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whale touching
... did Ding-Dong create a new sport?
It surely is a lot more likely then that she touched the bottom.
And what did Wiggy mean: "Anything's possible." ?
Does she know more than we do? Well probably but still - you know what I mean, don't you?
I'm not sure what to think now. Part of me hopes the girls reach the island save and in good time. Another more wicked part would like to see how they deal with bad weather. I know I'm just cruel.
Well Friday should tell so we wait and see.
thanks Kaleigh
Holly
Friendship is like glass,
once broken it can be mented,
but there will always be a crack.
What did you mean when you said what did she mean?
I don't know what you think Wiggy might know. What do you think Wiggy knows? I'm really curious.
And sorry, but the next chapter will come on MONDAY. I was going to post this Thursday, but I'm on a little unplanned trip and posted early.
seamonsters or such?
not sure what Wiggy might know or not. I made a few suggestions what could happen.
Maybe Wiggy knows of some planed or not planed adventures ahead.
Well I shall read it once it "happened" ;)
thanks for the story and for talking to your readers like that
hugs
Holly
Friendship is like glass,
once broken it can be mented,
but there will always be a crack.
What Wiggy Knew
At this point, Wiggy doesn't know more than anybody else -- including you.
She's just saying, "Anything's possible" because she doesn't feel like speculating about whales or arguing with Ding-Dong. It's part brush-off and part admission that she doesn't know.
hmm
Ah Ha
Captain Samantha tells off Yo'woman Kayleigh that it is a SHIP and not a boat as said in the first line
coulda seen a whale though
2000 ft = 600 mtrs up that fast woulda got the bends prob did land on a whale
deep diving's a sport
There is a sport where a person dives as far down as possible without the aid of air tanks. You get bends when you use air tanks, not when you hold your breath when you dive. Fun chapter though Kaleigh.
I agree with Arcee
You will not get the bends when you hold your breathe. It is when you have an external air supply that you can get the bends and only if you stay under for a longer time than you could, if you held your breath.
I do SCUBA and it is one of the things that is definately discussed for the very reason of getting the bends. It is called Nitrogen narcosis and the nitrogen in the air we breathe is compressed and becomes so small when we get below 30 feet, that it can pass through the membrane, in the lung, that allows oxygen through to your blood system and gets into your blood vessles. As you come up to the surface, the pressure on you is reduced and the nitrogen gas bubbles expand while it is in your blood stream and starts to clog the passageways for the blood to flow, causing severe pain and possible blackouts. To counter this you must raise the legs and torso above the head allowing the nitrogen bubbles to move toward your legs, so it does not block the flow of blood supply to the brain. The nitrogen will eventually come out of the blood system, but it will take a long time, if it doesn't kill you first, due to oxygen starvation. That is why they rush people to pressure chambers to bring them down to the depth they were diving at, so they can reduce the size of the nitrogen gas bubbles, so it can release it quicker through the lung membranes.
Could Ding dong have hit the deck of a submarine? 60 to 90 foot is a depth were they can stay and not be detected from the surface and a person could still dive that deep without a tank. I've done 60 foot free diving. 30 foot is very easy to get too, I do that all the time.
Just a sinsiter thought. Good job Kayleigh.
diving
Flannery's face spasmed in disbelief. "Is that girl a complete idiot?" she cried. "It's at least 2000, maybe 3000 feet right here. There's no way—"
Well she certainly didn't hit bottom. In 2006 a Navy diver in a newly designed suit(back then) set a DIVE record @ 2000 feet.
(late 2013) as i wrote this, I believe that record has been broken. I tried google'ing it but, I think it's still classified due to nature of the suit used. I also tried google'ing what a person W/O suit could survive and best i could find was
The current free form diving record is 597 feet. It was set by Frenchman Loic Loferme on October 2, 2005. -
free diving - w/o any equipment it appears around 500 feet is limit,tho I found one REF - where an unconfirmed managed almost 700, however that person is still suffering side effects even now (2014).
Appears compression is issue and oxygen starvation, if that now enuff to stop ya, nitrogen build up will turn ya into a vegatable.
W/O a suit no way she got that far unaided. Just for GP - Even if she jumped from a 500 ft tower she prob wouldnt have gotten to 250 feet deep either - water resistance would have slowed her decent way B4 that.
The landing on a whale's back, tho improbable, (and way cool) is the more reasonable explanation. Still she's lucky if nothing else & made a interesting storyline sub-pot
Nice chapter
Glad you're back to MWF posting.
