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VIDEO: USS Ashland Rescues Two Mariners, Dogs Adrift for Months in Pacific
USNI News ^ | 26 Oct 2017 | Ben Werner

Posted on 10/26/2017 5:29:59 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT

After being adrift and off course for months in the Pacific Ocean, two women and their two dogs were rescued Wednesday by Sasebo-based amphibious dock landing ship USS Ashland (LSD-48).

The women and dogs survived their months at sea thanks to having water purifiers onboard and having brought a year’s worth of food.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.usni.org ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Military/Veterans; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: usn
Looks like she might crush that Chief's hand? (In the photo.)
1 posted on 10/26/2017 5:29:59 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
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To: DUMBGRUNT

by now they must be quite horney, or not


2 posted on 10/26/2017 5:34:30 PM PDT by dontreadthis (I finally came up with this tagline)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

I wouldnt call them “ mariners”
Lucky fools is more like it


3 posted on 10/26/2017 5:36:48 PM PDT by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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To: DUMBGRUNT
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The other thread
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4 posted on 10/26/2017 5:37:24 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3598929/posts
Navy rescues 2 Americans and their dogs who were lost at sea for months
86 comments

If anyone interested in scanning thru them


5 posted on 10/26/2017 5:38:54 PM PDT by deport
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To: deport

I searched seven ways to Sunday??

Unfortunately, google killed ‘site search’.
Now it is difficult to be certain.

Thanks.


6 posted on 10/26/2017 5:43:53 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (This Space for Rent)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

I just search the FR site using the FR search function.
It’s not infallible though.


7 posted on 10/26/2017 5:48:49 PM PDT by deport
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Here’s a short video of the event’s first contact

https://news.usni.org/2017/10/26/uss-ashland-rescues-two-mariners-dogs-adrift-months-pacific


8 posted on 10/26/2017 5:54:41 PM PDT by deport
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Not a sailor but wouldn’t they have hit land if they sailed east or west?


9 posted on 10/26/2017 5:57:30 PM PDT by Eagles6
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To: DUMBGRUNT

How many dogs did they start with?


10 posted on 10/26/2017 5:58:56 PM PDT by CrazyIvan (Honk If You've Been Sexually Assaulted By Harvey Weinstein.)
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To: CrazyIvan

How many dogs did they start with?

>><<

Probably 6 or 7. But they ran out of spices.


11 posted on 10/26/2017 6:00:58 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: deport; Travis McGee

Looks like their sail shreded, but other than that, the ship was intact.


Travis, would you comment on this?


12 posted on 10/26/2017 6:07:47 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT
Unfortunately, google killed ‘site search’

Just checked... site search is still working.
13 posted on 10/26/2017 6:08:44 PM PDT by simon says what
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To: CrazyIvan

Lol !!!


14 posted on 10/26/2017 6:34:35 PM PDT by 11th_VA (Kudos to President Trump for denouncing ALL violence)
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To: Eagles6

The Kon-Tiki made much faster time.

15 posted on 10/26/2017 6:51:23 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: bgill

Maybe they didn’t want to be found.


16 posted on 10/26/2017 7:09:12 PM PDT by Eagles6
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To: DUMBGRUNT
Unfortunately, google killed ‘site search’.

Works for me. Example.

17 posted on 10/26/2017 7:16:56 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: cynwoody; simon says what

Google site search is on the way out. Now what?
https://searchengineland.com/google-site-search-way-now-271366

Had problems and stop using it after seeing this type of news?


18 posted on 10/26/2017 7:50:28 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (This Space for Rent)
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To: DUMBGRUNT
Google site search is on the way out. Now what?
https://searchengineland.com/google-site-search-way-now-271366

That article is about something else, namely Google Site Search, a paid service by which a site could farm out its internal search function to Google. No ads. No Google branding.

BTW, as your link points out, Google Custom Search is still available and can be used for some of the same purposes as Site Search.

If I were webmaster of example.com, I'd be tempted take whatever the user typed into my search box, stick "site:example.com" in front of it, and open Google in an IFRAME. Of course, the result would contain ads, but so what?

19 posted on 10/26/2017 8:42:34 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: DUMBGRUNT

“.....bad weather knocked out their sailboat’s engine, ...... decided to continue onto their destination under wind power.”

IT’S A SAILBOAT!

Why would you be “adrift” in a sailboat? Maroons!


20 posted on 10/27/2017 5:10:51 AM PDT by faucetman (Ju"st the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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