Ships
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Box Movers
When it isn’t too cloudy (weather-wise or work-wise), my office has a great view of Elliott Bay in Seattle, where I see the ships come and go (airplanes too): My new indispensable companion is MarineTraffic.com which uses a network of crowdsourced receivers to pull data off the transponders most ships have and plot them on…
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SOS
The Explorer went down Friday off the South Shetland Islands. The ship had a double bottom but not a double hull and evidently the side was punctured by ice. A “fist-sized hole” resulted in it slowly taking on water and losing power which disabled the pumps. They abandoned ship after several hours and the passengers and crew…