Warning. Looong and far OT post. But it is a long story... I've been away for some time. Anybody noticed? Probably not.
There are several reasons for my absense. I have been out in the real world, having real world experienses. Reality is a tough bitch. A bit too tough some times. So now I'm back, and are looking forward to catch up again with the list. The short version is that I've been to sea as a stewart at a lineboat. It all happened very fast. This was a totally new experiense for me. I've never been at sea, I have never made my living as a cook, and I have never been farther north than Trondheim. This was in the Barents Sea http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barents_Sea It was hard work, very hard work. For the first two weeks we had bad weather, and it felt like I did everything uphill. Litterally speaking. After two weeks the weather improved, and I did too. I adapted to the new envirement. So I was able to make a lot of interesting pictures. Sadly I will never be able to show them to anyone. The trip lasted for five weeks. At 8. mars the boat was almost full, and we where preparing for going back again. I was full of adventures, and was looking forward to come home again to my everyday envirement, and to my beloved. It is kind of hard to explain what happened in english, but the short version of the story is best told by a picture (warning: drama) http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/distrikt/nrk_sogn_og_fjordane/1.5059478 No one knows what actually happened. What we do know is that came in water in the room where the line comes back to the ship. This is rather common, but for some reason the captain and the crew was not able to get it out again. So there was only one thing to do: To get into the water, and away from the sinking ship. It was chaotic. When we was geting into the life suits, the ship was leaning about 45 degrees, and a table was running loose. But we managed to send out a call for help, and get into the water, and on to the life float. Most of the other men where trained for this situation. But this was my first trip so I was not. The only thing I had learned up front was how to get into the suit. So I just had to look at the others, float along, doing whatever they did. Thanks to the fact that everybody, did what they where told to do, it all went rather smoothly. To make a long story short. We where all rescued after a long hour in the water. Basically I'm fine. Physically nothings wrong with me. Emotionally I'm fine too. I have good nights sleep. But I'm not sure I will go out again. I need to test my reactions towards the sea in more controlled envirement before I decide on that. I have lost some stuff. Camera, a couple of lenses, puter, cell phone, and some clothes. But most likely I will be able to replace all this from insuranse. What I will not be able to replace is my picture archive. I lost both originals and backup of most of my pictures. Hopefully I will be able to restore most of it from an old HD. Ok. Folks. Thats my story. Has something interesting happened while I've been away? I have noticed there is a new Tim here. Tim Typo PS. Thank you Doug, for being you know, Doug -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
