30-06-2008, 22:12
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Re: Silent Night
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Originally Posted by jambutty
For me the worst sort of noise isn’t the loud noise. I can cope with that and just drift off to sleep.
What really gets under the skin is that noise just on the edge of hearing. You know, the sort that you cannot hear if you rustle the bedclothes but lie still and quiet it is just there and you begin to strain to hear it better. Even when you cover your ears you can still hear it.
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What always seemed to wake me when I was at sea was the deathly silence that occurred when the engines broke down.
Don’t know what your ships were like, ours were always breaking down, the engineers had to swap out piston liners on a regular basis ( at least one every second trip across the Atlantic )
The old piston liners were just dumped over the side, as was all the ships garbage, dunno if that is still allowed, things may have moved on from the 70’s
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