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2013-04-01 Southeast Asia

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Posted by Steve White 2013-04-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Needed that vessel, yes. "Workers in the southwestern Philippines have removed"

Posted by newc 2013-04-01 02:28|| 2013-04-01 02:28|| Front Page Top

#2 She said the fine would be about 24,000 pesos ($600) per square meter, so the U.S. could be facing a fine of more than $2 million.

Delivered to someone's account in the Cayman Islands cause their Cyprus account is frozen at the moment. What? So you expect the money will magically make all the coral come back? That it'll be spent on anything in the Park? This is the Philippines which is like a large Detroit, but with real natural resources.

Posted by Procopius2k 2013-04-01 08:42|| 2013-04-01 08:42|| Front Page Top

#3 The doomed ship's parts will be transported to a Navy facility in Sasebo, Japan, to determine which ones can be reused and which will be junked

Including the commanding officer, wardroom, and crew.

Posted by Pappy 2013-04-01 15:27|| 2013-04-01 15:27|| Front Page Top

#4 I thought I read somewhere that the GPS system had something like a 7nm error and that the grounding occurred before the next scheduled sunsighting by the Navigator? If that was so, does the CO get something of a pass?

Posted by NoMoreBS 2013-04-01 15:40|| 2013-04-01 15:40|| Front Page Top

#5 If I remember correctly, the navy charts for this region were incorrect. The skipper, probably took the heat for this, but the chartman in the basement of some big building in Norfolk who is the responsible party.

Posted by rammer 2013-04-01 18:45|| 2013-04-01 18:45|| Front Page Top

#6 ...hmmm, someone using Apple Maps?

Posted by Procopius2k 2013-04-01 19:28|| 2013-04-01 19:28|| Front Page Top

#7 Garmin tried to tell me to 'turn right, now,' while I was driving along a cliffside road near Mt. St. Helens. I chose do disobey.

Posted by Glenmore 2013-04-01 21:06|| 2013-04-01 21:06|| Front Page Top

#8 Tom-Tom tried to get me to exit from a main highway into a shopping center that I know has no back exit (just woods), supposedly in order to get me home.

Luckily it was in town and knew my way around - I was just trying to get used to having the GPS talking to me. I chose to stay on the main highway. (If I hadn't been so tired, I would have followed the instructions just out of idle curiosity.)

While GPS is convenient, I prefer to look at a map before leaving the house, so I'll know if something doesn't seem right with the GPS instructions. There have been several instances when it tried to take me 6 ways around Robin Hood's barn.

Posted by Barbara 2013-04-01 21:44|| 2013-04-01 21:44|| Front Page Top

#9 And then there's the case of Google's missing island.

Posted by Procopius2k 2013-04-01 23:28|| 2013-04-01 23:28|| Front Page Top

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