OT physical questions about the sinking Italian ship

micky · 2012-01-18T09:26:46+00:00

OT Does anyone know a) what the water temp was where the ship sank in Italy?How long can one last at that temperature?b) how far it really was from the ship to land? Because oftelephoto lenses, it's very hard to tell. It was 9:30PMtwhen theship went aground, right? What time? I believe the ship backed up ordid something after that to get closer to land. Eventually it wasnight. What time did the moon rise and how full was it? Was there aa fulll moon on the 9th, 3 days earlier? Full moons rise aboiutt 6PM,standard time, and rise 47.2 minutes later each day. Darkenss isabout 40 minutes after sundown, sundown is a little after 5 thesedays. That mattered when I thought it was daylight wen the ship sankaand if it had been, it woudl have meant was about 2 hours afterdarkness before the moon rose. But there were lights in houses onthe shore. c) All in all, how many people jumped overboard on the side near theland, and how well did they do? Did they all get to shore. Wasthere a beach, or rocks? What was the air temp? Would theyfreeze without dry clothes? At what air temp and wind speed isbetter to take your clothes than to sit in wet clothes?How many people jumped over on the far side, which some of the timewas easier to jump from, or at least, if stuck inside, I would want togo up instead of down, and if I could, I'd come out on deck on thehigh side, the sdie farther from the shore in this case.c What is that thing that sticks out of the side, blelow the waterline? It looks like an air foil, a water foil, but it's so small, 20feet long at most, 5 feet front to back, I'm guessing

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Kurt Ullman 14 years ago

Why? Lifeboats are hardly one way. If so, I would still be on Princess' private island 10 years later. Yet another supposition.

The Italian Coasties are doing their investigation so we'll be able to get at least a general idea of what happened when.

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trader4 14 years ago

That's why I hope the voice recorder on the bridge was working. The black box has been recovered and hopefully it has that plus all the other pertinent data.

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