Re: Did you follow the Explorer saga?

On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 22:20:53 -0500, ScottDar@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:

>I was amased that the explorer sank. Could they have not gotten a tug
>boat or some kind of heavy duty ****p in there to keep her up? I read
>that the hole was only fist size. Is that true? What are collision mats
>for? It just seems to me that we would have the technology and man power
>in 2007 to keep a ****p from sinking.  

Modern ****pbuilding has gone beyond that?

They were pretty remote. I suspect the main priority was to save
lives, and by the time they had done so, it was too late to save the
****p. 

I'm not going to second-guess the poor buggers who had to deal with
the problem. I imagine we'll find out at the Inquiry. Let's hope there
isn't some modwern equivalent of Senator Smith.

Regards

Doug Urquhart