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Vancouver's Barch Chilling Beach claims its next "participant"
1950s Zeiss Novar 75mm - Ilford FP4+ - Zeiss Ikon Nettar
An ice shelf is a thick platform of ice that forms at the grounding line of a glacier, where the glacier meets the coastline. Most freshwater on earth is bound in the huge ice shield covering almost entire Antarctica and extending in shelf-ice to the sea. Increasing melt of Antarctic ice would lead to significant sea level rise.
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Although it was too windy for balloons, the grounding of the footer Paul R. Tregurtha sure captured the attention of the audience at Bayfront Park.
DAY 57 - FEBRUARY 26
GROUNDING
I met a friend for coffee and found this in the parking lot. Friendship definitely grounds me!
The Earth Dragon is a symbol of potential and grounding according to the Celtic tradition. Earth dragons are thought to reside deep within the Earth grounding chaotic energy.
So, they often are found patroling underground labyrinths. Yet . . .
Enoch will still surround you with his presence and nurture you like Mother Earth wherever and/or whenever he hears your call for help.
FYI: Grigori means ‘Watcher’, hence . . . a Griori is a type of Angel.
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The arrival of fall so comforting. As much as we ache for one more beach day, there’s something grounding about crisp mornings, amber leaves, and mugs of something warm between our hands. Autumn asks us to slow down, to breathe in the change, and to let ourselves be inspired by a different kind of beauty, one built on soft sweaters, woodsmoke, and golden light. Happy Autumn everyone :)
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Amber Avenue Backdrop by SYNNERGY.TAVIS
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Ezra Zipper Pullover by Ascend
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Clyde Jeans by Legal Insanity
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Porch Pumpkins Country by LOVE
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The set includes forty-five (45) base assets, themselves available in a few different variations. There are scans of real vintage graph paper sheets (metric units). There are scans of printed grids (imperial units). There are scans of two different sets of hand-drawn grids (imperial units). There are distorted grids, created manually while scanning.
Because these are made out of assets that were scanned in, they retain a particular texture, and grain, that makes all of them unique.
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Dene Park Woods - a visit for Purple Hairstreak images proved unsuccessful, seen in the Oaks but didn't come down. A number of people were looking for Emperors, again a fair number of sightings above the trees, but only one grounding seen by a couple of people - (not photographers)
The album was released in the year 1971 and I just recently bought this one here once again. America's music was wonderfully grounding during this period for me and many other people. In the early 70's I lost my high school friend to the Vietnam War...lost a job, and my father was terminally ill with cancer weighing only 90 pounds at the end. My first girlfriend was the love that made the world also grounded for me. I did not live at home and one night I brought my girlfriend over to my parents home so that they all could meet. My mother answered the door but did not want us to come in due to my father's grave condition... so we left. Not long after I moved back home to help take care of my father as my young sister was only 15 and my older brother was mentally challenged. Many years later as an IATSE Stagehand I helped build America's concert here in San Diego. California... was backstage during the concert and afterward did the breakdown and loadout for them.
Our Daily Challenge:
THE 1970s is the topic for Wed April 21 2021
Selfie PSA: when you decide to take a work break to go outside and take a barefoot selfie, don't let the door close behind you and get locked out of your house.
Oil from the grounding of the New Carissa freighter begins to wash ashore on the North Spit, Feb. 12, 1999. Photo: Brandon Brewer, U.S. Coast Guard
On Feb. 4, 1999, the New Carissa freighter ship went aground off the southern Oregon Coast, only 150 yards from beach managed by the BLM.
The ensuing environmental catastrophe went on for more than nine years, until the last of the wrecked haul was removed from the North Spit beach in the summer of 2008.
After efforts to move the 639-foot-long freighter failed, the decision was made to scrap the boat and burn the fuel to avoid a larger oil spill.
At one point, the pounding ocean caused the New Carissa to break in half. The bow section was towed a couple hundred miles out and sunk to the bottom of the ocean.
Dozens of municipal, state and federal agencies worked together for years to mitigate the accident. One main priority was protecting a nearby population of western snowy plovers, a threatened species of shorebird.
