DISQUS

Well this well help in the all nighters that all the CMA cadets are pulling tonight since our sea projects are due tomorrow. Great timing John!

Bad Ratemyprofessor.com ling but I'm gonna guess bowline and round turn + two half hitches.

I don't see why they didn't put these up when I was still in school and still had spare time.

Seems to me that automatically launching flares might not always be the brightest idea. What if you were on a product tanker that broke in half and has left a slick of jet fuel over the water? I guess there's some situations where flares might not go over so hot (or maybe it would depending on how you look at it).

gCaptain rocks because it helps to make me sound edumacated when I talk about the industry with profs

Well I guess I'm not first but I'm guessing that's a fiber optic cable similar to the 17mm cable that's going to be laid between Sydney and Hawaii.

Every year CMA launches several of these floats.

Website for the cruise is:

http://www.polarcruises.com/ship.cfm?pole=Arcti...

I just was looking at this online a couple days ago. For ~$22k (plus airfare to moscow) you can take a 14 day cruise on one of the icebreakers to the North Pole. Sounds like something to put on my "Things to do once I'm a Pilot and have lots of money" list.

Is there a key?

Apparently Charlie does :-P

Man, it almost makes me want to drop my GPA another point just to gain the expierience of a Bucket o' Rust! American Heavylift all the way!

The ship this is based on is the Kirki

ATSB Report:
http://www.amsa.gov.au/Marine_Environment_Prote...

Video:

http://www.efootage.com/clip_list.php?master_id...

When I worked on tall ships I used to carry one of Myerchin's sheath rigging knives. It was a great blade that stood up pretty well. I've also used their folding knives before. The blade is excellent and the marlinspike is good for light use. However, if you're going to be using the marlinspike for heavier duty actions like breaking shakles I wouldn't reccomend it, I always feel like I'm going to break it off every time I put pressure on it.

I noticed that the paper was written in 2004 and the test conducted in 2001, any word on what's happened with the design since then?

Hostages? Yeah right these guys should be considered pirates.