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Perfectly Dangerous - A Waterspout At Sea

February 19th, 2008 · 1 Comment


Waterspout At Sea

Robin Storm points us to this photo of this spectacular waterspout off New Zealand’s Kapiti Coast. Be sure to check out the photo slideshow and article and stay tuned for Robin’s upcoming Severe Weather segment on our podcast.

Here is video via Stuff.nz:

 
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  • 1 John Denham // Feb 20, 2008 at 2:11 pm

    As an Ensign USNR Merchant Marine Naval Reserve my first USS was the Allagash AO97 in the Atlantic. Tthe skipper was a medalled WW11 officer of exceptional experience. In 1940 in command of a 4 piper destroyer in Panama he was tasked to penetrate a water spout and report the results. The destoyer was buttoned-up for battle except a single port in the 6 by 6 foot chartroom. The old destoyer barely survived having lost a motor whaleboat and all topside canvas , but more surprising, every chart in the four drawer chart desk with over a thousnad charts were sucked out through the 8 inch port. JGD

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