Hundreds of birds died because of the New Carissa grounding – 537 total – but no snowy plovers, according to NOAA.
Visitors today can visit the North Spit, just off U.S. Route 101 near Coos Bay and North Bend, and imagine the dramatic scene 20 years ago while strolling the sand dunes.
Visit the North Spit: www.blm.gov/visit/north-spit
Workers clean up oil spills from the grounded New Carissa in the background, Feb. 12, 1999. Photo: Greg Folkins, U.S. Coast Guard
On Feb. 4, 1999, the New Carissa freighter ship went aground off the southern Oregon Coast, only 150 yards from beach managed by the BLM.
The ensuing environmental catastrophe went on for more than nine years, until the last of the wrecked haul was removed from the North Spit beach in the summer of 2008.
After efforts to move the 639-foot-long freighter failed, the decision was made to scrap the boat and burn the fuel to avoid a larger oil spill.
At one point, the pounding ocean caused the New Carissa to break in half. The bow section was towed a couple hundred miles out and sunk to the bottom of the ocean.
Dozens of municipal, state and federal agencies worked together for years to mitigate the accident. One main priority was protecting a nearby population of western snowy plovers, a threatened species of shorebird.
Hundreds of birds died because of the New Carissa grounding – 537 total – but no snowy plovers, according to NOAA.
Visitors today can visit the North Spit, just off U.S. Route 101 near Coos Bay and North Bend, and imagine the dramatic scene 20 years ago while strolling the sand dunes.
Visit the North Spit: www.blm.gov/visit/north-spit
You cannot stop the emission of electromagnetic fields because they are generated from your favorite appliances and devices such as phones, televisions, and laptops. Recently with the introduction of the 5G network, the situation goes even wrong. The small cell towers are used in many numbers for offering the 5G connections and they are installed close to your homes and offices. You cannot go against the 5G because it is not just about the internet speed of your mobile data, but it also advances the Internet of Things. So, you cannot deny the technological advancements. The best way to live in a healthy environment avoiding EMF is through buying EMF shielding products. They are made to meet your different requirements. So, choose products as per your needs.
www.filteremf.com/our_blog/live-away-from-electromagnetic...
This felt so grounding! I love how we can find examples of what we need and how to embody it all around us when we're open to looking.
Kristen Edwards Marquardt moves through the world with the calm focus of someone who has spent her life studying how systems break. She works in the liminal space where code, politics, and human behavior collide. Today she leads the digital and cyber practice for North America at Hakluyt, helping major companies understand the vulnerabilities that hide inside their own infrastructure. She translates threat patterns into plain language, the kind that boards and founders can actually act on.
Before Hakluyt, she served as chief cyber strategist at Bank of America, one of the most targeted financial institutions in the world. There she helped build long-horizon security plans and shaped how cyber risk gets communicated to people responsible for global balance sheets. Her grounding in national security runs deep. She has worked as a senior intelligence advisor to the Secretary of Homeland Security and as a professional staff member in Congress, where she handled counterterrorism and Middle East policy. Earlier in her career she served as an operations officer at the CIA, a role that demanded clarity, discretion, and a steady sense of the world’s complexity.
Kristen studied international relations and political science, but her real education came from watching how fragile systems can be, whether in a conflict zone or inside a bank’s digital architecture. She carries that insight into all her work. In conversation she often returns to the same idea. Every system is built by people. Every system can fray. Understanding that reality is the first step toward keeping anything safe.
The SS Amur was an iron-hulled steamship with a diverse career spanning four decades. Built in Sunderland in 1890 as the freighter Famous, she operated in European waters before being acquired and renamed the Amur in 1898 for use during the Klondike Gold Rush. The Canadian Pacific Navigation Company, later C.P.R. Steamship Services, purchased her in 1899, and she became a vital link connecting Vancouver and Victoria with remote northern British Columbia ports and Alaska. Despite several groundings on the challenging coastal routes, she proved durable. After suffering significant damage in 1911, she was converted into an ore carrier and finished her working life under her original name before ultimately being scuttled in Burrard Inlet in 1932.
