Yukon's all-cadet rig team

摘要

Get those hoses out of the water,' growled the burly rig captain as USNS Yukon, the underway replenishment oiler, was giving diesel fuel marine to USS Chafee, 140-feet away. 'Do you want to embarrass us in front of this Navy ship?' In the winch shack, the operator deftly and gingerly hauled back on no. 3 saddle until the hoses were several feet over the water. 'That's it. Keep that catenary,' the rig captain bellowed. And that was the last time on that balmy Hawaiian afternoon that the hoses would go into the water during the one-hour alongside time. It was a routine operation - except for one thing.