On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 21:35:49 +0000, Larry wrote:
[Yorktown, CV-10]
about 80' off the harbor surface.

I guess people fall off of carriers and sometimes survive. Eighty feet
is a long drop. Good chance they won't find you, if it is moving. At
night, forget it.
Casady

(Richard Casady) wrote in
:

I guess people fall off of carriers and sometimes survive.
Eighty feet
is a long drop. Good chance they won't find you, if it is
moving. At
night, forget it.
Casady


One night, right after Yorktown came to Patriot's Point Naval
Museum's dock, a brisk breeze came up from the north, pushing
Yorktown away from her dock and big mooring pilings.

The lines snapped and Yorktown headed back out to sea floating
free off towards the port and passenger docks on the downtown
Charleston peninsula. The only man aboard was the astonished
security rent-a-cop screaming for help on his cellphone, all
alone on the monster. By the time the Navy tugboats got haulin'
ass downriver to take control of the derelict, she was almost
aground on Shute's Folly, a tiny island in the harbor. That
would have been bad. Navy tugs got her under power and put her
back at anchor at Patriot's Point. They couldn't dock her as her
dock was totally destroyed, hanging under her starboard side,
mostly.

To prevent this in the future, it was decided to SINK Yorktown,
permanently by pumping millions of gallons of fresh water into
her bilge compartments to put her on the pluff mud, then seal
those flooded compartments in wax to prevent it smelling. She
was then pumped all the way around with sand from a dredge to
insure her stability....well, at least into the far future when
the whole bottom will be rotted off her, creating someone ELSE's
Yorktown problem for the next generation...(c;



Larry
--
You can tell there's extremely
intelligent life in the universe
because they have never called Earth.

(Richard Casady) wrote in
:

I guess people fall off of carriers and sometimes survive. Eighty
feet
is a long drop. Good chance they won't find you, if it is moving.
At
night, forget it.
Casady


Sunk in sand like my last post shows, if you fall over the side,
you'll be falling into water that's a foot deep at low tide.
You'll die, instantly.

Larry
--
You can tell there's extremely
intelligent life in the universe
because they have never called Earth.