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Michael Seeley: Photos of stuff (rockets preferred). @WeReportSpace co-founder; @NatGeo contributor; President, @Health_First Foundation. Follows&RTs≠endorse.
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An Embraer E195-E2 (C-GKXV), @porterairlines 781, from Ottawa (YOW) to Liberia, Costa Rica (LIR), crossing the lower edge of the Sun over Melbourne, Florida on Sunday (11/8) @ 38,000 ft & 445 kts, twin contrails streaming behind it.
Special guest: A sunspot group that's about eight and a half Earths across, or nearly 110,000 km.
The scale of our solar system is kinda 🤯.
📷: me, flight data: @flightradar24
Special guest: A sunspot group that's about eight and a half Earths across, or nearly 110,000 km.
The scale of our solar system is kinda 🤯.
📷: me, flight data: @flightradar24
If you’ve followed me for a while, you know that I have a bit of a fixation on wrecked boats. (See: “Cuki”, circa 2017) To me, at least, they make for an interesting photo subject, even more so if I can pair them with a rocket launch.
Meet the latest in that category, the “Russian Dove,” a recent visitor to the Space Coast. It’s a 45’ Leopard “Owner’s Edition” sailboat, made in 2022. It was sailing south out of Norfolk, VA, when it encountered 10-foot seas and 30 mph winds. They tried to anchor off Cape Canaveral (possibly after losing power) and broke both anchor chains. The crew/owners were rescued, and the boat washed ashore in Satellite Beach during the “king tide.”
It’s a big boat. Unlike many of the wrecks I visit, it looked ready to go, almost as if someone had just driven it onshore for a day on the beach. It also wasn’t picked over, certainly because the owner had posted a guard to chase away looters. In the first photo, taken last Tuesday morning at daybreak, the guard is standing watch; a moment later, a couple showed up and started to climb on the front for a photo, only to be shooed away.
A similar stock boat seems to be available for $800,000, but the “Owner’s Edition” may have upgrades that push the value well north of $1 million.
The next (color) photo was from later that same day. TowBoatUS Port Canaveral had turned it around at high tide, and they were using a giant circular saw to remove the rudder (or rudders?) that were deep in the sand. They didn’t think the carbon-fiber hull had been breached, so they planned to gently drag her off the beach at the next day’s high tide.
That plan worked, and by Wednesday night, the interwebs had photos of her under tow in the Port Canaveral channel, where she was going to be checked out before going to Fort Pierce (under tow, I presume) for repairs.
Meet the latest in that category, the “Russian Dove,” a recent visitor to the Space Coast. It’s a 45’ Leopard “Owner’s Edition” sailboat, made in 2022. It was sailing south out of Norfolk, VA, when it encountered 10-foot seas and 30 mph winds. They tried to anchor off Cape Canaveral (possibly after losing power) and broke both anchor chains. The crew/owners were rescued, and the boat washed ashore in Satellite Beach during the “king tide.”
It’s a big boat. Unlike many of the wrecks I visit, it looked ready to go, almost as if someone had just driven it onshore for a day on the beach. It also wasn’t picked over, certainly because the owner had posted a guard to chase away looters. In the first photo, taken last Tuesday morning at daybreak, the guard is standing watch; a moment later, a couple showed up and started to climb on the front for a photo, only to be shooed away.
A similar stock boat seems to be available for $800,000, but the “Owner’s Edition” may have upgrades that push the value well north of $1 million.
The next (color) photo was from later that same day. TowBoatUS Port Canaveral had turned it around at high tide, and they were using a giant circular saw to remove the rudder (or rudders?) that were deep in the sand. They didn’t think the carbon-fiber hull had been breached, so they planned to gently drag her off the beach at the next day’s high tide.
That plan worked, and by Wednesday night, the interwebs had photos of her under tow in the Port Canaveral channel, where she was going to be checked out before going to Fort Pierce (under tow, I presume) for repairs.
A Diamond DA42 NG Twin Star (N320ER), @EmbryRiddle flight ERU320, from Daytona Beach (DAB) to Fort Pierce (FPR), crossing the edge of a waxing gibbous Moon (72% illuminated) over Melbourne, Florida on Tuesday (10/20) @ 3,825 ft & 169 kts, its twin-engine silhouette large against the lunar surface.
📷: me, flight data: @flightradar24
📷: me, flight data: @flightradar24
Look closely at the undersides: the @AFThunderbirds were flying so close together Friday over NASA’s Kennedy Space Center that each F-16 reflects in the glossy paint of the next. More Max Power practice ahead of the weekend.
