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Lake Victoria, Tanzania: Hundreds feared missing as ferry capsizes
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| 09/20/18
Posted on 09/20/2018 11:52:47 AM PDT by Simon Green
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To: Simon Green
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posted on
09/20/2018 11:53:47 AM PDT
by
fieldmarshaldj
("It's Slappin' Time !")
To: Simon Green
When will they enact common sense ferry control laws???
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posted on
09/20/2018 11:54:50 AM PDT
by
rjsimmon
(The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
To: Simon Green
overloaded....a familiar word when
a ferry capsized
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posted on
09/20/2018 11:57:11 AM PDT
by
Doogle
(( USAF.68-73....8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
To: Simon Green
Lake Victoria has crocodiles! Not good. The Falls from Lake Victoria at the base of falls has hundreds of crocs, which is beginning of river Nile, I believe.
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posted on
09/20/2018 12:00:13 PM PDT
by
entropy12
(One million LEGAL immigrants/year is too many, without vetting for skills, Wealth or English skills.)
To: Simon Green
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posted on
09/20/2018 12:00:34 PM PDT
by
sailor76
(Trump is our last hope!)
To: Simon Green
Lake Victoria? Isn’t that where all the Rwandan genocide bodies went? Isn’t that thing full, already?
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posted on
09/20/2018 12:05:33 PM PDT
by
SJSAMPLE
To: sailor76
A healthy crocodile population is imperative to Africa’s future.
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posted on
09/20/2018 12:06:07 PM PDT
by
SJSAMPLE
To: Doogle
Wasn't there an autoferry on the Baltic that had its bow doors ripped open by waves, and it sank?
The then-wife and I were passengers on a small ferry, maybe space for a dozen cars or so. However, a dump truck carrying crushed stone and towing a trailer full of logs took up the centerline, with maybe a handful of cars, if that.
As we were headed out of the harbor, the rougher-than-average waves were just barely coming over the open bow deck.
I wasn't too thrilled, but it the wave water only added to the light rain hitting the deck.
To: entropy12
Yeah, but do they have hippos?
To: Simon Green
but another said that the vessel was overloaded with more than 400 people on board.Commence occurrence in 3rd world countries.
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posted on
09/20/2018 12:26:07 PM PDT
by
C19fan
To: SJSAMPLE
Actually, I feel sorry for the poor sob’s; but on that lake if you’re swimming, you’re trolling for crocs.
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posted on
09/20/2018 12:26:12 PM PDT
by
sailor76
(Trump is our last hope!)
To: Calvin Locke
Yes. The MS Estonia in 1994. Over 800 died from the ice cold waters.
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posted on
09/20/2018 12:27:59 PM PDT
by
C19fan
To: Calvin Locke
its bow doors ripped open by waves, and it sank?
I remember a larger ferry with huge biw doors sinking because the doors weren’t secured properly... Stupidity..much larger, maybe 80 cars and trucks...once the cargo shifted...blup...blup...blup
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posted on
09/20/2018 12:31:56 PM PDT
by
Doogle
(( USAF.68-73....8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
To: C19fan
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posted on
09/20/2018 12:33:09 PM PDT
by
Doogle
(( USAF.68-73....8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
To: Calvin Locke
“Wasn’t there an autoferry on the Baltic that had its bow doors ripped open by waves, and it sank? “
Correct but the reason for the sinking was the doors had not been properly secured and thus the waves opened them. It was 100% human error. The vessel should not have sunk except for this human error.
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posted on
09/20/2018 12:54:37 PM PDT
by
cpdiii
(Cane Cutter, Deckhand,Roughneck, Geologist, Pilot, Pharmacist: THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR!)
To: Calvin Locke
Not there, but I have seen them in US Senate.
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posted on
09/20/2018 12:56:19 PM PDT
by
entropy12
(One million LEGAL immigrants/year is too many, without vetting for skills, Wealth or English skills.)
To: sailor76; Calvin Locke
Back in the 1960’s & 1970’s my sis and bro-in-law lived in Uganda and used to snap pictures of all the big crocs & hippo’s in Lake Victoria.
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posted on
09/20/2018 12:59:02 PM PDT
by
entropy12
(One million LEGAL immigrants/year is too many, without vetting for skills, Wealth or English skills.)
To: entropy12
[Back in the 1960s & 1970s my sis and bro-in-law lived in Uganda and used to snap pictures of all the big crocs & hippos in Lake Victoria.]
The cutesy anthropomorphic depictions of hippos belies the fact that, in Africa, they kill more humans than crocs.
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posted on
09/20/2018 1:10:19 PM PDT
by
Zhang Fei
(They can have my pitbull when they pry his cold dead jaws off my ass.)
To: Simon Green
Another victim of the African Queen?
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posted on
09/20/2018 1:42:07 PM PDT
by
Mastador1
(I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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