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De-Lurk engaged!

I usually leave the Panama Canal webcam
http://www.pancanal.com/eng/photo/camera-java.html
up on my computer during the day and I glance at it through the day.
Yesterday (Sunday) I saw a military ship with an A-Frame crane over
the back deck heading south toward the Pacific. It's bow number was
53 I think. It was followed into Miraflores lock by a submarine and
a couple of tugs. Using the largest tug at 75' and the width of the
canal at 110' as guides, I estimated that the sub was around 150'
long.
Anyone know anything about the sub?
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On Apr 10, 2:50 am, Maynard G. Krebbs wrote:
De-Lurk engaged!

I usually leave the Panama Canal webcam
http://www.pancanal.com/eng/photo/camera-java.html
up on my computer during the day and I glance at it through the day.
Yesterday (Sunday) I saw a military ship with an A-Frame crane over
the back deck heading south toward the Pacific. It's bow number was
53 I think. It was followed into Miraflores lock by a submarine and
a couple of tugs. Using the largest tug at 75' and the width of the
canal at 110' as guides, I estimated that the sub was around 150'
long.
Anyone know anything about the sub?
Mark E. Williams


The ship was the USS Grapple, a sub rescue ship. Most likely the sub
was a fast attack training with the Grapple.
http://united-states-navy.com/ars/ars53_3.jpg

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http://www.pancanal.com/eng/photo/camera-java.html


It's near midnight EST. Look at the Miafiora cam, now. There's a red
headed PARROT sitting by the lights right next to the cam!....(c;



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On Apr 10, 8:53 pm, Larry wrote:
Maynard G. Krebbs wrote :

http://www.pancanal.com/eng/photo/camera-java.html


It's near midnight EST. Look at the Miafiora cam, now. There's a red
headed PARROT sitting by the lights right next to the cam!....(c;

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dont look very live to me.



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On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 03:53:33 +0000, Larry wrote:

Maynard G. Krebbs wrote in
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http://www.pancanal.com/eng/photo/camera-java.html


It's near midnight EST. Look at the Miafiora cam, now. There's a red
headed PARROT sitting by the lights right next to the cam!....(c;



Larry


LOL. It's some kind of hawk. It only shows up at night when the
camera shutter and the flashing red light up behind the camera hit the
same rythm. sp I've seen the hawk during the day is why I know.
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LOL. It's some kind of hawk. It only shows up at night when the
camera shutter and the flashing red light up behind the camera hit the
same rythm. sp I've seen the hawk during the day is why I know.
Mark E. Williams



Bet they have a nest right next to that light....(c;

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