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24th March 2012, 01:28 PM
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tsunami trawler
a japanese trawler that was broke adrift in the tsunami a year ago has been found afloat about 100 miles off canadian cost, well rusty but still seaworthy.
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24th March 2012, 01:36 PM
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tsunami trawler
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24th March 2012, 05:10 PM
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24th March 2012, 08:04 PM
#4
amazing story nobody picked it up on radar months ago it had to have gone through shipping lanes and was a danger to shipping?john
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26th March 2012, 08:53 AM
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rust never sleeps !
Could be a job for Ted and his redlead
'' If it eats no meat,keep it !!
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26th March 2012, 03:43 PM
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Originally Posted by
JOHN PRUDEN
amazing story nobody picked it up on radar months ago it had to have gone through shipping lanes and was a danger to shipping?john
Nobody on watch John, it appears they miss everything these days
Chris
When one door closes another one shuts, it must be the wind
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26th March 2012, 06:39 PM
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...and to think she got all that way without crashing or sinking ~ puts the Italians to shame doesn't she?
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28th March 2012, 02:12 PM
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Drifting Off.....
In 1983.,an SD 14 type vessel ,the m.v. ATHENA, (owners S.M.Ramis & J.P.Samatzis of Piraeus) was abandoned 42.02N/179.02W (approx. 650nm S.of Adak Is,USA.) on 10th June 1983 .
She was last seen semi-submerged in 43.50.12N/167.00.54W 30 days later on 10th July,and assumed to have sunk shortly after.Insurers agreed a total loss.
ATHENA SD14 1968.jpg She had sprung a leak whilst on a voyage from Port Alfred,Canada to Xingang,China.
I think my calculation is correct but I make it that she drifted 537 nm in a NE’ly direction in 30 days .That gave her a daily drift in that eastward North Pacific Current of 18 nm per day , at an average rate of 0.75 knots ....
[The Athena was completed in 4/68 at Austin & Pickersgill,Sunderland for Mavroleon Bros(London Greeks) ,named SYRIE (Liberian flag).She was actually numerically only the second vessel of the many hundreds of SD 14's to be built by A & P.
In 78 she was renamed AKRI then ATHENA in 1980.]
Last edited by Gulliver; 26th September 2012 at 07:51 AM.
Reason: Extra Info Added
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28th March 2012, 02:48 PM
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s.s. BAYCHIMO....still out there?!....??
......And lets not forget this (by now) 98 year old vessel,abandoned in 1931 and last sighted in 1969, but interest renewed about her in 2006.
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29th March 2012, 05:41 AM
#10
Any news on the Costa Concordia, she has also gone off the radar.
Happy daze John in Oz.
Life is too short to blend in.
John Strange R737787
World Traveller
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