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- From: terjej@edb.tih.no (Terje Johansen,o90b)
- Subject: true story from the deep blue
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.200650.10429W@viper.edb.tih.no>
- Sender: terjej@edb.tih.no (Terje Johansen,o90b)
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 20:06:43 GMT
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- This story was told me by a very old machine chief. He said this
- happened once on a ship he was on, during the war. I believe him.
- And I wish he was still with us. His kind do not often appear.
-
- "We once had an accident down below in the engine room. One mate was
- cleaning one of them boilers we used for cooking drinking-water.
- Now, this tank held several hundreds of gallons of water. And this
- particular mate was more'n a little lazy. So he decided to have a nice
- little doze in there. While this fellow was sleeping silently, another
- mate walked by, saw the tank top open, and closed and locked it without
- any further thought. As the top mate came by an hour or so later, he
- saw the tank closed, and assumed that the task of cleaning the tank
- was done.
- And the tank was filled up to the top with seawater, and the boiling
- started, oven going at several hundred degrees.
- Well, eventually the unfortunate mate was reported missing, and a check
- of the work roster sent a hurried team to dry and reopen that boiler.
- All they found, was his trouser buttons. Everything else, bones, meat,
- clothes and even the shoes had boiled away.
- There was nothing more to do, so they closed the boiler and resumed work.
- And that was that.
- But ever after, whenever anybody was about to drink a glass of water,
- he'd take off his hat and cross his chest..... "
-
-
- --
- Terje Johansen at Trondheim College of Engineering, Norway.
-
- Bury me deep. The next generations will be hungry.
-