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pfduffy
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Initially Posted - 02/01/2012 :  08:49:38  Show Profile
Odd for so many reasons
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/antarctica/9050999/Repair-man-accidentally-joins-South-Pole-expedition.html
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OLarryR
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Response Posted - 02/01/2012 :  09:59:24  Show Profile  Visit OLarryR's Homepage
Agree - Extremely odd. Nevermind the fact that the skipper will be in a heap of trouble if he returns but I would think likely to be brought up on kidnapping charges by the local officials besides being sued by the workman for lost wages and subjecting him to an involuntary trip that robs him of his freedoms and indequate advanced preparation.
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redeye
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Response Posted - 02/01/2012 :  10:06:09  Show Profile
And his last sail lost a boat and 3 lives... talk about jumpin ship..
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OJ
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Response Posted - 02/01/2012 :  10:09:29  Show Profile
Eh, the world is full of nuts.
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pfduffy
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Response Posted - 02/01/2012 :  11:16:35  Show Profile
I'm thinking this mechanic wanted to go on the trip. It would not be very had to disable the vessel - cut the halyards and any collection of wires on the engine?
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Response Posted - 02/01/2012 :  11:39:39  Show Profile
Wait'll he finds out where they're going!
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John Russell
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Response Posted - 02/01/2012 :  12:16:00  Show Profile
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by pfduffy</i>
<br />I'm thinking this mechanic wanted to go on the trip. It would not be very had to disable the vessel - cut the halyards and any collection of wires on the engine?
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">I don't think I'd want to disable a vessel in the Southern Ocean. I especially wouldn't disable one that didn't have emergency locator equipment on board.
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pfduffy
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Response Posted - 02/01/2012 :  13:07:20  Show Profile
I was thinking disabling the vessel before it left Auckland Harbor - presumably where the mechanic came aboard.
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John Russell
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Response Posted - 02/01/2012 :  14:09:58  Show Profile
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by pfduffy</i>
<br />I was thinking disabling the vessel before it left Auckland Harbor - presumably where the mechanic came aboard.
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">Yeah, I'm a little surprised he apparently didn't take very assertive action on his own behalf. I'm pretty sure I would have noticed the engine start up and the motion of the boat as it departed. Maybe he was just so dumbfounded that he couldn't believe the captain (loosely applied here) would actually depart with a shanghai'd sailor. By the time he realized he was stuck he couldn't take any action.
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NautiC25
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Response Posted - 02/01/2012 :  14:23:31  Show Profile
He was probably sleeping on his 15 minute union break. lol
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OLarryR
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Response Posted - 02/01/2012 :  20:57:43  Show Profile  Visit OLarryR's Homepage
The fact that the mechanic did not take aggressive action to curtail the trip does not surprise me since the same thing happened to the screenwriter onboard that ship in the King Kong movie with Jack Black !
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John Russell
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Response Posted - 02/01/2012 :  21:05:41  Show Profile
Well, that explains it.
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