(1 June 1906) - NORTHERN TRAVEL. There is a great exodus north this season of homeseekers and prospectors. Last year the movement in the direction of Bulkley Valley doubled the previous year, and though it is now too early to attempt an accurate forecast, the indications are favorable that the same will occur this Summer. On the Northern British Columbia Coast considerable stir is evidenced at different points. More people are going to Port Simpson, up the Skeena River, to Kai-en Island and up the Portland Canal than was ever previously known to have gone in these directions, and the prospects are, generally speaking, very reassuring of a big volume of business. As proof of this statement it might be stated that the C. P. R. Company is making the steamer Amur ready to join the Princess Beatrice on the Skeena and Skagway route. She will sail to-morrow night, and by the time she completes one round trip it is expected the steamer Princess May will be in condition to resume her service on the route. This steamer, which has been in the hands of the B. C. Marine Railway Company during the Winter months, has lately had new boilers installed, and the cabin work, which had to be left until this undertaking was completed, is being advanced now with all possible despatch, so that in a few more weeks the steamer will, it is thought, be running.
1906 Picture Post Card with "Vancouver & Skagway, R.P.O. / Str. Amur Postmark", a very fine and light strike in purple, dated JUN.5.1906 on a postcard mailed from Parry Sound Ont. on MAY.10.1906 (c.d.s. ties stamp) to Captain Smith in Vancouver (MAY.15 receiver), where it was redirected on MAY.18 to Port Simpson BC (MAY.31 broken circle on back) and finally to Caribou, Yukon Territory (Ketchican Alaska duplex transit dated JUN.8 on back). Ludlow # S-24a (RF 500), ex Robinson. LINK - queensu.scholaris.ca/server/api/core/bitstreams/e6200cf0-...
(3 June 1906) - For Skagway, Port Essington, Port Simpson and Ketchikan -Princess Beatrice May 28th, June 9th and 21st. "Amur" on June 2nd and 15th. The C. P. R. steamer Amur sailed late last night for Skagway with a large number of passengers and a good sized cargo of miscellaneous freight. The Amur will alternate with the steamer Princess Beatrice on the Northern route during the month of June or until the steamer Princess May is ready for service.
Message on postcard reads - Just imagine these are fresh (referring to the flowers on the front of the postcard). I sent your mail on to Port Essington. Received your letter this morning, glad to hear you enjoyed your trip. J.N.R.
Addressed to: Capt. T. Smith / Vancouver, B.C. / Care S.A. (Salvation Army) redirected to - Salvation Army / Port Simpson / B.C. - redirected to / Try Caribou / Yukon Territory ("Caribou" in the context of a town or city in the Yukon Territory refers to Carcross (formerly known as Caribou Crossing).
- sent from - / PARRY • SOUND / MY 10 / 06 / ONT. / - cds cancel
arrived at - / VANCOUVER / 19 / MY 15 / 06 / B.C. / - arrival stamp / Capt. T. Smith had left the Vancouver Salvation Army by this time - redirected to the Salvation Army in Port Simpson, B.C.
- left - / VANCOUVER / 2 / MY 18 / 06 / B.C. / - cds stamp
- arrived at - / PORT SIMPSON /MY 31 / 06 / B.C. / - arrival split ring stamp - again Capt. T. Smith was not located at the Port Simpson Salvation Army - Post Office wrote "Try Caribou / Yukon Territory"
- via steamship to Ketchikan, Alaska - / 1906 / STR. AMUR. / oval marking in purple ink - 02-SO [S-24a] / 1905-1911 / RF D-6 / Ludlow # S-24a (RF 500). "A" = 50 +, "B" = 21 to 50, "C" = 11 to 20, "D" 6 to 10, "E" 1 to 5 reported copies.
- via - / KETCHIKAN / JUN / 6 / 8 AM / 1906 / ALASKA / - duplex marking
- arrived at - / CARCROSS / JU 9 / 06 / YUKON / - split ring arrival stamp - Carcross, Yukon, Canada, was originally named Caribou Crossing. The name was officially changed in 1904 to shorten it and avoid confusion with other places with similar names, such as the Cariboo region in British Columbia.
