I couldn’t help but think of DC electric motor repair when I heard about the big accident involving an Italian cruise ship that hit the rocks when traveling too close to the shore. I kept thinking about all the mechanical parts involved and how they probably gnashed against solid rock under the water. What happens when the propellers meet such resistance?
So I pictured it all: the burned-out engine, the crush propeller blades, everything. Now of course for most people DC electric motor repair is the farthest thing from their minds when confronted with such a horrific accident, the most enormous since the Titanic a hundred years ago.
But I must confess to having a different bent of mind than many other folks, one that’s fairly unemotional when it comes to most disasters. I don’t know why this is, but there’s something incredibly fascinating about an accident, a wreck, a downfall, about ruin in real-time. Couple that with my natural affinity for technical topics that have to do with machinery and engineering and yes I admit to missing the proverbial forest for the trees.
So DC electric motor repair it is, you see. And as I was saying, it will be interesting from an engineering inspector’s view to go through the wreckage later on, after it’s been uprighted and towed back to dock. For one thing, it will be interesting to see how well all the various heavy-duty equipment has held up, all the different systems involved (remember, this is a gigantic cruise ship, not some lone sailing boat). The most immediate interest will be on the torn hull, of course, but every aspect of the ship will be scrutinized, and for me it is the engine room and engineering matters related to maritime propulsion (at such a scale, under such circumstances!) that will provide the most interest of all.