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(c)2007 WavyLine.com	Issue No 397 02 Jul 07
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Editor: Sam Ignarski
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In this issue:

1. Welcome
2. Pasha Bulker at Newcastle
3. Market Reform
4. Have you Seen this Ship and Crane?
5. Shipping Lanes Shift to Miss Whales
6. And Finally...

1. Welcome

Poem of the Week

Postcards

At first I sent you a postcard
From every city I went to.
Grüsse aus Bath, aus Birmingham,
Aus Rotterdam, aus Tel Aviv.
Mit Liebe. Cards from you arrived
In English, with many commas.
Hope, you're fine and still alive,
Says one from Hong Kong. By that time
We weren't writing quite as often.

Now we're nearly nine years away
From the lake and the blue mountains,
And the room with the balcony,
But the heat and light of those days
Can reach this far from time to time.
Your latest was from Senegal,
Mine from Helsinki. I don't know
If we'll meet again. Be happy.
If you hear this, send a postcard.

Wendy Cope, from If I Don't Know

New Readers this week include:-

Patrick F Lennon of Lennon, Murphy & Lennon in New York Andrew Stichbury of the North of England P&I Club Les Crosby of Bellingham,Wa

Readers Write

Larry Woelk, who has held executive positions with LEP International, BAX Global, Pinkerton and Airborne Express has joined Henderson International Recruitment, the ad division of George Henderson, as Managing Director.

http://www.george-henderson.com -

Note from the Editor

Rather a lot relating to YouTube this week. See items 2 and 4.

Enjoy!

2. Pasha Bulker at Newcastle

We were reminded by the excellent Cargolaw, the monthly e-zine published by law firm Countryman and McDaniel that the best tidal window for the salvage of this ship is over the next few days. The very early attempts to tow the ship off the bech appear to have failed. The zine has links to the excellent picture story of this casualty:-

http://www.cargolaw.com/2007nightmare_pasha.bulk.html

While we were researching this incident we ran across a new blog (to us at least) called the gCaptain.com, which contains a list of interesting clips on YouTube. Here is an extract from the blog:-

Interested in using some of the YouTube & Goggle videos you find for your Safety Meetings? Maybe you just want to bring them out to the ship with you--If so check out Vixy.net.

To get you started here are some of our most popular video posts:

* Video - Coast Guard Helicopter Rescue of Pasha Bulker * Top 10 Rescue at Sea Videos from the U.S. Coast Guard * Video of the Emma Maersk - World’s Largest Container Ship * Maritime Experts Delay Salvage of Grounded Vessel * World’s Fastest Ship OR Largest Plane? You Decide. * Weather Avoidance the Fedex Way
* The Deadliest Catch - Rogue Wave Edition
* Windoc Incident - Photos, Video

Funny Videos

* The German Coast Guard Commercial
* Pasha Bulker Transformer Cartoon
* AMO Union Meeting

Pick up the links at:

http://gcaptain.com/maritime/blog/download-youtube-videos/#more-204

3. Market Reform

Insurance industry IT guru Roger Foord writes:

My free presentation on Market Reform is confirmed for 10th July at Balls Brothers conference room( St Olave’s), Minster Court, Mincing Lane London EC3, starting at 8.30 a.m. with coffee. I have re-titled my the presentation ‘Market Reform ­ Success for London, but how far should it go?’. This is based on recent reported comments from the CEO of Lloyd’s regarding ‘electronic trading, dressing down on the floor and taking the broker out of the payment chain’. I believe these are important issues which need to be brought into the open as they could dramatically affect the London market’s future.

The agenda is:

8.30 Coffee
8.45 Setting the scene ­ Roger Foord
9.00 Important historic changes and what is
happening now ­ John Preston
9.20 What should and should not happen in the future ­ Roger Foord and John Preston
9.45 Questions
10.00 Close

If you have confirmed your attendance already, then thank you, if not please let me know you will be there. Feel free to invite other colleagues and friends who are interested in the future of our great market.

