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To: doorgunner69

I keep waiting for an explanation why a modern ship with all the nav gear available was anywhere near a hurricane.

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It was exactly where the captain intentionally steered it.

My theory all along was that he was under pressure from management to save time and money.


12 posted on 11/05/2015 7:36:09 PM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: Moonman62

I rotated with another master on a container ship. I would come back to the ship to relieve him and find bent masts and rails, damaged containers and who knows how much internal container cargo damage. One voyage we found the main center line deck beam cracked and opening & closing with each wave.


19 posted on 11/05/2015 7:59:33 PM PST by Cold Heart
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To: Moonman62

The pencil pushers never have to go to sea.


21 posted on 11/05/2015 8:25:43 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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