Never mind the ones with scambled egg on their hats...
what about Seaman Stains?
MS Explorer foundering after UFO strike
The IT world was electrified this morning at reports that MS Explorer was foundering and expected to sink without trace shortly, possibly due to a UFO attack. Alternative theories suggested that the well-known piece of kit - described by the Daily Mail as "one of the best-known... in the world" - had suffered disabling crashes …
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Friday 23rd November 2007 13:27 GMT Keif Gwinn
Err
Seriously guys, you might of been down the pub already but some of us have to work for a living. We have to keep an eye out for that zero day strike, specially as the bad guys know that us hard working techies like to slack off on a friday and so are starting to attack more on friday evenings.
Regardless of that, the article read worse than Holy Moly at their vaguest.
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Friday 23rd November 2007 16:05 GMT Anonymous Coward
95 years ago...
...a few people might remember the tragic story of how a liner hit a very large iceberg and sank. From that designers learned about full double hulls and keel to deck watertight bulkheads. After that came radar allowing ships to steer around bergs. Since then, almost no iceberg collisions in the North Atlantic.
So how come a ship built in 1969 is sinking because it hit a chunk of ice small enough not to appear on radar?
It sounds like the M/V EXPLORER (sorry to kill off the puns but its a motor vessel) was slightly less well constructed than the TITANIC.
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Friday 23rd November 2007 20:46 GMT laird cummings
@Mike Richards
<< "So how come a ship built in 1969 is sinking because it hit a chunk of ice small enough not to appear on radar?" >>
Umm, because not all obstacles in the ocean are visible on radar? Sheet ice might well not show, but besides that point, it's not at all clear that it *was* ice - The article made clear, if you'll read for comprehension, that object was "unknown." That could mean any manner of obstruction, from a floating cargo container washed off a ship (rather more common than you'd think), to a large log (My submarine nailed a floater like that 150 miles off of Hawaii - made a god-awful noise when we hit it!), to an uncharted rock, to yes, maybe a hunk of ice.
Anyway, M/V Explorer, in at least one, possible two, of the Daily Mail images, was clearly under power - her *own* power, despite the exagerated list. I'm not at all convinced that she's actually due to sink, though she's in dire straits, and a spot of bad weather (very common down thataway) could do for her in a jiffy.
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Friday 23rd November 2007 20:46 GMT amanfromMars
Pow Wow.....
"Dude, if you're relying on el Reg for notification of 0-day vulns then you're ship is in pretty dangeous waters too."
Or is IT AI Safe Haven..... Seventh Heaven, Global Communications HQ? Deny at Our Pleasure.
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Monday 26th November 2007 01:58 GMT heystoopid
Finnish or Liberian revenge ?
MS Explorer was a relatively small vessel of 2398 tonnes displacement built in Finland in 1969 originally called the MS Linblad Explorer and was the first custom designed vessel to take well heeled tourists to the frozen wastelands both north and south !
In it's illustrious career it has had several name changes by successive owners(ask any ordinary mariner that to change the name of any sailing vessel bodes ill omens at a future date)
Oh well looks like the maritime gods did not take too kindly to it's shortened name !
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