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To: LibWhacker

You know there are reports of the straights around sumatra were 4000 feet deep now only 100ft deep in places. I am wondering if this sub didnt run aground but crashed head first into a underground mountain that wasnt there a month ago. For so many to be hurt and the nature of the injuries, it seems unlikely this was a downard crash.


20 posted on 01/09/2005 10:22:00 AM PST by Walkingfeather (q)
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To: Walkingfeather
You know there are reports of the straights around sumatra were 4000 feet deep now only 100ft deep in places.

You mean a lot of Bravo Sierra reports.

22 posted on 01/09/2005 10:25:06 AM PST by xrp (Executing assigned posting duties flawlessly -- ZERO mistakes)
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To: Walkingfeather; Robe

My son was in AWACS when he was in the Navy, and they did a lot of night flights in that area of the Pacific. Once they were flying along happily, no hazards according to the chart, etc. when he suddenly noticed something on the instruments. He told the pilot to pull up (which, fortunately, the pilot did very rapidly) and they just missed a huge volcanic cone that had recently thrust up out of the ocean and was not on the maps.


26 posted on 01/09/2005 10:33:32 AM PST by livius
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To: Walkingfeather

If you do the math on that one, you'll see that would result in a wall of water over 1200 ft. high... pretty darn unlikely.


68 posted on 01/09/2005 12:46:57 PM PST by thoughtomator
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