Rock fishing tragedy

Here's a tragic case happened near Sydney, Australia. The above picture shows a Buddhist monk prays for a fisherman feared drowned after he was washed off rocks at Port Kembla, while relatives look on. (Picture by SYLVIA LIBER.) As the Illawarra Mecury reports this morning:

The 31-year-old man from Hurlstone Park was rock fishing at the foot of Heritage Park just after 9pm last Sunday when he was hit by a freak wave as he was packing up to leave.

The last known sighting was by a rescue helicopter the night of his disappearance, when he was spotted floating face down in the water, but they lost sight of him shortly after.

Intensive searches were held daily; a grey spray jacket was located last Monday, although police could not confirm whether it belonged to the missing man.

And

While police have been combing the surface of the water near where the man went missing, a treacherous swell has prevented divers from approaching the area immediately adjacent to rocks where the tragedy occurred.

As Wikipedia describes it: "Rock fishing is fishing from rocky outcrops into the sea. It is a popular pastime in Australia and New Zealand. It can be a dangerous pastime and claims many lives each year." Here's a picture of "Extreme rock fishing" off Muriwai, New Zealand, given in Wikipedia accompanied their article:

It certainly looks exciting and clearly safety is not a main concern on the minds of those people out there. First and foremost question on my mind when I saw this picture is naturally how do they cope when a freaque wave hits? None of them wearing a life jacket, I am sure they have heard of freaque wave encounters. May be they all think freaque waves are only rare things that happens to the other people. That could be very true. But no one can be sure that will not happen to you. May be the next wave comes in the next moment, before you realize, . . . . Oh well, my knees tremble even by think about them. Evidently I am not the one who would enjoy rock fishing by any means!

Divers rescued in Salcombe, Devon

This news just reported in BBC:

Twelve people have been rescued from the sea off Salcombe in Devon after their 40ft (12m) dive boat sank.

The divers from London let off a flare when a freak wave swamped their boat, Aquanaut, sinking it in about eight minutes off Bolt Head, on Saturday.

The divers were spotted by the crew of a passing yacht which took two on board while the rest got into a life raft. A lifeboat took them all into Salcombe.

The Maritime and Coastguard Agency said after the wave hit the stern, the boat took on water rapidly.

Ten of the divers took to a life raft and the remaining crew boarded the yacht, Dutch Angel.

The 10 divers, from Dive Wimbledon, and two instructors, were checked over and were all fine.

All were fine! That's a good news to hear for a Sunday morning. Two things come to mind: as shown in the picture above, the 12 m boat is certainly not a small one, one should feel reasonably safe to be on there, but it is vulnerable when encounters a freaque wave nevertheless. There's no details about the freaque wave, but it must be a freaque wave to swamp the boat and cause its sinkinbg in a few minutes. Let's all be thankful that "All were fine!"

One other thing also comes to mind is that Salcombe is a beautiful town in the South Hams district of Devon, south west England. And according to this:

The town is close to the mouth of the Kingsbridge Estuary, built mostly on the steep west side of the estuary and lies within the South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). The town's extensive waterfront and the naturally sheltered harbour formed by the estuary gave rise to its success in the Boat and Ship Building industry, as well as a popular sailing port!

So who would expect that a freaque wave could be just around the corner? But it is certainly there, somewhere, sometime, somehow! Never ever let your guard down. In this case it's lucky that there's a yacht nearby to rescue the lucky divers. Thanks be to God!

Psalm 85

Restore us once more, God our savior; abandon your wrath against us.

Will you be angry with us forever, drag out your anger for all generations?

Please give us life again, that your people may rejoice in you.

Show us, LORD, your love; grant us your salvation.

I will listen for the word of God; surely the LORD will proclaim peace To his people, to the faithful, to those who trust in him.

Near indeed is salvation for the loyal; prosperity will fill our land.

Love and truth will meet; justice and peace will kiss.

Truth will spring from the earth; justice will look down from heaven.

The LORD will surely grant abundance; our land will yield its increase.

Prosperity will march before the Lord, and good fortune will follow behind.

Psalm 85: 5-14.

Highest wave ever known

According to geology.com, on this day 51 years ago:

On the night of July 9, 1958 an earthquake along the Fairweather Fault in the Alaska Panhandle loosened about 40 million cubic yards (30.6 million cubic meters) of rock high above the northeastern shore of Lituya Bay. This mass of rock plunged from an altitude of approximately 3000 feet (914 meters) down into the waters of Gilbert Inlet (see map below). The impact generated a local tsunami that crashed against the southwest shoreline of Gilbert Inlet. The wave hit with such power that it swept completely over the spur of land that separates Gilbert Inlet from the main body of Lituya Bay. The wave then contiuned down the entire length of Lituya Bay, over La Chaussee Spit and into the Gulf of Alaska. The force of the wave removed all trees and vegetation from elevations as high as 1720 feet (524 meters) above sea level. Millions of trees were uprooted and swept away by the wave. This is the highest wave that has ever been known.

