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From: Bryan Genez (no email)
Date: Wed Jun 21 2006 - 21:25:14 EDT
On 6/21/06, Ahmet <> wrote:
>
> Pretty good summarization. It is unfortunate that there was nobody around
> who knew a little bit more about this incident, or the weather patterns.
>
> Analysing this event is exactly what I wanted to do, I have that in the
> past and got some fairly good results. One of them was Richard Woods
> abandoned Catamaran, and the other the mishap on the Almesian en-route to
> Bermuda.
> A good friend of mine, and fellow club memberm Chris Ferrer was a crew on
> Almesian. He has since then given 2 talks with slide shows for us to analyse
> that event twhich led to the demise of the skipper.
>
> Perhaps it is my Engineering/Management background that believes in the
> power of Case History's
>
> In any case, true .. I learned that there is remarkable little historical
> data on conditions in the North Atlantic, and that it is difficult to
> estimate wave heights from a fixed wing aircraft :)
The US Coast Guard does follow up studies on all accidents involving loss of
life on a US Flagged vessel, including pleasure craft. Some of these
studies can be very detailed, where information exists. Others will always
remain mysteries, as this one appears to be.
You might want to give your local Coast Guard Marine Safety Office a call
and ask about getting copies of these studies. Many are published and may
be on line.
Almost always, accidents aboard pleasure craft boil down to simple
mistakes...mistakes that are familiar to all of us, but that for whatever
reason were overlooked by the people involved. Things like singlehanders
failing to wear a PFD and falling overboard...or departing a safe harbor in
the face of horrific weather...or choosing the wrong strategy in the face of
a storm...or failing to practice proper navigation...etc.
Very little that's new.
Since both Rosalie and Ahmet mentioned my comment about estimating wave
heights from aircraft, please allow me to equivocate a bit...aircraft flying
at relatively low levels - often helicopters - can estimate wave height
quite well. However, fixed wing aircraft that usually conduct searches at
much higher altitudes (1000 feet plus) will not be able to make those
estimates accurately.
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