Tag: emergency

Liferafts – the most expensive duffel bag I will ever have

May 29, 2012
By Sean O'Flaherty (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-2.5 (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5)], via Wikimedia Commons

Allow me to bemoan a little – it stinks to pay so much money for something that you hope to never use, that will use up precious space, and that has an ongoing maintenance cost because it needs to be checked and repacked every once in a while.  Damn. Why bother, then?  We did not

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There’s a hole in the boat, dear Liza, dear Liza, a hole!

February 29, 2012

There’s a hole in boat (bucket), dear Liza, dear Liza.  There’s a hole in the boat, dear Liza, a hole.  Then fix it dear Henry, dear Henry, dear Henry.  Then fix it, dear Henry, the hole…   You know the song, but seriously what do you do if there is a hole in the boat

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