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| Author: | Sylvia [ Tue Aug 19, 2008 12:28 am ] |
| Post subject: | Ships covered with ice |
I watched The deadliest catch on Discovery channel this evening. It is a reality programme about ships fishing for crab in the Bering Sea. In this evening’s episode it is winter, the freezing temperatures caused ice build on the ships and thereby making them unstable. The crews had to continually hack it all away, dressed in special water/weather proof cloths. It made me wonder. Ice building on a ship must have been a problem for sailing ships too. Did frozen rigging or masts snap under the extra weight of the ice? Did they have special cloths for such occasions? Or shorter shifts to prevent them from getting frozen limbs. What could they do to make the ships more stable, once it was covered in/with ice? I can imagine the listing of sailing ships, carrying the extra weight of the ice, could make them so unstable that they became in danger of capsizing. Sylvia |
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