Being a former US Navy atmospheric/oceanographic
forecaster, I'll have to assure you that ships do not
sail straight through the weather regardless.  Here is
a decent presentation on how ships avoid weather at
sea.  While they do there best, radical changes can
occur in very short periods of time.  So for a very
good reason with this being the end of the tropical
storm season and the relatively small size of the
transport vessel a diversion to NYC was an appropriate
choice.

http://207.133.112.37/pubs/sld001.htm

Jason Yasment
former AG2(NAC)
--- David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET> wrote:
> At 14:24 10/26/2000, James Creech wrote:
> >do you come up with these fascinating tidbits, like
> the no. of ships lost in
> >storms?  Is this stuff in your head?  I am
> concurrently impressed,
>
> That was from all causes, not just storms.  Much of
> it is insurance
> fraud...and 100 tons is a pretty small ship in
> today's terms whether it's
> talking about volume or displacement.  I got that
> particular datum some
> years ago from the Times (London, not New York)
> Atlas of the Oceans, and it
> has stayed with me.
>
> Here's another one -- Exxon has a school in Grenoble
> France where they
> teach their skippers to drive the supertankers.
> They use 30-foot scale
> models, which look pretty funny with a great big man
> sticking up where the
> bridge ought to be.  These models weigh around
> 18,000 pounds and they drive
> them with a 1/8 hp electric motor....
>
> david
>
> David Beierl - Providence, RI
>   http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/
> '84 Westy "Dutiful Passage"
> '85 GL "Poor Relation"

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