I was wondering the same thing. I zoomed in to look for corn.I'm not sure if that is a CHT or a lube oil spill.
Christ someone didn’t give him the memo about taking pictures of customers cargo. My chief mate senses are burning.
The reason given was the live firing of weapons by the trap and skeet team...
I used to get in and on RoRo cargo all the time when I sailed on the Matson RoRo's.. It was the mates job [a lot of times with the help of the cadet] to make sure that the brakes on the cars were set, the radios were off and that they out of gear and secured.. To do that you had to get in the cars. Same went for the larger rolling stock. We climbed all over that stuff making sure it was secured.. I also never saw anything in company policy that prohibited photos of any of the cargo. Even if there was such a policy, good luck enforcing that with the longshoremen in Hono, Brah..You don’t touch ro ro cargo, you don’t sit in ro ro cargo, you don’t take pictures of ro ro cargo. It isn’t that hard.
I also never saw anything in company policy that prohibited photos of any of the cargo.
The mid who created it has been trying to get it out on the USMMA website, but he has been refused repeatedly by the administration. To my old eyes, it would be a great recruiting tool, but what do I know...
Indeed it was a different era.. but I wouldn't say drug use was 'rampant' as you've characterized it.. Did it happen? yes. Drinking was probably more of a problem, but that started to change after the EXXON VALDEZ incident in 1989. The other stuff pretty much went away years ago with the advent of 'fast turn around' ships, MARSEC and the MARPOL regulations.. As far as the condition of the cargo deck in the picture, that's probably pretty standard even nowadays on a Matson RoRo. We carried a lot things besides just cars that made it challenging to keep the decks looking spiffy. We had everything from retrograde bulldozers and backhoes, to road graders and farm equipment. All of it was secured with chain binders and was blocked and braced with dunnage. We also carried livestock trailers as well.. If you think that deck is an issue, just to the left and forward in that picture [outboard of the ramp] is what the Mates used to refer to as 'Pig Alley'.. That's where the pig containers were stowed on Second Deck, along with all the effluent hoses and couplings. A container of pigs accommodates about 450 head.. and do they ever stink.. Also, Second Deck on those ships was a shelter deck with sideports open to the weather. Normally in the winter I had the deck gang put 4x4 battens in across the openings to try and keep spray off the cars and the rolling stock.Different era, with the rampant drug use, keeping prostitutes in your state room in foreign ports, and throwing what ever you wanted over the rail. I've got access to the policies for Hoegh, ARC/WWL/Eucore, Daimler, and Ford they're all explicitly clear on this. If cars are in the stow loose enough that you can open doors, someone has screwed up. Also, holds as pictured there with the scaffolding and the trash on deck would be a huge cargo quality issue. Customers don't screw around with this stuff. The future is now.