277 - Life and Work on HMS Enterprise

omega tau science & engineering podcast

Guests: Philip Harper, Kyle O’Regan, Oliver Jessop, Graham Blenkinsop, Ian Sutton, Lee Williams
Shownoter: Jochen Spalding, Fabian Zeisberger, Andy Joiner, Bastian Hundt, Stefaan Rillaert
Host: Markus Voelter

In December 2017 I had the opportunity to spend a few days on board the Royal Navy’s HMS Enterprise on her trip from Limassol, Cyprus to Valetta, Malta. HMS Enterprise is a survey ship, her primary task is to map the sea floor using sonar and feed the data into civilian and military maps. In this detailed episode, we chat about the ship, its mission, the survey equipment, the technical aspects of the propulsion and systems, plus about life on board a ship and nautical issues in general.

Introduction

00:02:20

Commander Philip Harper Commanding Officer of HMS Enterprise | HMS Enterprise | Hydrography | "She is short and fat" | HMS Echo (H87) | Minehunter | Azipod | Executive officer | Commanding officer | Rank Insignia of Navy Commissioned and Warrant Officers | Standing NATO Mine Countermeasures Group 2 | HMS Enterprise tweet

Fastcruise

00:51:02

Watchstanding

Sailing from Cyprus

01:28:48

Maritime pilot | Devonport, Plymouth | Advanced Airborne Sensor | Vessel traffic service | Gyrocompass

Bridge Watch

02:04:02

Navigator | Concept of Innocent Passage | Clearing Lines | International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea | Operation Sea Guardian

Working and Living on the Ship

02:45:14

Officer of the deck | Officer of the day | Engineer Officer | Logistics Officer

Man Overboard Exercise

03:01:28

Man Overboard | Life Jacket | Hypothermia (Saltwater Spray - Osmosis) | Wake | Lee Side | Pacific 24 | Jet Powered | Jasons Cradle | Sick Bay | Command by Veto | Swimmer of the Watch | Dry Suit | Muscle Memory

Surveying

03:28:45

Bathymetric | Oceanographic | Temperature | Salinity | Tide | Ground Truthing | Sonar | Multibeam Echosounder | Single-Beam Echosounder | Attenuation/Scattering | Lead Line | Transducer | Side-Scan Sonar | Undulating Oceanographic Recorder | Sub-Bottom Profiler | Hydrophone | Magnetometer | Scour | Seanav | Ephemeris (Inertial Motion Unit -) | POS MV | Caris HIPS and SIPS | Sand Waves | Fledermaus | Acoustic Doppler Profiler | Bioluminescence | Expendable bathythermograph

Fire Exercise

04:44:20

Bridge Equipment

05:03:14

Bridge | Electronic Chart Display and Information System | Gyro | Radar | GPS | Echo sounding | Navigation Radar | Automatic Radar Plotting Aid | Bearing | Magnetic Compass | Automatic Identification System | Azipod / Azimuth Thrusters | Quartermaster | Bowthruster | Engine Order Telegraph | Ship Wheel | Kill Cord / Dead Man Switch | Dynamic Positioning | Bilge | Damage Control

Engineering & Systems

05:46:43

Diesel-Electric Propulsion | Electric Bus | Electric Switchboard | Electric Generator | Ballast Tank | Venturi Effect | Eductor | Compartmentalization | Antiroll Tanks | HVAC | Intercom | Speaking Tube | Citadel | Quarterdeck

Wrapup

06:31:50

Malta | HMS Gleaner | HMS Protector ice patrol ship | HMS Scott | USS Enterprise (CVN-65) | Starship Enterprise

Markus' Thanks to Everybody

06:44:38

Space Flight Dynamics with Rainer Kresken | Tweets Bettina Wurche about Enterprise | Twitter account HMS Enterprise

Epilogue: Driving into Valetta

06:47:19

Port of Valletta | Breakwater | Dynamic positioning | Bow thruster | Ship motions | Maritime pilot | Automatic identification system (AIS) | Dynamic positioning (DP)