Five Mainers, including the captain, on the ship.
--Bob Whitmire
Certified Neanderthal
On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 11:26 AM, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> >
> >Ken, I noticed the lack of Bahamas news, as well. And why would a
> >shipping company send a container vessel right into the path of the
> >known storm. Those things are top-heavy to begin with. Once it lost
> >power, it was a sitting duck.
> >
>
> When the El Taro left Jacksonville, Joaquin was just a tropical storm
> and was forecast to top out at category 2. The ship lost all power and
> propulsion and was a sitting duck when the storm reached category 4.
>
> Chris
>
>
> >Jim Nichols
> >Tullahoma, TN USA
> >
> >On 10/6/2015 10:06 AM, Ken Norton wrote:
> >>> Hurricane Joaquin is far from being dead. Still plying the
> North Atlantic as a category 1 hurricane, it will become a strong
> post-tropical storm on Thursday, reaching the western coast of Ireland on
> Sunday.
> >> Bermuda took a pretty good pounding too. What is really disappointing
> >> is that the news media has almost totally neglected reporting on the
> >> Bahamas. Several of the islands have experienced near total
> >> destruction and you have to find out from it from obscure news
> >> sources. Other than the Weather Channel, there is nothing. No NYT, no
> >> CNN coverage, nothing. Even FauxNews doesn't care--can't blame it on
> >> Obama.
> >>
> >> Oh, but a cargo vessel sank. There is a huge debris field, but never
> >> mind the fact that much of that debris came from the islands, not the
> >> ship. At least the news is reporting on the ship. That really is a big
> >> story in a sea of many big stories.
> >>
> >> Sorry, the grapes turned.
> >>
> >> AG
> >
>
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