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Title: Washington just missed out on a grander event
Post by: sandbox on December 14, 2007, 12:19:50 AM
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OLYMPIA, Washington, December 12, 2007 (ENS) - The Gladiator, the state-funded seasonal emergency response tug stationed at Neah Bay, was dispatched shortly before midnight last night to assist a tug towing a loaded oil barge after the vessel temporarily lost its primary electrical power and steering.


http://www.sundancechannel.com/blogs/ecomm..._news/390312884
Title: Washington just missed out on a grander event
Post by: dolphin on December 14, 2007, 02:09:16 PM
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OLYMPIA, Washington, December 12, 2007 (ENS) - The Gladiator, the state-funded seasonal emergency response tug stationed at Neah Bay, was dispatched shortly before midnight last night to assist a tug towing a loaded oil barge after the vessel temporarily lost its primary electrical power and steering.


http://www.sundancechannel.com/blogs/ecomm..._news/390312884



Thank goodness...sure don't need any more spills! Thanks for the link Sandbox. thumbup.gif
Title: Washington just missed out on a grander event
Post by: gunug on December 15, 2007, 05:02:11 AM
It is good to hear news that something bad "didn't" happen; we know that this is the common state but the bad news just washes over us all of the time!  smile.gif
Title: Washington just missed out on a grander event
Post by: sandbox on December 15, 2007, 09:34:16 AM
Don't get too comfortable Gunug. Imagine the worse case scenario, …. The tanker spilled it's 2 million gallons of diesel just before the storm. The wind blows the fuel onshore as the power lines fall. Far fetched, not at all, it's already happened elsewhere.

Hey do you remember this British  60's song by the Hedgehoppers Anonymous?
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Have you heard the news?
What did it say?
Who's won that race?
What's the weather like today?

It's good news week,
Doctors finding many ways,
Of wrapping brains in metal trays,
To keep us from the heat.
 To keep us from the heat.
Title: Washington just missed out on a grander event
Post by: Gregg on December 15, 2007, 08:14:16 PM
And in other shipwreck news, the last vessel of Captain Kidd will rise again from the waters off of the Dominican Republic. ahoy.gif
Title: Washington just missed out on a grander event
Post by: beacher on December 17, 2007, 11:57:10 AM
Man, that IS scarey, and what's even scarier is that I had to hear about it HERE!