stena.

[Dartskipper]

Originally Posted by Engine Serang

Now, Now, Boys.

In my day Trouble in the Gulf of Oman was started by rising sea water temperatures, main engine has to be pulled back, second generator on the board and the air conditioning refusing to play its part.
Add to this the chance of water rationing and having to go on the piss before the Bond is locked prior to arrival in Dammam. Life was miserable. Add a Mad Mullah or two and the mix is really on the downward curve.

Decision: get job with Stena.

Are they running a ferry service in the Gulf now as well?

[BobClay]

During the Iran/Iraq war I got £140.00 per day on top of wages on entering the Gulf. Prior to entering CP offered to relieve anybody who didn't want to go in.

There were no takers.

Money is the root of all evil.

[Varley]

That is more commonly "the love of money". Rather like a "little learning", oft betrayed by misquotation!

[BobClay]

Tell that to these ladies. There's some learning for you.

https://youtu.be/WVCwBtFHVLo

[Varley]

They misquote very tunefully.

[Engine Serang]

Thank God Elvis saved us from such drivel.

[Farmer John]

Ain't no love in that song.

[BobClay]

Ahhh romantics, the curse of the world.

I was never an Elvis fan, but I never doubted his talent. Surprisingly I've read he was much concerned in his life about his abilities. I got the impression he was caught up in some sort of corporate machine that insisted he be more legend than talented performer. And that bothered him, but that's just my opinion.

You want the Amercan music I thought brilliant (just my taste) back in those days, nope … it isn't the Andrews Sisters, it's a tad later, it's this.

Strangely relevant even today, and with some metaphorical connection to this thread.



https://youtu.be/3XqyGoE2Q4Y

[Engine Serang]

Steppenwolf is too much easy listening Radio 2 for me. Give us something with a bit more bite and with a chance of annoying the Moderators.

[BobClay]

Oh yeah I can do that. For some peculiar reason this reminds me of the recent shenanigans in the Houses of Parliament, especially the second half.

Maybe it applies to the Gulf too

https://youtu.be/9Gc4QTqslN4

[tugger]

I was in Abadan when they kicked the Shah out, Had to go ashore to let go the ropes, an Arab ran at me with a knife, but I ran the fastest and futherest, I went to school in Wales.
Tugger

[Tomvart]

My late older brother Owen was also in Iran when the revolution kicked off - he worked building oil installations (after leaving the sea and shipyard work), it didn't help his unlucky reputation, when after hastily exiting Iran in '79, fleeing the Revolution - he started working in Iraq (around Basrah), Saddam then put paid to that job in 1980 when he started the Iran-Iraq war towards the end of 1980.

What sealed his growing inauspicious reputation was when he was working at one of the refineries near Benghazi in Libya - the date being 1986, when the US bombed Libya (including some Military installations around Benghazi) - he and many of his workmates were rounded up (and beaten up), jailed in a compound before being extradited.....

His 'Jonah' reputation was sealed in the Oil and Gas industry, and he went back to much safer shipbuilding and repair work back home. He variously had the nickname 'Jonah' or 'Demolition Dick' to his mates in the industry, because of the chaos and war that always seemed to occur wherever he was in the world!