Huge Pacific Wave Damages Student Vessel

Thu Jan 27,12:06 AM ET

U.S. National - AP

By DAN JOLING, Associated Press Writer

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A 50-foot Pacific wave temporarily disabled a "Semester at Sea" ship filled with hundreds of college students Wednesday, injuring two crew members as it broke windows and damaged the vessel's controls, the Coast Guard said.

Coast Guard vessels and aircraft from Alaska and Hawaii were dispatched to help the 591-foot Explorer, about 650 miles south of the Aleutian Islands and about 1,600 miles from Honolulu.

The ship for a time operated on just one of its four engines and could do little more than keep the bow headed into heavy seas using emergency steering. By Wednesday evening, a second engine had been started and the ship was making headway at a speed of about 10 knots, or about 11.5 mph, said Coast Guard spokesman Lt. Cmdr. Glynn Smith in Alameda, Calif.

Jim Lawrence, a spokesman for V. Ships, the technical managers of the ship, said no one was critically hurt but he did not have details on injuries. He said the ship may head to Midway Island, about 800 miles away.

The weather in the region has been unsettled recently, with winds gusting to 50 mph or more.

Semester at Sea is a global comparative study-abroad program for undergraduate students, said Paul Watson, director of enrollment management for the Institute for Shipboard Education. The program is academically sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh.

The 100-day voyage began Jan. 18 in Vancouver, British Columbia, with 990 people aboard: 681 students, 113 faculty and staff and 196 crew members.

The ship never lost internal electrical power and maintained good communications with the Coast Guard, Smith said. A medical staff of two doctors and two nurses is on board.

Today I got a piece of mail from HACC. Apparently I did make deans list this time around. Cool.

I'm a hot redhead!

How am I?: *mew*

Me: Mom, you don't have to stop at K-mart for the hair dye, I'll think about it.

Sam: Yeah, I convinced her to think about it some more.

Me: She said I'd give my hampster a concusion.

Mom: Huh?
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Today I found the coolest coat in H&M, it was marked down from $59.90 to $29.90. It has tails!! (^_^) He he it's awesome. It's black and lined with red.

In Scotland, auld lang syne is an archaic phrase meaning “old long ago” or “old long since.” Singing the song “Auld Lang Syne” is, for many, a New Years Eve tradition: “Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And auld lang syne.”

My new hairdo!

Yay! My girl is eating her gecko food again, she makes me happy (^_^)

Steve just called. Asked me to stay a half hour more tomorrow. 11:30-9.

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What's 15 minutes more... *sigh* it's such a long day... thankfully, I cancelled on going to NY Wednesday. Not that I wanted to, mind you. I just don't think I can take another day full of stuff.

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... maybe that's only funny to me... not to mention, I don't think Jon uses LJ anymore...

So, Merry Christmas. It was a pretty good day... short of my fish dying, but to be honest I was hoping he'd die soon. He's been laying on the bottom of his bowl gulping for air for the past 4 days or so. Poor fishie.

Mom and dad gave me a card of course... but this years was soooo cute, I have to share.



( Open the card! )

Isn't that cute? At first I was all "Awww poor snowman!" but oh I liked the inside (^_^) mom said she saw it and had to get it for someone. Glad it was me! (^_^)

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