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Pa. Sailor Dies After Falling Overboard
The Associated Press
NORFOLK, Va.
May 25
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Sailor Dwayne Williams Dies After Falling Overboard About 900 Miles Off Virginia Coast. A sailor whose ship was returning home from deployment in the Persian Gulf died after he fell overboard in the Atlantic Ocean about 900 miles off the Virginia coast, military officials said Saturday.
Petty Officer 3rd Class Dwayne Williams, 23, of Philadelphia, was killed Friday after falling from the USS Nassau, an amphibious assault ship based in Norfolk.
Commander Ernest Duplessis, a spokesman for the Navy's Second Fleet, said Williams' fall appeared to be accidental, but would not offer details.
The ship's captain said Williams was chasing a football when he tripped and fell overboard.
Capt. Russell Tjepkema said Williams was wearing coveralls and boots, which would have weighed him down, and did not have a lifejacket. He said authorities searched Friday until it became too dark to continue trying.
"My mind tells me this is the right thing to do, but my heart tells me to go back and look for the guy," he told CNN.
Duplessis said there were 8- to 10-foot seas, and the water temperature was approximately 64 degrees. He estimated that a person could survive for about 3 hours in those waters.
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20030525_8.html
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Yeah, I saw this report on the news before starting work on my jeep this morning. It's just too damn sad and needless to say anything more about.
Tex out, John Holloway.
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Ouch... thanks for the gruesome thought Etienne. Seems like this sort of mishap is a fairly regular occurance on carriers though. Can understand keeping the men motivated but isn't their other forms of athletics that can be played onboard that do not involve running alongside the edge of the flightdeck? I'd imagine the MWR officer has to procure hundreds of footballs, baseballs, & frisbees after every cruise. What sort of safett features are in place (know there is some netting... but what else?)
"The degenerative and loony should never be denigrated but, rather, thanked. In their absence, the rest of you would be obliged to fill congressional seats... positions naturally unsavory to the sane and honorable." Thorax
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