The idle musings of a former military man, former computer geek, medically retired pastor and now full-time writer. Contents guaranteed to offend the politically correct and anal-retentive from time to time. My approach to life is that it should be taken with a large helping of laughter, and sufficient firepower to keep it tamed!
Monday, January 21, 2013
It is to laugh . . .
Here's a collection of boat and ship fails that had me alternately chuckling and wincing.
I was stationed on a USN destroyer in '68. While pulling into Seal Beach Naval Weapons Station the junior officer in training that had the con managed to ram a concrete pier head on. The last thing I heard on the phone system was "All back emergency!" That night I helped make a huge bandaid out of butcher paper and iodine from sickbay and we lowered it over the bow to cover our new 4 foot hole. When the captain returned in the morning we found that our humorous intent was lost in the s%#! storm that followed. Ah, to be 20 again.
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Yep, those are some HIGH $$ oopsies...
I was stationed on a USN destroyer in '68. While pulling into Seal Beach Naval Weapons Station the junior officer in training that had the con managed to ram a concrete pier head on. The last thing I heard on the phone system was "All back emergency!" That night I helped make a huge bandaid out of butcher paper and iodine from sickbay and we lowered it over the bow to cover our new 4 foot hole. When the captain returned in the morning we found that our humorous intent was lost in the s%#! storm that followed. Ah, to be 20 again.
Wow...I think maybe some lives were lost in this. The sailboat going under the pier...the sailboat run down by the much bigger ship...
But then the fishing show outtakes...hilarious...
Yeah, looked like a couple cases of hit&run boat, where I don't expect there to have been any survivors
And after being on the water (driving 19k tons of steel!), I could see how the ouch was going to play out.
Never was in as bad a storm as the cruise ship in the last 20sec of the show, though!
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