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  • George KG Offline
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    George K
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    If you watch nothing else, watch what happens at 4:00. One comment I read (on a blog) said that any experienced sailor would have never taken a craft like that out in this kind of weather.

    Link to video

    "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

    The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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    • taiwan_girlT Offline
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      taiwan_girl
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      #2

      Wow! Some crazy scenes there!!

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      • MikM Offline
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        Mik
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        Nature is.....

        "You cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible." — Thomas Sowell

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          Loki
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          Ouch at 4!

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          • 89th8 Offline
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            89th
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            #5

            That helicopter landing, crazy! It's hard to put into perspective the size of those waves but I thought the ship starting around 9:19 had a good angle of it. Also, love how they ended with the Perfect Storm movie scene lol.

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            • George KG Offline
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              George K
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              And, of course, the water in the pool sloshing around.

              "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

              The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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              • JollyJ Offline
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                Jolly
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                The pressure to take a boat or ship out can be extreme. For commercial fishermen, you don't fish, you don't make any money. For others, it may be a schedule problem.

                My FIL's neighbor is the captain of a container ship. It has an A crew and a B crew, plying a regular route between Houston and Amsterdam. The ship runs a tight schedule. A couple of years back, he was under intense pressure to take his ship through a storm, in order to keep that schedule. As captain, he refused, changing his route and losing a day and a half. He had to come before a committee at work to explain his actions, because of the money lost.

                “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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