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| Glad to be here. [message #339132] |
Mon, 05 May 2008 14:11  |
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 Fibes
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At roughly the same time as moonrise Thursday night I was sitting next to the Captain on our way to the gulf stream for a bluewater fishing tournament.
We were marveling at the horns of the moon creeping up over the horizon as everything off the bow went black. I muttered WTF and we were swamped by a rogue wave. The boat just stopped like we had hit a brick wall. It blew the Eisen glass out dumping water all over us and almost filling the 34 foot center console with water.
This is my 4th rogue wave experience, I have no idea how tall it was but it woulda been pretty messy if it hit from the side.
Wish I had something profound to say other than mother nature is awesome.
That morning we came upon a gazillion porpoises teaching their children to fish, frollick, play, eat and party down. It was awesome.
Fibes
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| Re: Glad to be here. [message #339137 is a reply to message #339132 ] |
Mon, 05 May 2008 14:17  |
ssltech
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See? -We're all here for a porpoise.
Keef
| MDM (maxdimario) wrote on Fri, 16 November 2007 21:36 |
I have the feeling that I have more experience in my little finger than you do in your whole body about audio electronics..
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| Re: Glad to be here. [message #339146 is a reply to message #339132 ] |
Mon, 05 May 2008 14:57 |
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Berolzheimer
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Glad you're still with us, Fibes.
Sunday of last week was at the Santa Monica beach with my kids, wife & bother-in-law. 3 or 4 days earlier a swimmer had been killed by a Great White off of San Diego.
Sure enough, at one point I saw a fin breach the surface about 150-200 yards off shore. I thought, no, it can't be....then I saw it again. looked like a dolphin or porpoise, but I couldn't be sure- then another one cleared the water completely & could see the flukes clearly, to my great relief. there were several of them & they hung around for an hour or so, it was great to watch them. I've never seen them so close to the beaches here.
"We have also sound-houses, where we practise and demon- strate all sounds and their generation....
Divers instruments of music likewise to you unknown, some sweeter than any you have; with bells and rings that are dainty and sweet. We represent small sounds as great and deep, likewise great sounds extenuate and sharp; we make divers tremblings and warblings of sounds, which in their original are entire. We represent and imitate all articulate sounds and letters, and the voices and notes of beasts and birds. We have certain helps which, set to the ear, do further the hearing greatly; we have also divers strange and artificial echoes, reflecting the voice many times, and, as it were, tossing it; and some that give back the voice louder than it came, some shriller and some deeper, some rendering the voice, differing in the letters or articulate sound from that they receive. We have all means to convey sounds in trunks and pipes, in strange lines and distances."--Francis Bacon, 1626
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| Re: Glad to be here. [message #339176 is a reply to message #339132 ] |
Mon, 05 May 2008 17:17 |
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Man, glad you're OK.
My wife and I also went through a terrible boating experience, one from which we had little right to have returned. So I understand your apprehension! When there's time, I will tell our story...it's also music-related.
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| Re: Glad to be here. [message #339326 is a reply to message #339132 ] |
Tue, 06 May 2008 11:19 |
Taproot
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Yikes! Glad you're still here and glad it didn't ruin your fishing trip. I've been tearin' 'em up over here! Looking forward to a saltwater trip soon. FISH ON!!! 
Jeffrey Reed
Taproot Audio Design
Oxford, Mississippi
www.taprootaudiodesign.com
www.myspace.com/taprootaudio
A true patriot must always be ready to defend his freedom against his government -Edward Abbey
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| Re: Glad to be here. [message #339329 is a reply to message #339326 ] |
Tue, 06 May 2008 11:28 |
ssltech
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See... 'standing waves' CAN be scary!
Keef
| MDM (maxdimario) wrote on Fri, 16 November 2007 21:36 |
I have the feeling that I have more experience in my little finger than you do in your whole body about audio electronics..
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| Re: Glad to be here. [message #339843 is a reply to message #339759 ] |
Thu, 08 May 2008 14:25 |
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Berolzheimer
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| Fibes wrote on Thu, 08 May 2008 07:23 |
Now that I've had a little time to think, read your thoughts and reflect I'm pretty sure we were lucky to get out of this one. Fortunately most rogue waves are not on the same heading as the others.
The sea is a gorgeous thing, it's been in my blood for quite some time and after this 4th rogue experience i've gotta wonder what keeps me coming back short of addiction.
The first rogue wave was the scariest, we say it coming from the starboard side and fortunately the captain managed to get us turned slightly and pinned port engine wide open to keep us surfing up the 60+ foot wave sideways.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_wave_(oceanography)
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Wow, I got an adrenaline rush just imagining that.
"We have also sound-houses, where we practise and demon- strate all sounds and their generation....
