They're inviting disaster upon themselves. You can never be too far above the ocean to be safe from freakishly-high and powerful waves, unless you're in a plane, hot-air balloon or the space shuttle. Just ask the men who died aboard the Ocean Ranger - an oil rig off the coast of Newfoundland - when it went down back in the 80's. The computers that controlled the ballast tanks and pumps were all shorted out and destroyed when a rogue wave hit a porthole that wasn't storm-rated and smashed it out, letting water into the ballast control room. That porthole was approx. 70' above the waterline.
Absolutely beautiful. Reminds one of the incredible renaissance and earlier sculpture and their treatment of fabric. Like Michelangelo's "Piéta" and other work. Absolutely mind-boggling.
Never saw the heads, but I did have the good fortune to see Tom-Tom Club years ago. Tina was VERY pregnant, and it was so fun and cool to see her rocking out with that big ol' Hofner Club Bass balanced on her round belly!
Years ago, in a photographic essay in a magazine, I saw a B&W image of an elderly woman - an artist or writer I believe - using a wheelbarrow as a chair. I thought "I gotta try that!" Our old GSW steel wheelbarrow wasn't that comfortable - too steep, and I kept sliding out of it - but we now have a rugged ABS plastic one that works like the charm. My daughter hangs out in it for hours in the backyard, reading and playing on her iPad.
While reading this man's recollections, I suddenly thought of another lottery - in fact, "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson. This man's story invoked a sense of sickening dread and foreboding similar to that depicted in Jackson's chilling short story. It made the hair on my arms stand up!
You can never be too far above the ocean to be safe from freakishly-high and powerful waves, unless you're in a plane, hot-air balloon or the space shuttle.
Just ask the men who died aboard the Ocean Ranger - an oil rig off the coast of Newfoundland - when it went down back in the 80's. The computers that controlled the ballast tanks and pumps were all shorted out and destroyed when a rogue wave hit a porthole that wasn't storm-rated and smashed it out, letting water into the ballast control room. That porthole was approx. 70' above the waterline.