Holy cow! That is a dramatic story. I'm glad you are safe. Thats too bad about the pictures, now I know what you meant by the Ms. Cod comment earlier!
rg On 3/19/08, Tim Øsleby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > -- 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.
