"....give me a ping Vasili, one ping only..."

If you were in my engine room

you would actually be about 20 feet below the surface of the water.

When you are 20 feet underwater inside a steel boat

you can hear things.( if the engines aren't running)

The turning of a propeller under water causes quite a disturbance,

which is probably why we often see dolphin heading our way from seemingly out of nowhere

to play at the bow of the boat when we are underway at sea.

When I'm in the engine room at the dock

I can hear every crew boat, tug or ship that goes by.

The closer they are, the louder the noise.

If a tug is working alongside a ship

assisting her to the dock

it's quite apparent.

Today I heard a racket.

It almost sounded like something metallic hitting our hull

over and over.

It was so loud and unusual I went up above to see

what all the noise was about.

The ship pictured below

is in the process of turning around in the river

with the help of 3 tugs.

As you can see she is a big one

her stern almost on the bank of the other side.

The wind was blowing quite hard

and was hitting the side of the ship wanting to push it down river.

 All the racket I heard was the wheels of the 3 tugs

that were pushing and pulling this ship named "Blank".

Below, she comes quite close to just crushing the little barge......

.....but the little tug boat that could....did pull her away. 

 Below the ships looks like she's snorting.

 They finally turned her around

and safely docked her across the river from us.

 ...and then I had an avocado.

The End

**
Can I just mention the obvious lack of effort that was put forth
by someone in the naming of the above mentioned ship?
"BLANK"
Really?

Naming a ship is a big deal.
Many many people are involved in the process.
After all the brainstorming by heaven knows how many people
the best name out of all that were considered
was
"BLANK?"

What would they name the sister ship?
"Barren"

or maybe
"Apathy."

Who cares?