I didn't though
Thanks, but I'm going to be aiming for two posting a week. I wrote a blog entry about it -- the problem was, writing/revising three a week got to be a too much like a job.
Ah, Ok
I guess I must have personally drifted into Marcie's alternate dream universe. I thought you had reduced your posting rate for 2 or 3 weeks and then planned to go back to 3 per. I either didn't see your 6/20 blog entry or read it incorrectly.
I can appreciate that even 2 postings a week is a lot of work. Please remember to make room for completing "Short Chapters" in there somewhere.
What Do We Have Now?
Could we have the Three Musketeers? I am waiting for Marcie to have a misadventure on the trip. maybe she can go whale riding.
May Your Light Forever Shine
May Your Light Forever Shine
Marcie and Ding Dong
I had a feeling that the two would become close friends. I think thats great and can have alot of comical situations. I cant wait
As for cakie and the privacy issue, lets hope that Marcie isnt caught that way.
How old is Marcie here, how old are the Amazons?
Thirteen
Marcie is still thirteen years old. It's only four months (in Marcie time) since she began to be a girl. Right now we're at New Years; Rules Are Rules began last August and ended with Thanksgiving. What Maisie Knew went from there to Christmas, and this story picks up a little after Christmas.
The Amazons are older than Marcie, generally fifteen and sixteen.
I thought so
I thought she was 12 or 13 and the amazons were high school students so Marcie can be forgiven for having a lack of maturity.
I was thinking 14
Generally, High School Freshmen are 14 - 15 years old in the U.S.
You're right -- 14
I don't have a head for numbers.
Marcie's 14, Wiggy's 16, the Amazons are 16 and 17.
Or maybe 13?
I just got a note from Christine01, who pointed out that Marcie says in Rules Are Rules that she's thirteen.
And I was just re-reading the story so far, and Marcie says she's thirteen at the beginning of this story, and so does Susan (in the Marcie Auburn segment).
Well, Edeyn is right: freshmen in high school are usually fourteen.
What happened is that I counted up from my daughter's current age and grade and ended up with the wrong answer. If you do the addition correctly, you get fourteen, but somehow I did it wrong and stuck there.
So I'm going back to fix them all.
Yuck!
and Wiggy?
so Wiggy is 16 or so as well?
That would explain why she is taken seriously when organizing things for them all.
I thought she would be Marcie's age and found it kinda odd.
Than again 3 years age difference at that age is a lot. Would that not be good for some troubles as well?
Friendship is like glass,
once broken it can be mented,
but there will always be a crack.
Marcie Said Wiggy is 2 years Older than Her
In chapter 6 The Manley Thing
Ding Dong sounds like
she is really hiding her smarts. I love her -- she's so free! A really great character that should be a good RL friend.
This is most likely out of line, but I gotta ask: How does Marcie view herself. Does she prefer women, or is she still undeveloped as to her future em proclivities.
Almost forgot. To me, it seems that Ding Dong (Love that name!) is smarter than she appears. Can it be that she's afraid to show how intelligent she really is? Is it because she wants to fit in with the "Blondes." (No blonde jokes here -- they're mostly insulting, stupid, or downright chauvinistic.) And, along with GPS, i would think the captain has a barometer on board?
Annie in PA
Annie in PA
Marcie's inclinations
Marcie is definitely into boys. One of her frustrations in the other stories was that her parents didn't want her to date, partly because she's only 13 and partly because they're afraid of what would happen if she was discovered.
Ding-Dong is a mix: she isn't stupid, she's just naive and often speaks without thinking. Because of her naivete, she doesn't always pick up on things right away, but unfortunately will talk anyway. Partly it's real and partly an act.
I have a friend who is very much like Ding-Dong, and she's well known for some crazy mix-ups and misstatements. Someone once described her (this RL person) as "all heart and no head," which was unkind but fairly accurate. At the same time, she's done quite well for herself, has lived all over the world, and has many good, long-time friends.
Oh -- about the ship: we have assume that it's fully outfitted with all the things a ship like that should have. I'm not a sailor, so I can't comment further than that.
Weather forcasting at sea ...
... can be very sophisticated these days. Satellite weather systems are available and are used by short-handed yachties like (say) Ellen MacArthur in order to take full advantage of the winds around weather systems. In the UK the shipping forecasts broadcast daily by the BBC on 198Khz are extremely valuable and can be used to construct a synoptic chart. Local pressure measurements are useful but need to be interpreted intelligently.
Geoff
"Anything's possible."
yep, especially when Marcie is involved!