On 25 Oct 2001, at 5:34, Krazy Kiwi wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Oct 2001 Mike Wallace <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> >Interesting news article about a tug boat the flipped in the Detroit
> >river.
> >
> >http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAO5K717TC.html
>
> How unique .. a tug with its own postal code.

I thought that was pretty cool too.


> I guess the Norweigan tanker would not even have realized they had capsized
> the postal tug causing the lost of those two lives until it was too late :-(

Doubt they would have been able to do much even if they did know.
Takes forever to stop.


>
> We had a similar case of a collision between a tanker & a private yacht.
> The tanker was on auto pilot & literally ran the yacht down in the middle
> of the night & kept on going. Unfortunately for the 2 occupants Dad went
> down with the vessel but the son managed to get to the dingy which was
> adrift & endured a lonely night before being rescued the next day. He
> managed to grab one of his floating thongs (type of sandal - not skimpy
> nickers ;-)) to use to try & row himself towards the mainland. Lucky for
> him his mother had tried to raise them on the radio in the morning &
> getting no response got in touch with rescue who began an air search. It
> was quite sad to see the young teenager, an only child, with his mother
> talking about the sad incident on the aussie version of the 60 Minutes show.

That had to be a tough one. Would not have wanted to be that
interviewer.


>
> Our funniest incident, due to the level of stupidity, occurred not far off
> the Perth foreshore. About 20 minutes into the Rottnest Island Swimthru
> Challenge - where individuals and teams of swimmers swim against the clock
> from Cottesloe Beach to Rottnest Island - the navy decided to cut through
> the middle of everyone. Imagine the chaos filmed live by our tv station
> cameramen in helicopters above. Submarine goes through without a care in
> the world while support boats, jet skis & kayaks are detouring all over the
> place to avoid a collision & trying madly to get the attention of their
> swimmers so they could lead them safely out of harms way. Compound that
> with the swimmer busy concentrating on avoiding all the stinging jellyfish
> floating in the shallows. Needless to say the navy never pulled that stunt
> ever again ;-)

Hehehehehe.... glad no one got hurt and sounds pretty amazing that
no one did!


> Viv


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Mike Wallace
Huntsville, Alabama