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« on: January 28, 2012, 11:45 »
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Must have compass or GPS, we're lost and need a focused direction.

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« Reply #1 on: January 28, 2012, 11:53 »
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There's a Captain Francesco Schettino without a boat at the present time who might fill in.

m@m

« Reply #2 on: January 28, 2012, 12:05 »
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There's a Captain Francesco Schettino without a boat at the present time who might fill in.

LMAO...good one! ;D

« Reply #3 on: January 28, 2012, 12:07 »
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There's a Captain Francesco Schettino without a boat at the present time who might fill in.
Mr. Schettino is currently in between jobs and pondering offers, but it seems he's at liberty (pun intended) to consider some consultancy assignments. His wardens actually allow him to do some teleconferencing from the sick bay for a decent fee. This guy really rocks.  To have a good idea of his skills just type "askew" in Google or even better "do a barrel roll" ;)
« Last Edit: January 28, 2012, 12:14 by FD »

« Reply #4 on: January 28, 2012, 12:17 »
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even better "do a barrel roll" ;)

I never considered a barrel roll of a cruise ship. Easy enough on many plane types, but a cruise ship? That would have made him truly legendary.

« Reply #5 on: January 28, 2012, 14:18 »
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I never considered a barrel roll of a cruise ship. Easy enough on many plane types, but a cruise ship? That would have made him truly legendary.
Well as you are a flier, I used to be a diver. We all have our stories. I have dived a lot on shipwrecks in the Red Sea and in the Mediterranean. Must be over 600 when I stopped logging. One of the guys always made a round-up of the wrecks and how it happened. The stupidity of the captains was always amazing. Either they were drunk or asleep but they never saw the obvious marks (or whatever you call those in English).

They all ran into reefs or rocks near the coast and they should know better (if sober). As I told Pete (Racephoto) my ex burned all my slides and I had many hundreds on Fuji-chrome film, best for underwater photography. The limit was 36 per dive so you had to think.
When I finally made it to dive-instructor I got bored of teaching newbies and I tried to escape as much as I could to the Red Sea from Sharm to Sudan with a military diver (a major) on one of those cheap Egyptian flights (400$ all in, flight, live-aboard boat, food, lead and tanks) in those days. I got kilometers of video too from those days but as it is 13 years ago, it's not HD and not "stock worthy".

Oh well, to stay on topic, I don't care about IS. H&F will sell them anyways in 2012.

« Reply #6 on: January 28, 2012, 14:29 »
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Dove the Red Sea once, lovely place. I did take a sailboat up and down the west coast of Canada and the US. And given all the navigational aids available to boaters and ships it should be impossible to hit a rock as that guy did. We had our own version of this here a few years back when one of our ferry captains drove a loaded ferry, Queen of the North into an island head on while diddling someone in a locker. To deep for you to dive though.


 

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