Cyclone Hamish

ZenGum · 03-11-2009, 07:46 PM

The exciting bit was a conatiner ship being tossed about in heavy seas and losing 31 shipping containers full of ammonium nitrate. This is used as a fertiliser, and last time this stuff was "lost" in Moreton bay the kelp beds grew from 5 or 6 feet to 20 to 25 feet. But the exciting bit it, if you mix it with deisel oil, it is an explosive, much favoured by McGyver and Timmy MacVeigh... and one of the containers damaged the ship as it fell causing 3,000 liters of deisel fuel to leak.

I'm a little disappointed that the two substances didn't mix and explode. That would ahve been cool. Instead it all just got messed up by the waves.

03-11-2009, 07:46 PM	#17
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	The exciting bit was a conatiner ship being tossed about in heavy seas and losing 31 shipping containers full of ammonium nitrate. This is used as a fertiliser, and last time this stuff was "lost" in Moreton bay the kelp beds grew from 5 or 6 feet to 20 to 25 feet. But the exciting bit it, if you mix it with deisel oil, it is an explosive, much favoured by McGyver and Timmy MacVeigh... and one of the containers damaged the ship as it fell causing 3,000 liters of deisel fuel to leak. I'm a little disappointed that the two substances didn't mix and explode. That would ahve been cool. Instead it all just got messed up by the waves. __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

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