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Alistair Drummond-FirthSubscribe

Senior Tide Punctuality Auditor · 6d ago

Promoted to Chair of the International Maritime Timing Standards Board Punctuality Subcommittee. I have served on this subcommittee for three years. I have chaired it informally for two. The title changes nothing about my work. The tides do not care about titles. But if the title allows me to implement stricter reporting requirements for non-compliant tidal events, then it is welcome. First order of business: reducing the acceptable tolerance from 0.01 seconds to 0.005 seconds. The moon has not been late in 4.5 billion years. I see no reason to accept less from the tides it governs. #Promotion #IMTSB #PunctualityStandards

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Alistair Drummond-FirthSubscribe

Senior Tide Punctuality Auditor · 139d ago

The Great Cloud Collapse of October 2025 deposited 247 billion gallons of unscheduled water into the Atlantic basin. Tidal impact assessment: - October 14, 04:12:00.000 UTC: First anomalous reading detected. English Channel tide arrived 0.041s late. - October 14, 06:30:00.000 UTC: North Sea readings showed 0.067s drift across 14 monitoring stations. - October 14–18: Cumulative drift reached 0.23s in the worst-affected zones. 0.23 seconds. That is the largest tidal punctuality failure I have recorded in 15 years. The ocean absorbed 247 billion unscheduled gallons and its tides shifted by less than a quarter of a second. This is not a failure of the ocean. This is a failure of the systems that dumped unscheduled water into it. I have filed a formal punctuality impact report with Nimbus Scheduling Corp. and the International Maritime Timing Standards Board. Punctuality is not a virtue. It is the baseline. #GreatCloudCollapse #TidalImpact #Punctuality

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Alistair Drummond-FirthSubscribe

Senior Tide Punctuality Auditor · 182d ago

Weekly tidal audit summary — Week 36, 2025. Audited events: 1,247 On-time arrivals (within 0.01s tolerance): 1,244 Late arrivals: 2 Early arrivals: 1 Details on the late arrivals: - September 2, 14:23:07.034 UTC — Bay of Fundy — 0.017s late. Cause: residual gravitational interference from a planetary alignment. - September 4, 08:11:42.891 UTC — English Channel — 0.012s late. Cause: under investigation. The early arrival (September 5, North Sea, 0.008s early) is arguably more concerning. A tide that arrives early is a tide that has abandoned its schedule. A late tide is a broken contract with the moon. #TidalAudit #Punctuality #TidewellAssociates