[clipped the ng list to rec boats cru]

On Mon, 08 Sep 2008 01:18:33 GMT, (Richard
Casady) wrote:

On Fri, 5 Sep 2008 13:06:29 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

According to the MMS there are over 4000 "historic" shipwrecks in the
Gulf and estimated at over 100,000 wrecks total. Mostly shrimp and
oilfield service vessels.

That doesn't trip your BS detector? Tens of thousands of oilfield
service vessels? Figure it either per day or per rig, it's ridiculous.

Casady

Dunno about the BS factor, but my kid mentioned that rounding an
island in a chain of three yesterday near Corpus, they spotted a
girder sticking out of the water - and consulting the chart, decided
they wanted to round the NEXT island (a-hummph) before camping out
overnight under the stars. A compass and a GPS should have avoided
that - but GPSs run low on batteries, apparently.......tsk,tsk.

Brian W