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Captain T. Smith Identification: Information from a postcard (May-June 1906), sent to "Capt. T. Smith" via the Salvation Army in Port Simpson and routed to Carcross, Yukon, helped identify him as a specific historical figure:
The Salvation Army established a notable presence in the Yukon during the height of the 1898 Klondike Gold Rush, focusing on missionary and social work among miners. Led by Eva Booth, commander in Canada, a team of volunteers and nurses traveled to Dawson City to provide support and repair the broken dreams of miners.
Key Aspects of Early Yukon History:
Klondike Gold Rush Initiative: Prompted by the 1898 gold rush, Salvation Army officers, including nurses, were dispatched to Dawson City to provide, spiritual, and social aid to miners.
Missionary Focus: The focus was on "saving the souls of miners" and offering support to those facing difficult circumstances in the northern frontier.
Growth in Canada: This effort was part of the Army's expansion across Canada following its establishment in 1882, a period marked by rapid growth and social service.
Role of Eva Booth: Supported by her father, General William Booth, who visited North America in 1898, Eva Booth led the expedition into the Yukon.
The early work in the Yukon was characterized by a direct approach to supporting individuals in need, similar to the Salvation Army's efforts in other parts of Canada during that era.
LINK to Skagway Stories - www.skagwaystories.org/category/faith-and-religion/
Class 14 NCB38, formerly D9513 comes to grief grounding out on the roundabout at the colliery entrance, this was resolved by baulks of wood under the trailer wheels lifting the deck over the kerb. The loco was loaded at Ashington Colliery amid the Demo men for its journey South to the Embsay and Bolton Abbey Steam Railway. (Scanned from Kodak Gold 200 Print Negatives).
Built by BREL York Works in 1971, the Prototype Electro Pneumatic (PEP) vehicles, formed into two 4-car Class 445 and one 2-car Class 446 sets, were the grounding for many new EMU classes. After operating in passenger service for a few years, they entered departmental service as traction development sets. I photographed one of the Class 445s from beyond the boundary at Wimbledon Depot c1980. At this time, it was numbered 935 056 in the deparmental series (but may not have carried this number) and the livery comprised a dark grey upper body with red and blue bands swooping up at the end. That image has long since go, so I’ve adapted a low-quality copy of a monochrome original from Colin J Marsden, which has been used under the fair used provisions of copyright law (22-Nov-25).
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The FAA lifted its grounding of the Boeing 737 Max last November; since then, they've slowly been finding their way back into the air a few airplanes at a time. This is my first time photographing one in flight since March 2019.
Fidalgo Bay. Cap Sante Marina.
Press Release from USCG:
Coast Guard tows grounded vessel, responds to pollution near Anacortes, Washington.
A Coast Guard Station Bellingham 45-foot Response Boat-Medium crew towed and safely moored the fishing vessel Arline at the Cap Sante Marina in Anacortes after receiving a report that vessel was aground in the Swinomish Channel Thursday evening.
A boarding was conducted by the crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Adelie, an 87-foot patrol boat homeported in Port Angeles, Wash., revealing the master and crewman aboard the Arline to be intoxicated and the local police department took the master of the fishing vessel into custody.
Coast Guard Sector Puget Sound watchstanders received a call from the master of the Arline reporting the grounding near Anacortes. The Coast Guard Cutter Adelie was on a routine patrol at the time and was diverted to assist the crew of the grounded vessel.
Upon boarding the vessel, the Adelie crew suspected the master of the vessel was intoxicated and issued a field sobriety and breathalyzer test revealing a blood alcohol content level of .115, well over the legal limit in Washington State.
“Thanks to the crews of both Station Bellingham and the Coast Guard Cutter Adelie for making our local waterways safer,” said Captain Joe Raymond, Commanding Officer of Sector Puget Sound. “Boating while intoxicated is not only a danger to the crew of the vessel being operated, but it is endangers the lives of any boaters in the area.”
After the vessel was moored a light sheen was discovered coming from the Arline. Further inspection revealed a crack in the vessel’s shaft packing causing oily water to be discharged overboard.
Containment boom has been applied around the vessel. A Coast Guard incident management team from Seattle is working with contractors to contain further pollution and develop a possible salvage plan for the vessel.
