I'm going to be a celebrity!

Mark your calendars boys and girls! November 29, The History Channel, "Deep
Sea Detectives". R.A.P.'s own Roger Long will be seen pontificating
ponderously and speculating on the cause of a ship sinking.

If you would like to put the face together with the rambling posts that
appear in this newsgroup, be sure to tune in. (And not just the face, the
voice, the funny glasses, the lopsided and shifty eyed scowl.)

There's actually an aviation connection as well. The ship in question is the
one used by Admiral Byrd to transport his Ford Trimotor to the Antarctic for
his famous flights. This bit of aviation history can still be seen off of
Mexico Beach, Florida where she sunk under murky circumstance while bound
for Cuba with a load of lumber in the early days of WWII. No one is quite
sure exactly what was going on but her crew seemed to be remarkably well
paid for itinerant lumber transporters.

--

Roger Long

I'll be catching this one for sure Roger. Thanks for the head's up,
and, congrats for sure.
Dudley

"Roger Long" wrote in message
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Mark your calendars boys and girls! November 29, The History Channel,
"Deep Sea Detectives". R.A.P.'s own Roger Long will be seen
pontificating ponderously and speculating on the cause of a ship
sinking.

If you would like to put the face together with the rambling posts
that appear in this newsgroup, be sure to tune in. (And not just the
face, the voice, the funny glasses, the lopsided and shifty eyed
scowl.)

There's actually an aviation connection as well. The ship in question
is the one used by Admiral Byrd to transport his Ford Trimotor to the
Antarctic for his famous flights. This bit of aviation history can
still be seen off of Mexico Beach, Florida where she sunk under murky
circumstance while bound for Cuba with a load of lumber in the early
days of WWII. No one is quite sure exactly what was going on but her
crew seemed to be remarkably well paid for itinerant lumber
transporters.

--

Roger Long

Mark your calendars boys and girls! November 29, The History Channel,
"Deep
Sea Detectives". R.A.P.'s own Roger Long will be seen pontificating
ponderously and speculating on the cause of a ship sinking.

Good work, Roger! I'll look forward to watching.

Best of all (amazingly!), Dudley isn't castigating you for both (a)
speculating on the causes of an accident, and (b) taking part in the making
of a video that depicts the crashing (sinking?) of a ship.

;-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Jay Honeck wrote:

Best of all (amazingly!), Dudley isn't castigating you for both (a)
speculating on the causes of an accident, and (b) taking part in the making
of a video that depicts the crashing (sinking?) of a ship.

..... yet.

George Patterson
If a man gets into a fight 3,000 miles away from home, he *had* to have
been looking for it.

Looking forward to seeing it Roger - congratulations.
I trust that you will remind us nearer the date (I only mention this of
course for the benefit of some of the older ones

Tony

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"Roger Long" wrote:

Mark your calendars boys and girls! November 29, The History Channel, "Deep
Sea Detectives". R.A.P.'s own Roger Long will be seen pontificating
ponderously and speculating on the cause of a ship sinking.

If you would like to put the face together with the rambling posts that
appear in this newsgroup, be sure to tune in. (And not just the face, the
voice, the funny glasses, the lopsided and shifty eyed scowl.)

There's actually an aviation connection as well. The ship in question is the
one used by Admiral Byrd to transport his Ford Trimotor to the Antarctic for
his famous flights. This bit of aviation history can still be seen off of
Mexico Beach, Florida where she sunk under murky circumstance while bound
for Cuba with a load of lumber in the early days of WWII. No one is quite
sure exactly what was going on but her crew seemed to be remarkably well
paid for itinerant lumber transporters.




--

Tony Roberts
PP-ASEL
VFR OTT
Night
Cessna 172H C-GICE

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"Roger Long" wrote:

Mark your calendars boys and girls! November 29, The History Channel, "Deep
Sea Detectives". R.A.P.'s own Roger Long will be seen pontificating
ponderously and speculating on the cause of a ship sinking.

WTG!!

Along those same lines Oct 17th, 8PM Eastern, a program called NOW "No
Oppurtunity Wasted" will air. In the episode about the former SEALs
being reunited I'll be the guy driving the Cessna they jump out of.


http://media.dsc.discovery.com/fansites/now/now.html

--
Dale L. Falk

There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing
as simply messing around with airplanes.

http://home.gci.net/~sncdfalk/flying.html

Sounds great. Thanks for the heads up, I really enjoy the History Channel
especially the Deep Sea Detectives programs.

