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May 3, 2002
Vessel Data
Status: Enroute, Nuku Hiva, French Marquesas to Papeete, Tahiti
Latitude: 10-44.5’S
Longitude: 142-44.8’W
Distance: 190 miles
Total: 3255.7 miles
Gone: 2527.4 miles
To Go: 613.3 miles
Current Speed: 10.6 kts.
Engine Setting: 70 RPM’s Starboard Engine
 Weather:
Air Temperature: 84°F
Humidity: 90%
Wind: E 15-20 knots
Clouds: Cumulus
Sea Temperature: 84°F
Currents:
Water Depth: 4691 Meters
Sunrise: 0532
Sunset: 1722
Aboard the TSGB
Day 12
Daily Log:
 Engineering is a required component of all ship operations. The engineering department is responsible for keeping all of the operating machinery on the ship well maintained and functioning correctly. The skill with which they perform their job can be as helpful to the success of the voyage as good navigation or as costly as sinking the ship.
The marine engineer is a very special type of engineer. Besides being required to have a good
understand of the design and construction of the ship itself, the engineer must have a good understanding of the design of many of the main
machinery components of the ship. Without the back up of shore based engineering and machine services, the marine engineer is on his own to
keep the equipment running where keeping it running might be the difference between staying afloat and sinking.
 Ever since the day of sail, the engineer has become more and more important to the success of a vessels
operation. Not only is the engineer the main engine expert, fuel oil expert, refrigeration expert, sewage
and sanitation expert, electrical expert, and electronic expert, the engineer is now the computer expert.
Without the computer, nothing will work. To make matters worse, electronics and computers don’t like vibration, poor power supply, temperature extremes and moist climates.
The marine engineer is not only the expert on board for all of the operation equipment; the engineer is the operator and the repairman.
Designing the repair, planning the repair and performing the repair, no matter how difficult or dirty the job.
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