The Arline is a 50-foot fishing vessel homeported in Seattle and is reportedly carrying up to 150 gallons of diesel aboard. The Coast Guard is investigating the grounding.
This isn't the first time the F/V ARLINE has run aground and a captian was arrested:
From September 5, 2013
British Columbia: American skipper arrested Monday on suspicion of impaired operation of a vessel after his fishing boat ran aground near Kelsey Bay.
The 58-foot American F/V Arline was heading south when it ran aground and the two remaining crew members apparently tried to abandon ship. Conditions may have been foggy at the time. The two remaining crew were safely evacuated and the captain was escorted to Campbell River while Coast Guard towed his boat. Awaiting the captain at the docks in Campbell River were Mounties, Canadian Border Services, Transport Canada, and Fisheries and Oceans Canada. Police arrested the captain on suspicion of impaired operation of a motor vessel and dangerous operation of a motor vessel.
A moody twilight sky filled with deep blue and purple clouds, with soft pink and orange hues glowing near the horizon. The dark silhouette of tree branches frames the lower right corner, adding depth and grounding the dramatic sky. The composition captures the quiet transition between day and night with a contemplative, atmospheric feel.
C-GZSG - Boeing B-737MAX-8 - WestJet
at Hamilton International Airport (YHM)
c/n 60.516 - built in 2018
Currently stored YHM due to the worldwide B-737MAX-grounding
The Hidden Land of Happiness........ Gross National Happiness
The Bhutanese grounding in Buddhist ideals suggests that beneficial development of human society takes place when material and spiritual development occur side by side to complement and reinforce each other. The term "gross national happiness", a concept of a quantitative measurement of well-being and happiness, was coined in 1972 by Bhutan's fourth Dragon King, Jigme Singye Wangchuck, who has opened Bhutan to the age of modernization. The four pillars of gross national happiness are the promotion of sustainable development, preservation and promotion of cultural values, conservation of the natural environment, and establishment of good governance.
In a 2007 study from University of Leicester, Bhutan ranked eighth out of 178 countries in Subjective Well-Being (Satisfaction with Life Scale, SWLS), a metric of happiness that has been used by many psychologists. In fact, it is the only country in the top 20 "happiest" countries that has a very low GDP.
White, A. (2007). A Global Projection of Subjective Well-being: A Challenge to Positive Psychology? Psychtalk 56, 17-20.
Taktsang Palphug Monastery , a prominent Himalayan Buddhist sacred site and temple complex, first built in 1692, hangs on a precipitous cliff at 3,120 metres (10,240 ft), above the Paro valley, Bhutan.
To reach this place people have to trek for around 3-4 h from the Paro valley below. Previously there was almost no path to the top, only a pilgrim's trail, but in last decade a well maintained path was built to help pilgrims and travelers reach the monastery a bit more comfortable walk.
From www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room...
Typhoons and Hurricanes: Pacific Typhoon at Okinawa, October 1945
On 4 October 1945, a typhoon was spotted developing in the Caroline Islands and tracked as it moved on a predictable course to the northwest. Although expected to pass into the East China Sea north of Formosa on 8 October, the storm unexpectedly veered north toward Okinawa. That evening the storm slowed down and, just as it approached Okinawa, began to greatly increase in intensity. The sudden shift of the storm caught many ships and small craft in the constricted waters of Buckner Bay (Nakagusuku Wan) and they were unable to escape to sea. On 9 October, when the storm passed over the island, winds of 80 knots (92 miles per hour) and 30-35 foot waves battered the ships and craft in the bay and tore into the quonset huts and buildings ashore. A total of 12 ships and craft were sunk, 222 grounded, and 32 severely damaged. [for listing of vessels] Personnel casualties were 36 killed, 47 missing, and 100 seriously injured. Almost all the food, medical supplies and other stores were destroyed, over 80% of all housing and buildings knocked down, and all the military installations on the island were temporarily out of action. Over 60 planes were damaged as well, though most were repairable. Although new supplies had been brought to the island by this time, and emergency mess halls and sleeping quarters built for all hands, the scale of the damage was still very large. If the war had not ended on 2 September, this damage, especially the grounding and damage to 107 amphibious craft (including the wrecking of four tank landing ships, two medium landing ships, a gunboat, and two infantry landing craft) would likely have seriously impacted the planned invasion of Japan (Operation Olympic).
