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Re: Ohm's Law 2 1/2
From: Fred Hebard
Date: 2004 Oct 18, 14:55 -0400
From: Fred Hebard
Date: 2004 Oct 18, 14:55 -0400
On Oct 18, 2004, at 1:34 PM, Royer, Doug wrote: > The voyage was Not entirely pleasant in the least.We took a few NOAA > technicians out past the Tanner/Cortez Banks off the California coast > to > upgrade systems on a weather platform. > Stormy,blustery weather the entire time.Because of the banks,where we > had to > position the vessel to complete the task,that rise to less than a > fathom(in > some places) from 600-700 fathoms fairly steeply.It was a nightmare > because > of the size,period and direction of the waves and the proximety of the > vessel's bottom and sides to the rocks while completing the tasks. > Needless to say none of us had any cocktails(even for medicinal > purpuses). It sounds like you might have needed a medicinal cocktail when you got back to port, or possibly two or three!
