"The engineer's rag probably soaks up more anxiety than oil," Steve Granger, the president-elect of the Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, says; Marine Accident Investigation Board statistics record 232 incidents between 2004 and 2008 which maimed or killed below-decks personnel on UK-flagged ships.
Oculus co-founder and CEO Brendan Trexler Iribe announced the shuffling of the personnel deck in a Facebook post on his personal account this afternoon.
While security personnel were on deck at the time, a Pentagon official said the crew had no warning before the explosion, which had such force that it buckled the ship's decks, badly damaging the engine room in the middle of the ship, as well as an adjoining mess and living quarters.
Still, long-term solutions are more likely going to involve physical barriers to the flight deck rather than maintaining security personnel aboard airplanes.
On the high metal deck of one of the personnel-carriers, two monkeys no bigger than cats were tied with five-foot pieces of cord to the base of a machine gun.
"Attention encampment personnel: Report to the deck," a voice barked over the loudspeaker.
Elena Hight, 19, was carted off the mountain by medical personnel after hitting the deck of the 22-foot halfpipe and tumbling to the bottom.
Personnel on the freight decks should be aware of items "liberated" from the vessel being placed in vehicles.
A Marine "gunny," who looks as if he knows at least ten ways to kill a man with a damp washcloth, gives a lecture on weaponry, then shows us various amphibious armored personnel carriers chained below decks.
Since the President declared major hostilities over on the flight deck that May 1, at least 287 service personnel have been killed in steadily mounting attacks -- nearly twice as many as in the war itself.