************

There is a small event included for charity when John Preston will make a short presentation on his excellent book charting British History in rhyme. He is doing this on behalf of the Little Haven Children’s Hospice.

I would like to thank the Balls Brothers management for allowing me to use their premises for nothing.

I look forward to seeing you on the 10th July.

info@rogerfoord.com

4. Have you Seen this Ship and Crane?

One of our Readers is hot on the trail of accidents involving over taxed container cranes. The clip of film below has been doing the rounds of the internet for some time. Does anyone know where and when the incident filmed happened. If you do please let us know.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Sr-g8GaZRo

5. Shipping Lanes Shift to Miss Whales

From David Hughes' Anderimar News Zine:-

SHIPPING traffic lanes near Boston, US,will be shifted to reduce the risk of collisions between large ships and whales this weekend.

From 1 July ships transiting in and out of Boston Harbor in shipping lanes will travel a different path. The lanes have been rotated slightly to the northeast and narrowed to avoid waters where there are high concentrations of whales. According to National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration and the US Coast Guard which are jointly implementing the change the lane shift adds 3.75 nautical miles to the overall distance and 10 to 22 minutes to each one-way trip. "It also," a statement says, "improves safety by moving large ship traffic further away from areas frequently transited by smaller fishing boats, and by reducing chances of damage to large ships owing to collisions with whales or with other ships while attempting to avoid whales."

"This is a large part of NOAA’s effort to work with its partners and industry to improve the prospects for endangered North Atlantic right whales. The population is vulnerable since they are particularly susceptible to collisions with ships," said retired Navy Vice Admiral Conrad C. Lautenbacher, NOAA administrator and under secretary of commerce for oceans and atmosphere. "We have extensively studied the problem and whale behaviour and have devised this measure as a much safer environment for ships and the whales while at the same time being the least disruptive to the economy."

"This change highlights how the Coast Guard protects ‘people from the sea and the sea from people.’ Whale collisions with ships pose a significant hazard that we needed to better control," said Coast Guard Capt Liam Slein, First Coast Guard District Chief of Prevention. "We expect this small change will protect numerous whales while also reducing the damage and hazards such collisions cause."

david@anderimar.eclipse.co.uk

6. And Finally...

Thanks to Frazer Hunt for this one:-

A man appeared before St. Peter at the Pearly Gates. "Have you ever done anything of particular merit?" St. Peter asked.
"Well, I can think of one thing," the man offered. "Once, on a trip to the Blue Mountains west of Sydney, I came upon a gang of bikers, who were threatening a young woman. I directed them to leave her alone, but they wouldn't listen.So, I approached the largest and most heavily tattooed biker and smacked him in his face, kicked his bike over, ripped out his nose ring,
and threw it on the ground.

I out
of all of you!"

St. Peter was impressed, "When did this happen?"

"Just a couple minutes ago..."

P.S. This one is from Frazer as well.....

A town in Poland had only one cow and it stopped giving milk. The townspeople did a little research and discovered they could get a cow from Moscow for 2000 rubles - or one

It was a great cow: had a wonderful disposition, and gave lots of milk and lots of cream. Everybody loved it dearly. The people decided they would mate the cow and get more cows like it, and then they would never have to worry about their milk supply again.

So they got a bull and led the cow and the bull into the pasture. When the bull came in from the right to mount the cow, the cow moved to the left. When the bull moved in to mount the cow from the left, the cow moved to the right. This went on all day.

Finally, in desperation, the people decided to go ask the rabbi what to do. After all he was very wise.

They told him the story. "Rabbi, we've tried all day to mate our cow. When the bull moves in from the right the cow moves left and when the bull moves in from the left the cow moves to the right. What do we do?"

The Rabbi thought a moment and asked, "Did you buy this cow from Minsk?"

"Rabbi!" they replied as one, "You are so wise! We never said we bought the cow from Minsk. How did you know that?"

The Rabbi said, sadly, "My wife is from Minsk."

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