Copper door1/10/2023 ![]() Advise the Base Operations leadership team of any requirements for maintenance or repairs.Ensure heavy equipment is safely and securely stored.Clean heavy equipment as scheduled and/or required.Perform daily safety and maintenance checks.Operate all heavy equipment in a safe and efficient way according to all relevant policies and procedures.Operate heavy equipment in a safe and effective manner in order to minimize the risk of injury, property damage or loss of life.It's odd that such a vessel, if it truly existed, could cruise the world for almost thirty years without its being seen more often, or one of its crew deserting ashore and telling the story. The crew then made camp on the reef until they were rescued. ![]() She barely made it to Roncador Reef before she grounded. ![]() The vessel was chased, then sank into the water before surfacing again and ramming the Kearsarge, putting a large hole in her hull. Yes, according to her commander, Captain Leigh Hunt, he was attacked by a man-made underwater vessel that resembled a whale. The whaling ship Essex, out of Nantucket, was rammed and sunk by a whale, offered Pitt. It seems a stretch to think that the mysterious monster wasn't designed and constructed by an industrial nation, said Pitt, still skeptical. And if it sailed around ramming and sinking ships, how come there were not more survivors to report the incidents? Those early efforts would have looked crude beside Captain Nemo's Nautilus. After that, submarine science lagged until John Holland and Simon Lake began experimenting with and building submarines that were accepted by several countries, including us and the Germans. The Hunley even experimented with electromagnetic engines, but that technology was not ready, so eight men sat inside the submarine and turned a crank that spun the propeller for propulsion. That last thing, by the way, was a concept that nobody thought had been used before Howard Hughes flushed the rivets on an aircraft he designed in the mid-nineteen-thirties. She was quite streamlined, and she had a rudimentary snorkel system with bellows to pump air, ballast tanks with pumps, diving planes and flush rivets to reduce water drag. When she was inspected at first hand and the silt and remains of her crew removed from inside, she was found to be far more modern in concept than was supposed. The Hunley sat on the bottom buried in silt for a hundred and thirty-six years before she was discovered, raised and placed in a conservation laboratory tank to preserve her for public display. Perlmutter nodded.Yes, the feat didn't happen again until fifty years later, in August of 1914, when the U-21 sank the HMS Pathfinder in the North Sea. What about Verne? Pitt inquired.There must be a museum, a home or relatives that collected all his papers, research records and letters. Sounds like the good captain was heavily into the rum locker, Pitt said, jokingly. Not exactly an underwater craft to be taken lightly in 1894. Probably somewhere in between, Pitt said thoughtfully.Somewhere slightly more than two hundred feet in length with a twenty-five-foot beam. The Hunley was built by private individuals who funded the project, lectured Perlmutter.Actually, she was the third boat built by Horace Hunley and his engineers. He disappeared down the hall for several minutes before reappearing with a book in one hand.A copy of the board of inquiry minutes concerning the sinking of the U.S. Perlmutter ran out of steam and was about to reach for the port bottle again when a look of revelation swept over his face.I just thought of something, he said, raising his great bulk out of his chair with ease. ![]() Navy ship, the Abraham Lincoln, which reported an encounter with an undersea craft that rammed and shattered her rudder. That, said Perlmutter sternly,was a real whale. Perlmutter contemplated his bottle of port, which was now two-thirds empty.Over that time, many ships disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Pitt set his glass on the table but refused another when offered.I can't believe a supernatural vessel decades ahead of its time 'was built by private individuals. The ship that sank the famous Confederate raider Alabama? Which isn't to say there are not more reports, untapped by researchers, in archives scattered around the world. I can't say, said Perlmutter slowly.I only know what I find in recorded sea history. The same, Perlmutter answered Pitt.I'd forgotten the strange circumstances behind her grounding on Roncador Reef off Venezuela in 1894.
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