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To: SandRat
Oh, good. A fire at sea on a crude oil carrier. What could possibly go wrong?

Just to give FReepers an idea of how huge these things are, this thing is nine times the tonnage of the heavy cruiser I was on. Our crew was 40 times bigger. Yeah, you might have trouble doing damage control...

3 posted on 07/06/2011 3:32:30 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Billthedrill

Well, the GOOD thing is, there are probably a lot fewer watertight compartments that have to be manned and dogged and...oh...wait...


6 posted on 07/06/2011 4:21:25 PM PDT by rlmorel ("Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions." Gilbert K. Chesterton)
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8 posted on 07/06/2011 9:58:45 PM PDT by GATOR NAVY ("The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen." -Dennis Prager)
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