thanks mofraIt is impossible to lick your elbow.
The word "gullible" is not in the dictionary
did you know that "six mile creek" at Townsville is a different river system to "six mile creek" at Nowra? - well my sister-in-law didn't lol.
noi, gr8A Broadband speed checker, just in case you want to check. I notice some websites have a speed checker on them: http://www.broadband.org/speed_test.html?gclid=CLDUvtOpwpACFQFZQgodNTn4Wg
The 1998 Sydney to Hobart race resulted in the loss of 6 sailors lives, 55 people rescued from sailboats, 5 boats sank and 66 boats retired out of the 115 starters when multiple storms merged and hurricane force wind and waves descended on the fleet.
The Race
The race commenced with a beat out of Sydney Harbour in a 20 knot northeaster, which was great for the spectators - who by then included myself. All the fleet ran down the coast under spinnaker to pass Montagu Island, some reaching speeds of 27 knots, and into a forecast southwesterly with 7-8m swells in 38°S. However it was not forecast that the intense low which then developed would generate a near cyclone, with winds averaging 70 knots but reaching 92 knots with corresponding 15-20m swells.
(This estimate was verified by one of the US-built Australian Navy helicopters, whose instruments measuring height above 'ground' showed 80ft when over a wave trough and 10ft at its peak.) These were the worst conditions experienced in the 54-year history of the race. Parallels were drawn between the 1998 Sydney-Hobart and the 1979 Fastnet, not least the fact that both are raced in comparatively shallow waters subject to rapid changes in the weather, a lethal combination causing steep, close-running waves to build up rapidly.
in the 1998 sydney-hobart, the waves reached 70 feet (= 21m) (and were breaking at their tops)
they know this because the rescue helicopters could measure the change in the "altitude" according to their instruments, and the difference between peak and trough was 30m.:eek3: :eek3:
http://www.ussailing.org/safety/Studies/1998_sydney_hobart.htm
http://www.oceancruisingclub.org/content/view/351/82/
nc, wow - thas sumpinTo give folks an appreciation of 30m waves .....
I went through cyclone sose in 01' on a 40k tonne Ship, we had sustained waves of 6m maybe some as high as 10m, adding a picture of the waves being forced over the bow, picture is from the 9th deck just below the bridge, the sheer power of these waves was enough to crack 20mm reinforced marine glass and cause flooding through most the lower decks.
I can Imagine just how deadly 30m waves would be.
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To give folks an appreciation of 30m waves .....
I went through cyclone sose in 01' on a 40k tonne Ship, we had sustained waves of 6m maybe some as high as 10m, adding a picture of the waves being forced over the bow, picture is from the 9th deck just below the bridge, the sheer power of these waves was enough to crack 20mm reinforced marine glass and cause flooding through most the lower decks.
I can Imagine just how deadly 30m waves would be.
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...how good these vitamins and minerals are, or what happens without enough of them: http://www.belleville.k12.wi.us/bhs/health/nutrition/vitaminsminerals.html
jail records are real handy as well...that when starting off tracing ancestors consider: Birth, death and marriage records; the census; Parish records, Graveyard Records and Vestry minutes; Wills; emigrant records; Trades and Professions; Property, tennant records, Deed Polls and Taxes; Newspapers and Libraries; Courts and magistrates; Army, Navy and airforces, war and memorial records ( http://www.naa.gov.au/collection/explore/defence/conflicts.aspx ); Heraldry; Family History Societies; Societies ( http://www.cyndislist.com/soc-frat.htm ); Freemasons; Education records; Mormon records (http://www.ancestorhunt.com/mormon_church_records.htm ); and New York etc., shipping and landing records ( http://www.olivetreegenealogy.com)( http://www.ellisislandrecords.org ).
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