"Jeff Dowder" wrote in message
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The Captain of that ship is incompetent as well as the crew. A fist
size hole is nothing. I have experience in damage control and know
what I am taLKING ABOUT.

A competent Captain such as Jonathan Ganz would have stopped the
inflow of water with little effort. He would have plugged up the fist
size hole with one of these:

http://tinyurl.com/28utva


He has many on board whenever he sails and one is always within reach.

Now that is funny!!