Extract on the Typhoon from Commander in Chief, Pacific Fleet and Pacific Ocean Areas report on the Surrender and Occupation of Japan
Annex A.
Typhoon "Louise" The 9 October 1945 Storm at Okinawa.
On 4 October a typhoon developed just north of Rota as a result of a barometric depression and the convergent flow of equatorial air and tropical air. Guam Weather Central called the storm of apparently weak intensity "Louise" and put out the first weather advisory on it at 041200Z, with further advisories following at intervals of six hours. Up to that time of the 16th advisory (080600Z), the storm was following a fairly predictable path to the NW, and was expected to pass between Formosa and Okinawa and on into the East China Sea. At this time, however, the storm began to veer sharply to the right and head north for Okinawa. The 17th advisory at 081200Z (081100I) showed this clearly, and units began to be alerted for the storm late in the evening of the 8th. The forecast for Okinawa was for winds of 60 knots, with 90 knot gusts in the early morning of 9 October, and passage of the center at 1030(I).
"Louise", however, failed to conform to pattern, and that evening, as it reached 25º N (directly south of Okinawa) it slowed to six knots and greatly increased in intensity. As a result, the storm which struck in the afternoon of the 9th has seldom been paralleled in fury and violence; the worst storm at Okinawa since our landings in April.
The sudden shift of the storm 12 hours before its expected maximum , from a predicted path 150 miles west of Okinawa to an actual path that brought the center of the storm less than 15 miles east of Okinawa's southeast coast, caught many craft in the supposedly safe shelter of Buckner Bay without time to put to sea far enough to clear the storm. The ninth of October found the Bay jammed with ships ranging in size from Victory ships to LCV(P)s. All units, both afloat and ashore, were hurriedly battening down and securing for the storm.
By 1000 the wind had risen to 40 knots, and the barometer was down to 989 millibars, visibility was less than 800 yards, the seas were rising, and the rain was coming down in torrents, liberally mixed with salt spray. By 1200, visibility was zero, and the wind was 60 knots from the east and northeast, with tremendous seas breaking over the ships. Small craft were already being torn loose from their anchors, and larger ships were, with difficulty, holding by liberal use of their engines. At 1400 the wind had risen to 80 knots, with gusts of far greater intensity, the rain that drove in horizontally was more salt than fresh, and even the large ships were dragging anchor under the pounding of 30 to 35-foot seas. The bay was now in almost total darkness, and was a scene of utter confusion as ships suddenly loomed in the darkness, collided, or barely escaped colliding by skillful use of engines, and were as quickly separated by the heavy seas. Not all ships were lucky; hundreds were blown ashore, and frequently several were cast on the beach in one general mass of wreckage, while the crews worked desperately to maintain watertight integrity and to fasten a line to anything at hand in order to stop pounding. Many ships had to be abandoned. Sometimes the crews were taken aboard by other ships; more often they made their way ashore, where they spent a miserable night huddled in caves and fields. A few were lost.
By 1600 the typhoon reached its peak, with steady winds of 100 knots and frequent gusts of 120 knots. At this time the barometer dipped to 968.5 millibars. This was the lowest reading that the barometers recorded, and was probably the point of passage of the center of the typhoon, but the maximum winds continued unabated for another two hours, the gusts becoming more fierce, if anything. During this period, the wind shifted to the north, and then to the northwest, and began to blow ships back off the west and north reefs of the Bay and across to the south, sometimes dragging anchor the entire way. These wild voyages by damaged ships caused a nightmare series of collisions and near escapes with other drifting ships and shattered hulks.
