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If you were the crew on this ship, and it was sinking....would you trust this thing wouldn't go straight to the bottom?
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Based on the slight list & the lines coming off both sides....I'd say it's ON the bottom!
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You're right. I didn't catch that. Got to be good for those big props!
In the middle of the ocean though, even if the ship was sinking, I don't think I could talk myself into getting into that thing. Edit: By "thing", I mean that little red lifeboat. Looks like it goes straight down that ramp to a nice free-fall, then into the drink. Last edited by BigWooo; 07-31-10 at 07:18 PM. |
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Yep!! It's an oil tanker, right?
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I was wondering what the heck you were talking about.
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See, I told you I'm not good at posting...
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The white framework it's on sure looks like it's a SLING!!!! Obviously to get you way far away from the sinking vessel....FAST!!
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I have actually been in one of those "things". Most of the offshore platforms have them (or a facsimile thereof). I was lifted off a platform on one by crane and did a couple of laps around Platform Heritage off Santa Barbara fifteen or so years ago.
They are very buoyant believe it or not and that is not a slide but a hydraulic lift down to the water...
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