http://www.platformonomics.com/2007/11/sos/ Tue, 27 Jul 2010 04:01:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.platformonomics.com/2007/11/sos/comment-page-1/#comment-106 cowboyfitz Fri, 30 Nov 2007 21:52:33 +0000 http://66.147.242.168/~platfor7/2007/11/sos/#comment-106 <p>Amazing that a fist-sized hole is sufficient to sink (quite literally) an investment of some millions. Some insurance policy. Under different circumstances one would expect that the captain himself might be willing to go below and find a proverbial finger for the dike. I recall a (most likely fictionalized)similar account from the Patrick O'Brian movie. Nonetheless, while wooden ships begat iron men, it appears that iron ships (even double-bottomed ones) have allowed the standard to slip.</p> Amazing that a fist-sized hole is sufficient to sink (quite literally) an investment of some millions. Some insurance policy. Under different circumstances one would expect that the captain himself might be willing to go below and find a proverbial finger for the dike. I recall a (most likely fictionalized)similar account from the Patrick O’Brian movie. Nonetheless, while wooden ships begat iron men, it appears that iron ships (even double-bottomed ones) have allowed the standard to slip.

]]> http://www.platformonomics.com/2007/11/sos/comment-page-1/#comment-105 Jamey Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:31:37 +0000 http://66.147.242.168/~platfor7/2007/11/sos/#comment-105 <p>Also check out this account of Shackleton's expedition.http://www.amazon.com/Endurance-Shackletons-Incredible-Alfred-Lansing/dp/B000BZ9A7S/ref=pd_sim_b_title_2</p> Also check out this account of Shackleton’s expedition.http://www.amazon.com/Endurance-Shackletons-Incredible-Alfred-Lansing/dp/B000BZ9A7S/ref=pd_sim_b_title_2

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