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Tall Ship Concordia sunk of coast of Brazil
On Feb 22, 12:42*am, "Tom Dacon" wrote:
Two ships that I happen to know of: Neither of those was a microburst. I was up to my eyebrows in the POB event. The captain send down right after the event to deal with things and find out what happened called me from the airport before he even spoke to the board to get some insights on the stability angle to assist his briefing. I later spoke to the man who discovered microbursts and gave them their name. He assured me that there were no conditions out there at the time that could have caused one although there was unstable weather that could create sudden increases in wind. I have the full stability history on the vessel in my files. The "Albatross" didn't need a microburst to sink her. See above and read "Tall Ships Down". She is one of those ships that it is amazing that it got as far as it did before capsizing. I have the complete set of Dutch construction plans, and complete plans for the conversion, including a very competently performed stability test, to base this opinion on. She was the best documented vessel we were able to get data on for the ASTA / USCG study that was used to develop the SSV stability regulations. -- Roger Long |
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