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FrankReedCT@aol.com wrote:
> Hello Patty, you wrote:
> " I was on the ship,  the pools were emptied about halfway, the videos
> are misleading.  The  pools have a wide top level which in photos and
> videos looks like the  deck.  These have about a foot of water and then
> the center area which  looks like the pool in photos, which is deeper.
> Also the water on the  starboard side came up to the deck with the
> lifeboats hanging above, the  seventh deck. Do you think maybe the list
> was more severe than  reported?
>
> I'd love to get an expert opinion.  I was staring out a  9-ft window on
> starboard side, deck 16 and looked only at ocean.  I had  to look up to
> the top of the window to see the horizon.  The reason  there weren't
> more injuries is because most people were sleeping, because we  had a
> 7am port call and half the passengers met for excursions at 6:30  am."
>
> Thanks for your first-hand report. Fascinating... and damned  scary.
>
> Do you remember how far you were from that 9-ft window? Were you  seated,
> standing, hanging onto something? Specifically, how far above your eye  level was
> the top of the window as measured from the deck, and how far were you  from
> the window? With that information, we could work out the roll angle. I've  seen
> estimates ranging from at least 15 degrees to as high as 38 degrees.
> Anything in that range is dangerous for the passengers, but the high end is  close to
> catastrophic. Of course, the ship has plenty of instrumentation that  records
> this data, and we will know for sure soon enough.
>
> -FER
> 42.0N  87.7W, or 41.4N 72.1W.
> www.HistoricalAtlas.com/lunars


Thanks so much for responding, I was up against the window on the floor.


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