Sea News...
- 8 September 2013 06:50243859Ah thats a pity Howard re uploading to the new Sea News page, as would welcome contributions from our old gang of Sea Newszers, but you may have identified a problem there that we didnt notice. I will ask Chris to have a look at it and see if we missed something..
I dont want to blind anyone with my techo jargon here.. but my reading of the situation is that there could indeed be a gremlin in the gubbins
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You can see the sheer size of that ship in Howards pic over the page now the way it dwarfs totally the Prince of Wales pier
More pictures today on the new Sea News page http://www.doverforum.com/sea-news
email: dover7@msn.com - 8 September 2013 17:41243910I had problems uploading images to the Sea News pages too. The town was certainly buzzing yesterday with many Italian friends from the Costa Pacifica. Of course, largely forgotten by the media, but I believe arrangements are being finalised for the re-floating of the Costa Concordia.
- 9 September 2013 07:06243952Sorry to hear of your problems uploading to the new Sea News page Kevin, but the news is good and Howard and yourself will be happy to hear that the problem is now fixed. Chris did the necessary down in the engine room and we are now all systems go...there should be no difficulty now.
We had one or two bedding-in problems..
Will have fresh info on the page today and I see ColetteB has put up a new list of the coming visits overnight.
See it all on the new Sea News location
http://www.doverforum.com/sea-news
email: dover7@msn.com - 12 September 2013 09:30244387#942
Wrecked Costa Concordia cruise ship could rise from seabed by next week...
"The wrecked Costa Concordia cruise ship could be upright again next week, nearly two years after the liner capsized and killed at least 30 people off the Italian coast.
The giant vessel, which has lain partly submerged in shallow waters off the Tuscan island of Giglio since the accident in January 2012, will be rolled off the seabed and onto underwater platforms.
Workers will look for the bodies of two people, an Italian and an Indian unaccounted for since the disaster, as machines haul the 114,000-tonne ship upright and underwater cameras comb the seabed.
The exact day of the Concordia's rotation - known as parbuckling - has yet to be set, but on Wednesday Civil Protection Commissioner Franco Gabrielli said Monday was likely..."
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/11/costa-concordia-cruise-ship-wreck-riseIgnorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing. - 13 September 2013 12:51244525Have put a couple of items on the new Sea News thread.
Mention this because I doubt that anybody will be looking at it now that it is has been removed from the mainstream.
http://www.doverforum.com/sea-news/ - 13 September 2013 12:55244527i would think that when the "latest post" bit is added that will boost viewings and postings.
- Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,802
16 September 2013 14:55244913For those that might miss it on the new Sea News front page, a very interesting read from Ed.
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I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
------------------------------------------------------------------- - 16 September 2013 15:13244916Why not make it a "sticky thread" which always appears as the first topic.
- Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
16 September 2013 16:24244924 - 16 September 2013 20:20244949It must have taken some very good welding to put them big lefting eyes on that is the kind of work I liked doing.
- 17 September 2013 08:43244976I'll put this here as it is rather BTW, as this thread is by now due the innovations engineered by the Boss and Chris...
Isn't it good to know that Dover played it's part in the world becoming aware that...
" [As The Times put it in an editorial,]"There can be few people who already knew, before this business, that it is an offence in this country to fly a kangaroo without first having been licensed to do so."
Channel-hopping kangaroo balloon that made aviation history
"Your article (Transatlantic attempt buoyed by 370 balloons, 13 September) states that Jonathan Trappe "specialises in cluster ballooning and was the first person to cross the Channel and the Alps using the method".
While not wishing to detract from his achievements in any way, I have to point out that the Channel was first crossed by this type of aircraft in August 1986, when David Kirke of the Dangerous Sports Club used a cluster of round helium lifting balloons and a neutrally buoyant balloon in the shape of a kangaroo. This led to his prosecution for flying without a pilot's licence.
The case set an important legal precedent. As The Times put it in an editorial, "There can be few people who already knew, before this business, that it is an offence in this country to fly a kangaroo without first having been licensed to do so; well, they know better now."
As a member of the club, I was among Mr Kirke's assistants on the day of the Channel flight, and later had the opportunity to commit aviation using the same balloons in Wales. The flights were sponsored by Foster's lager, so we used its product as ballast (rather than the usual sand), making this the first, and, to my knowledge, the only, aircraft yet constructed that was controlled by pouring beer.
Martin Lyster
Oxford"
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/16/channel-hopping-kangaroo-balloon-aviation-historyIgnorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing. - 18 September 2013 09:56245108courtesy of brian who was up at the crack of dawn.
- 18 September 2013 10:03245110It does not say much for the intelligence of ship-builders when the places where portholes should not be has to be so clearly marked. [the circled X's]Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
- 18 September 2013 10:14245112very droll tom, a couple more taken by brian this morning.
- 18 September 2013 10:24245114Not simply droll Howard, but a plea for elucidation. This being that sort of thread.Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
- 18 September 2013 10:31245116Hi Tom, the circled 'x' shows where the stern thrusters are located vertically below. Pictures from the bow area would show same markings around the bow to indicate where the bow thrusters are located.
- 18 September 2013 10:43245118Thank you Neil.
Does their respective elevations indicate that the thrusters are a set distance below the mark? [I know, what a pain!
]Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing. - 18 September 2013 11:28245119Fair question Tom. The simple answer is no. The markings are painted onto a flat clearly visible surface and you can see from the shape of the stern that had the aftmost symbol been painted along the same horizontal as the more forward symbol, it would have been on the curve, rather than the flat, of the hull and possibly less visible to those that need to see it.
- 18 September 2013 12:38245123Thanks again Neil, shamed it is I am.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing. - 18 September 2013 15:28245146all manner of maritime traffic out on a glorious autumn afternoon.
