In Control
MMA3: Duty Officer, request to hang tags, ma’am.
SDO: MMA3, report if you have proof for the tagout.
MMA3: …I copied the tags that MMA1 used last week to tag out the diesel.
SDO: MMA3, go find your chief and report back.
MMA3: Go find my chief and report back aye, ma’am.
7MC: Duty Officer, Topside. Request you JA, sir.
SDO: Control, Duty Officer.
Topside: Oh, err sorry ma’am.
SDO: …
Topside: Duty Officer, Topside. You are requested topside for the crane brief.
SDO: Topside, Duty Officer, tell them I’ll be there in an hour.
Topside: Tell them you’ll be there in an hour, Duty Officer, Topside, aye.
MMACS: Duty Officer, request why all of the sudden my division needs proof to tagout the diesel?
SDO: Senior…
MMACS: I’ve been doing diesel maintenance since you were in middle school. It is always the same three valves.
SDO: Senior, I am not tagging out the diesel without proof. Go talk to ENG.
MMACS: Go talk to ENG aye, ma’am.
7MC: Duty Officer, Topside. Request you JA, sir. Oh fuck! Ma’am. Request you JA, ma’am.
SDO: Control, Duty Officer.
Topside: Duty Officer, Topside. The crane people really want to start this brief.
SDO: Topside, Duty Officer. Roger.
Meanwhile in the ENG’s Stateroom
MMACS: ENG, request why the Duty Officer is making my guys show proof before we tag out the diesel.
ENG: Because the Duty Officer isn’t an idiot.
MMACS: ENG, this is the way we’ve always done it.
ENG: We’re not tagging out the diesel without proof.
MMACS: We’re not tagging out the diesel without proof aye, sir.
Back in control
MMA3: Ma’am here’s the proof of the tags.
SDO: MMA3, report if tagging out the diesel is on the SOSMIL.
MMA3: Duty Officer, tagging out the diesel is not on the SOSMIL.
SDO: Then we’re not tagging out the diesel today. Also, this is proof for the drain pump.
MMA3: We’re not tagging out the diesel today aye, ma’am.
7MC: Duty Officer, Topside. Request you JA, sir.
Topside: "Duty Officer, Topside, the crane operators said that their shift ends in 2 hours and they can't get the work done in time, so they went home and said 2nd shift would handle it"