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Pics: What nearly punched a hole in this Japanese oil tanker?
 For reference, this pic here is a clickable link to a higher-res shot of the damage to the USS Cole. Pics of the damage to that Japanese oil tanker can be found at the link. Looks like an explosion of some sort to me. It certainly wasn't a sub. Remember that the side of the cole was angled, not vertical. Seems to me the more vertical hull of the tanker vs. the angled hull on the USS Cole may explain the differences in the damage. If the hull were angled away from the bomb, it seems to me that there would have been very little damage, but towards the bomb is going to reflect/focus the blast energy in a way consistent with the picture. To me, it seems that part of the blast energy directed against the vertical wall of the tanker was reflected off the water, which would the cause maximum blast force to be several meters above the waterline, and a more-or-less spherical blast front.Can anyone out there who actually knows something about explosives confirm or refute this idea? The M. Star, a Japanese oil tanker, suffered ... something in the early-morning hours Wednesday as it passed through the Strait of Hormuz. Crew members heard a blast and saw a flash, windows were blasted out, ceiling panels in a dining room were shaken loose, and one crew member suffered minor injuries. And most significant, an enormous dent appeared on the tanker's starboard side, extending from the waterline more than halfway up the hull. 1) Crew saw a flash 2) Straits of Hormuz 3) Crew heard blast 4) Straits of Hormuz 5) Spherical compression wave damage above the waterline 6) Straits of Hormuz 7) The USS Cole's damage was mostly above the waterline, too 8) Straits of Hormuz The only evidence I see against the idea that some jihadi did it is that none of the crew heard "Allahu Snackbar!" before the blast. Pics and rest of article at link. Posted by: gorb 2010-07-31 |
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