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Third Fugro Vessel Joins Search for MH370
gcaptain.com ^ | 12/02/15 | gcaptain

Posted on 12/03/2015 1:43:29 AM PST by SWAMPSNIPER

Fugro will be providing an additional vessel in the search for missing flight MH370 in the southern Indian Ocean.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: airline; indianocean; malaysia; mh370; missing; plane; wildgoosechase

1 posted on 12/03/2015 1:43:31 AM PST by SWAMPSNIPER
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

Interesting Heli-pad!


2 posted on 12/03/2015 2:10:14 AM PST by BwanaNdege
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To: BwanaNdege

Impossible to land on in a rolling sea, though. Pitching would be a bummer, too.


3 posted on 12/03/2015 2:11:56 AM PST by BwanaNdege
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To: BwanaNdege

Like trying to land on a moving flyswatter.


4 posted on 12/03/2015 2:23:20 AM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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To: BwanaNdege; All

http://www.fugrotsm.com/havila-harmony.html


5 posted on 12/03/2015 2:30:38 AM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

That can’t be a stable platform...

Imagine what winds and pitching seas do to that.


6 posted on 12/03/2015 2:46:58 AM PST by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: tcrlaf

They won’t fly beyond certain limits. The flying isn’t the problem, getting the damned thing down is.


7 posted on 12/03/2015 3:00:16 AM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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To: tcrlaf

Imagine what winds and pitching seas do to that.>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Not a problem, just drop a cable , hook it onto the center landing platform dog, rev the chopper engine to take up the cable slack, head the chopper into the wind in a stable hover and winch her down to the heaving deck. Thats the way its done in the North Atlantic and thats the way they do it on this vessel in the South Pacific.


8 posted on 12/03/2015 3:24:39 AM PST by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: SWAMPSNIPER; BwanaNdege; tcrlaf; Candor7; Chode; SgtBob; Squantos

Now that is one Hell of a Trolling Rig!

Not a Helipad- Fish cleaning station;)

In Texas it would be called a Bass Boat...


9 posted on 12/03/2015 3:51:17 AM PST by mabarker1 (Progress- the opposite of congress)
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To: Candor7

Not with me in it!


10 posted on 12/03/2015 4:29:01 AM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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To: mabarker1
hell of a big pole...
11 posted on 12/03/2015 5:12:18 AM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - Luke, 22:36)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

How to land a helo on a pitching ship.

http://www.thefullwiki.org/Beartrap_(helicopter_device)


12 posted on 12/03/2015 5:17:39 AM PST by Don W ( When blacks riot, neighborhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

Neat!


13 posted on 12/03/2015 8:17:25 AM PST by BwanaNdege
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