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26-foot wave strikes cruise ship, killing 2
AP via MSNBC.com ^
| 03/03/10
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Posted on 03/03/2010 2:44:03 PM PST by OldDeckHand
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To: JoeProBono
Egads. Were you on that ship? Did it come through okay?
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posted on
03/03/2010 3:44:49 PM PST
by
livius
To: OldDeckHand
?????
“But he noted there had been winds of over 100 kilometers per hour (60 miles per hour) in the area.”
Sounds like foul weather in the area to me!
To: battletank
"But he noted there had been winds of over 100 kilometers per hour (60 miles per hour) in the area." I believe that was added just after I initially posted the story. When I posted it, it was only a couple paragraphs long. It's considerably longer now, FWIW.
To: andy58-in-nh
Ive been in 20-foot seas in a considerably smaller vessel, and suffice it to say: itll make a God-fearing man out of the staunchest atheist.You weren't on the Northern Light back in '62, were you? My ship responded to a distress call on the way back from the Carribean, and took that beautiful sailing yacht under tow in 15-20' seas until a Coast Guard tug arrived to take over. That was one uncomfortable lookin crew!
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posted on
03/03/2010 3:59:30 PM PST
by
JimRed
("Hey, hey, Teddy K., hot enough down there today?" TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
To: andy58-in-nh
Ive been in 20-foot seas in a considerably smaller vessel, and suffice it to say: itll make a God-fearing man out of the staunchest atheist. Me too. and 40+ foot seas even. I hear ya. :-)
Just seems odd to me. A 25-30ft wave isn't even going to put green water over the bow of that ship. Maybe a little... and even if it was a freak wave on the beam... I don't know. It just seems like plenty of boat for that sort of seas.
A ship I was stationed on got hit with about a 60ft rogue wave, on the beam... ship rolled about 60 degrees. This ship was less than half the size of that cruise ship. One guy died in a freak accident on the bridge by falling and hitting his head. I suppose something like that could've happened here as well, it's just that it's a lot more ship and a lot less wave. Obviously something did happen, I guess.
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posted on
03/03/2010 4:07:17 PM PST
by
Ramius
(Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
To: andy58-in-nh
Was it the poem,,,,(in a furance) ...I haven’t been this warm since I left Tennessee!?
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posted on
03/03/2010 4:09:51 PM PST
by
TNoldman
(Conservative Values FOREVER! LION = Let's Impeach Obama Now!)
To: JimRed
I was on a fishing boat about 100 nm out of Gloucester, MA back in the early '90s. Not anywhere as dramatic as The Perfect Storm (thank goodness), but way too close for comfort. At the time, I was a frustrated writer looking for thrills and I found one. I was also an insurance agent working the North Shore of Mass. and knew the friends and families of a few of those guys. Very tightly-knit community out there with many fisherman of Portuguese extraction, including some of the best and toughest people I've ever known. They had skin like leather, salt water blood, and hearts of gold. And today, do-good liberals have decimated their industry and their lives.
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posted on
03/03/2010 4:21:58 PM PST
by
andy58-in-nh
(America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
To: TNoldman
There are strange things done in the midnight sun
By the men who moil for gold
The Arctic trails have their secret tales
That would make your blood run cold.
The Northern Lights have seen queer sights
But the queerest they ever did see
Was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge
I cremated Sam McGee.
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posted on
03/03/2010 4:24:43 PM PST
by
andy58-in-nh
(America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
To: Don Corleone; All
==If it aint Boeing I aint going!==
The same sentiment expressed by some on the findings of this event posted this morning:
The crash of Air France flight 447 from Rio to Paris last year is one of the most mysterious accidents in the history of aviation. After months of investigation, a clear picture has emerged of what went wrong. The reconstruction of the horrific final four minutes reveal continuing safety problems in civil aviation.
The Last Four Minutes of Air France Flight 447
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posted on
03/03/2010 4:54:42 PM PST
by
SloopJohnB
(It it wasn't for Double Standards, the Left would have No Standards.)
To: andy58-in-nh
Yes, that’s the one. My wife and I heard this and other poems of Robert Service in Dawson City,Yukon. They recited by the bard of Dawson City - I think about 2000. We plan to return in 2011.
Thank you for the reminder of a great experience..
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posted on
03/03/2010 4:55:54 PM PST
by
TNoldman
(Conservative Values FOREVER! LION = Let's Impeach Obama Now!)
To: OldDeckHand
Hey, if Michael Moore wants to go for a swim in the Mediterranean, he can.
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posted on
03/03/2010 4:56:22 PM PST
by
Defiant
(To bring down a great nation, work to take away everything that has made it great.)
To: OldDeckHand
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posted on
03/03/2010 4:57:53 PM PST
by
mewzilla
(I'm not a socialist. Heck, yes, I hope Barry fails. Sheesh.)
To: hennie pennie
a cruise ship carrying nearly 2,000 people
Only 2 died? I'm havin' a Constanza moment...
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posted on
03/03/2010 5:59:27 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Freedom is Priceless.)
To: OldDeckHand
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posted on
03/03/2010 7:29:55 PM PST
by
fieldmarshaldj
(~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Amber Lamps !"~~)
To: Onerom99
The Smithsonian Channel has an outstanding film on these unusual waves.
In short, they thought they had figured out the problem and avoided suspect areas. It saved possibly millions of dollars.
Then, just a few years ago, they started happening in parts of the sea never seen before.
They had to admit, it's back to square one.
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posted on
03/03/2010 7:37:28 PM PST
by
AGreatPer
(Impeach Obama)
To: AGreatPer
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posted on
03/03/2010 8:43:16 PM PST
by
Onerom99
(I)
To: 75thOVI; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aragorn; aristotleman; Avoiding_Sulla; BBell; ...
Thanks again hennie pennie.
Cute, tiny little catastrophe.
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posted on
03/04/2010 5:16:22 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Freedom is Priceless.)
To: OldDeckHand
Rouge waves in the Mediterranean and ships frozen in the Ice in the Baltic. Weird times.
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posted on
03/04/2010 5:20:19 PM PST
by
Mike Darancette
(You know Obama is in trouble when the MSM mentions that he is half white.)
To: Mike Darancette
"Rouge waves in the Mediterranean and ships frozen in the Ice in the Baltic. Weird times." I see that there's another ferry, in addition to the cruise ship, stranded in the Baltic just off the coast of Sweden with 1K aboard.
1,000 trapped on ferry stuck in Baltic Sea ice
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