How to ship 117,000 sheep from Australia.

[tivoli_mike]

Pan-United Shipyard Completed Conversion of World's Largest Livestock Carrier

 

Pan-United Shipyard (PUS) has successfully converted the world's largest livestock carrier, Rodolfo Mata, from a container vessel. The very large livestock carrier has a capacity to carry either 25,000 cattle or 135,000 sheep or a combination of both. It eclipses the previous world's largest livestock vessel, Danny F 11, which has a capacity to hold 16,000 cattle or 85,000 sheep. Danny F 11 was also converted by PUS in 1994.

 

Rodolfo Mata is a state-of-the-art vessel with unique fodder, water ventilation and generation systems several times over and above the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) standards that are the highest in the world. The vessel has a 5,000-tonne fodder storage capacity as well as 8,000 tonne fresh water storage capacity. The main supply of water is delivered by three reverse osmosis plants that have a capacity to deliver 1,800 tonnes of fresh water daily. At full-livestock capacity, these systems allow a feed and water availability of eight days over-and-above the longest voyage (24 days) requirements to accommodate any unforeseen delays. AMSA standards call for only 3 days' reserve. The ventilation system is the only one of its kind in the industry and can deliver fresh air into individual pens on all enclosed decks. Five generators provide the main power supply to the ship and its systems with another five secondary generators supplying 4.5 megawatts of power. Rodolfo Mata is a milestone achievement in the long haul transportation of livestock.

 

Fitted with 14 decks and 2,000 pens, Rodolfo Mata is 21,000 tonnes when empty and 51,000 tonnes when fully loaded. It can accommodate 100 crew and travel up to a speed of 25 knots. Commissioned and owned by the Fares Group, Rodolfo Mata set sail on its maiden trip in January 2002 to Fremantle, Perth of Australia, to load 117,000 heads of sheep bound for the Haji festival in Saudi Arabia.

Edited November 17, 2006 by tivoli_mike

[foraker]

What happens to all the poop?

[Dechristo]

it's sold as blue cheese sprinkles

[archenemy]

What happened to my

"Now you can all have dates" post? Wierd, it just disappeared.

[Dechristo]

I stopped dating sheep when I overcame my Harpo Marx fetish

[foraker]

I can't help but think there's someone on this board who looked at that and thought 'Oooh. The Love Boat!'

[mountainmatt]

What happens to all the poop?

 

Goes on the poop deck

[fear_and_greed]

That vessel has obviously been built as the new Gitmo floating jail so that the US officials cannot be prosecuted ala Rumsfeld in German courts. Pretty easy to keep the Red Cross and prying media eyes away.

[strumpett]

Have you all seen the chicken trucks driving up and down I 5. Chickens hanging out all over the place, it doesn’t make you want to run out and buy chicken. This picture of the boat reminds me of this.

[Dechristo]

well, they'd have enough food

[G-spotter]

The skipper is named Noah?

[Dechristo]

he noahs his cargo in the biblical sense

[Mr_Phil]

10 men, 117,000 sheep, one boat.

 

What could be better?

[mountainmatt]

10 men, 117,000 sheep, one boat.

 

What could be better?

 

Being in international waters where the new beastiality laws don't apply?

[lI1|1!]

this is apparently real

 

Tennis ace joins “gay sheep” protests

 

Animal rights campaigners have praised lesbian tennis icon Martina Navratilova after she criticised experiments taking place on sheep perceived to be gay.

 

Navratilova spoke out against Oregon State University (OSU) and Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) this week after it emerged that the institutions are conducting hormone-altering experiments on “gay sheep” to manipulate their “sexual preferences.”

 

The tennis star has been backed by the PETA (People For The Ethical Treatment Of Animals) after she wrote to the presidents of both universities demanding they stop the experiments and spend the money on a worthy cause.

 

She wrote, “How can it be that, in the year 2006, a major university would host such homophobic and cruel experiments? ... I respectfully ask that you pull the plug on this appalling and misguided research. Surely you can find a way to redirect the millions of public tax dollars that are being wasted on these experiments to a more fruitful venture—perhaps by funding a gay and lesbian community centre to foster dialogue and acceptance for people of all sexual preferences?”

 

PETA’s Karen Chisholm said she was “honoured” that Navratilova was standing up for animal rights.

 

OHSU experimenter Charles Roselli is reportedly drugging sheep to prevent the actions of hormones in their fetal brains and cutting open the brains of rams he calls “male-oriented” (homosexual) in an attempt to find the hormonal mechanisms behind homosexual tendencies.

 

Roselli’s cohort, Frederick Stormshak of OSU, is reported to have surgically installed an device in rams’ bodies in an effort to alter “gay sheep’s” sexual preferences and make them heterosexual.

 

According to the grant applications, the experimenters plan to extrapolate the test results to humans—with the insidious implication that homosexuality in people can be “cured.”

 

Ms Chisholm told PinkNews.co.uk: “We are honoured that Martina Navratilova has decided to add her voice to the growing international criticism of these gay sheep experiments, which can only be described as a needless slaughter of animals, an affront to human dignity, and a colossal waste of precious research funds.”

 

She described the implications of the research as “dangerous to the LGBT community.”

[archenemy]

I have to admit that installing some device into an animal to make it fuck the gender we think it should fuck is a colossal waste of money.

And I don't even like tennis.

[catbirdseat]

Leaving aside the ethical considerations for the moment, you could be wrong about these experiments being a collosal waste of money. I would imagine that many prospective parents would be willing to pay a significant sum if they were offered a guarantee that their offspring would not grow up to be gay.

[lI1|1!]

I would imagine that many prospective parents would be willing to pay a significant sum if they were offered a guarantee that their offspring would not grow up to be gay.

 

oh the humanity. if this research could provide specific brain areas and the receptors involved it could yield a family of drugs parents could give their kids to prevent homosexuality. which begs the question of what all names the pharmacutical industry could come up with for those drugs (see brand names for antidepressants if you don't know what i'm talking about). let's consider the possibilities:

 

straighterix

genderite

dehomorol

heterosure

peninvage

bangpro

grankidal

 

the gender specifics:

pinkinil

karpetmunchex

 

 

c'mon, let's hear your names for antihomo drugs!

it's not like ur (or for you wimmin)

[G-spotter]

Straighterix

 

Isn't that one of the Gauls in Asterix's village?

[archenemy]

Leaving aside the ethical considerations for the moment, you could be wrong about these experiments being a collosal waste of money. I would imagine that many prospective parents would be willing to pay a significant sum if they were offered a guarantee that their offspring would not grow up to be gay.

In the past, Eugenics programs have turned out to be not as profitable as initially forcasted.

[catbirdseat]

Leaving aside the ethical considerations for the moment, you could be wrong about these experiments being a collosal waste of money. I would imagine that many prospective parents would be willing to pay a significant sum if they were offered a guarantee that their offspring would not grow up to be gay.

In the past, Eugenics programs have turned out to be not as profitable as initially forcasted.

I don't think they were intended to be profitable. They were mostly government initiatives.

[archenemy]

There are more forms of profit than the monetary ones, Science boy. But it's good to hear that you can understand the intentions of the Nazi party, I guess.

[tvashtarkatena]

Why is my head shaped like an upended shoe box? I'd like to know...

[Dechristo]

from repeatedly forcing it into the genital "boxes" of gay male sheep.

[tvashtarkatena]

I took more effort to force that joke, I'd wager.

 

I only resort to 'ewe-genics' during those rare moments when my head is not up my own ass...