Americans will not have heard that a car carrying ship went down in the English Channel after a collision about a week ago. On board were 3,000 BMW's Saab's and Volvo's some on the way to the UK others on the way to the US. If they were going to parrtially offload in Southhampton they may have been going to pick up Mini's. Pure speculation but maybe... [img]null[/img]

 

Deja vu..... Welcome RH. We know all, see all, be all....y'all.

 

Welcome RH!!

Yeah unfortunately we know this already. Apparently there are some members of our MINI community whose MINIs were actually already on the boat....

 

You underestimate the fiendish intensity of Yanks tracking their Minis, Mr. Hutchings. The incident was discussed here along with a host of full-color disaster scene photos!

 

Here's one of our discussions of the topic....

 

And we certainly appreciate the heads up
from across the pond. :smile:

 

>>Here's one of our discussions of the topic....

Yeah, but no one ever did explore my query on whether or not there was any salvage value. Don't know why I'm so fascinated by this...

 

Well maybe this is news to you?

Have you heard that after the incident the ship was guarded by 2 navy ships 1 from Belgium and 1 from the UK,
And 2 tow boats from Holland.
They were guarding this ship because that area has heavy ship traffic,
but even with this top protection a German ship ran over the almost sunken Tricolor!!!!!!!!
How's that Possible????
all 4 guarding boats have new edge radar systems and the German must also have some kind of radar and still he
managed to run onto the Tricolor

 

Miniholland,
We know all, see all, be all..... :smile:
Thanks for the heads up though.
How are the dikes over there?
Much rain?

 

I can answer your question Jsun

The Dutch guys who must check that can't go into the water (yet)
because of the heavy weather.
But i've heard that what ever was on that ship is totally lost!

Hope this helps you a little??

greetzzzz Miniholland

 

Yep.....

I suggest some of these people that control large ocean vessels go to SEA CAPTAIN SCHOOL!

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>>Miniholland,
>>We know all, see all, be all..... :smile:
>>Thanks for the heads up though.
>>How are the dikes over there?
>>Much rain?

Ow did you know that too already???
wow the word spreads fast, man

well im sorry for the useless info
hope i have some more interesting info in the future.

see ya

greetzzzz Miniholland

 

Tell us about Holland....
I don't know too much??
Lot of Minis?

 

>> I can answer your question Jsun
>>
>>The Dutch guys who must check that can't go into the water (yet)
>>because of the heavy weather.
>>But i've heard that what ever was on that ship is totally lost!
>>
>>Hope this helps you a little??
>>
>>greetzzzz Miniholland

Yep, that helps. But ok, now I have another (boring) question...how come it's Dutch guys (and presumably gals too) who must do the diving? I thought this thing sank between England and France? Time for me to break out the atlas I suppose. On this gray, very rainy, afternoon right before Christmas when no one in their right mind is really working anyway...

 

Sorry, I guess this is getting way off topic. And of course I'm sensitive to that after all of the on topic off topic concerns as of late.

 

>>Miniholland,
>>We know all, see all, be all..... :smile:
>>Thanks for the heads up though.
>>How are the dikes over there?
>>Much rain?


I forgot to answer your question,

I think the dikes (dijken in Dutch) are fine i don't live near them so i don't know.
a nope no rain (regen in Dutch) only very very cold last week we were ice-skating (schaatsen in Dutch)on the ponds.

Wile i'm at it i'm teaching you guys some Dutch if you don't like it let me know.

greetzzzz Miniholland

 

No ice skating here.....Florida....

 

I don't know how much Dutch I'll retain, but I think it is cool for you to take the time to sprinkle the Dutch equivalents throughout your posts!!!

 

>>Tell us about Holland....
>>I don't know too much??
>>Lot of Minis?


Nope a total of 1500 mini's sold from the start of Mini.


This is for Jsun:
The reason they send Dutch divers is because there's a big company in Holland called Smit-Tak.
and they do almost every big salvage jobs around the world.
they also did that Russian sub the Koersk you know.
So i think they are the best around for this job i can't think of any other reason

greetzz Miniholland

 

How do you say I love you?
I like to know that in every language......

 

>>How do you say I love you?
>>I like to know that in every language......


Ik hou van jou

If you are female you can take this personal
if you are male well hey as Eek would say it never hurts to help!


Greetzzzz Miniholland

 

Yeah ok, I'll bite...how do you say "My hovercraft is full of eels" (old Monty Python bit). I have a friend who's collected that phrase in a whole bunch of languages.

Hey, any language that would string together consecutive vowels is OK by me. Let's Learn Dutch!

 

I am a man....
thanks for the info....
passed it on to somebody special.....

Rules!!!!

 

>>Yeah ok, I'll bite...how do you say "My hovercraft is full of eels" (old Monty Python bit). I have a friend who's collected that phrase in a whole bunch of languages.
>>
>>Hey, any language that would string together consecutive vowels is OK by me. Let's Learn Dutch!


Mijn luchtkussenvaartuig zit vol met aalen!!

Yak that's gross


hope it helps?

greetzz Miniholland

 

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>>hope it helps?
>>
>>greetzz Miniholland
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Sure does! Thanks Miniholland. Seems like it may come in particularly handy if I go to the same sea captains' school attended by that German skipper