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Watch: Ferry Berthing in Heavy Sea, Great Maneuvering
Berthing a ship by mediterranean mooring is a difficult task even in normal sea conditions. Performing the same mediterranean mooring in heavy sea requires great skills and experience.
Watch this great video showing the roro passenger ferry Adamantios Korahs performing a mediterranean mooring procedure (stern-to-dock) at the Greek Island of Sikinos in the Aegean Sea. Know more about Mediterranean mooring here.
The video clearly shows that the Captain has great control of the ship even in such difficult sea conditions. Our only concern is that there should have been more safety measures for the whole process.
Watch this cool video below:
Do you know more about such procedure? Let us know in the comments below.
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Is thrue..,the life on the winter time,in the islands o Cyclades Greece with strng winds!! there is Kimoloa island!!
Nearly 4.000 years seamanship……
Greek Ferries Captains have mastered this art of stern to or Med style. It is amazing watching thi guys making the full manouvre coming 18 kts, turn hard to stbd, drop stbd anchor then drop port anchor bring her stop then half astern stop, quick ahead giving lines and thts it!, 5 minutes not more!, Ferries with props or waterjets up to 150 mtrs at least. Italians are also good though
Completely agree with endorsement of 4000 yrs of seamsmanship, having
travelled back and forth from Greece to UK for over 20 years, they know hat they are doing – remember no tides like he uk. Having just crossed from Portsmouth to Caen, which was utter chaos, the Greeks should come and train the Brits on how to do it.
Impressive seamanship indeed. However there is also a blatant disregard for safety here. The linesmen on the quayside are not wearing life jackets or safety lines and they are some times up to their waists in water from those waves. It would have taken only one missed step or slip and they would have been washed in. I didn’t see a lingering anywhere in shot. The captain did a great job to get that vessel in so close but again if one thing went wrong, lost an engine, fouled a prop or dragged an anchor… Then she would have ended up on the rocks. And what for? Not to save life but to drop off a few trucks and pick up some people with bags. Unnecessary risks in my humble opinion.
What a great movie and a Captain that knows what to do very good
@WIill :
You have right for everything you said, but in Greece there are some very small islands which in winter the only way to get supplies like medicines,food or sometimes even water is only from ships like this in the video,so you have right about the safety but those trucks you mentioned before maybe they are huge importance for an island with fifty or one hundrend residents.Theese seafarers who navigate or working in the engines are somekind of heroes with their efforts and their sucrifice maintain the life all over the agean sea in the cold winter despite the big waves,the bad weather,far from their families and many times without a salary or proper health insurance.The linesmen you said,officially you have right,they obligated to work according to formal safety procedures but again we are talking about ”islanders”,people who born in the sea,raise in the sea,die in the sea,sea is their life,they dont slip,they fear to slip,they havent learn anything else except leaving near the sea…
Foolish. This is not great seamanship. Passengers in snap-back zones, conflicts between passenger and vehicle traffic, unsafe transfers all on top of a cavalier attitude to safety in the decision to attempt to do it in the first place. All in all very poor and he deserves to be castigated not revered for this.
When somebody stupid from Office start question for “procedures”, no more manouvres like this one. I have done it many times in even worse conditions, but there was no one to tell me what to do, Master remains always on his own!