From Glass To Crystal

Nautical Notes

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Subject: Notes from the S.S. Tidal Investigation

Name: Ninos, H. Nirav

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2023, June 8th

          I've been reading more into the happenings of the now submerged S.S. Tidal. According to the local news on TV Mauville, they described the probable catalyst as an "explosion within the mighty ferry." The engine room to be exact. Luckily, I saw the happenings to be particularly minor, as most of the people within the Ferry managed to escape, which I assume an estimate on how much casualties there were will have to wait. 

          Reading on the how's and why's online, most people I see point to the outdated diesel engine, and it's not even a speculative cloud anymore, it's actually true. The manufacturer stated on "Why The S.S Ferry Sank" on Peter Touserkani's podcast stated - -

"Yes, it's been around for over years now, always modified! Most of the repairs have been done by top engineers working at our company. Most inspections we've done were exceptionally thorough, and by the time we were done, we weren't ever the one to bring the bearer of bad news!"

          He sounds like he's dancing around the subject with relative caution, not wanting to bring up any type of suspicion. I think that's mostly due to the fact that he never really gives a straight answer other than, "She's an antique!". Well, if it's an antique, then why isn't it in a museum? Why would you gamble money on fixing an aging machine that's already falling apart? Apart from that damn Bureaucrat snapping at Peter like the Penny Pincher he (is), there really isn't anything of note here. There (seems) to be something else I'm missing here though. Who knows? Maybe I'm not getting the full picture yet.

          Nonetheless, I'm going to see if I can get anybody from the former S.S. Tidal to interview me, one by one. Obviously, it's going to be ridiculously hard, considering that this was just recent. Not to mention, I'd feel everybody involved would still be shaken up by the incident, as well as the hundreds of hungry Mandibuzz, such as myself, swarming them like clouds blotching out the sun. Either way, it's been a while since I've dug into something like this. At least, not recently...

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2023, June 9th

          I've read up more about diesel engines. How they work is that they use Activation energy, where the compression ignition then helps start the combustion process to heat up the engine. The danger here lies within the system itself, where air is being compressed to make things hotter. You see, to start things up, you need the spark ignition to help get things running. I'm assuming there would be a fault somewhere in-between the heating process and the spark ignition, where I feel something, as well as the heat, maybe a spark hitting the fuel source somehow, caused the explosion. Now after all the things I've said, as well as them admitting using outdated machinery to run their modern ferry, my theory comes into play. Which is that something went wrong between dock and transit. There also were supposed to be TWO engines on board, which there were. The other one actually was up to date from what I've heard. The manufacturer and others who've worked on it say that knowing the healthy history of the outdated diesel engine, as well as having a modern engine on standby, would certainly be no problem for them to handle. Guess they were wrong.