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Hello my name is Dan Hornick and I am the chief engineer on the Coast Guard heavy icebreaker Terry Fox.
Welcome to the Terry Fox.
I am going to take you around the engine room here today
and show you a few of the pieces of equipment and some of the items and talk briefly about the Terry Fox.
The Terry Fox is basically a self contained unit in such that every system that you could imagine
that you would have around home like all of your refrigeration, your fresh water, your sewage.
It allows us to remain at sea for long periods of time.
What you see up here, this unit right here to my right is a water maker
and it’s used to take the sea water and turn it into fresh water.
We’re capable of producing something in the order of approximately 10,000 litres of water a day.
The Terry Fox has four main engines. They’re very powerful, they were made in Holland.
They’re called workspore engines. If you look down here to my left
you’ll see there are two of the main engines here now.
These engines are 8 cylinders in line engines and they’re horse power is approximately 6,000 horse power each.
That means that the Terry Fox has a combine horse power of around 24,000 shaft horse power.
This gives you something to judge the size, the physical size of the engine.
The engine actually continues down under the deck for another four feet and it continues up well above my hand.
So the physical size of them is substantial.
This area here is the machinery control room.
This is where the watch keeping engineers actually operate the main engines
and they can monitor all the system and put them right from this spot here
as well as the electrical generation plant of the ship. Right over here, if you have a look right here,
we have what we call an alarm and monitoring system and again this is a computerized system
and it has some rather nice pictorial layout an that and what they’ll show us is a nice overview of engines,
ship board, systems, and equipments and this whole system is dynamic whereby the pressures
and temperatures and all the perimeters and everything are consistently changing.
We can actually keep an eye on the systems right here as well as locally going out to the pieces of equipment.
The Terry Fox was built in Burrard shipyard in Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1982
and it was built for Gulf Resources Canada and along with its sister ship which was the Arctic Kalvik
which was used in the Arctic in support of oil drilling and things along that line
and somewhere and around 1993, the CCG purchased the Terry fox from Gulf Resources Canada
and it became one of our heavy classified icebreakers in the Coast Guard fleet.
Like I was mentioning earlier about our alarm and monitoring stations and that,
here is one the stations right here. So if an engineer or one of the engineering staff are up here
and an alarm would sound they could go right here and see what the alarm is.
It will come up in a written format, you can see what it is and they could
to any of the systems here and they could bring up and look at any of the systems
that we were looking at in the control room
and there is actually four of these throughout the engineering spaces.
Each one of the Terry Fox’s engineering compartments have been close with a watertight bulk head
and a sliding watertight door which is hydraulically activated.
So if we were to get into a situation where we have a fire or a flooding or anything like that
we could actually close off a compartment of the ship so that the fire or the flood
or whatever danger and everything is contained in that one compartment
and doesn’t affect the associated compartments.
This little area right here is a small little electrical shop that we have.
The electrician here needs to work in here and do some small electrical repairs,
if there is any larger repairs area where he has larger electrical resources equipment,
we’ll take it to one of the other shops.
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We’ve basically walked through all of the engineering spaces on the Terry Fox.
You just got a quick tour of the engineering basis.
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