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Original story: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3343833/posts
Updates: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3344385/posts
Official maritime shipping company incident info: http://elfaroincident.com/
Bermuda Triangle
What more is there to say?
It went out into a hurricane. They are looking for it.
There is an excellent ongoing thread over on CruisersForum, a sailing website.
http://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/f122/safety-of-ships-lifeboats-in-major-storms-153992.html
Here is a 4 minute youtube video showing a world-record freefall lifeboat drop from 200 feet up.
Here is an “easy” 45’ drop. These are installed on many ships around the world. Think “Captain Phillips” and the Maersk Alabama.
Ship missing, they're searching.
It is unusual that we don't have the usual speculation and blather.
Setting sail into the jaws of a Cat 4 hurricane is hardly ever a good idea.
Even the Lone Ranger might have trouble responding to your SOS
I fear the outcome is probably known
Not to say the losses aren't newsworthy, and that's largely the point of the linked article - that for whatever reasons, the press gives ship losses low priority, compared with, say, shark attacks.
The liberates are searching for a means to link climate change with the sinking. When this happens, rest assured it’ll be headline news.
The loss is indeed a bad thing, but these days “black lives matter”, “hands up, don’t shoot” etc. are the calling cards of those not blessed with above room temp IQ.
It is a tragedy for several dozen families; a matter of concern to those involved in the search effort, but is not of global or even regional consequence.
Best coverage will probably be out of Jacksonville; monitor that media if it is of concern to you.
The death toll is roughly equivalent to a weekend in Chicago, or two or three wrecks involving illegals in the southwest.
You want news coverage? Leak to the press that those sailors are all Muslim homosexuals on a “gun free” ship captained by a black transgender who looks like Kim Kardashian.
Fox had a detailed story on this yesterday, but we simply don’t have any details and the search has been rather extensive.
They weren’t murdered by a white conservative Republican. </sarc>
I heard the ship’s Captain had a simulator in his apartment, is jihadi-linked and has suicidal posts on his facebok page.
There...that’ll do it. /s
Btw: I agree completely. Thoughts and prayers to the families...doesnt look good...
What I have been wondering is I knew that a tropical weather system came off the African coast several weeks ago, and I am in my den in Houston. They are in the Atlantic and yet they went right into the path of the building storm. We’re they not paying attention?
No, the real “news” on the major and cable news networks is as follows:
1 - Pope Francis’ position today (as opposed to yesterday and the preceding days) on gays as priests and gay marriage;
2 - whether Kim the county clerk had a personal meeting with Pope Francis, an audience with Pope Francis or was just part of the crowd of one million joining the Pope in Philadelphia;
3 - what a great and comical performance Hillary Clinton turned in last nite on SNL which should put to rest all the supposed “news” about the minor email flap;
4 - how Donald Trump continues to sink in the polls;
5 - whatever the Kardashians are doing today.
May the lord be with he brave souls who were onboard.
You should get out more. It’s on every American news source I see.