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To: Doohickey

Re: "That's nothing; during Hugo the USS Narwhal (SSN-671) broke it's mooring lines and had to submerge in the Cooper River channel. Hurricane mooring lines consist of six 3/4 inch steel cables, doubled."

Never heard that before...

3,075 posted on 08/29/2005 10:17:34 AM PDT by sonofatpatcher2 (Texas, Love & a .45-- What more could you want, campers? };^)

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To: sonofatpatcher2

Here's the Wiki on it:

http://www.answers.com/topic/uss-narwhal

3,097 posted on 08/29/2005 10:21:55 AM PDT by Doohickey (If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice...I will choose freewill.)

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