Well, they've had issues for a while with these engines because for some reason theres a washer on one end of the Big end Bolt and if its not located properly when they are done up ( 2250 BAR ) it basically rattles loose and heres the result. We've done the big ends dozens of times and always made sure this washer was in place but it seems it was one of the ships engineers that cocked up this one. As regards what happend to him , not alot i dont think. It hard to pin it on one guy ( but we think we know who it was ) and as usual it all kinda gets lost in the paperwork trail.

The old engine was out in about 2 days, that includes cutting the hole, unbolting the coupling , pipework , removing cylinder heads and other bits .
It was done in Hamburg using Blohm and Voss shipyard ( where they built the Bismark ) and the yard labour were shit hot. Literaly 14 days to get the old one out, the new one in, line it all up , bolt on the pipework and make some alterations and then weld the deck back in etc.
Good going for ZEE GERMANS