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Re: Does a capital ship sinking actually SUCK a swimmer down to drown?

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On 22/12/2015 9:06 PM, Poutnik wrote:
> Dne 22/12/2015 v 08:58 Sylvia Else napsal(a):
>> On 22/12/2015 4:19 PM, Tony Hwang wrote:
>>>
>>> Do you have any maritime experience? Worked on any kind of ocean
>>> going vessel(s)? Possess any knowledge gained from real life
>>> experience?
>>
>> Experience of ships? No. How would any of that help in deciding whether
>> the vessel would suck me down if it sank?
>>
>> Or do you think there's some sort of mechanism that allows enlightenment
>> by osmosis?
>>
>
> Nautical society has advantage of collective experience
> of huge number of people, surviving the ship sinking.
>
> Even if I had been Nobel laureate for physics,
> sailors would know more about surviving on sea than me.

For most things, perhaps. But how many sailors have experience of a 
sinking, much less such experience from the the immediate vicinity of 
the ship. Those who got sucked down, if any, won't be around to tell the 
tale. Those who didn't get sucked down, and survived, would be 
counter-examples.

Sylvia.

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