+jollybgood Posted June 26, 2005 Share Posted June 26, 2005 (edited) Stumbled on his photo while googling. I wonder what the difficulty rating is? http://halibut.ims.uaf.edu/scicex/Photos/N...5.%20%20GPS.jpg And what's with the guy on the coning tower with a rifle in photo 8.c? http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/imag...28,336&ei=UTF-8 Edited June 26, 2005 by jollybgood Quote Link to comment
Tahosa and Sons Posted June 26, 2005 Share Posted June 26, 2005 If you were a bubblehead you would know what the picts are all about. My #1 Son is on one of those big black canoes and the places he goes are someplace we do not need to know. Man could I make a good traveling cache if he could take one with him. Quote Link to comment
FiddlinFool Posted June 26, 2005 Share Posted June 26, 2005 Notice he's carefully obscuring the longitude with his thumb so no once can tell the exact location, but when your latitude is 89 56, your longitude doesn't matter very much. Quote Link to comment
+Marcie/Eric Posted June 26, 2005 Share Posted June 26, 2005 Is that really the North Pole. There's really a candy cane pole out there? Quote Link to comment
+Huntceet Posted June 26, 2005 Share Posted June 26, 2005 I'd imagine the rifleman was on polar bear guard duty. Quote Link to comment
+tabulator32 Posted June 26, 2005 Share Posted June 26, 2005 The guy with the rifle is standard security measure when exiting the conning tower on an ice cap. They did the same thing when my cruiser had swim call near the equator. Quote Link to comment
+reveritt Posted June 26, 2005 Share Posted June 26, 2005 (edited) ... And what's with the guy on the coning tower with a rifle in photo 8.c?... It's not a conning tower. It's called the sail or the fairwater, and I note that something seems to be missing--her number. Subs used to have their number painted on the sail. Is that no longer the practice, or is this fellow being especially stealthy? Edited June 26, 2005 by reveritt Quote Link to comment
+tabulator32 Posted June 26, 2005 Share Posted June 26, 2005 ... And what's with the guy on the coning tower with a rifle in photo 8.c?... It's not a conning tower. It's called the sail or the fairwater, and I note that something seems to be missing--her number. Subs used to have their number painted on the sail. Is that no longer the practice, or is this fellow being especially stealthy? Duh! The sail. Thanks. I was never a submariner and the closest I got was touring a Boomer in exchange for showing some submariners what a cruiser looked like. Thanks for correcting the surface ship guy. Quote Link to comment
+TimInOhio and Brittany Posted June 27, 2005 Share Posted June 27, 2005 Is that a golf club on the ice, below and behind the GPSr in the 1st pic? I wonder what par is for that hole? Finally a use for all the used golf balls found in caches? Quote Link to comment
+TeamK-9 Posted June 27, 2005 Share Posted June 27, 2005 Is that a golf club on the ice, below and behind the GPSr in the 1st pic? I wonder what par is for that hole? Finally a use for all the used golf balls found in caches? That certainly looks like a nice 9 iron... I don't know how they could have a very good follow-through with all the layers they're wearing though... Quote Link to comment
+arcticcatmatt Posted June 27, 2005 Share Posted June 27, 2005 i didn't know subs could do that. thats cool! just pop up thru the ice in the north pole. Thats nuts Quote Link to comment
+Jamie Z Posted June 27, 2005 Share Posted June 27, 2005 Here's a similar pic from the degree confluence project. Jamie Quote Link to comment
+IVxIV Posted June 27, 2005 Share Posted June 27, 2005 ... And what's with the guy on the coning tower with a rifle in photo 8.c?... It's not a conning tower. It's called the sail or the fairwater, and I note that something seems to be missing--her number. Subs used to have their number painted on the sail. Is that no longer the practice, or is this fellow being especially stealthy? Ok so what's the difference between a conning tower and a "sail" or "fairwater"? And yeah, this cache gotta be a 5/5 Quote Link to comment
+c0yote & co Posted June 27, 2005 Share Posted June 27, 2005 I can picture the hint now Whfg xrrc urnqvat abegu gvy lbh svaq vg. Quote Link to comment
+reveritt Posted June 27, 2005 Share Posted June 27, 2005 ...Ok so what's the difference between a conning tower and a "sail" or "fairwater"?... This is really a question for a "bubblehead", but I believe that because the sail no longer contains the steering station, it is not properly called the conning tower. It is therefore not possible to conn the boat from the sail, except when on the surface. The sail contains the bridge access trunk, which is a vertical, cylindrical extension of the pressure hull, that you climb up to get to the bridge. The sail also contains the hydraulic ram that operates the dive planes, and a whole bunch of other mechanical and electronic stuff. Except for the bridge access trunk, the sail is open to the sea (i.e., it fills with water when submerged0. The steering station is in the control room below the sail. Quote Link to comment
+Greymane Posted June 27, 2005 Share Posted June 27, 2005 Very good explaination. Yes, the rifle is for polar bears (mostly). Down south, it would be for sharks at the swim call and there would be a duty diver standing by (not necessary at the pole!). It is all about safety. Quote Link to comment
+Sonoran Privateers Posted June 27, 2005 Share Posted June 27, 2005 Do you think his altitude is really 240 feet? Quote Link to comment
+Rainwater Posted June 27, 2005 Share Posted June 27, 2005 been there done that...yes the guy with the gun is on polar bear duty... Quote Link to comment
+cudlecub Posted June 27, 2005 Share Posted June 27, 2005 I thought it might be a sneak preview of High Water 2 I guess I was wrong. Quote Link to comment
+prm Posted June 28, 2005 Share Posted June 28, 2005 I was just sitting here idly thinking, "to hell with the swag, I want the cache container!" I don't think the crew would let me cart it off tho.... Cheers, Phil Quote Link to comment
+Anonymous' Posted June 28, 2005 Share Posted June 28, 2005 I was just sitting here idly thinking, "to hell with the swag, I want the cache container!" I don't think the crew would let me cart it off tho.... Cheers, Phil It would be cool to own a sub. Quote Link to comment
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