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I read that article and what caught my eye was a blurb about a LORAN tower.

The transition from stars to GPS.
 
thør said:
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She's aground.
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https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/08/27/another-ship-of-fools-gets-stuck-in-arctic-ice-needs-rescue/





"...the Canadian Coast Guard service had this to say:

Good morning, Due to heavier than normal ice concentrations in the Canadian arctic waters north of 70 degrees, the Canadian Coast Guard, recommends that pleasure craft do not navigate in the Beaufort Sea, Barrow, Peel Sound, Franklin Strait and Prince Regent. CCG icebreakers cannot safely escort pleasure craft. Operators of pleasure craft considering a northwest passage should also consider the risk of having to winter in a safe haven in the Arctic, or in the case of an emergency, be evacuated from beset vessels. Safety of mariners is our primary concern. REGARDS, NORDREG CANADA 181256UTC\LR​

And then, comes the familiar evacuation plan:

25 Aug 2018 – KUGAARUK, Nunavut – Cpl. Serge Yelle of the RCMP detachment says he expects between 80 and 90 of the passengers will fly from the remote Arctic coastline community back to Yellowknife.

The Transportation Safety Board is considering whether it will send investigators to the site.

A board spokesman says the ship has suffered some damage.

On its website, the tour operator – One Ocean Expeditions – describes the 117-metre Akademik Ioffe as a “modern, comfortable, safe and ice-strengthened” vessel that can host 96 passengers and 65 staff and crew.​


[The] Passengers on [the] grounded Arctic cruise ship to be flown back to Yellowknife..."



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https://cdnph.upi.com/svc/sv/i/6461536949241/2018/1/15369495814976/Gen-Dyn-contracted-for-advance-work-on-Columbia-class-submarines.jpg

https://www.upi.com/Defense-News/20...k-on-Columbia-class-submarines/6461536949241/

( USS Henry M. Jackson, an Ohio-class boomer)





Sept. 14 (UPI) -- General Dynamics Electric Boat has received a $480.66 million contract for advance procurement and construction of the Columbia-class ballistic missile submarines...

...The Columbia-class is expected to replace the current fleet of Ohio-class ballistic missile submarines. It will field 16 Trident II D5 nuclear ballistic missiles, along with torpedoes for self-defense...

...The first of 12 planned submarines, the Columbia, is expected to be completed by 2031 at a cost of $10.4 billion, counting research and engineering costs. Follow-on vessels are expected to cost over $5 billion a piece...

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19-Year Old Survives 49 Days At Sea After Floating Hut Drifts To Guam
https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2018/09/24/41820806_680529745646389_5093841654121496576_n_wide-bf37447181976ffabddbad80f101a0e84c841e02-s800-c85.jpg


The average person has no idea just how difficult it is to rescue someone from a small craft (or a "floating hut", in this case) in the middle of the ocean (and essentially impossible in a heavy sea).

This video of the rescue of an Indonesian adolescent by the M/V Arpeggio after a 1,500 mile, 49-day drift to the area of Guam shows why:

https://youtu.be/fFkt2zhCmh0

The kid is holding on for dear life (quite literally) as he is bashed about the ship's steel hull by both the seas and his would-be rescuers.




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"...Joaquin was a compact, soon-to-be powerful storm with an indeterminate eye. Danielle couldn't have known, but even the NHC's [National Hurricane Center's] positions of Joaquin were seriously off. For the next thirty-six hours, official reports put the eye as much as forty miles too far to the north. Lack of reliable data had hindered NHC's reporting accuracy. The storm system had developed much faster than anyone expected, defying all the odds, intensifying at an astonishing rate. The NHC's Hurricane Hunters usually ran through a storm system collecting data every twelve hours; keeping track of this rapidly developing hurricane would have required much mor frequent flies. The NHC's forecasts were also handicapped by the fact there weren't any ships in the area sending voluntary weather reports. Without quality data, the meteorologists could only get a fuzzy picture of the storm from satellite imagery. There simply wasn't enough information to accurately predict Joaquin's intensity and path..."
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-Rachel Slade
Into The Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, And The Sinking Of El Faro
New York, N.Y. 2018.​

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The archive section of the NHC allows one a partial glimpse at what real-time information on Hurricane Joaquin was available. It's quite clear that the hurricane was quite unusual in a lot of respects and its motion erratic and unpredictable.

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2015/JOAQUIN.shtml?

This is a riveting account of the sinking of the El Faro, a U.S.-flagged container ship that unknowingly sailed into the eye of Hurricane Joaquin in 2015 and sank in 15,000 feet of water with the loss of all hands.

The book is largely based on the National Transportation Safety Board and U.S. Coast Guard reports issued in late 2017. Their findings were, in turn, substantially based on the vessel's recovered bridge voice recorder (I was not previously aware of the existence of such things). The search and near-miraculous recovery of the bridge voice recorder in 15,000 feet of water is, in itself, a fascinating tale.

On the whole, the incident is absolutely terrifying— the usual cascade of seemingly minor problems accumulating to produce catastrophe. Reading the crew's words while knowing that they're all going to be dead in twenty-four/twelve/six/three hours is chilling.

The book is both illuminating and horrifying. We sit here on land with our instant access to the National Hurricane Center and National Weather Service radar and wonder how anybody could sail into the eye of a hurricane. Tracking and predicting the hurricane's course was no simple matter; Hurricane Joaquin did something that is extremely rare for an Atlantic hurricane— it reversed course and moved south.

There's interesting background on the design history of container vessels going all the way back to Malcolm McLean's revolutionary concept of containerization of cargo. El Faro's design dates to the 1970s. The author asserts that El Faro's design and condition were satisfactory though it was old and a compromise. The vessel was designed as a "RoRo" (roll-on, roll-off") and its 2nd deck was intended to be open and awash. The author made clear the important distinction between a "scuttle" and a "hatch cover." There's a very, very big and critically important difference between the commonly accepted usage of "scuttle" and a "hatch cover." Somebody screwed up big time by failing to properly secure the damn scuttles.








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Trysail, that is awesome that you mention "Into the Raging Sea." I just bought that book over the weekend and hope to start it soon (as soon as I finish the book I am currently reading). I have been interested in the El Faro story since it sank.
 
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