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Saturday, 14 July 2007 |
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People who have never sailed at sea before often have a very distorted view of what it is really like. Sure it can be just like in the postcards or on the movies, but it can also be very very scary. Whilst I've done a bit of off shore sailing on extended trips, I have never seen anything like the photo below, and I hope I never do. It was sent to me amongst some others via email and the subject claimed that it was the Pasha Bulker just before it ran aground at Nobby's Beach in Newcastle. That would make a great story, however it's actually a bulk carrier originally called the Selkirk Settler. The photo was taken by the second mate during a wild storm in the North Atlantic in February 1987. The ship was on it's way from Florida to Belgium with a load of phosphates. It didn't sink!
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