Re: [Paddlewise] radar

At 14:44 10/22/99 -0700, Jerry Hawkins wrote:
>
>Regarding radar (again),
[snip]
>  Whether you are canoeing, kayaking, or even in a small to medium motorboat, the best advice 
>is to assume they don't see you, don't have radar, and may have been drinking.  There was a 
>major collision in the English Channel in August -- two experienced captains, large 
>commercial boats, radar, GPS, and damn if they didn't hit each other anyhow.  A freighter out 
>of San Francisco hit a large fishing! boat called the Jack Junior a few years back, caught 
>its nets, dragged it underwater, and no trace was found for months.  You just have to 
>minimize time spent in the shipping lanes, know you are invisible, and work from there.
>
>jerry.

the aircraft carrier i was on hit a cargo ship a few months before i transferred onboard.
ripped off the front of our ship, and damaged the other ship [killed a couple sailors too].
this also happened during the day. my second day on board i saw first hand how scarey it was,
as we climbed down into a storeroom, which then had a hatch to another storeroom [in several
places they would be 5 decks deep] so i opened the next hatch, and there was nothing there!!
just the cement of the drydock 100+ feet below... it took a lot of force to rip that whole
piece of the ship off... a math jockey i know once calculated the ship had the power to pull
my entire hometown waterskiing behind it [40,000+ folks] --- you are no match for that...

mark

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