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To: Loud Mime; Textide; SunkenCiv

My paternal ancestors were indentured Irish.

Textide, I was surprised to learn that it’s still incredibly risky. Following a professional mariners’ forum made me realize that. DH’s boss is a retired Navy Swimmer & recently told him (in a conversation about the El Faro) that ships sink all the time- you just don’t hear about it.
You wouldn’t think- considering the size, construction, & technology of modern shipping, that would be true. How these wooden ships made it is a wonder.

Thank you for the ping, SunkenCiv.

ps. One of the mariners on the forum has a tagline I like. It says something to the effect that if you find a man who doesn’t believe in God, send him to sea. I’d been thinking that there was a marked absence of atheists there.


28 posted on 10/30/2015 12:43:43 PM PDT by KGeorge (Make America Great Again- Ahead of Schedule & Under Budget.)
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Thanks KGeorge.


33 posted on 10/30/2015 4:00:38 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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