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Speckhunter

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About Speckhunter

  • Birthday 06/28/1953

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  • What I do for a living:
    Retired. Done my laps in the rat race.

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    Richmond Virginia

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  1. I prefer fall trips. Lower water temps. Going this fall Nov. 11th Veterans Day thru the 18th. Buxton. I'll let you all know how it goes. Some of my best trout catches in the surf were in that time period. Weather can be iffy, but I've had some beautiful days. Stores and restaurants still open (usually until Thanksgiving). My last trip was second week of May, beautiful weather surf conditions - but nothing to report.
  2. When James Cameron was interviewed last week and he mentioned he had worked on the design of a submersible that went all the way to the seabed in the Mariannas Trench, I was curious - this documentary covers the whole thing in detail....Cameron single handedly piloted this thing himself. Solo. 35,000 feet down, deepest dive ever done. Also mentions his ocean filming work on the Abyss, Titanic and Avatar. You can watch the whole hour and a half on YouTube - (Browser wont play it). The extent they went to design, fabricate and test this vehicle makes a mockery of the shortcuts taken in the other "vehicle". Link: (4) James Cameron's Deepsea Challenge 3D - YouTube
  3. They found the SS Challenger crew remains but that was a different explosion and a much shallower depth. Watched several specialists last night that explained that the "implosion" shock wave at that depth moves at 1,500 mph. The human brain needs at least 0.25 of a second to even register a thought, and the occupants would have been disintegrated before they could understand what was happening. What was interesting is that both James Cameron and another deep dive specialist said that last text contact from the sub at 1 hour 45 minutes into the dive was they were initiating the resurface action and dropping the weights. Given a rate of decent of 85 feet per minute, that puts the Titan sub at 8900 feet depth - when it imploded. So, if the bodies did disintegrate, the pieces rained down to the sea floor for the last 3,600 feet, give or take. Depending on currents and drift...and the lighter weight human debris (whatever the remains) ...where do you look? One marine doctor said they might find trace human DNA somewhere on the seafloor...if they were lucky.
  4. Hmm. Think I'll start a GoFundMe to have a barrel rental business at Niagara Falls
  5. Really? Well, .......that's the Way of Water.
  6. You are referring to Christa McAuliffe, correct? (Not Sally Ride).
  7. Yeah, right. Like that's going to work. All I've heard for a year is about the "Biden Crime Family". Don't think this one week will change that.
  8. After some initial finger pointing all week, the "post tragedy" finger pointing is in full swing. I've seen James Cameron on several evening news networks and he is really coming down hard on the hubris of this "Explorer" CEO. Apparently James Cameron not only had huge misgivings about this Oceangate submersible design - he had warned an associate NOT to use a similarly Carbon Fiber designed submersible vehicle....basically warned him : If you dive in that thing YOU WILL DIE.
  9. You being funny , right? This is Sally Ride ....................(you posted Sigourney from Alien)
  10. Maybe claiming asTucker did "there were no insurectionists - just tourists" makes him FOS. OF COURSE. All those people breaking windows were tourists just trying to get a better view. LOL Tonight even republicans who were there on Jan 6. are calling BS on Tucker C. What the Dominion lawsuit emails of behind the curtain FOX revelations, including those of Rupert Murdoch, are proving -- w/o a doubt, is that Tucker C. is an orifice of the rectal kind.
  11. For the same reason a prosecutor doesn't show anything that absolves the accused?
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