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Jet Fuel In The Water

MIDNJAC

MIDNJAC

is clara ship
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Huggy Bear said:
Short answer yes. Ingested jet fuel is apparently one of the most toxic and carcinogenic substances known. It seems like that is said about a lot of things nowadays, but there is no debate about the effects of jet fuel. I never thought much of it at the time, we kind of laughed about it counteracting the boat crud. I don't think it is so funny anymore.

But what are you going to do? You gotta drink something.
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The funny thing is that Air BP, in its MSDS's only admits that it is a mild skin irritant....except in one small subsection that basically says that in California, Jet-A (and presumably JP-whatever) causes cancer in lab animals. Funny how that works. Next time I will close my mouth when topping the MD-500 :(
 
squeeze

squeeze

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If you're flying tactical aircraft all the time, I'd say if your main worry is cancer from the JP-5, that makes you quite the optimist.
 
Swanee

Swanee

Cereal Killer
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schwarti said:
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Happens on sailboats, too - things just go "boat-y". Clothes, equipment, food - somehow, even canned food managed to taste boaty. Sort of a combination of mildew, diesel fuel and body stank. When I was a kid, I used to love chocolate bars and Cokes from the boat - they just tasted "better"... :D
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I tried to drink bottled water as much as possible when on a sailboat, but sometimes that just takes up too much room. Flushing the winter treatment out of the water tank can take a long time, and even then you never really get it all out. I've never had too much of a problem with a diesel taste, but everytime I've been offshore for an extended period of time it's been on a racing boat in a race, so you don't get to use the motor, though just from doing short cruises up and down the Chesapeake Bay with the engine running I can see where those fumes can get into everything!
 
A4sForever

A4sForever

BTDT OLD GUY
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Swanee said:
I tried to drink bottled water as much as possible when on a sailboat....!
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Ditto .... or even when not on a sailboat. :)

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TheBubba

TheBubba

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schwarti said:
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Happens on sailboats, too - things just go "boat-y". Clothes, equipment, food - somehow, even canned food managed to taste boaty. Sort of a combination of mildew, diesel fuel and body stank. When I was a kid, I used to love chocolate bars and Cokes from the boat - they just tasted "better"... :D
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I hated that... 2 weeks and all I could smell was diesel, BO and LI Sound muck.

We dropped anchor in the sound, and when we got it back on deck the next morning, it was covered in muck. One of the idiots on the boat dropped it into the sail locker... and we had LI Sound muck all over the 1 & 2... which were the ones we flew that day.
 
schwarti

schwarti

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Haha, classic. I grew up sailing on Long Island Sound - almost sank once off Oyster Bay. Or the time that I nearly ran into the breakwater off Larchmont. Fun stuff... and yeah, the bottom sucks. When I was a kid, I hated taking swim tests in it because I was scared my feet would touch the bottom, which I thought was just pure crap.
 
SQUIDutah

SQUIDutah

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I worked on ballast ops in the Gator community (LHA-5). Fuel and water were never mixed to correct the "riding arm" aka slush effect. The water tasted terrible due to the over bromination and chlorination of the potable water tanks.

I can't speak for any other ship, but burning water is always bad juju, even if it was cooling/firemain H20. HOWEVER...there is a possibility of a leak between water/fuel tanks with the Oil King was burning the books on his morning and afternoon water purity check.
 
Ace_Austin

Ace_Austin

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Some taste issues with drinking water might stem from the coating used in the tanks. I know of at least one ship (an AE) that had her tanks filled before a new coating had cured. This caused problems with the taste as well as real health issues with contamination of the water. The ship was sent back to the yard to have this coating stripped and reapplied properly.
 
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Brian Sandlin

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I did get cancer. Is there any way to prove this was happening? or is it just because we say so? and how many we said so does it take to get the VA's attention?
 
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