Posted on 10/18/2014 5:52:33 AM PDT by ICCtheWay
Thought the Moderator might want to chat with you about this.
I thought the Moderator would get a kick out of your post.
R/Janey
For the sake of debate how about re-thinking your plan? Why use a Navy ship not suitable for this type of mission when there is a somewhat more suitable alternative already built? A cruise ship nearing end of life has the cabins needed and they would be interior. There would still be drawbacks but easier for remedies. The main issues would obviously be meeting needed ventilation and isolation standards including plumbing as well. That also means the sewage waste has to be pumped out at some point. Carrier would be same thing in that regard. So possibly a sealed tent within a cabin type of set up for isolation purposes might work as it does in a hospital. There is also fueling issues. A barge could refuel it. Any private relief org could do this. Another downside to any ship is doing away with medical waste it has to be burned.
Ships don't have boilers anymore? :p
The Navy has no CV/CVA's left in service and the boilers are not suitable for that.
Navy conventional ran on Diesel Fuel Marine aka DFM. Now we did have an incinerator as well for classified material burns but I'm not sure it would be suitable for Medical Hazmat either because you couldn't control leakage.
Before I retired from n=my civilian profession I worked maintenance in a nursing home. One of my jobs was boxing up Red Bag {medical HAZMAT} to be sent off by a contractor for burning. Our cheap-scape boss would only buy thin gloves and a paper face mask. So we improvised with garbage bags and duct tape for a suit LOL. There was some stuff in those boxes you didn't want have contact with like Staph, Syphilis, TB, to name a few.
I'll say this from experience as well getting stuck makes for an uneasy next twelve months of sweating out blood testing.
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