Roger Long wrote:

Mark your calendars boys and girls! November 29, The History Channel, "Deep
Sea Detectives". R.A.P.'s own Roger Long will be seen pontificating
ponderously and speculating on the cause of a ship sinking.

If you would like to put the face together with the rambling posts that
appear in this newsgroup, be sure to tune in. (And not just the face, the
voice, the funny glasses, the lopsided and shifty eyed scowl.)

There's actually an aviation connection as well. The ship in question is the
one used by Admiral Byrd to transport his Ford Trimotor to the Antarctic for
his famous flights. This bit of aviation history can still be seen off of
Mexico Beach, Florida where she sunk under murky circumstance while bound
for Cuba with a load of lumber in the early days of WWII. No one is quite
sure exactly what was going on but her crew seemed to be remarkably well
paid for itinerant lumber transporters.

Good for you Roger! Looking forward to it.

"Hey Sue! Look on the TV! I know this guy from R.A.P.!"

Bryan "The Monk" Chaisone

"Roger Long" wrote in message ...
Mark your calendars boys and girls! November 29, The History Channel, "Deep
Sea Detectives". R.A.P.'s own Roger Long will be seen pontificating
ponderously and speculating on the cause of a ship sinking.

If you would like to put the face together with the rambling posts that
appear in this newsgroup, be sure to tune in. (And not just the face, the
voice, the funny glasses, the lopsided and shifty eyed scowl.)

There's actually an aviation connection as well. The ship in question is the
one used by Admiral Byrd to transport his Ford Trimotor to the Antarctic for
his famous flights. This bit of aviation history can still be seen off of
Mexico Beach, Florida where she sunk under murky circumstance while bound
for Cuba with a load of lumber in the early days of WWII. No one is quite
sure exactly what was going on but her crew seemed to be remarkably well
paid for itinerant lumber transporters.

"Roger Long" wrote in message
. ..
Mark your calendars boys and girls! November 29, The History Channel,
"Deep
Sea Detectives". R.A.P.'s own Roger Long will be seen pontificating
ponderously and speculating on the cause of a ship sinking.

How about giving us a "heads up" on say, November 27th or 28th?

Chances are way better that I will "remember" to watch it, than if no one
mentions it until then.

Thanks, and I look forward to it.

What do you do, or how did you get involved in this project?
--
Jim in NC


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What do you do, or how did you get involved in this project?

See:

http://home.maine.rr.com/rlma

Actually, it's kind of a hoot how I got involved. The sons of the couple
that own and run the film company that is producing this series are my kids
best friends. At least every other day I am shuttling their kids or mine
back and forth. As they say, "It's not what you know, it's who you know."

Except that, a couple weeks ago, I got a call from someone saying, "Hi, I'm
a producer with the Lone Wolf Documentary Group, you probably never heard of
us but, ...". The fellow found me entirely without realizing that I knew
his bosses.

If you like sea stories, there is a book out called "Tall Ships Down" by Dan
Parrot. It tells about the sinkings of five sail training vessels. I was
involved in the post accident analysis of three of them. One of the
investigations involved going to London to testify in a parliamentary
inquiry as an expert hired by the British government. The ship was owned by
the Queen's cousin. I was the only one in the inquiry to testify that there
was any problem with her stability (which was truly abysmal as the inquiry
eventually found). As I walked into the room where the House of Lords met
during WWII to tell a couple hundred people that the Queen's cousin was
responsible for the death's of 19 people, well, let's just say I was a
little hyped. The moments after I proved, using the defense's own numbers,
that it only took a 22 percent increase in wind speed to capsize the vessel,
there was a stillness in the room that I can still feel. Certainly the most
dramatic moment of my life.

Another of the accidents got it's own book, also recently published. "Pride
of the Sea" by Tom Waldron. I appear several times in the story as I had
basically been trying to tell people for a couple years, "Hey, this boat is
dangerous." I gave a talk on sailing ship stability (and the studies of it
I had done in connection with the U.S. Coast Guard to establish regulations
for school ships) to the Society of Professional Sailing Ship Masters. I
pointed out the "Pride" as being the vessel in the study population that you
would most expect to capsized (aside from the ones that had not gone down
already). At that moment, only the people drifting in the liferaft knew
that the ship had already capsized. They were found the next morning and my
phone rang a few hours later.....

Because of the extensive study I did for the regulatory project, I arguably
knew more about the stability of large sailing ships at one point than
anyone on the planet. A lot of research was done a couple years later and I
drifted away from the whole world of sail to design oceanographic research
vessels, mostly fast high powered ones, and learn how to fly airplanes.

--

Roger Long