Tide tables, anyone?

[ctenidae]

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/nation/4313413.html

One has to wonder why no one consutled the tide tables...

There's a ton of metaphorical possibility in this story.

 

[nancy2]

Six tugs pulled with a combined 30,000 horsepower but moved the Intrepid only about 15 feet. Not even an unusually high tide could free the 27,000-ton, 872-foot-long ship from the ooze.

"We had the sun, the moon and the stars in alignment, and it was just a very disappointing day for us," said Bill White, president of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum.

White said he was unsure whether officials would try again to move the ship, or refurbish the carrier where it sits. The ship was not blocking the Hudson's busy shipping lanes.

The next high tide is Dec. 6, but that will be about a foot lower than Monday's, White said


they did look at the tide tables- it was supposed to be the highest when they tried.

 

[ctenidae]

they did look at the tide tables- it was supposed to be the highest when they tried.

Yeah, but it's more fun to laugh at them.

 

[bvibert]

Yeah, but it's more fun to laugh at them.

It's not nice to laugh at people.