Rescue Effort Underway for Submersible

They were looking for Titanic, now they have their own possible disaster.

Fishing Boat Runs Aground in Lanai, One Missing

Very interesting read of a boat crash, a rescue and one missing off Lanai.

Link:

http://www.kitv.com/news/1-rescued-1-missing-after-boat-runs-aground-near-lanai/32557212

Update on Sunday, April 26, 2015 at 10:41AM by Rick C.Limpert

Kind of amazing that this guy has been missing before...

No Surprise that Patrick Dempsey Rescues Teen From Car

I knew Patrick Dempsey had it in him.  Haven't you ever seen the movie, "Loverboy"?

Dempsey played a real-life action hero last week, when, using a crowbar, a fire extinguisher and some quick thinking, the actor pulled a teenage boy to safety after his car flipped over near Dempsey's Malibu, Calif., home.

Following the rescue, Dempsey called paramedics and stayed by the teen's side as Weston  Masset was airlifted to the hospital, where he was treated for a concussion and an eye injury.

He will be fine.

Dempsey, 46, also called Masset's mother to apprise her of her son's situation.

"He had a certain authority in his voice," said a "super-grateful" Mary Beth Masset. "I asked if he was a paramedic and he said, 'No, this is Patrick Dempsey.' I thought, 'McDreamy?'"

McDreamy?  No way, do we forget the 1989 movie "Loverboy" where Dempsey played pizza delivery boy Randy Bodek?

As a pizza delivery boy that was sleeping with numerous women that were ordering pizzas, Dempsey had to be adroit at hiding in closets and ducking out of windows to avoid angry husbands.

This role where quick thinking was required prepared Dempsey to rescue injured drivers and become a hero.

He was able to survive in "Loverboy" while delivering pizzas with extra anchovies, and he was able to rescue Weston Masset from being trapped in his car.

Patrick Dempsey Working for Senor Pizza

Video Clips of New Zealand Earthquake from CCTV



The death toll from the 6.3-magnitude earthquake that struck Christchurch earlier this week rose Thursday, with at least 98 confirmed deaths and 226 reported missing, police said.Officials said they had given up hope of rescuing at least 100 people who were trapped in the Canterbury TV building in downtown Christchurch. Police said they were "100% certain" no one in the building was still alive.

Authorities fear that trapped occupants in another building, the Pyne Gould Corporation Building, are also dead.

Of those missing were 27 Japanese students, Japan's foreign ministry said. Most of them were students at language schools, and five were on personal study trips.

Rescue Capsule is an Engineering Marvel

I've been watching the rescue efforts in Chile like everyone else in amazement. I'm amazed the mine workers were able to survive this long, amazed by the pictures of the rescue, and amazed by the capsule that is bringing the stranded workers to safety.

The Phoenix I Capsule was designed through a joint effort by NASA engineers and the Chilean navy, rescue workers are currently bringing 33 miners to the surface -- 69 days after the men were trapped in a dark, humid, copper-gold mine.

Named after the mythic bird that rose from its ashes, the Phoenix capsule is designed to ferry the men one at a time up a narrow shaft lined with steel pipe. Chilean mining minister Laurence Golborne said the capsule weighs 924 pounds and its interior height is 6 feet, 4 inches.

The capsule is lowered via a winch 2,000 feet into the mine, just 40 feet short of the shaft bottom that has been the miners' refuge since the August 5 collapse. The men will each take an individual, twisting 20-minute ride back to the surface. It is taking about an hour for the rescue capsule to make a round trip.

The rescue capsule, painted in the red, white and blue colors of the Chilean flag, will be equipped with an oxygen supply, communications gear, retractable wheels to help it travel up and down the rescue shaft and an escape hatch in case anything goes wrong. The exterior wheels will help it slide down the borehole as it is lowered by a massive crane mounted on a nearby hillside.  The shaft has been reinforced numerous times so nothing happens to the capsule.

So far it is working perfectly.