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In a message dated 7/21/06 12:01:08 AM, Ralph writes:
> Being a foreign flagged vessel, they run "on the cheap", with Greek
> "captains" and a polyglot crew who cannot converse with one another. I bet
> they did not fill up the empty fuel tanks with sea-water (too expensive)
> which led to the vessel being "tender."
>
>
That's what happened to the Andrea Doria after the Stockholm rammed it.
Failure to ballast the empty tanks caused it to list until the gaping hole that the
Stockholm's ice breaker bow cut in the side was under water. Hello Davy
Jones.
Larry Z
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