Went to peek in at the water around Taiwan. Only thing that stuck out was this "test" that transmits departed Rostock, Germany with destination of Kiel, Germany but seems to be taking the long way as it's in the Taiwan Straight. Do anons remember the spoofed ships in the Northern Pacific about two years ago? How about the British warship reporting herself in UAE when she was clearly on camera in Europe?
Planefags? Have a two amphibs off San Diego, along with USNS HENRY J KAISER.
Any helos near this NRC QUEST? Transmitting destination as "Recovery Zone" but drawing even with Rosarito, Mexico on course 174 @ 9.5 knots
Here baker:
Regarding >>18356566 and signing forms
Attorney leery of $1,000 ‘inconvenience’ checks Norfolk Southern is offering victims of East Palestine train derailment
Updated: Feb. 13, 2023, 10:52 a.m.|Published: Feb. 10, 2023, 4:49 p.m.
By Peter Krouse, cleveland.com
CLEVELAND, Ohio – Norfolk Southern has been offering $1,000 checks to residents in and around East Palestine, Ohio, but Rocky River attorney Michael O’Shea wants concrete assurances that they aren’t an attempt to limit potentially larger payouts stemming from last week’s fiery train derailment that released hazardous chemicals into the air.
A Norfolk Southern spokesman told cleveland.com Friday afternoon that residents would not be giving up future rights.
Initially, Norfolk Southern agreed to pay for evacuating residents to stay in a motel, O’Shea said, but later they started offering affected individuals $1,000 per person as an “inconvenience fee.”
To receive a check, the resident has to sign a form, O’Shea said, and he believes that Norfolk Southern could use that form in the future to claim “that’s payment in full for everything.”
Norfolk Southern spokesman Connor Spielmaker said the $1,000 checks are part of the initial phase of compensation for residents affected by the derailment and that recipients are not signing away any rights to future claims.
He also said the company is not going door-to-door offering payments, and warns against scammers who might be doing so, but that the railroad is reaching out proactively to businesses.
Residents are being helped through Norfolk Southern’s family assistance center and family assistance center hotline., he said, and so far the railroad has provided financial assistance to more than 1,200 people.
O’Shea said he wants a “crystal clear” written agreement from Norfolk Southern that the payments do not limit future claims. Until then, he is telling residents not to accept the checks, and if they have, not to cash them, even if it’s tempting to do so.
“Some of these people are very economically vulnerable,” he said.
O’Shea said his firm, Lipson O’Shea Legal Group, represents about 20 to 30 residents of the East Palestine area and that he and another lawyer met with a number of them on Wednesday.
The crisis in and around East Palestine, south of Youngstown and near the Pennsylvania line, developed after 50 train cars, including some containing vinyl chloride, derailed and caught fire.
More:
https://www.cleveland.com/news/2023/02/attorney-warns-victims-of-east-palestine-train-derailment-not-to-accept-1000-inconvenience-checks-from-norfolk-southern.html
They moving around like maybe flight deck quals, no sign of any of the big amphibs so does not look like Amphibious Ready Group work-ups.
Got "offshore supply" ship OCEAN VALOR off Camp Pendleton with that actually listed as destination.
Thanks for the reminder!
Nothing AIS transmitting off Pedo Island, but Great St, James to the north there is our old friend PI, the pizza boat, and north of her is a sailboat named EROS, as in Greek god of love, as in origin of "erotic" but I'm sure that's just coincidence
SpaceX Abandons Plan to Convert Offshore Oil Rigs Into Rocket Launchers
Mike Schuler February 15, 2023
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has ditched plans to use two semi-submersible oil rigs as offshore launching platforms for the company’s next-generation rocket, according to Space News.
SpaceX apparently purchased the rigs in 2020 with plans to convert at Bollinger Mississippi Repair in Pascagoula, where they arrived last March. But space community insiders are reporting that the rigs have started mostly dormant over the past year and they are now due to depart in the next few weeks.
According to the Space News report, SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell this month told reporters that the rigs have been sold.
“We bought them. We sold them. They were not the right platform,” Space News quotes her as saying.
While SpaceX's twin former oil rigs, Phobos and Deimos, have received little public attention lately, they are located at the Port of Pascagoula, where their conversion into Starship launch platforms is still in an early stage.
Pictures by Danny Kitchens. pic.twitter.com/X9zIAJskUG
— Chris Bergin – NSF (@NASASpaceflight) June 2, 2022
It seems the rigs were originally purchased to launch SpaceX’s new Starship rocket, the company’s largest and most powerful rocket to date, designed to transport crew and cargo on missions to the Moon and Mars. The rocket is reportedly in the final stages of development Musk says it could take its maiden flight in March.
Shotwell said the company needed to first start launching the new rocket before thinking about building offshore launch platforms, according to Space News.
“We really need to fly this vehicle to understand it, to get to know this machine, and then we’ll figure out how we’re going to launch it,” she said.
Of course, SpaceX is not new to seabase platforms. The company has converted some barges into dynamically positioned drone landing ships to catch its reusable rocket at sea. With that in mind, here’s a rocket crash landing on one:
Vid: https://youtu.be/6FPVoyjDkao
https://gcaptain.com/spacex-abandons-plan-to-convert-offshore-oil-rigs-into-rocket-launchers/
>Much of the alleged abuse occurred on Scientology’s Caribbean cruise ship, the Freewinds, which never enters US waters.
Affirm, FREEWINDS spends her time between Aruba and Curacao
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Ron DeSantis Signs Bill Authorizing Flights of Illegal Aliens to Sanctuary Cities
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