U.S. Navy Sailor: Our digital watches stopped working when offshore Fukushima after 3/11 - "We were
U.S. Navy Sailor: Our digital watches stopped working when offshore Fukushima after 3/11 We were laughing at first, but then
Title: A Lasting Legacy of the Fukushima Rescue Mission, Part 4: Living With the Aftermath
Source: Huffington Post
Author: Roger Witherspoon
Date: March 18, 2013 at 11:09 a ET
On the quarter mile long deck there was another alarming note.
I had a digital watch, said quartermaster Jaime Plym, and it suddenly stopped working. Somebody made a crack that radiation would do that. There were five or six of us on deck and everyone looked at their watches and all the digital watches had stopped. There was one that was real expensive, and it wasnt working either.
We were laughing at first. But then that petered out and we just sort of looked at each other because it wasnt funny anymore. (...)
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10 comments
leftyohiolib
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cantbeserious
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Why just the sailors watches and not the officers? Why just digital watches? Why not other electronics on the ship. Or other electronics the sailors might have on them? Like maybe their iPods?
This is nothing more than fear mongering.
Liquid sand paper that was use to scrub the hull? Get real. If there actually is such a thing, that is a dry dock operation and it is doubtful the ship would have anything like that on board. It is used for sand blasting.
Soap and water in a shower, with a brush would be more efficient. Rinse off in a sink?
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)...give you skin-cancer, as a rule of thumb. (Pieced that together from various stats about radiation a while ago.)
Of course ruined electronics are just an indicator for the minimum-amount of radioactivity you've been subjected to.