Posted on 11/16/2004 2:58:21 AM PST by Fast5
(unable to find a dam thing else on this, same news snips everywhere. Also read that this ship was cut in half from those explosions. News-Blackout?)
November 16, 2004
AN explosion onboard a fuel tanker at the southern Brazilian port of Paranagua has killed 31 crew members, according to a radio report by CBN radio.
The tanker was being loaded with fuel at the time of the explosion, according to CBN radio, which was broadcasting from the site of the blast.
Three powerful consecutive explosions shook the tanker around 7:30 pm (2230 GMT), splitting the tanker in two.
Amid widespread confusion firefighters, civil defence officials and army soldiers blocked access to the port, according to CBN.
Local authorities have not yet said anything about the accident or the number of victims.
The joke on all of us is that there is so much 'stuff' on FR nowadays that it is possible to pass up entire major subjects -- much less an acronym or ten... '-)
BTW what are you doing in Mass?
Overheard at tanker fueling dock. "Hey mac, got a light?"
WTF, you KAD's. I am a member of KIA's, and we are starting a new committee called TCTSOUOAOTI.
(The Committee To Stamp Out Use of Acryonyms On The Internet)
Dang, I always them mixed up. Not anagram but acronym.
I hope you understood this was all in jest.
Oh yes, I know it was. That was why I posted the exagerated "ouch". Enjoy your day. :")
Is it possible, that it was a discharge of static electricity?
As another poster mentioned, if safety guidelines were not followed
(like the ones at the gas pumps. Do not use cell phone, extinguish all cigarettes, do not get in and out of the car and then touch pump, etc)
then it is very likely it was a discharge of static electricity, or something very similar.
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