Divers instruments of music likewise to you unknown, some sweeter than any you have; with bells and rings that are dainty and sweet. We represent small sounds as great and deep, likewise great sounds extenuate and sharp; we make divers tremblings and warblings of sounds, which in their original are entire. We represent and imitate all articulate sounds and letters, and the voices and notes of beasts and birds. We have certain helps which, set to the ear, do further the hearing greatly; we have also divers strange and artificial echoes, reflecting the voice many times, and, as it were, tossing it; and some that give back the voice louder than it came, some shriller and some deeper, some rendering the voice, differing in the letters or articulate sound from that they receive. We have all means to convey sounds in trunks and pipes, in strange lines and distances."--Francis Bacon, 1626
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| Re: Glad to be here. [message #339911 is a reply to message #339843 ] |
Thu, 08 May 2008 20:11 |
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Hallams
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An interesting read about the subject of rogue waves with this little extract about my home warters:
( for the complete article)
http://fer3.com/arc/m2.aspx?y=200609&i=101295
FOR THE RECORD, THE LARGEST WAVE EVER recorded was measured at 42.7
metres by a rescue helicopter in Bass Strait during the disastrous
1998 Sydney to Hobart yacht race. (Roughly the height of a 14-storey
building, the apparition was a storm-driven, cresting swell rather
than the "wall of water" brute depicted in The Perfect Storm.)
and here is a "Wall of Water " testomony freom the Bay of Biscay:
VETERAN SEAMAN MlKE BARBER WAS JUST 18 when his ship was stopped dead
by a 25-metre wall of water in the notoriously dangerous Bay of
Biscay, off the coast of France, in 1966. Now, at 57, the
near-disaster remains his most vivid memory of life at sea. Barber was
a cook's assistant on the Patroclus, a 9500-tonne British
cargo/passenger vessel returning to Liverpool from Asia when the wave
struck.
"We'd been thumping into big seas from a southerly gale all night," he
tells me from his home in northern NSW. By noon the next day the seas
were worse, and an order was given to batten down everything and stand
by for "dramatic" conditions. "She was a very strongly built ship,"
notes Barber, "but every time she buried her bows in a wave the thing
running through our minds was, Ts she going to come out of this one?'
I could see the steel plates near the bow actually moving like a
concertina. Then, within five minutes, the waves went from 20 feet
[six metres] to at least 35 feet [10.5 metres]. Then the huge one just
rose up to [25 metres]... It was that frightening, people took one
look and ran to grab their life jackets."
The wave was a "white waller" like the one in The Perfect Storm, and
it stopped the Patroclus in her tracks: "You couldn't see the bow; you
couldn't even see the mastheads for spray. All we could see before us
was this wall of water, with the top curling over like those big
rollers in Hawaii. And we all just went, 'Fucking hell!' The ship went
down and down into that trough, like she was never going to come up.
They sounded the alarm from the bridge and shut all the external
doors. Then the engine just stopped, and we were dead in the water."
The ship wallowed helplessly for an hour before the motor was
restarted, then made it to Liverpool with only a slightly buckled bow.
"On a really solid ship," says Barber, "you get a sense of security
that makes you forget how dramatic the forces of nature can be. I've
been through cyclones, and most seamen can tell you stories about
horrific seas. But a wave that stops a fully laden ship dead in the
water is more than horrific, it's life threatening. And they're the
ones you don't forget."
Chris Hallam.
hallamsound productions
Melbourne, Australia.
http://www.myspace.com/bigheaventhestudio
SORRY ABOUT THAT ... YOU'VE JUST BEEN hit by a woomera?.....er no that was a spear!
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| Re: Glad to be here. [message #339942 is a reply to message #339132 ] |
Thu, 08 May 2008 23:29 |
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The ocean is nothing to play around with.
It is ruthless.
It does not care about you.
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| Re: Glad to be here. [message #339945 is a reply to message #339942 ] |
Fri, 09 May 2008 00:07 |
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Hallams
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| compasspnt wrote on Fri, 09 May 2008 14:29 |
The ocean is nothing to play around with.
It is ruthless.
It does not care about you.
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The paradox is on the morning leading up to the 1998 storm that hit the Sydney to Hobart race fleet, i was surfing some pretty big surf with my boys in Westernport Bay and we saw 3 mini tornados out in Bass Streight accompanying dark storm clouds a few miles off the coast. It crossed my mind that the Sydney to Hobart fleet was in for a battering, not an unusual occurrence, but i had no idea of the magnitude of the storm that was to hit them. Of the 115 yachts to start, only 44 boats made it to Hobart. Five boats sank, 66 retired from the race, six sailors died and 55 were tacken off their yachts, most by helicopter.
Chris Hallam.
hallamsound productions
Melbourne, Australia.
http://www.myspace.com/bigheaventhestudio
SORRY ABOUT THAT ... YOU'VE JUST BEEN hit by a woomera?.....er no that was a spear!
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