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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

From a statistical point of view they are out there.
Hit one of these breaking and it could spoil your whole day.
Once was on a DD that piled into a wave with height of at least 50'. Smashed the bridge glass, tumbled the gyro's, shut down the boilers, and moved MT 51 back about 18".
The only thing that saved us from sailing under was just luck.


6 posted on 08/04/2005 9:45:54 PM PDT by Oldexpat
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To: Oldexpat
Hit one of these breaking and it could spoil your whole day.

Unless you had one of these...


8 posted on 08/04/2005 9:55:18 PM PDT by kstewskis ("I don't know what I know, but I know that it's big".....Jerry Fletcher)
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That would be scary for sure!


19 posted on 08/05/2005 8:57:00 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (History is soon Forgotten,)
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