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From: larry whitesell (no email)
Date: Fri Jun 02 2006 - 21:06:33 EDT
One day in the summer of 1987 I was aboard a 38' wooden fishing boat. This was a really stoutly built, very heavy old boat, with a large diesel engine, a full load of fuel, and a bunch of salmon in the hold. We were tooling around a beautifull deepwater bay along the eastern side of the Alaskan Pennisula somewhere west of Augustine Island (the big volcano). Suddenly the boat hit something very large and solid that wasn't visible from the boat, as the object was submerged, and the sun was in our eyes, reflecting across the water, not letting us see into the clear water. It was a very sudden, hard thump that instantly raised the boat up and stopped it dead. But in a moment, almost as quick, we settled back down and were able to motor on.
The mass of the object we hit must of been tremendous, as it instantly stopped our boat of many tons. The object did this while it was free floating, as it was nudged out of the way by the collision. So it's static inertia was considerable.
At the time we assumed it was a giant log, but no doubt it could of been a large container. The boat was undamaged. Luckily we were going very slow. With any speed at all, I'm sure we would've done serious damage to the bow.
David Straton <> wrote:
I've never actually seen a container at sea, or washed up on a beach.
Has anyone else?
I've certainly seen lots of whales and floating logs.
http://www.psyberspace.com.au/photos/whitsundays/whales1.html
Dave
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