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Mighty warship feels the sting (Australian jellyfish attack USS Ronald Reagan!)
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| 27th January 2006
| Roberta Mancuso
Posted on 01/27/2006 12:23:44 AM PST by naturalman1975
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To: miliantnutcase
Oh great, my buddy probably had to deal with that. He works in one of the AC&R shops in engineering. AC&R is one of the best jobs to have in A-gang. Been there done that :>} They use sea water for the chiller condensers and refrigeration units. It's about hour job on each unit if all goes right. You spend more time cutting the new gasket and cleaning the old one off than you do cleaning the strainer. We never had the misfortune of something like that hitting all at once thankfully. But IIRC it was a once every 3 month job anyway. I've been off my ship 25 years and if it was still around I could go through and operate all the A/C units and remember each ones quirk.
Tell him this and he'll get a good laugh. If the Chill Water Loop is loosing water and you can't find out where just dump two cans of sea marker in the loop. We did it in port and every discharge on the ship I think poured green. Base Commander wasn't too happy LOL.
To: Westlander
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posted on
01/27/2006 2:20:42 AM PST
by
leezard
(Eating more taxis before 9am than most people do all day!)
To: cva66snipe
If the Chill Water Loop is loosing water and you can't find out where just dump two cans of sea marker in the loop. Most of the ships use anti-freeze in the chill water loop now. They tell me it makes for a more efficient transfer of heat than with just plain water.
I think jellyfish are the least of their worries. When I was on Enterprise we often had seawater leaks into the freshwater side of the main condensors. That makes jellyfish look like a picnic by comparison.
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posted on
01/27/2006 2:22:58 AM PST
by
Squint
To: CheyennePress
I have this image of a torpedo plowing into the kayak, colleciting it and both torpedo and kayak hooning away up the Brisbane River at 28 knots, while a hippie quietly does something his mother taught him not to do when he was only two.
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posted on
01/27/2006 2:25:15 AM PST
by
naturalman1975
(Sure, give peace a chance - but si vis pacem, para bellum.)
To: spetznaz
In terms of pure lethality I've heard the Rock Fish and that tiny blue octopus described the same way.
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posted on
01/27/2006 2:40:51 AM PST
by
TalBlack
To: naturalman1975
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posted on
01/27/2006 2:43:17 AM PST
by
AZRepublican
("The degree in which a measure is necessary can never be a test of the legal right to adopt it.")
To: naturalman1975
Where's Spongebob when you need him?
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posted on
01/27/2006 2:44:51 AM PST
by
Jack of all Trades
(Never underestimate the speed in which the thin veneer of civilization can be stripped away.)
To: naturalman1975
after the blubbery invertebrates were sucked into its condensers while docked in the Port of Brisbane.
Sucked into the condensers or sucked into the sea chest that the condensers feed from. I find it hard to believe they actually made it into the condensers. A simple back flush of the sea chest strainers fixes the problem. In this case the crew would be switching between systems to keep a continuous supply of seawater.
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posted on
01/27/2006 2:58:45 AM PST
by
R. Scott
(Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
To: TalBlack
In terms of pure lethality I've heard the Rock Fish and that tiny blue octopus described the same way.Funny, how Austrailia seems to have the deadliest creatures on the face of the earth, all collected together... It's almost as if they knew that Steve Irwin was going to be born there!
Mark
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posted on
01/27/2006 3:13:03 AM PST
by
MarkL
(When Kaylee says "No power in the `verse can stop me," it's cute. When River says it, it's scary!)
To: naturalman1975
...set sail after five days of offshore leave.If they're went "offshore" wouldn't that be on the ocean?
"Onshore" leave would be a more appropriate phrase since the sailors hopefully will be relaxing ON FREAKIN LAND!!!
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posted on
01/27/2006 3:17:30 AM PST
by
Edit35
To: MetalHeadConservative35
I saw that too- looked like the ship popped a woody. It was pretty funny!
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posted on
01/27/2006 3:17:34 AM PST
by
ovrtaxt
("I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born."- Reagan)
To: naturalman1975
Easy, the Carrier. Remember, Carriers usually have Marines on board. They are good shots. :-)
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posted on
01/27/2006 3:39:13 AM PST
by
kb2614
(Hell hath no fury than a bureaucrat scorned.)
To: naturalman1975
They should be glad one of these babies didn't get sucked up.
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posted on
01/27/2006 3:44:41 AM PST
by
mware
(The keeper of the I's once again.)
To: naturalman1975
"A handful of people today protested its presence but their plans to kayak out to the "killing machine" were thwarted by tight security."
I love it when we get the fire hoses out and wet down the little "greenies".
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posted on
01/27/2006 3:47:51 AM PST
by
ryan71
To: naturalman1975
As long as nobody gets hurt (or maybe I should say permanently hurt) a lot of things are very funny.I was in the Navy as well and permanently hurt in this sense means crippled or dead beyond restarting. Scarring and near death experiences are still funny.
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posted on
01/27/2006 4:04:26 AM PST
by
magslinger
(If at first you don't succeed, squeeze, squeeze again.)
To: CheyennePress
Anyone have any ideas what a torpedo would do to a kayak? Don't use a multimillion dollar torpedo when a fire hose will do the job.
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posted on
01/27/2006 4:06:13 AM PST
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(NYT Headline: 'Protocols of the Learned Elders of CBS: Fake But Accurate, Experts Say.')
To: naturalman1975
Squiddies!
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posted on
01/27/2006 4:07:50 AM PST
by
gridlock
(It's not really a circus until Teddy Kennedy steps out of the clown car...)
To: gridlock
Jellyfish Love Reagan too!!!
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posted on
01/27/2006 4:11:54 AM PST
by
momincombatboots
(Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber)
To: Squint; cva66snipe
IIRC the chill water fed the scuttle butts directly. Is my memory failing me, did they change this or were you guys just a little callous about the drinking water.
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posted on
01/27/2006 4:12:01 AM PST
by
magslinger
(If at first you don't succeed, squeeze, squeeze again.)
To: naturalman1975
It's all Bush's fault. Becuase Bush single handedly created global warming, the lowly creatures of the earth have risen up to attack us...including muslims.
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posted on
01/27/2006 4:14:14 AM PST
by
Frenetic
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