Re: R/V Launched just 6 weeks ago is breaking up and sinking outside Delaware Bay

<salty@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
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> Here is the owner's website. Very interesting vessel.
>
> http://www.aquasurvey.com/
>

It's not a new vessel at the OP indicated.  The hull is basically a steel 
barge so there's no way it broke up due to wave action.  I think the key
in 
the post above it that it sometimes took them several hours to pull the
legs 
out of the mud.  If one or more were stuck and the hull was in the water, 
the great leverage could have broken the hull due to lots of previous 
stressing and corrosion due to age.

You would be in a tough spot with a boat like that with shortened legs if 
the waves got bigger than forecast and started hitting the hull.  Can't go

up because the legs are too short, can't go down because the waves will 
start throwing the hull around with legs stuck in mud.

Too bad.  It was a good research program.  If only they had put the full 
length legs on deck for the delivery north.

--
Roger Long