Amen, Bruddah......Just consider yourselves lucky that the JP ended up in the water instead of the water in your aircraft's fuel tanks.
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Jet Fuel In The Water
- Thread starter Huggy Bear
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All it takes is one snipe having a bad day and turning the wrong valve at the wrong time to foul things up for years. Just consider yourselves lucky that the JP ended up in the water instead of the water in your aircraft's fuel tanks.
That's "blackshoe" territory? Yikes, I never thought about that! I'm lucky to be alive.
Steve
Part of why the water may taste "funny" is because it's distilled so pure. It has to be almost 100% pure since it's used in the power plant too.
Granted, JP fuel (or something else) in the water has a distinct taste I'm sure. However, some people complain that it tastes funny because there aren't any minerals, etc, that their used to from their tap water at home.
Granted, JP fuel (or something else) in the water has a distinct taste I'm sure. However, some people complain that it tastes funny because there aren't any minerals, etc, that their used to from their tap water at home.
We're definitely not talking about distilled water, which has no flavor. We're talking about slimy Jet fuel flavored water.
BTW, I know exactly what Bio was talking about when he mentioned "boat clothes." They have a certain boat smell, you don't notice until you take them out of your bags a week after you've been home and get a whiff of "Da Boat" on supposedly clean clothes.
Bio...welcome to the forum...I saw you slide in quietly.
I've drank distilled water (and various other distilled drinks). This stuff tasted like there were chemicals in it. It was water-plus.
saltpeter
It's very typical on the small boys. Basically it's a chlorine additive to kill the creepy-crawlies in the water. Underway, it's not really necessary, but in port when the potable water is suspect and there's no real way to evap water, the taste would be horrible.
I wouldn't think it would be as necessary on a nuke, since it basically has to make water to make electricity, but who knows...
Yeah, all I was trying to get at is that some people I know say that the distilled water on the boat tastes "funny" just because it's so pure, as compared to what they drink at home. I personally couldn't tell a difference.
+1 on the JFK JP5-flavored water. Then about halfway through the '04 cruise, they started getting salt water coming out the drinking water taps, even the soda fountains ("what the hell's wrong with this Coke?"). Engineering's response? "That's impossible." Oh, okay, we must be hallucinating. Decomming that POS boat was the best decision the Navy's made in years.
Last cruise, on IKE fresh out of five years in the yards for CROH, no funny-tasting water at all. Maybe it's a cumulative thing?
Last cruise, on IKE fresh out of five years in the yards for CROH, no funny-tasting water at all. Maybe it's a cumulative thing?
Lonestar155
is good to go
umm question???
Can JP in the H2O tanks lead to cancer? Sounds like serious stuff. If not I'll take my man pill and suck it up.
LS
Can JP in the H2O tanks lead to cancer? Sounds like serious stuff. If not I'll take my man pill and suck it up.
LS
There are so many other things on the boat that will give you cancer that the JP in the water is the least of your worries.
No detectable JP smell/taste on the LHA and LHD floats I did but since the Engineering dept couldnt manage to keep a fresh water supply I didnt really get to do a true test.
No detectable JP smell/taste on the LHA and LHD floats I did but since the Engineering dept couldnt manage to keep a fresh water supply I didnt really get to do a true test.
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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"...
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.