Algocape downbound towards Lock 2 of the Welland Canal on August 20,
2011.

Less than 30 min after having bought the camera...Canon EOS 60D with
18-200mm lens.

Steve

"Steve" wrote in message
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Algocape downbound towards Lock 2 of the Welland Canal on August 20,
2011.

Less than 30 min after having bought the camera...Canon EOS 60D with
18-200mm lens.

Steve


That's a good way to break in the camera...nice photo!

Paul

Nice shot.

I noticed water coming from the deck through the small freeing ports.

Was it raining???



Mark

Mark:

That's quite normal for lakers. I forget the technical term but I see
many ships that are spraying the deck and hatch covers. The
canal/lakes are cooler than the air and it's to prevent problems from
different expansion (or contraction) rates due to temperature.

If you can access the picture of the Tim S Dool (from July 27th, 2010)
that I posted on August 8th 2011, you can see the sprays. If you
can't find it on a.b.p.t-s,then try
http://pics.boatnerd.com/v/shipping/...33104.jpg.html

It's not visible on this picture, but I recently saw the Dool, and
water was running out of one of the the anchor pockets. This is also
common. I'll try to post a picture of this soon.

Steve

On Sun, 21 Aug 2011 15:35:10 -0400, "MWB" wrote:

Nice shot.

I noticed water coming from the deck through the small freeing ports.

Was it raining???



Mark

Thanks Paul. I'm just lucky there was a bit of a charge in the
battery. the date on the image is wrong cause I didn't set the camera
date.

Steve

On Sun, 21 Aug 2011 12:02:58 -0400, "Paul McGrane"
wrote:


"Steve" wrote in message
.. .
Algocape downbound towards Lock 2 of the Welland Canal on August 20,
2011.

Less than 30 min after having bought the camera...Canon EOS 60D with
18-200mm lens.

Steve


That's a good way to break in the camera...nice photo!

Paul

Thanks for getting back to me. I saw the other photo after I posted
yesterday. They are designed to cool the deck down.

In the summer we use the water cannons to cool the deck on crude oil
tankers. The pressure builds up and sets off the pressure relief valves and
it is loud and vapors enter the atmosphere.


Mark