Yes, the highest wave that has ever been known, 524 m (1720 ft), happened 51 years ago today at Latiya Bay, Alaska. Here's part of a map showing where Latuya Bay is:

Here's it's aerial view:
And here is a model conjecture, according to Kenji Satake, Geological Survey of Japan (see here) of what might have happened:

Study of tsunami wave is fascinating. I once collaborated on a paper with Dr. Hermann Fritz whose laboratory data on landslide generated impulse waves enthralled me to no end. But there's only limited data available and limited stuff a data analyst can do. So I remained as a tsunami bystander.

Freakish rogue administration

Yes, this blog is about freaque waves. The news front about freaque waves has been relatively quiet lately. In the mean time the news front of American main-stream media has also been quiet about what is really happening in the country -- not exactly a top secret, but they will certainly not admit it. What I am getting at is a news that has been buzzing for several days now, but American people that normally getting their news from tv and radio have not even heard about it yet. For those who had spent their own money to see stupid Algore's inconvenience movie, you should especially appreciate this Glenn Beck segment:



No, Algore would certainly not want you to see this. That's why the Gore cronies current in power would want to suppress his report. Thank God this is still America of liberty.

I know that you have probably never heard the name Alan Carlin before. Now you have seen him in person. What do you think? You must agree that he knows what he is talking about in a typical scientist fashion. For those of us that have never been sold by the Algore hoax, we applaud Dr. Carlin's courage of voicing the true facts based on his research in the face of his "supervisor"'s supression. It is gratifying to see this kind of courageous spirit under tyranny. In case you are wondering, Carlin has a B.S. in Physics from Cal Tech and a Ph.D. in Economics from M.I.T. He was the Director of Implementation Research Division of EPA when EPA was first started in 1971. He's been the senior Operations Research Analyst at EPA since 1974. Yes, he does know what he's talking about. Can you say the same for Algore and those crowded Obamania followers?

By the way the supressed report has been released and it can be downloaded HERE.


Update:

A more complete Alan Carlin interview:



But there is still no word from any of the media outlets American people are used to follow. Communists during the Soviet Union era couldn't do as good a total cover-up job as the current Obamania media are doing right now!

Reading II Today

(2 Cor 12:7-10.)

Brothers and sisters:
That I, Paul, might not become too elated,
because of the abundance of the revelations,
a thorn in the flesh was given to me, an angel of Satan,
to beat me, to keep me from being too elated.
Three times I begged the Lord about this, that it might leave me,
but He said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you,
for power is made perfect in weakness."
I will rather boast most gladly of my weaknesses,
in order that the power of Christ may dwell with me.
Therefore, I am content with weaknesses, insults,
hardships, persecutions, and constraints,
for the sake of Christ;
for when I am weak, then I am strong.

Happy 233rd Birthday, America!

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights - that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”

Missing on Lake Erie

Here's a developing news by Joshua Rhett Miller of Fox News:

The U.S. Coast Guard and Canadian authorities are scouring Lake Erie for four fishermen whose 19-foot boat sailed from a Michigan park a day earlier.

The men, who are between 50 and 70 years old, left Sterling Park in Monroe, Mich., Thursday morning and had planned to return by 4 p.m., Greg Fondran, a search and rescue controller at the U.S. Coast Guard's District Nine Command Center, told FOXNews.com.

Fondran said three of the four men have cell phones with them but have not answered calls by authorities. The last incoming and outgoing calls received and placed by the phones were at about noon Thursday, he said.

Weather conditions have not been severe, Fondran said, leading authorities to believe the 19-foot boat likely had not capsized or overturned.

"Though it's always possible," he continued. "You can get a rogue wave and all of a sudden, you're taken over."

Family members contacted the Coast Guard at about 9 p.m. Thursday. Boats, helicopters and other aircraft from the U.S. and Canada have been searching since that time, Fondran said.

"We're obviously concerned," he said. "We're considering it a distress case."

It is something no one wish it to happen but it happens sometime, somewhere, somehow. Mr. Fordran's comment that "You can get a rogue wave and all of a sudden, you are taken over." is really plausible and not far fetched, even on Lake Erie. Let's sincerely hope and pray that the four people can all be successfully found and rescued.

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