{"id":1441,"date":"2012-06-21T11:08:42","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T19:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.wordpress.com\/?p=1441"},"modified":"2012-06-21T11:08:42","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T19:08:42","slug":"collision-course-at-sea-06172012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=1441","title":{"rendered":"Collision Course \u2013 At Sea \u2013 [06\/17\/2012]"},"content":{"rendered":"

I would \"\"<\/a>argue that there is little that is more depressing than a rainy sea-day in Alaska. Everything turns monotone and it feels if we are sailing through a particularly lonesome watercolor in which the artist could not decide on anything to put into the image and so left the horizon distressingly blank and great except for the occasional glimpse of distant coastline barely visible through the haze.<\/p>\n

Such weather doesn\u2019t bode well for Juneau tomorrow, but then by now we are quite used to rain in Juneau. The constant rattle of raindrops on the windows has become a familiar accompaniment to our days here.<\/p>\n

Though the view to either side of us remains clear, the view from the front of the ship is hazed by the rain. No one is really surprised when the ship\u2019s horn starts blasting. Two blasts you assume it\u2019s a fog alert, which is strange because there isn\u2019t really a lot of fog \u2013 four blasts you start to wonder if someone is looking to get beached by playing around on the bridge\u2026four more<\/em> blasts and you realize that there must be something in our direct path. Not a whale, we\u2019re trained and drilled in how to avoid whales and you\u2019re not allowed to attempt to scare them off, plus if it were wildlife of any kind there would have been an announcement from the bridge \u2013 this captain is very good about alerting us to those opportunities.<\/p>\n

No, this was an entirely different kind of waterbug.<\/p>\n

Allow me to explain: when you\u2019re as big a vessel as we are, anything smaller than another cruise ship or freight vessel qualifies as what we call \u201cwater bugs\u201d.<\/p>\n

In this case, there was a pleasure craft a very, very short distance in front of us (think the nautical equivalent of a car-length? Hard to visualize\u2026let me just put it this way instead TOO DARN CLOSE)\u2026and they weren\u2019t moving. \u00a0It took about fifteen total blasts on the ship\u2019s horn to finally catch their attention and get them to peel out of the way. How someone could miss an eleven story cruise ship looming behind them doing the nautical equivalent of leaning on their horn at a green light I have no idea\u2026<\/p>\n

And what does he do once he finally wises up and gets out of the way? He comes back! To take a picture!!!<\/p>\n

Water-bugs\u2026<\/p>\n

yeesh<\/p>\n

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