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Re: U-boat in the South Pacific
Posted by:
Parade
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Date: January 11, 2002 06:35AM
<HTML>Hi Keith,
I don't know what shipwreck you mean; there are three shipwrecks on Moorea reef.
But, I know, two of them are trawlers wrecked about 1950 and 1965 and the old one, a cargo ship wreck in 1949. But it's after a nautical navigation error.
When Captain Cook and Bougainville sailor drawed the charts of this part of pacific ocean, there was not GPS for positionned islands. So, there is a gap beetwen the real position and the chart position of different atolls. About 1.5 nautical milles. So, from time to time, ships have bad surprise. Several grounds a year.( And Polynesion men like jocks very much)
Regards
Retired chief of french navy staff in polynesia.</HTML>
I don't know what shipwreck you mean; there are three shipwrecks on Moorea reef.
But, I know, two of them are trawlers wrecked about 1950 and 1965 and the old one, a cargo ship wreck in 1949. But it's after a nautical navigation error.
When Captain Cook and Bougainville sailor drawed the charts of this part of pacific ocean, there was not GPS for positionned islands. So, there is a gap beetwen the real position and the chart position of different atolls. About 1.5 nautical milles. So, from time to time, ships have bad surprise. Several grounds a year.( And Polynesion men like jocks very much)
Regards
Retired chief of french navy staff in polynesia.</HTML>
Subject | Written By | Posted |
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U-boat in the South Pacific | Keith Lloyd | 01/10/2002 08:56PM |
Re: U-boat in the South Pacific | carl | 01/10/2002 09:35PM |
Re: U-boat in the South Pacific | Robin | 01/11/2002 01:13AM |
Re: U-boat in the South Pacific | Parade | 01/11/2002 06:35AM |