Next message: Rosalie B.: "Re: [world-cruising] the danger of semi submerged containers"
On 6/2/06, larry whitesell <> wrote:
>
> 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.
Seems unlikely to me to be a container, as that location is relatively
protected and not a place where flotsam from trans-Pacific shipping would be
likely to be found.
Having struck a few saturated logs that seemed to live below the surface
with a ship I was on in the PNW, that seems somewhat more plausable to me.
Glad no one (or the boat) was hurt.
--
Best,
Bryan Genez
"Capella" V40-158
New Bern, NC
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