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Re: OT but fantastic news!

In article <6ii29cFqmjmbU1@mid.individual.net>,
John Williamson  <johnwilliamson@btinternet.com> wrote:
>Graeme Wall wrote:
>> In message <6ig8a2Fp3k00U1@mid.individual.net>
>>           John Williamson <johnwilliamson@btinternet.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Graeme Wall wrote:
>>>
>> [snip]
>>>> Is there any commercial traffic on the canal system these days, MSC
>>>> excepted?
>>>>
>>> There was still a guy with a boat selling coal along the Oxford & Grand
>>> Union canals to places without road access as of last year. There's
>>> still the touring theatre boat, ( http://www.mikron.org.uk/ )and BWB are
>>> pushing for growth, according to their website:-
>>>
>>> http://www.britishwaterways.co.uk/london/freight
>>
>> I like their bit about developing a mumti-modal transport behicle for
>> road/rail/river.  It's called a container surely!
>>
>Do they float? ;-)

Oh yes, containers float all right. Frequently /just/ below the surface. A friend
was dam' nearly sunk in the Sound of Jura by running over a submerged container
(it was afloat all right - there's 200m of water where it happened): just managed
to get the boat in and beached in time.

Floating containers are a real hazard.

--
Andy Breen ~ 	Not speaking on behalf of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Feng Shui: an ancient oriental art for extracting
money from the gullible (Martin Sinclair)

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