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Patty, you wrote:
"The report from the NTSB has been released and I thought it may be of
interest. "

Yes, fascinating. Thank you very much for posting those links.

For celestial navigation fans, it was interesting to see that the heel angle
recording instrument on board pegged out at 15 degrees for twenty seconds,
but the maximum angle, estimated at 24 degrees, was determined from the
altitude of the Sun at the known location of the vessel using shadows in
video made during the heeling incident (as well as by comparing the horizon
line with the lines of the ship).

For those of you who were not following NavList at the time, there was a
thread about the "heeling incident" of the cruise ship Crown Princess back
in July 2006. Patty, who was a passenger on that cruise, found us about a
week after the first message and gave an eyewitness account of the event.

July 2006 archive:
http://www.fer3.com/arc/sort2.aspx?y=200607

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