A typical experience was that of FLAGLER (AK). Her anchors dragged at 1200, and despite the use of both engines she was blown ashore a mile north of Baten Ko by 1315, colliding with LST 826 on the way. Grounded, she began to pound, and all power was lost. At 1710, as the wind changed, FLAGLER was blown off the reef and back across the bay, grazing a capsized YF and continuing on, with a 13º port list, no power, and the lower spaces and after engine room beginning to flood. One anchor was lost, the other dragged across the bay. By 1800 she had moved two miles across the bay and had grounded on the east side of Baten Ko, alongside a DE hulk. Lines were made fast to the DE, but flooding continued, and AT 0545 ship was abandoned. A small party remained on board, however, and successfully stopped flooding as the typhoon subsided. FLAGLER was later salvaged.
Many other ships had similar stories. SOUTHER SEAS (PY) rammed or was rammed by five other ships, before sinking. NESTOR (ARB) was forced to start maneuvering as early as 1020, in order to avoid INCA (IX), which had started to drag at 0950. In dodging INCA, NESTOR slipped nearer to the beach, and was forced to put all engines ahead one third in order to hold position on her anchor. At 1230 NESTOR again had to maneuver to narrowly avoid a collision with LST 826, which was dragging anchor very rapidly; but in so doing, NESTOR nearly ran down ARD 27. Another LST, the 823, was being slowly driven towards NESTOR. While maneuvering clear of 823, NESTOR's anchor chain fouled the buoy to which an LCI was secured, and NESTOR had to slip her anchor chain. Despite the full use of all engines, NESTOR was being driven on shore by the increasing winds. The starboard anchor was let go but would not hold, and in clearing two more ships dragging anchor (ARD 22 and LCI 463), NESTOR moved perilously close to the beach. At this time the winds were constantly rising, seas were breaking clear over the ship, and the conn was being deluged with salt water and torrents of rain.
No sooner had the last two ships been cleared than YP 289 closed dead ahead, and it became necessary to back all engines to avoid a collision, but this put NESTOR so close to the beach that she soon grounded. It was now 1345, only an hour and a quarter after first dodging LST 826. While grounded, NESTOR was struck by YF 1079, was holed, and began to pound badly. At 1420 a sudden shift of wind drove NESTOR off the beach, flipped her around end for end, and drove her back on the beach alongside OCELOT (IX 110). Breakers 20 to 30 feet high now pounded NESTOR, flooding all starboard compartments aft of frame 25. At 1530 the wind again shifted, driving NESTOR's stern against APL 14, completely crushing the stern, while the bow penetrated the side of OCELOT at frame 10. A few minutes later, NESTOR settled in 24 feet of water. At 1945 all personnel and records were evacuated to APL 14.
Conditions on shore were no better. Twenty hours of torrential rain soaked everything, made quagmires of roads, and ruined virtually all stores. The hurricane winds destroyed from 50% to 95% of all tent camps, and flooded the remainder. Damage to Quonset huts ran from 40% to 99% total destruction. Some of these Quonsets were lifted bodily and moved hundreds of feet; others were torn apart, galvanized iron sheets ripped off, wallboarding shredded, and curved supports torn apart. Driven from their housing, officers and men alike were compelled to take shelter in caves, old tombs, trenches, and ditches in the open fields, and even behind heavy road-building machinery, as the wind swept tents, planks, and sections of galvanized iron through the air.
At the Naval Air Bases some 60 planes of all types were damaged, some of which had been tossed about unmercifully, but most of which were reparable. Installations suffered far more severely. The seas worked under many of the concrete ramps and broke them up into large and small pieces of rubble. All repair installations were either swept away or severely damaged. At Yonobaru, all 40' by 100' buildings were demolished, the same being true at the NATS terminal. Communication and meteorological services were blown out at most bases by 1900.
The storm center of typhoon "Louise" passed Buckner Bay at about 1600, from which time until 2000 it raged at peak strength. The storm was advancing at the rapid rate of 15 knots in a northerly, then northeasterly, direction, and by 2000 the center was 60 miles away. The winds gradually began to subside. Conditions in Buckner Bay were at this time somewhat improved by the wind's having veered to the northwest across the land mass of Okinawa, which reduced the size of the seas, and probably saved many more damaged ships from being driven off the reefs and sunk in deep water. Nevertheless, the subsidence at 2000 was a relative one, from "super-typhoon" to typhoon conditions, with steady winds of 80 and 60 knots throughout the night, and some gusts of higher velocity. A wild, wet, and dangerous night was spent by all hands, afloat or ashore. It was not until 1000 on the 10th that the winds fell to a steady 40 knots and rains slackened.
