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When the sea gets those foamy streaky lines in it, along the direction of the wind, that's when you know you're in a world of hurt and to hang on.
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The odds get going against you, that's for sure.
Believe me, I've had more than a few white knuckle days and nights, wondering if it's all going to hold together.
Almost all those scenes were shots of SOP in bad weather, disregard your intended course, hold the bow up into the sea and hang on.
But that is dependent on one critical fact, you need main propulsion to do it.
Many large cargo ships are single screw only.
You lose the ability to hold your head into the wind and seas, and, assuming it's bad enough, you're done.
That's what sunk the El Faro. Probably what sunk the Edmund Fitzgerald back in the day. And ten thousand other vessels in between then and now.
single screw or single engine seems insane. The Air Force allowed me to fly over the frigid waters with over 50 knots of surface winds from the US to Europe, Europe to the US, in a single engine fighter (to save money).
My best bet was trying to parachute and land on an Ice Berg. Otherwise...
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I'd always heard that the EF was a franken-ship, 2 welded together, end to end. It took water on forward and then snapped in the middle.
Thats some crazy footage in that video - must seem like it could go forever. Worst I've ever had is ice a 60 mph winds while pulling a 30' travel trailer. That was for nearly a day (8 hours) - I had trouble sleeping cause my side was so cramped up (white knuckled it the whole way).
Now I had a choice to pull over at a walmart, but I didnt see a single walmart in that video... Be careful out there.
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Not that I'm aware of.
She was built using standard ship building practices of the time, 1957, and by that time most of the bugs had been worked out of welding procedures that had caused failures that had plagued earlier Liberty ships.
She was fast, big and set numerous cargo and transit records, indicating to me anyways, she was a well built, sturdy, seaworthy vessel.
Needs a better soundtrack..
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When you're a stomach sleeper, and wake up to find that you're weightless with your back pressed against the underside of the overhead bunk...you're in heavy seas. And this was aboard a carrier. That and the claxon blaring and a call for the aweigh team for forward flooding can $#@! up a wet dream.
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Only one main engine, shaft, propeller and rudder. (although there are configurations where two steam turbines or diesel main engines are coupled with a gearbox to turn one main shaft, but these are getting increasingly rare.)
Any one of those fail/break and you are dead in the water.
If you are dead in the water in conditions in that video, the vessel is almost guaranteed to capsize, break up or fill up and sink.
Here's the OCCL Hong Kong, for example, one of the world's biggest container ships currently.
I could not find a photo of the vessel in drydock, but, she has one shaft, one rudder, one main engine, one propeller.
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Another vessel.
And another.
I've heard a theory that she may have encountered a rogue wave that drove her bow into the bottom of the lake and broke her in half.
Being an ocean going vessel in a shallower lake, she may have just been too big for where she was. The lake would have to be a lot deeper than the ship was long, to keep that from happening.
The Fitzgerald encountered the Nov storms on Lake Superior , hurricane force winds , waves at least 35 feet . Sank suddenly with no distress call only an hour from the safety of Whitefish Bay . It lies in 530 feet of water in two large pc.'s .
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Yep, and she was 729 feet long, thus she was 199 feet longer than the water was deep. If she had run into the "Three Sisters" with a height of 70 feet, when the bow dropped after the waves, she would be heading toward the bottom at speed and could have driven her bow into the bottom of the lake.
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Short Income Tax Video
The Income Tax Is An Excise, And Excise Taxes Are Privilege Taxes
The Federalist Papers, No. 15:
Except as to the rule of appointment, the United States have an indefinite discretion to make requisitions for men and money; but they have no authority to raise either by regulations extending to the individual citizens of America.
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Quiz: Test Your "Income" Tax IQ!
Short Income Tax Video
The Income Tax Is An Excise, And Excise Taxes Are Privilege Taxes
The Federalist Papers, No. 15:
Except as to the rule of appointment, the United States have an indefinite discretion to make requisitions for men and money; but they have no authority to raise either by regulations extending to the individual citizens of America.
Pfizer Macht Frei!
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Quiz: Test Your "Income" Tax IQ!
Short Income Tax Video
The Income Tax Is An Excise, And Excise Taxes Are Privilege Taxes
The Federalist Papers, No. 15:
Except as to the rule of appointment, the United States have an indefinite discretion to make requisitions for men and money; but they have no authority to raise either by regulations extending to the individual citizens of America.
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