I have as yet failed to post anything about my trip to Loch Striven last week, and the website ForArgyll has beaten me to it. I seem to have a starring role in their story, almost as much as the ships. Really, being interested in sanitation isn’t THAT weird, surely? Particularly when it’s the biggest marine pollutant in the world. The Maersk Beaumont, which we visited, had in its gleaming engine room, a biological sewage treatment plant something like this. Chief Engineer Stuart Underwood told me that all the sludge was digested, but I find that hard to believe, and am not enlightened by Gertsen & Olufsen’s website. I’ll find out.
Loch Striven
© 2010 Rose George
Posted in Blog — 12th February 2010
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Sorry we didn’t meet you on the day, Rose. We should have been there but got derailed by events’
You did sound as though you gave the entire experience a different slant – ‘out of the closet’ will never mean the same thing again.
I guess we respond viscerally to the fun of the left field specialist interests you cultivate.
Keep us in touch with developments as you plumb the efficiency of Beaumont’s sludge digester and as you publish on new and unpredictable topics.