Tempus Fugit Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 RAF pix on bbc site Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
When Skies Are Grey Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 RAF pix on bbc site Some video footage here from liveleak...click Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manxmaid Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 Glad to hear everyone on board was rescued safely, and well done to the rescue teams involved. It makes u wonder how strong the freak waves were to knock Riverdance so far from the shipping lane (you can tell I am about 30 miles inland!!) but when you are in Blackpool and look out to sea, the ships too-ing and fro-ing from Heysham/Fleetwood are virtually a dot on the horizon. Even though I worked the IOM Heysham rounte for a few years just wondered how far off the shipping lane Riverdance was? Anyone got a map/plan of the shipping lanes in that area? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homarus Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 Don't know why !but I keep getting visions of "Michael Flatley" wearing a lifejacket and dancing on the wheelhouse roof with the rest of the crew? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarahc Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 Don't know why !but I keep getting visions of "Michael Flatley" wearing a lifejacket and dancing on the wheelhouse roof with the rest of the crew? It's because the boat has the same name as Flatley's dancing show. *runs* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homarus Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 It's because the boat has the same name as Flatley's dancing show. *runs* If you were any sharper you would cut yourself With a banana! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owen Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 Oh biscuits: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england...ire/7223811.stm Pity they didn't wash up this way ... -------------------- Tech Blog - Personal Blog - Hobby Blog - ManxFriends Profile Got a Manx website: Submit it on SearchMann - Fancy a chat? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarahc Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 Oh biscuits: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england...ire/7223811.stm Pity they didn't wash up this way ... -------------------- Tech Blog - Personal Blog - Hobby Blog - ManxFriends Profile Got a Manx website: Submit it on SearchMann - Fancy a chat? Paging Finbarr Saunders to the thread.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liberalis Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=447197 http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/forums/sh...ead.php?t=47363 http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/forums/sh...ead.php?t=47311 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gilf_uk Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 Glad to hear everyone on board was rescued safely, and well done to the rescue teams involved. It makes u wonder how strong the freak waves were to knock Riverdance so far from the shipping lane (you can tell I am about 30 miles inland!!) but when you are in Blackpool and look out to sea, the ships too-ing and fro-ing from Heysham/Fleetwood are virtually a dot on the horizon. Even though I worked the IOM Heysham rounte for a few years just wondered how far off the shipping lane Riverdance was? Anyone got a map/plan of the shipping lanes in that area? It apparently lost all power after being hit by the freak wave then drifted into the bay to become beached. You can see from the ais here the course it takes, it wasn't off it's normal route (if you look at previous days sailings) when it lost power and you can see the quick loss of power and the slow drifting towards shore. http://www.aisliverpool.org.uk/shiptrail.p...p;date=20080131 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheeky boy Posted February 3, 2008 Author Share Posted February 3, 2008 Can anyone enlighten me on this "freak wave" thing ? I have live in sight of the Irish sea for most of my fifty years and made my living on it and from it for some of that time I have seen big waves, small waves, long waves, short waves, but never a "freak wave" Other than the Tsunami I don't think they exist Unless you go fishing with Homarus, who will actively seek them out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slinkydevil Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 Can anyone enlighten me on this "freak wave" thing ? I have live in sight of the Irish sea for most of my fifty years and made my living on it and from it for some of that time I have seen big waves, small waves, long waves, short waves, but never a "freak wave" Other than the Tsunami I don't think they exist Unless you go fishing with Homarus, who will actively seek them out It may have been exaggerated by the media in this case, but I have heard about freak waves. I think they are usually a couple of massive waves in already a big swell, buit up over time and distance. I remember Horizon doing a program on them a while back, called 'Freak Wave'. http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2002/freakwave.shtml Some video of bigger waves in already heavy swell: Might have been enough to knock out some power on the Riverdance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loaf Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 Unsurprisingly, Ais doesn't report it as "Status: Beached" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheeky boy Posted February 3, 2008 Author Share Posted February 3, 2008 Still not having this freak wave bollocks for the Irish sea Spoke to Rick Tomlinson once about his experience in the southern ocean aboard a Whitbread 60, his account of sliding down a six story high wave and burying the boat in the "green room" at the bottom killed any romantic notions I may have had about long distance yachting But I doubt that seriously big waves could be generated in our violent but small, shallow sea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossils Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 Still not having this freak wave bollocks for the Irish sea Spoke to Rick Tomlinson once about his experience in the southern ocean aboard a Whitbread 60, his account of sliding down a six story high wave and burying the boat in the "green room" at the bottom killed any romantic notions I may have had about long distance yachting But I doubt that seriously big waves could be generated in our violent but small, shallow sea It is theoretically possible, in certain conditions, for a "freak wave" (an unusual one) to build all the way from the South Atlantic and arrive, virtually uninterrupted, off Blackpool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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