http://timstimes.net/2008/04/10/icing/ Ship stories and other stuff Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:21:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 http://timstimes.net/2008/04/10/icing/#comment-4068 Tim Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:25:40 +0000 http://timstimes.net/2008/04/10/icing/#comment-4068 It was a once off for me, you could hear the ice groaning and scraping off the ships side, we lost a few microns of paint, and the steel got pushed in between the frames. Looked like an old washboard afterwards. It was a once off for me, you could hear the ice groaning and scraping off the ships side, we lost a few microns of paint, and the steel got pushed in between the frames. Looked like an old washboard afterwards.

]]> http://timstimes.net/2008/04/10/icing/#comment-4067 bothenook Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:24:00 +0000 http://timstimes.net/2008/04/10/icing/#comment-4067 can't say i've ever done a personnel transfer by stopping, letting the ocean freeze up around me and then land a helicopter on the ice. i have seen helicopter transfers at sea, with the submarine bobbing like a cork in a bathtub, though. you way looks a lot easier, and safer! can’t say i’ve ever done a personnel transfer by stopping, letting the ocean freeze up around me and then land a helicopter on the ice.
i have seen helicopter transfers at sea, with the submarine bobbing like a cork in a bathtub, though. you way looks a lot easier, and safer!

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