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RadioFreeSeaLab

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Hundreds Feared Dead in Capsized Ship
« on: June 23, 2008, 08:22:12 AM »
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Re: Hundreds Feared Dead in Capsized Ship
« Reply #1 on: June 23, 2008, 08:23:50 AM »
Oops.

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Re: Hundreds Feared Dead in Capsized Ship
« Reply #2 on: June 23, 2008, 08:26:38 AM »
That's right, leave port and sail when there's a TYPHOON. Brilliant.
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Re: Hundreds Feared Dead in Capsized Ship
« Reply #3 on: June 23, 2008, 09:52:32 AM »
Quote from: Manedwolf on June 23, 2008, 07:26:38 AM
That's right, leave port and sail when there's a TYPHOON. Brilliant.
My Dad told me stories about riding out a typhoon on some kind of a transport (maybe a Liberty Ship) during WWII . . . it wasn't fun to be looking up at some of the waves.

Ticked off some Navy officers that he (Army Air Corps) wasn't seasick, but many of the sailors were.  grin

I think a few Navy warships were lost to typhoons during WWII . . .
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Re: Hundreds Feared Dead in Capsized Ship
« Reply #4 on: June 24, 2008, 04:01:58 AM »
Quote from: Manedwolf on June 23, 2008, 07:26:38 AM
That's right, leave port and sail when there's a TYPHOON. Brilliant.

While I'll grant that the situation was slightly different, I remember during my Navy days ('95, IIRC), we had to quickly call people in, get started up, and put to sea in order to ride out an oncoming hurricane about to hit Norfolk.

We didn't exactly dodge the storm, either.

But I'll certainly agree that doing so in a FERRY is a bad idea...

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Re: Hundreds Feared Dead in Capsized Ship
« Reply #5 on: June 24, 2008, 04:04:39 AM »
Quote from: erictank on June 24, 2008, 03:01:58 AM
Quote from: Manedwolf on June 23, 2008, 07:26:38 AM
That's right, leave port and sail when there's a TYPHOON. Brilliant.

While I'll grant that the situation was slightly different, I remember during my Navy days ('95, IIRC), we had to quickly call people in, get started up, and put to sea in order to ride out an oncoming hurricane about to hit Norfolk.

We didn't exactly dodge the storm, either.

But I'll certainly agree that doing so in a FERRY is a bad idea...



Yes. If you want to save the ship, you might need to get out of port and keep its bow into the waves, riding it out is sometimes better than being slammed in an enclosed bay. But you do that without passengers on board!
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Re: Hundreds Feared Dead in Capsized Ship
« Reply #6 on: June 24, 2008, 06:46:01 AM »
... could this be a real-life Poseidon Adventure?
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Re: Hundreds Feared Dead in Capsized Ship
« Reply #7 on: June 24, 2008, 09:23:08 AM »
That was in crappy shape. Look at the other side of the bow.

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Re: Hundreds Feared Dead in Capsized Ship
« Reply #8 on: June 24, 2008, 09:27:12 AM »
Wow.  At least to me, a non-expert, that looks pretty beat up.
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Re: Hundreds Feared Dead in Capsized Ship
« Reply #9 on: June 24, 2008, 05:34:41 PM »
Princess of the murky deep is more like it.
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