Having left Okinawa, the storm proceeded NNE on a curving track. Ships of occupation groups anchored in Amami O Shima anchorage had a rough time, with winds over 70 knots; and Japan, from Nagasaki to Tokyo, was alerted for the storm. On the night of 10-11 October, "Louise" ran into cold air from over Japan; as a result the center of the typhoon occluded, moved aloft to the north, and eventually dissipated. Our forces from Nagasaki to Wakayama experienced winds of 40 to nearly 60 knots on the 11th and 12th. Ships at sea were enabled to maneuver clear of the worst of the storm, and sustained only minor damage, despite heavy seas.
This ended typhoon "Louise", but the damage it left behind on Okinawa was tremendous. Approximately 80% of all housing and buildings were destroyed or made unusable. Very little tentage was salvageable, and little was on hand as a result of previous storms. Food stocks were left for only 10 days. Medical facilities were so destroyed that an immediate request had to be made for a hospital ship to support the shore activities on the island.
Casualties were low, considering the great numbers of people concerned and the extreme violence of the storm. This was very largely due to the active and well directed efforts of all hands in assisting one another, particularly in evacuation of grounded and sinking ships. By 18 October, reports had been sifted and it was found that there were 36 dead and 47 missing, with approximately 100 receiving fairly serious injuries.
The casualty list of ships was far greater. (See Appendix III following). A total of 12 ships were sunk, 222 grounded, and 32 damaged beyond the ability of ships' companies to repair. ComServDiv 104 under Commodore T.J. Keliher, was assigned to the salvage work. By 19 November, 79 ships had been refloated, and 132 were under repair. The remaining 53 badly damaged vessels still afloat had been, or were being, decommissioned, stripped, and abandoned. On 14 November, ComServPac, (Vice Admiral W. W. Smith) inspected the damage, and decided that only 10 ships were worth complete salvage, out of some 90 ships with major work to be done on them. This decision was made chiefly because similar types of ships were rapidly being decommissioned in the United States, and the cost of salvage would have been excessive for unneeded ships.
Repair work went on rapidly ashore. As a result of the experience in the earlier typhoon in September, extra stocks of food and tentage were to be stored on Okinawa. These were enroute on 9 October, and in less than a week after the storm, supplies were fairly well built up; emergency mess halls and sleeping quarters had been erected for all hands, and 7500 men had been processed for return to the United States.
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Ship grounding is a type of marine accident that involves the impact of a ship on seabed or waterway side. It may result in the damage of the submerged part of the ship’s hull and in particular the bottom structure, potentially leading to water ingress, which may compromise the ship's structural integrity, stability and finally safety. Severe grounding applies extreme loads onto ship structures. In less severe accidents, it might result only in damage to the hull; however, in most serious accidents, it might lead to hull breaches, cargo spills, total loss of the vessel, and, in the worst cases, human casualties.
From a global perspective, grounding accounts for about one-third of commercial ship accidents all over the world and it has the second rank in frequency, after ship–on–ship collision.
Grounding, depending on the maneuvers of the master before the impact, may result in the ship being stranded. Depending on the nature of the relief of the seabed at the location, i.e., being muddy or rocky, different measures have to be taken to release the ship and transport it to a safe harbor.
Investigating the causality of grounding accidents, there are many factors that are believed to contribute to the accident, such as current, darkness, tide, visibility, wave, wind,depth and geometry of the waterway; age, size and type of the vessel; speed, and human and organizational factors; However, the effects of most of the causal factors have been considered anecdotal, without evidential support.
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An ice shelf is a thick platform of ice that forms at the grounding line of a glacier, where the glacier meets the coastline. Most freshwater on earth is bound in the huge ice shield covering almost entire Antarctica and extending in shelf-ice to the sea. Increasing melt of Antarctic ice would lead to significant sea level rise.
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Manhattan floats with the Empire State building grounding it. From the Rockefeller it stretches into the unknown.
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