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littleme

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The beach is only accessible from the sea, unless you're prepared to attempt the very dodgy cliff decent/ascent.

You won't often see an ice cream van there.

They may well not have survived at all without the residual shelter of the beached boat.
It's right next to the beach? Or am I seeing things? One of them could have/probably did, get off and climb the cliff....why not both.....very suspicious
 

Gramaisc

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It's right next to the beach? Or am I seeing things? One of them could have/probably did, get off and climb the cliff....why not both.....very suspicious
I'll take you there and watch you climb the cliff. 🧗‍♀️

If you get out of the wrecked boat and sit on the beach, you are looking at the whole Atlantic running straight in at you, as you sit there, in November, with no shelter, for three days..

It's this sort of terrain.

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They were only likely to be spotted from the sea, particularly at this time of the year and recent weather would keep people a long way off the coast there, for their own safety.

There is certainly an element of suspicion about what the purpose of their trip really was, but getting up out of there is not for the fainthearted. I suspect that it was only attempted when, after being there for three days, and realising that nobody had spotted them, it became a 'now or never' moment.
 

littleme

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I'll take you there and watch you climb the cliff. 🧗‍♀️

If you get out of the wrecked boat and sit on the beach, you are looking at the whole Atlantic running straight in at you, as you sit there, in November, with no shelter, for three days..

It's this sort of terrain.

CX-l_jMWwAAfLly.jpg


They were only likely to be spotted from the sea, particularly at this time of the year and recent weather would keep people a long way off the coast there, for their own safety.

There is certainly an element of suspicion about what the purpose of their trip really was, but getting up out of there is not for the fainthearted. I suspect that it was only attempted when, after being there for three days, and realising that nobody had spotted them, it became a 'now or never' moment.
From the first picture it looks like theyre next to a small sandy beach.....They had no radio? Mobile of satellite phone? Weren't in touch with the coast guard ?
 

Gramaisc

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From the first picture it looks like theyre next to a small sandy beach.....They had no radio? Mobile of satellite phone? Weren't in touch with the coast guard ?
No radio, no navigation equipment (and one of them was Colombian).

As I said, an element of suspicion.

They are aground on a small sandy/stony/rocky beach, but with no way off except climbing the somewhat hazardous cliff.

If there was a café, it might not be open in November.

You can see about half the height of the cliff in this picture.

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And the waves running in in the top right corner don't look friendly.
 
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BobClay

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Here's a ship with dark and terrible history: the USS Indianapolis. A heavy cruiser which carried the Hiroshima bomb from California to Tinian in the Mariannas Islands, the B29 base for attacks on the Japanese mainland. A few days after delivery she was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine and sank in under 15 minutes. Of her 1200 crew, nearly 900 went into the sea. Because the top secret nature of the Indianapolis mission carried over after the bomb delivery, it was four days before the crew was spotted in open seas and rescued. But the death toll had been terrible, especially with regard to shark attacks. A little over 300 were rescued.

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Gramaisc

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Here's a ship with dark and terrible history: the USS Indianapolis. A heavy cruiser which carried the Hiroshima bomb from California to Tinian in the Mariannas Islands, the B29 base for attacks on the Japanese mainland. A few days after delivery she was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine and sank in under 15 minutes. Of her 1200 crew, nearly 900 went into the sea. Because the top secret nature of the Indianapolis mission carried over after the bomb delivery, it was four days before the crew was spotted in open seas and rescued. But the death toll had been terrible, especially with regard to shark attacks. A little over 300 were rescued.

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The wreck was only located a few years ago, at some enormous depth.
 

BobClay

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Thanks to the heavily overworked Forum staff for moving this post into the proper thread after my 'senior moment.' :hmm:





Edit - At least it wasn't full of spelling errors and posted several times...
 
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littleme

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Thanks to the heavily overworked Forum staff for moving this post into the proper thread after my 'senior moment.' :hmm:





Edit - At least it wasn't full of spelling errors and posted several times...
Oi you, is this a dig at me, ive not multiple post3d in ages...and seplling errors, what uoz on abaaaaaat?
 

Just little old me:)

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Here's a ship with dark and terrible history: the USS Indianapolis. A heavy cruiser which carried the Hiroshima bomb from California to Tinian in the Mariannas Islands, the B29 base for attacks on the Japanese mainland. A few days after delivery she was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine and sank in under 15 minutes. Of her 1200 crew, nearly 900 went into the sea. Because the top secret nature of the Indianapolis mission carried over after the bomb delivery, it was four days before the crew was spotted in open seas and rescued. But the death toll had been terrible, especially with regard to shark attacks. A little over 300 were rescued.

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My Grandpa was on on ship that was sunk by a German U-boat. He was on the SS City of Cairo which I believe was a merchant navy ship. There was a book written about the ship and crew called 'Goodnight, sorry for sinking you'
 

BobClay

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Enough to give you pneumonia just looking at it. Crewmen chipping off ice on a Murmansk bound convoy escort during World War Two. You have to keep at this, because if the ice is allowed to build, it could destabilise the ship.

I have been up this way in winter, on a bulk carrier to load iron ore in the Norwegian port of Kirkenes, the other side of the border from Murmansk. Cold doesn't begin to describe it.

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